Topic: Ex TRIDENT JUNCTURE 2018

[stellarpanther]

Does anyone know of a possible EX coming up in Norway?  Didn't know we had people there.

[Eye In The Sky]

Yes

[stellarpanther]

Actually I just found more about it online.  Google is great.  It looks like Ex Trident Juncture 18, a huge NATO EX.

[Fishbone Jones]

Yes

I am responding to a Report to Mod.
Try expand your answers a bit. It's obvious the poster was starting a conversation regarding the subject. Your post provided absolutely no value whatsoever. Don't make people pull teeth. Of course, you were just answering his question in the strict sense it was asked, but while you got your satisfaction at your little jest, it did nothing to further the subject or clear anything up. Except that you know something someone else doesn't, but won't share.

Please refrain from posts that don't add anything to the thread.

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[Eye In The Sky]

Copy that, but it wasn't in jest.  Just trying to toe the line of info avail at the sight below with "things known thru work means". 

http://dgpaapp.forces.gc.ca/en/exercises/index.html

[Fishbone Jones]

Copy that, but it wasn't in jest.  Just trying to toe the line of info avail at the sight below with "things known thru work means". 

http://dgpaapp.forces.gc.ca/en/exercises/index.html

So next time say Yes and add the link.

[Simian Turner]

Joint Force Command Naples has plenty of updated info on Ex Trident Juncture 18:
https://jfcnaples.nato.int/exercises/trident-juncture-18/trident-juncture-18-news

Norway feed here: https://forsvaret.no/en/exercise-and-operations/exercises/nato-exercise-2018

[Ashkan08]

Are reservists deployed ( voluntarily ) for the whole duration of the exercise?

[Eye In The Sky]

I've yet to see any official word that the CAF is participating, or what elements/units are going.  If you're interested, your unit might know if there are any CFTPO tasking for the ex.

[211RadOp]

From what I know, most of the LTF are coming from 5 Bde.  There may be reservists in the ORBAT, but I do not know.

[Pwegman]

Yes ,there's an exercise in Norway goin from October to November . Its an interoperability exercice with a few country of the Nato. You can get alot of information if you google Trident Juncture 18.
I know that because im goin there for the exercise and im leaving in about 2 weeks from Valcartier.

[daftandbarmy]

Yes ,there's an exercise in Norway goin from October to November . Its an interoperability exercice with a few country of the Nato. You can get alot of information if you google Trident Juncture 18.
I know that because im goin there for the exercise and im leaving in about 2 weeks from Valcartier.

Awesome. Weather-wise, that is absolutely the worst time of year to be in Norway.

Numbers for Narvik, for example https://en.climate-data.org/location/6656/

It can go from torrential downpours to sleet and snow in the blink of an (hypothermic) eye

[Blackadder1916]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEQGbAHVj4o

[daftandbarmy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEQGbAHVj4o

Clearly, no one walks anywhere anymore

[MarkOttawa]

Matthew Fisher, now CGAI Fellow amongst other things (no longer with Postmedia), on Trident Juncture 2018:

Trident Juncture 18: NATO’s Norwegian Exercise


Image credit: Matthew Fisher

...Canada’s robust presence here has barely been mentioned by anyone in Ottawa. With 2,000 troops forward deployed, this has been by far the biggest, most complex military operation for the Canadian Forces since the Afghan combat mission ended seven years ago. It is a throwback to the ’70s and ’80s when NATO tasked a brigade from Canada with coming to Norway’s aid at a time of war.

At a cost of $28 million, Canada has sent the fourth largest national contingent to Norway. As well as warships, it has contributed eight CF-18 Hornets, an aerial refuelling tanker, a spy plane and a ground combat element built around 3rd Battalion, the Royal 22nd Regiment...

Matthew Fisher is a Fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute. He was born in northwestern Ontario and raised there and in the Ottawa Valley. He has lived and worked abroad for 34 years as a foreign correspondent for the Globe and Mail, Sun Media and Postmedia. Assignments have taken him to 171 countries. An eyewitness to 19 conflicts including Somalia, the Rwandan genocide, Chechnya, the Balkan Wars, Israel in Gaza and Lebanon, the two Gulf Wars and Afghanistan, Matthew was appointed as the first Bill Graham Centre/Massey College Resident Visiting Scholar in Foreign and Defence Policy in 2018.
@mfisheroverseas

https://www.cgai.ca/trident_juncture_18_natos_norwegian_exercise

Mark
Ottawa

[Underway]

At a cost of $28 million, Canada has sent the fourth largest national contingent to Norway. As well as warships, it has contributed eight CF-18 Hornets, an aerial refuelling tanker, a spy plane and a ground combat element built around 3rd Battalion, the Royal 22nd Regiment...

We have a SPY PLANE?  Must be so super secret no one knows about it.

[Dimsum]

We have a SPY PLANE?  Must be so super secret no one knows about it.

*sigh*

I guess the Aurora (ie. the Flying Winnebago) counts as a spy plane these days.

[daftandbarmy]

Matthew Fisher, now CGAI Fellow amongst other things (no longer with Postmedia), on Trident Juncture 2018:
Mark
Ottawa

Shocking... that looks like a non-issue toque 

[paleomedic]

They are definitely issuing that toque at clothing in Petawawa.

[Journeyman]

We have a SPY PLANE? 

It could  be one of the Beechcraft King Air B200, which have been adapted for ELINT/SIGINT.

[Dimsum]

It could  be one of the Beechcraft King Air B200, which have been adapted for ELINT/SIGINT.

It could, but the Auroras were there and they weren't mentioned elsewhere. 

[Journeyman]

It could, but the Auroras were there and they weren't mentioned elsewhere.

Hence the italics, with no further comment -- that whole 'staying in my lane' thing.

Although it answers the question on RCAF having "spy planes," since some may consider ELINT/SIGINT 'spying.' 

[PPCLI Guy]

It could, but the Auroras were there and they weren't mentioned elsewhere.

If they had flown, maybe they would have been mentioned 

[dapaterson]

If they had flown, maybe they would have been mentioned 

COA 1: Fly long boring missions.

COA 2: Develop a mysterious snag and spend your time hitting on statuesque Norwegian blondes saying "I'm a pilot, you know"

[CBH99]

That's actually pretty impressive for the CF, I must say.

One of the smallest western militaries, and yet the 4th largest contingent... 

2000 troops, vehicles & weapons.  8 Hornets.  A tanker.  An Aurora.  And in an Article 5 scenario, I'm sure artillery & armoured units also.  Pretty good considering our deployments to Latvia, Ukraine, Mali, and Iraq right now.