After decades of neglect maintains the so-called GIUK gap in the North Atlantic is now once again a security issue. attention. And also The marines are turning their attention back to this strategically important region.

The northern North Atlantic is an important transit area for transatlantic and global maritime traffic. It is also of considerable strategic importance as the main supply route for NATO and the EU in the event of a conflict or crisis. This is reinforced by the laying of important - and vulnerable - submarine cables in the North Atlantic. It is therefore an important area with highly sensitive critical infrastructure.

GIUK, the abbreviation for Greenland-Iceland-United Kingdom, refers to a sea area that stretches along an imaginary line from Greenland via Iceland to the UK. The sea area thus forms the connecting corridor between the North Atlantic and the Norwegian Sea and