Air National Guard:

U.S. Air National Guard units from Iowa, Maine and Ohio are participating in the multinational missile defense exercise Formidable Shield 2021 in the United Kingdom this week.

Formidable Shield is a biennial live-fire exercise to test participating nations integrated air and missile defense systems using NATO command and control.

The maritime defense exercise, hosted by the U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa/U.S. 6th fleet and the British Royal Navy, covers a large geographical area but is based in the United Kingdom Ministry of Defense Hebrides Range in the Western Isles of Scotland.

Over 3,000 participants from Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, the United Kingdom, and the United States are involved in the exercise that will conclude the first week of June. While concentrated in the United Kingdom, the various nations are operating from sea and land locations across Europe…



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