Text: Major Michael Christiansen, SPAO DATG
Photo: Danish Defence Media Center

The exercise has had maritime participants from Denmark, Norway, United Kingdom and Poland as well as Army and Air Force units from Denmark, Germany, United Kingdom, Poland and Canada. The exercise started in the Baltic Sea around Bornholm and was later moved to Kattegat and Skagerrak. There has been very succesful portvisits in both Rønne and Copenhagen.

– Not all training objectives have been fully achieved. However, cosidering the abnormal weather for this time of the year, the unusually high number of technical problems plus a very complex and ambitious exercise programme, all participants came trough with flying colours, states exercise leader and Commander Danish Task Group, Commodore Palle Cortes.

– I hope that all participants have got the training they came for and that they now sail for home with a positive experience and a little better prepared for modern maritime close-to-coast operations in a joint and combined littoral environment.

For the Danish Task Group exercise activities are, however, not over. This morning, the staff went ashore from the command ship THETIS and already tomorrow they go to Scotland on board the support ship ABSALON to participate in Exercise Neptune Warrior 072 for three weeks.

Read Commodore Palle Cortes’ farewell greeting to the DANEX 07 participants here.