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National Exercises and Activities

Current as of April 11, 2025

EVENTDATESLOCATION
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 - 11 AprilRomania
`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 AprilNetherlands
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.

26 May - 14 JuneSweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark
SWIFT RESPONSE 25

Swift Response is a US-led exercise focused on allied airborne forces' ability to quickly and effectively respond to crises as an interoperable, multinational team. Swift Response 25 is part of DEFENDER 25 exercise series.

11 - 31 MayBalkans
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 - 29 JuneMorocco, 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 MayUnited 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 MayBulgaria, Hungary, North Macedonia, Romania
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 MayEstonia
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 JuneSouthern Europe
POLARIS 25

POLARIS is a major operational exercise meant to prepare forces in all maritime domains for a high-intensity engagement.

26 May - 15 JuneFrance, Atlantic Ocean
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 JuneGermany, Baltic Sea
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 JulyScotland
AGILE SPIRIT

Agile Spirit is a EUCOM scheduled, USAREUR-AF directed and led regional joint field training and command post exercise co-led by participating host nations that strengthens regional security cooperation, builds military capacity, integrates innovations, and fosters interoperability in NATO and with participating partners.

15 June - 15 AugustGeorgia
BREEZE 25

Bulgarian-led maritime exercise in the Black Sea. LIVEX to improve operational and tactical interoperability of participating units and commands to enhance interagency cooperation in a multi-threat environment and to facilitate evaluation of the Bulgarian Navy declared to NATO units.

10 - 19 JulyBulgaria, Black Sea
SANDY COAST

Naval Mine Warfare, Harbour Protection as well as Naval Cooperation and Guidance for Shipping (NCAGS) exercise.

18 - 29 AugustBelgium, Netherlands
GRAND EAGLE 25

Reinforcement of Forward Land Forces, Lithuania. 

18 August - 15 SeptemberLithuania, Germany
NORTHERN COASTS

Northern Coasts 25 is a multinational invitation exercise series for NATO allies, EU and Partnership for Peace countries. The exercise has been conducted annually in the Baltic Sea area since 2007.

29 August - 12 SeptemberGermany
NAMEJS

Combined exercise to train comprehensive national and NATO plans for defence of Latvia. Command Post Exercise partly organised in close cooperation with Multinational Division North (MNDN).

8 September - 19 OctoberLatvia
MARE APERTO II

Italian national maritime exercise. The focus is on improving the operational and combat readiness of participating assets through advanced training. Key training events include anti-submarine warfare (ASW), anti-air warfare (AAW), electronic warfare (EW), seamanship, Maritime Interdiction Operations (MIO), amphibious operations, Naval Gun Fire (NGF) and Close Air Support (CAS).

1 - 31 OctoberItaly
POSEIDON

Maritime LIVEX to improve tactical level planning of Mine Countermeasures operations, and to enhance interoperability, cooperation and mutual understanding of participating units and commands.

6 - 17 OctoberRomania
THUNDER STORM

Thunder Storm is centred on Lithuanian defence plans, focusing on the training ability to plan and conduct state defence and NATO article 5 operations together with allied forces, exercising the whole spectrum of operations.

10 - 31 OctoberLithuania
NIRIIS

Greek-led maritime exercise.aimed to improve combined combat capability and increase operational capacity while providing a realistic training environment where participants enhance their knowledge and skills regarding crisis response operations and interoperability between units.


2 - 10 November Greece

LAILAPS 2-25

Maritime LIVEX exercise to enhance operational readiness and interoperability among participating forces including both Combat Enhancement Training (CET) and Force Integration Training (FIT) and tactical phase.

8 - 12 DecemberAegean Sea

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