Text and photo;: Lt Cdr Klaus Randrup, PIO Admiral Danish Fleet

The Polish commanding officer Marcin Jashulski looks at his ship with pride, as she is refuelling at Naval Base Frederikshavn. Recently the ship has been mid-life updated, which is a larger upgrade of the different technical systems on board.

DANEX 07 is the first international exercise since the upgrade, for both ship and crew, and has according to Jashulski so far offered good challenges and training.

The commanding officer has especially been happy to conduct the exercise moments, where the ship had to communicate with the merchant traffic. In Poland this is normally done by the Coast Guard and therefore has been new and interesting to the crew of ORP GROM.

Both the commanding officer and the executive officer Wójcik are looking forward to get back in exercise DANEX 07.