Around 40 hours earlier than planned, the major maritime exercise planned and carried out this year by the German Navy major maritime exercise “Northern Coasts 23” was successfully completed yesterday.
“In the free-play phase of the exercise, all participating units were able to consolidate the training successes of the first week of the maneuver and significantly improve operational-tactical cooperation at unit level, despite some poor weather conditions. As Exercise Director, I can already say today that all participants have benefited greatly from the exercise in terms of their own operational readiness and cooperation within the multinational group. I am very satisfied with the results,” said Flotilla Admiral Stephan Haisch. According to a recent press release from the German Navy’s Press and Information Center, the DEU Marfor staff in Rostock was also able to “successfully demonstrate its leadership capabilities” during the exercise. The German Navy has thus shown that it is “ready and able to take on more command responsibility in the Baltic Sea region”. https://militaeraktuell.at/das-bundesheer-entscheidet-sich-fuer-die-embraer-c-390/ According to Haisch, the manoeuvre in the sea area off the coasts of Estonia and Latvia was noticed and observed by the Russian Navy: “Overall, the Russian ships and aircraft behaved as expected, there was no provocation or escalation. We demonstrated our operational readiness and we were vigilant. I think that the Russian navy was well aware of this.” In view of the positive outcome of the exercise and the continuing bad weather in the sea area, Flotilla Admiral Haisch decided to end the exercise 40 hours earlier than planned, not least to conserve personnel and equipment. The ships and aircraft involved in the exercise now face a wide variety of new tasks. However, the attention in the Baltic Sea will not diminish. For example, German Navy ships and boats will continue to fly the flag in the Baltic Sea as part of Operation Baltic Guard.
