The month of August saw the personnel of the Baltic Task Group engaged in training both with individual armament and with the main weapon systems of the Italian armored component, which at the Adazi Training Area operates on Ariete and VCC 80 Dardo tanks.
The training activities conducted in the last 30 days have made it possible to consolidate the knowledge of the technical-tactical procedures of the allied armored units in the context of defensive activities.
The enhanced Forward Presence is a defensive measure to strengthen the eastern flank of the Atlantic Alliance, in line with NATO’s international commitment and in accordance with the decisions taken during the Warsaw Summit in July 2016. It represents a concrete effort to preserve peace by strengthening the principle of deterrence.
Italy, a member of the Atlantic Alliance, participates in the eFP by deploying in Latvia, under the Canadian-led Battlegroup, a maneuver unit at the level of a minor multi-weapon complex based on the 11th Bersaglieri Regiment, with the contribution of units at platoon level of the 132nd Tank Regiment, the Novara Lancers Regiment (5th), the 17th Regiment c / a “Sforzesca”, the 121st Regiment c / a “Ravenna”, of the 7th CBRN Defense Regiment, the 7th and 46th Transmission Regiments, a JTAC team from the 7th Alpini Regiment, plus a National Support component based on “Ariete Brigade”.
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