Norwegian Armed Forces

[Kvasir]

*Continued from Norwegian Armed Forces

Fast forward 15 years and the Norwegian Army is still in Iraq, only this time around it's focus is on counter-terrorism and training and intelligence support. The shift in their gear over their time in Iraq is fun to track, but ironically they're still sporting green forest camo, which when they were first deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan, was all they had. Even today, with modern desert camo, new rifles and vehicles and all the bells and whistles, they're still bringing the Norwegian forests to the Iraqi deserts.

Training Kurds.

And the Iraqi military.

And providing support in-field to Iraqi military and security forces.

 

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KV Andenes visits Lilliehöökbreen of the Svalbard Archipelago.

The Nordcapp OPVs and wartime escorts are scheduled to be replaced by the mid-2020s. KV Andenes has had several run-ins with Sea Shepard during her time in the Norwegian Coast Guard, firing on Neptune's Navy ships in defence of whalers on a few occasions and being rammed by M/Y Whales Forever, damaging both vessels. KV Andenes received a long gash in her port side while M/Y Whales Forever's bow was crushed. M/Y Whales Forever was sold by Sea Shepard in 1995 after being to costly to repair from the collision.

 

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Cyber warfare of the Norwegian Defence University College of Engineering - Telematics during exercise Initial Entry.

 

[Valkyrja]

Training for urban ops in Germany.

 

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The Norwegian Forest Cat is one of the largest and most powerful breeds. Here a band patrols the woods on the hunt of prey.

 

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KV Svalbard visiting with the locals.

 

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At sea with mine-countermeasures vessel KNM Rauma.

 

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Fleet support ship KNM Maud is handed over to the Norwegian Navy at DSME-Shipyard in the Republic of Korea.

 

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Recovering Helge Ingstad.

 

[CountryFirst]

What happened here??

 

[Valkyrja]

Fleet support vessel KNM Maud transiting from South Korea to her new home.

 

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Navy EOD techs work to remove Naval Strike Missiles from KNM Helge Ingstad.

 

[suryakiran]

Navy EOD techs work to remove Naval Strike Missiles from KNM Helge Ingstad.

I see only 1 tank and that too a small one. The missiles must be easy to remove? Don't think this will last more than an hour. And in those cold waters, that is pushing it.

 

[Valkyrja]

The missiles must be easy to remove?

Pretty easy for reloading ops. Just three bolts in the base of a canister and some wiring and they're good to go. They aren't hard to mount or remove, for either the naval or coastal launchers.

Unfortunately I don't know much about the recovery operation, so I'm not sure how quickly they can be removed, but from what I've heard the recovery process went smoothly with all missiles being recovered without further incident.

And in those cold waters, that is pushing it.

"You can die in just 15 minutes in these water."

Poppycock. We're Norwegian. Anti-freeze is in our blood. Ingstad sunk in the South West near Bergen where waters in the North Sea get around 6 C this time of year. Cold. Dangerous. But just part of the job for veteran commandos like MDK who spend much of their time in Norway's waters detonating mines and UXOs from NATO or Russian exercises.

 

[Valkyrja]

What happened here??

A mass-casualty CBRNE exercise between the Norwegian military and civil services.

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[CountryFirst]

A mass-casualty CBRNE exercise between the Norwegian military and civil services.

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So I guess you mean it was just an act and nobody was actually hurt. Good to know.

 

[Valkyrja]

Coastal Ranger recon team.