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UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace and Estonian Defence Minister Hanno Pevkur have agreed on a roadmap to enhance cooperation in defence.

The British Army's Royal Tank Regiment (RTR) is set to deploy personnel to Estonia later this year, according to military and defense breaking news site militaryleak.com. The RTR, which uses Challenger 2 Main Battle Tanks (MBT) among other equipment has been training in Germany in advance of the deployment, which will take place in September.

Two helicopters from Britain's Army Air Corps (AAC) are to make an overflight Saturday morning, weather permitting, over Tallinn's Vabaduse väljak (Freedom Square).

Estonia's military maintains its readiness and works well with its much-appreciated allies, in the teeth of challenges over the past year, Prime Minister Kaja Kallas (Reform) says.

Minister of Defense Kalle Laanet (Reform) got an overview up close this week of how this year's annual large-scale military conscripts exercise is progressing. Highlights of week two of the exercise have included the participation of United States Army Black Hawk and Apache helicopters.

0"> Recent rotation handover ceremony at Tapa base, home of the U.K.-led NATO Enhanced Forward Presence (eFP) Battlegroup. Source: Oliver Turp Regional daily Virumaa Teataja says that a recent incident involving British soldiers based in Tapa, Lääne-Viru County, is, according to its sources, not an isolated one and that other cases of behavior that some local residents say they find unacceptable have also been reported, while the issue has already been discussed at higher...

0"> Lt Col. Thomas Fogh, Deputy Commander of the NATO eFP Battlegroup in Estonia and (right) Col. Paul Clayton, eFP commander. Source: NATO eFP The NATO Enhanced Forward Presence (eFP) Battlegroup based at Tapa rose to challenges presented by the arrival of the coronavirus pandemic and maintained its readiness and capabilities, its commanding officers say. Col. Paul Clayton of the British Army, commander of the eFP, said Monday that: "We undoubtedly rose to the challenge of...