Innovation driver for naval warfare

This year's Baltops manoeuvre took place in the Baltic Sea in June. As part of this manoeuvre, the German Navy led a naval unit with multinational participation for the first time as a Commander Task Force.

After two intensive weeks, the 53rd edition of the Baltic Operations manoeuvre, Baltops for short, came to an end on 20 June. This is the most important and largest multinational maritime military exercise in the Baltic Sea region. This year's exercise was a prime example of the close military and security co-operation between Germany and its NATO allies. Under the leadership of the US Naval Forces Europe-Africa and the 6th Fleet of the US Navy, 20 nations demonstrated collective defence capabilities in the Baltic Sea together with the new NATO members Finland and Sweden. In addition to the Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO (Strikfornato), the