UK troops conduct joint exercise in Poland

24 Nov 2014 12:43 PM

Around 1,300 UK soldiers have been honing their skills in the largest armoured deployment to Eastern Europe for 6 years.

The King’s Royal Hussars Battlegroup is taking part in Exercise Black Eagle in the Zagan Training area in south-west Poland. The exercise is under the command of the 10th Polish Armoured Cavalry Brigade and UK troops are working alongside the 1st Polish Tank Battalion.

The exercise, which will include live-firing, is designed to help the two Armed Forces operate more effectively with each other.

Exercise Black Eagle is a also a demonstration of the UK’s support to NATO reassurance measures, which includes:

• deployment of RAF Typhoon aircraft to the Baltic air policing mission
• deployment of HMS Montrose off the Danish coast for the multi-national Baltic operations exercise in June.

Further NATO deployments are expected to take place over the next 2 years.

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