Exercise Siil News Today

The US Congress passed a government funding bill on 22 March, including USD228 million in security assistance for Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania.

Bittium Wireless has been awarded a new purchase order to deliver its handheld and vehicular radios for the Finnish Defence Forces.

A British Army regiment serving in Estonia saw its six-month tour culminate in a large-scale, force-on-force exercise, involving over NATO 800 personnel and spanning four days.

A recent decision to boost volunteer Defense League (Kaitseliit) units with 10,000 Estonian Defense Forces (EDF) reservists, to form up a land-based defensive force, will require a larger number of vehicles to provide the necessary mobility.

The clandestine world of special forces operations in Estonia saw some light shed on its work via a recent article on daily Postimees' English-language portal, which focused on the US Air Force Combat Aviation Advisory Team, who recently made their first-ever visit to Estonia, tasked with polishing cooperation between air forces and special forces on the ground.

The Ministry of Defense presented mission medals on Friday to British and French troops serving with the NATO enhanced Forward Presence (eFP) battlegroup based at Tapa, marking the official end of their tour in Estonia.

It was a changed security situation after 2014 led directly to the formation of the NATO enhanced Forward Presence (eFP) Battlegroup based at Tapa, transforming the town of a little over 5,000 inhabitants, and about an hour's drive east of Tallinn, into a hive of activity and endeavor.

Finnish soldiers have been taking part in the Estonian Defense Forces' (EDF) reservists' large-scale Exercise SIIL, ETV news show 'Aktuaalne kaamera' (AK) reported Friday.

Reservists engaged in the large-scale SIIL exercise got the opportunity to use the Javelin anti-tank system this week, made even more famous by its use in combat against Russian Federation tanks used in that country's invasion of Ukraine, ETV news show 'Aktuaalne kaamera' (AK) reported.

This years large-scale, three-week military Exercise Spring Storm, while not as reduced in size as 2020s, has still necessarily seen only minimal numbers of reservists (as against conscripts, regular soldiers and NATO allied personnel) take part, due to coronavirus considerations. Estonian Defense Forces (EDF) deputy commander, Maj. Gen. Indrek Sirel, said: "With this years exercise, we have restored the normal Spring Storm routine. Last year, the exercise went ahead, but on a far smaller scale...