NATO Update - 6 August 2023
NATO Innovation Fund closes on EUR 1bn flagship fund
Twenty-three NATO Allies have officially become Limited Partners of the NATO Innovation Fund (NIF), which is preparing to make its initial investments later this year. The Participating Allies (Belgium, Bulgaria, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Türkiye and the United Kingdom) have also welcomed Sweden's interest to join the NIF. Sweden's participation will take effect upon its accession to the North Atlantic Treaty. READ MORE
From intern to innovator – meet NATO’s Moritz Zimmermann
Moritz Zimmermann started at NATO as an intern. Now, he’s the Deputy Chief of Staff of a team establishing the Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic.
Demonstrating agility and capability, Germany conducts swift fighter deployment to Iceland
The German Air Force has started the deployment of a fighter capability to Iceland to conduct an Agile Combat Employment (ACE). From August 1 to 10, Eurofighters are conducting training in the High North and work with the Icelandic Coast Guard and other regional Allies. (Story courtesy of Allied Air Command)
NATO Task Groups unite for multi-threat mine counter measures exercise in the Mediterranean Sea
The combined forces of Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 (SNMG2) and Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group 2 (SNMCMG2) joined in the Central Mediterranean to test themselves against the challenging exercise scenario of a minefield at sea. (Story courtesy of Allied Maritime Command)
The largest warship in the world, and the 🇺🇸US Navy’s newest and most technologically advanced aircraft carrier, crossed the Atlantic for its first operational deployment in 2022.
What was it like to sail the high seas on a floating airbase?
NATO relations with Ukraine
The security of Ukraine is of great importance to NATO and its member states. The Alliance fully supports Ukraine’s inherent right to self-defence, and its right to choose its own security arrangements. Ukraine’s future is in NATO.
Freijo Cruz
2yNATO should only intervene only in the case that it does not correspond according to its interests at the world terrorist level, the issue of Ukraine we all know that it is just a strategic game by Russia to seize power and increase its currency funds in order to catch up with the economy with China and thus be its ally along with North Korea in order to be a single world power against the US
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2yLots of Naval activity today near Alaska
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2yGives me the shivers, but a distinct necessity
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2yNato: the North Atlantic Pakt, what are they doing in Ukraine?
Unos ejercicios, sumamente en positivo, las capacidades sincronizadas y bien planeadas, obtienen unos resultados, catalogados de "efectividad y seguridad en la máxima DEFENSA de la OTAN NATO.