On June 8 wheeled military vehicles, including roughly 20 Piranha infantry fighting vehicles, of the 2nd Brigade, Danish Armed Forces, were brought to Klaipėda Seaport, Lithuania by ferry.
Video: https://youtu.be/bw0sS0pKk0Y
The Danish equipment will be used in the multinational exercise Iron Wolf 2016 running at Gaižiūnai Training Area (Jonava district), and territories of Kėdainiai, Kaunas and Jonava districts.
The exercise trains and will eventually certify a battalion-sized task force formed by the 2nd Brigade of the Danish Division, and including a Lithuanian company, for standby for the NATO Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (VJTF). Apart from 1.200 soldiers from Denmark, the exercise will also involve roughly 1.5000 troops from Germany, France, Lithuania, Luxembourg, and the United States.
The part of the Exercise Iron Wolf 2016 held at Gaižiūnai Training Area will run on June 11 through 21.
More about the exercise http://kariuomene.kam.lt/en/international_military_exercises/military_exercises_2016/saber_strike_2016_4630.html
POC: PAO for the Lithuanian Land Force Captain Donatas Suchockis, 00370 5 278 5091, 00370 640 45380, e-mail: donatas.suchockis@mil.lt
Video by organisers of the exercise
