Sweden has hosted an exercise involving 26,000 personnel from Sweden and various NATO Allies including Estonia, Finland, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, Poland, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the United States. Exercise Aurora 23 tested Sweden’s capacity to defend itself against any potential threat.

Exercise Aurora 23 ran from 17 April until 11 May and took place primarily in southern Sweden and in and around Gotland. The Swedish Armed Forces trained alongside various NATO Allies to exchange tactics and to enhance a long-standing cooperation.

Footage includes shots of Swedish Army Leopard tanks, NH-90 helicopters and soundbites from General Micael Bydén, Supreme Commander of the Swedish Armed Forces, and Colonel Anders Jönsson, Swedish Navy

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