Following last week’s activity in the Baltic Sea, yesterday it was the Kola Peninsula that came under the attention of NATO assets operating as part of Exercise Lion Protector, although the activity had a distinctly operational character.
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Allied ISR surge over the Norwegian Sea points to a highly operational Lion Protector 26 focus
Yesterday afternoon, a coordinated wave of U.S. and British intelligence, surveillance and maritime patrol aircraft operated across the Norwegian Sea and toward the Kola Peninsula. The activity, pr…
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