Anti-Submarine Warfare Training Commences in Norway

NATO’s anti-submarine warfare exercise Dynamic Mongoose is underway, involving units, sailors and airmen from seven NATO nations (Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Norway, United Kingdom and the United States) including two submarines, six surface ships and eight maritime patrol aircraft.

Dynamic Mongoose is an exercise held in the High North every summer. It is hosted consecutively by Norway and Iceland, where surface ships, submarines, as well as aircraft and personnel converge for anti-submarine warfare training. This year’s exercise Dynamic Mongoose is being executed off Norway and will also benefit airbase support from UK and Iceland. Each surface ship will have the opportunity to conduct a variety of submarine warfare operations.

Dynamic Mongoose provides the opportunity for personnel from participating nations to engage in realistic maritime training to build experience, teamwork and knowledge that strengthens interoperability as participants work toward mutual goals. During the exercise, submarines will take turns hunting and being hunted, closely coordinating their efforts with the air and surface participants.

The strength of NATO military forces lies with the command, control and communication structure which can only be practiced realistically during live exercises such as Dynamic Mongoose.

“By exercising and validating our anti-submarine warfare capabilities, tactics, techniques and procedures during Dynamic Mongoose 21, NATO will be better prepared to counter, and if necessary, defeat a subsurface threat during an emerging crisis or conflict.,” said Commodore Bradley Peats, Commander of Standing NATO Maritime Group 1.

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