Dynamic Mariner is a crisis-response train, held at the side of the Turkish Navy’s Train Mavi Balina, which brings collectively 12 Allied nations off the coast of Türkiye.
Led by NATO Allied Maritime Command (MARCOM), the Dynamic Mariner goals to check and reveal NATO’s Response Pressure Maritime Part (NRF/M) and interoperability between NATO forces, enhancing flexibility and bettering the power to work collectively amongst Allied nations. It runs from Sept.11-22.
The train incudes 50 floor models, 5 submarines, 5 air belongings (together with maritime patrol plane and helicopters), 1,500 marines, and personnel, from 12 NATO nations – Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Romania, Spain, Türkiye, and the US.
The train additionally entails Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 (SNMG2) and Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group Two (SNMCMG2), two of NATO’s Standing Naval Forces on lively responsibility that contribute to the Alliance’s collective defence on a everlasting foundation.
“Dynamic Mariner is an extremely essential large-scale maritime train,” mentioned MARCOM Deputy Commander French Navy Vice Admiral Didier Piaton. “This yr’s occasion contains extra belongings than ever earlier than, facilitating elevated interoperability between our nations and enhancing operational readiness. We proceed to work carefully with Türkiye and different Allies and Companions to discourage aggression and defend the Alliance.”
Dynamic Mariner-Mavi Balina will embrace coaching in particular skillsets to incorporate floor, air, anti-submarine warfare (ASW), anti-surface warfare (ASuW), mine countermeasures, amphibious, hybrid, and power safety operations.
NATO’s maritime energy lies within the means of the Standing Forces and NATO Response Pressure (NRF) components to combine quickly with excessive readiness, excessive functionality nationwide forces and process teams. Common coaching between these teams is a power multiplier and supplies a collectively skilled and interoperable functionality that NATO can confidently deploy.
The NRF is a extremely prepared and technologically superior multinational power that includes land, air, maritime and Particular Operations Forces (SOF) elements that the Alliance can deploy rapidly, each time and wherever wanted.
Collective defence stays the Alliance’s best accountability and deterrence is a core aspect of NATO’s general technique – stopping battle and battle, defending Allies, sustaining freedom of determination and motion, and upholding the ideas and values it stands for.
Headquartered in Northwood, United Kingdom, NATO Allied Maritime Command (MARCOM) is the central command of all NATO maritime forces. MARCOM’s commander is the first maritime advisor to the Alliance. Like its land and air counterparts (LANDCOM and AIRCOM), MARCOM reviews to NATO’s Allied Command Operations (ACO), which is situated in Mons, Belgium.
