Large-scale biennial missile defence exercise Exercise #FormidableShield 2025 to be held in two main locations – off the Hebrides, NW Scotland and in the Norwegian Sea. Besides arrivals on the Clyde, other participants are assembling in Bodø, Norway. 🇬🇧HMS Dragon D35 🇮🇹ITS Giovanni delle Bande Nere 🇫🇷FS Normandie 🇺🇸USS Bulkeley DDG84 🇺🇸USS Thomas Hudner DDG116 🇳🇱HNLMS De Ruyter F804. 🇩🇰HDMS Absalon 🇩🇰HDMS Iver Huitfeldt F361 🇳🇴KNM Thor Heyerdahl 🇨🇦HMCS Montreal 🇪🇸ESPS Cristobal Colon F105 🇧🇪BNS Louise Marie F931.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Search and rescue (SAR) swimmers assigned to USS Milius (DDG 69) jump into the water during SAR swimmer training at Naval Support Facility Diego Garcia.

 

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Blue Ridge-class command and control ship USS Mount Whitney (LCC 20), the U.S. Sixth Fleet Flagship, arrives in Praia, Cabo Verde in support Obangame Express 2025.

 

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Italian Navy Paolo Thaon di Revel-class offshore patrol vessel ITS Giovanni delle Bande Nere (P434) leaving Faslane, Scotland – May 3, 2025

 

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Successful Harpoon missile launch by BNS Louise-Marie, off Norway at start of At-Sea-Demonstration FormidableShield25.

 

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In 1942, USS Nautilus (SS-168) patrolled so close to the coast of Japan that the crew could see billboards advertising Asahi beer. The crew joked that they spent so much time in sight of the mainland that they deserved liberty in Yokohama.