NATO plans defense exercise with nuclear weapons

NATO plans defense exercise with nuclear weapons

As in previous years, long-range bombers of the B-52 type would come from the USA. They would take off from Minot Air Base in North Dakota, it said.

According to information from the German Press Agency, the German Bundeswehr will take part in the exercise called “Steadfast Noon”, which begins on Monday, with Tornado jets, among other things. Overall are noisy NATO 14 countries included. According to the information, the scene of the maneuvers will be in particular the airspace over Belgium, Great Britain and the North Sea.

That NATO stressed that “Steadfast Noon” was not a reaction to the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine and that no real weapons were used. “The exercise, which runs until October 30, is a routine, recurring training measure that is unrelated to current world events,” the alliance said.

NATOSpokesperson Oana Lungescu said, “This exercise helps ensure the Alliance’s nuclear deterrent remains secure and efficient.”

Training flights without bombs

For exercise scenario and details made the NATO not specified. According to military experts, during the maneuvers that take place regularly in October, among other things, they practice how to safely transport US nuclear weapons from underground magazines to the aircraft and mount them under the fighter jets. However, the practice flights are then flown without bombs. According to unconfirmed information, US nuclear weapons are said to be stored in northern Italy, Belgium, Turkey, the Netherlands and Büchel in Rhineland-Palatinate.

The illegal annexation of four occupied Ukrainian territories recently fueled new concerns about a possible Russian use of nuclear weapons against Ukraine. Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin, among others, then announced that they would defend them with all available means.

Source: Nachrichten

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