Around 2,000 military personnel from thirteen Allies are participating in NATO’s annual nuclear deterrence exercise, STEADFAST NOON.
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Thirteen Allies are participating in NATO’s annual nuclear deterrence Exercise STEADFAST NOON, a long-planned, routine training activity that is hosted by a different NATO Ally each year.
Around 2,000 military personnel from eight airbases and a variety of aircraft types, including nuclear-capable jets, bombers, fighter escorts, refuelling aircraft and planes capable of reconnaissance and electronic warfare from Allied air forces are taking part in the exercise to test NATO’s nuclear deterrent.
The 2024 iteration involves training flights mainly over host countries Belgium and the Netherlands as well as over Denmark, the United Kingdom and the North Sea. The exercise runs from 14 to 24 October 2024.
This NATO Multimedia footage, filmed last week and released yesterday, includes shots of Dutch and German aircraft taxiing, taking off and landing to exercise NATO’s nuclear deterrence capability. With soundbites from the Chief of NATO Nuclear Operations, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), Col. Daniel Bunch.
Shot list:-
- 00:00 ~ Dutch Air Force F-35 taking off
- 00:13 ~ Dutch Air Force F-35 taking off
- 00:26 ~ Dutch air traffic controller observing the airfield
- 00:31 ~ Dutch Air Force F-35 landing
- 00:36 ~ German Air Force Tornado taxis on runway
- 00:58 ~ German Air Force Tornado taking off
- 01:16 ~ Dutch Air Force F-35 taxis on runway
- 01:27 ~ Dutch Air Force F-35 taxis on runway
- 01:36 ~ Dutch Air Force F-35 taxis on runway
- 02:00 ~ Dutch Air Force F-35 taking off
- 02:08 ~ Dutch Air Force F-35 taking off
- 02:16 ~ Dutch Air Force F-35 taking off
- 02:23 ~ Dutch Air Force F-35 airborne
- 02:28 ~ Soundbite – Colonel Daniel Bunch
- 02:45 ~ Soundbite – Colonel Daniel Bunch
- 03:03 ~ Soundbite – Colonel Daniel Bunch
- 03:28 ~ Soundbite – Colonel Daniel Bunch
- 03:59 ~ Soundbite – Colonel Daniel Bunch
- 04:45 ~ Soundbite – Colonel Daniel Bunch
- 05:04 ~ Soundbite – Colonel Daniel Bunch
- 05:25 ~ Soundbite – Colonel Daniel Bunch
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