According to the armed forces of Sweden, British paratroopers on Tuesday evening carried out landing from the air to the fields north of the airport in Visby. Their role was to secure the landing of American aircraft transporting long -range rocket launchers.
Such a scenario was defined as “very realistic'
According to the exercise of the exercises on behalf of the Swedish army Johan Hellborg, supervision of Gotland, located between Stockholm, the Baltic States and the Królewiec region of Russia, has The key importance for the safety of the Baltic Sea. “It allows you to control sea shipping and airspace in the region,” Hellborg emphasized.
Maneuvers in Gotland will last until the end of May
Exercises in Gotland are there part larger navy maneuvers and air forces of several NATO countries called Swift Response 25, lasting from 11 to 31 May in the Baltic Sea and in the far north.
At the beginning of May in Vaestervik, South-Eastern Sweden, the Swedish army and civil defense practiced the adoption of the wounded and sick in the event that the evacuation of the hospital in Gotland was necessary.
In January 2022, a month before the full -line attack of Russia on Ukraine, the Swedish army strengthened its presence in Gotland. The American transport aircraft C-17 participated in the transport of soldiers and equipment. In 2024, field exercises in the field of civil defense and evacuation with the participation of 20 heads of the largest offices, including the first vice president of the Central Bank of Sweden Anna Breman, were conducted on the island.