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Royal Navy Warships Are Practicing Getting Attacked at 16 Times the Speed of Sound The Formidable Shield naval exercises are staged every two years and are intended to assure allies, deter adversaries, and demonstrate the commitment of NATO to collective defense. Last weekend, three Royal Navy warships joined their NATO allies and began the world’s largest test of naval air and missile defenses. In total fifteen ships, more than ten aircraft, and approximately 3,300 personnel will participate in Exercise Formidable Shield, which is scheduled to run for three weeks off Scotland’s Outer Heb...

U.S. And Nato Demand More Interceptor-Missile Destroyers to Operate From Arctic to Antarctic Rick Rozoff The U.S. Navy announced that on March 29 the guided-missile destroyer  USS Roosevelt departed Naval Station Rota in Spain to start a Forward-Deployed Naval Forces-Europe patrol in the Mediterranean Sea (and beyond). While operating in the Mediterranean it will be assigned to the U.S. Sixth Fleet whose area of responsibility the sea is, and will almost certainly enter the Black Sea for exercises after the usual protocol. It’s confirmed that it will participate in exercises in the Balt...