| EVENT | DATES | LOCATION |
FLINTLOCK 25
`U.S. Africa Command's premier and largest annual special operations exercise has taken place annually since 2005 across the Sahel region of Africa. The exercise intends to strengthen the ability of key partner nations in the region to counter violent extremist organisations, collaborate across borders and provide security for their people, while respecting human rights and building trust with civilian populations. | 8 - 21 February | Africa |
DACIA 25
Dacia 25 is a national combined joint training event. Its aim is to practice the progression of a national defence operation to an allied collective defence operation. | 10 - 27 February | Romania |
FELDBERG 25
Feldberg 25 is a field Training exercise. Conducted annually in France or Germany, this exercise allows units subordinate to the Franco-German Brigade and its command post to train in combined arms combat. | 24 February - 9 March | Germany |
CUTLESS EXPRESS 25
Cutlass Express is an exercise conducted in East African coastal regions and the West Indian Ocean to counter malign influence, aggression and activity along overlapping command seams and maritime regions. It brings together maritime forces from East Africa, West Indian Ocean nations, Europe, North America, and several international organisations to enhance maritime law enforcement capacity, promote national and regional security, and increase interoperability among participating nations. | 1 - 15 March | Kenya |
JOINT PROJECT OPTIC WINDMILL 2025
Joint Project Optic Windmill is an exercice which examines synchronising Allied Integrated Air and Missile Defence efforts. JPOW is a Dutch-led exercise series conducted every other year since 1996.
| 5 - 29 March | Germany, Netherlands, U.S.A. |
SEA SHIELD 25
Sea shield is a maritime live exercise designed to improve the operational and tactical interoperability among units for planning and conducting military naval operations in order to reestablish control over sea lines of communication.
| 25 March - 28 April | Romania |
JOINT VIKING 25
Joint Viking is a field training exercise which provides an arena to exercise joint and combined aspects of operations at the tactical level in all domains enhancing the war-fighting skills and interoperability for participating forces. The aim and purpose is to enhance multi-domain operations, enhance interoperability while emphasising joint processes. | 17 - 28 March | Norway |
`FRISIAN FLAG 25
Frisian Flag 25 is an Air combat flag exercise. It’s a major NATO multinational aerial exercise, held annually at Leeuwarden Air Base, Netherlands, over the North Sea and in the skies above the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark. | 31 March - 11 April | Netherlands |
ARCTIC CHALLENGE 25
Arctic Challenge 25 is a multinational air exercise. The Arctic Challenge Exercise is part of the NORDEFCO cooperation between Finland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark. Their Air Forces regularly carry out combined air combat-related Cross Border Training operated from their home bases. The purpose is for the three Nordic nations to practice together and across their countries' borders. | 1 April - 30 June | Sweden |
AFRICAN LION
African Lion is an all domain, multi-national exercise in Morocco, Tunisia, Senegal and Ghana linked to EUCOM’s DEFENDER series exercise to counter GPC malign activity in North Africa and southern Europe and increase interoperability between U.S., African, and international partners to defend the theater from adversary military aggression.
| 30 April - 21 June | Morocco, Senegal, Spain, Tunisia |
FORMIDABLE SHIELD
Formidable Shield is a multinational live fire integrated air and missile defence (IAMD) scenario located at the Hebrides Range, Scotland, focused on maritime operational and tactical interoperability between participants in a series of complex Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) and Air Defence (AD) scenarios. Includes air and land domain assets.
| 1 - 31 May | United Kingdom |
SABER GUARDIAN
Saber guardian is a Computer-Assisted Command Post exercises (CAX/CPX), field training exercise (FTX), LIVEX, collective defence using OCCASSUS-south scenario. Linked with other Southern exercise campaign events : IMMEDIATE RESPONSE, SEA BREEZE, AGILE SPRINT, TROJAN FOOTPRINT-SOUTH, DEFENDER EUROPE
| 14 - 30 May | Bulgaria, Hungary, North Macedonia, Romania
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HEDGEHOG 25
HEDGEHOG 25 is a comprehensive military exercise designed to enhance the operational readiness and effectiveness of the Estonian, Denmark, France and its allied units. The exercise focuses on defensive multi-domain operations.
| 5 -23 May | Estonia |
DEFENDER EUROPE 25
Defender Europe 25 is a deployment exercise of land forces from North America to the USEUCOM Area Of Responsibility and the Joint Reception Staging Onward Movement and Integration (JRSOI) of those forces.
| 1 - 30 June | Europe |
POLARIS 25
POLARIS is a major operational exercise meant to prepare forces in all maritime domains for a high-intensity engagement. | 2 - 15 June | France |
BALTOPS 25
Baltops 25 is a multinational Maritime exercise designed to improve US/NATO operational capacity, capability and interoperability to include conducting multinational training with NATO allies. Secondarily, BALTOPS postures USEUCOM forces to support NATO, fosters Allied & Partner interoperability to deter regional aggression and nurtures strategic relationships. The exercise sustain and maintains US/NATO operational access and global freedom of action.
| 3 - 21 June | Germany |
SEA BREEZE
Sea Breeze is a multinational exercise in support of Partnership for Peace, US-Ukrainian sponsored Maritime field training exercise (FTX) with a focus on interoperability and maritime and littoral security, safety and stability operations. | 15 June - 15 July | Ukraine |