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    first BALTOPS was to 'show-the-flag' to maintain the U.S. right to sail in international waters even those in the Soviet Union's backyard. BALTOPS '85 added...
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    May, Kearsarge docked at Tallinn, Estonia ahead of the Exercise BALTOPS 22. During BALTOPS 2022 Kearsarge trained operating UUVs and UAVs. On 2 June, she...
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    Operations 2011 (BALTOPS-2011). This exercise included naval units from the United States, Russian, Danish, Polish and French navies, and BALTOPS-2011 ended...
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    destroyer USS Hayler, badly damaging Hayler's stern. Rhön participated in BALTOPS 2020. admin (2018-07-03). "The German Navy is suffering from a shortage...
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    Mount Whitney was operating in the Baltic Sea, ahead of naval exercise BALTOPS 2022. The ship is currently stationed in Gaeta, Italy. On 18 October 2023...
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    miles (360,000 square kilometers) of the ocean surface. During the 2018 Baltops exercise B-52s conducted mine-laying missions off the coasts of Sweden...
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    Archer, Ranger and Exploit, deployed to the Baltic to take part in the NATO BALTOPS exercise, marking the first time that the Royal Navy P2000's were involved...
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    given the task of supervising Exercise BALTOPS 2008, that took place from 8 to 18 June 2008 (pictured). BALTOPS began in 1971 as a NATO freedom of navigation...
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    including the Royal Navy's Carrier Strike Group, as may be required. Baltops is an annual 2-week exercise run by the US Navy. It is an exercise in which...
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    Operation Azotize. While deployed the squadron participated in Exercise BALTOPs 2020. In July 2020, No. 12 Squadron began operating as a joint RAF-QEAF...
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