Delegation of Baltic Fleet (BF) officers headed by the chief of BF Combat Training Dept Capt 1 rank Sergei Volkov left for Denmark to participate in the DANEX-2012 exercise planning conference.
Representatives of participating countries will discuss organization of the exercise and determine its main episodes in March 13-16 in Jonstrup, Denmark.
The DANEX-2012 joint naval exercise will be held in Sept 1-12 in the Baltic Sea. It will be attended by naval assets of 20 countries (Denmark, Italy, Portugal, Turkey, Germany etc). Russian Navy will dispatch a BF warship.
Main objective of the exercise is practicing combat activities of multinational naval task force during local conflict settlement and peacekeeping operation.
Expectedly, the DANEX-2012 exercise will help to achieve required mutual understanding and practice international military cooperation at sea.
[mappress] Naval Today Staff , March 14, 2012; Image: nato