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It is made up of 10 shipping containers, equipment weighing 360 tonnes and is staffed by 160 operators. NATO’s Deployable Air Command and Control Centre has been moved by air, land and sea, from its home in Poggio Renatico, Italy, to Sardinia, an island in the Mediterranean Sea, 600 km south of the DACCC’s home base. The aim was to show NATO’s readiness and ability to swiftly deploy to counter threats to Alliance security. The DACCC, as it’s known, can be deployed to control NATO’s air assets in times of crisis. Footage includes shots of the containers, computer screens, planes and soundbites from various personnel.

NATO’s last counter-piracy surveillance aircraft is flying her final mission, as part of Operation Ocean Shield. The Royal Danish Air Force crew of a Challenger surveillance aircraft tells us how much the coast of Somalia has changed since the height of pirate activity in the Horn of Africa.

The mission has been just one part of a highly successful coordinated international response, including the European Union, NATO, the United States and other independent nations to the threat of piracy that, in its peak, had an economic effect in the range of US $7 billion.

In Montenegro, on average, 10 tons of unexploded ordnance (UXO) left over from past wars is found each year. The NATO Science for Peace and Security (SPS) Program is training and equipping Montenegrin UXO clearers to deal with this problem.

Footage includes various shots of Montenegrin UXO clearers training to find and dispose of UXO in rivers and on land.

In a snow-covered training area in Lithuania, nearly 4000 soldiers from 11 countries are taking part in Exercise Iron Sword. Lithuania is hosting the exercise to help train its troops and to promote regional stability and security. The exercise is taking place at two locations in Lithuania: the General Silvestras Žukauskas training area in Pabradė and the Gaižiūnai training area in Rukla.

Footage includes soldiers live firing as they take part in urban and forest simulated combat maneuvers, plus drone shots of troops moving through the forest and urban areas.

Journalists:

Laurence Cameron

Miks Uzans

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On December 23rd 2015, Prykarpattyaoblenergo Power Plant in the Ukrainian town of Ivano-Frankivsk came under cyber attack. This is what happened.

Find out what’s in store for the American-led battlegroup of almost 1,000 troops being deployed to the town of Orzysz in Poland next year.

Can the forest stop a tank in its tracks? Canadian and US engineers deploy the ancient tree defense known as an abatis during exercise Iron Sword 2016 in Lithuania.

A look at the ancient fortification and defense tactic known as the abatis, a defensive structure made of felled trees, dating back to the times of the Roman Empire, it is still an effective tool in modern warfare when done correctly. Canadian and US army engineers constructed the obstacle during the multinational exercise Iron Sword 2016 in Lithuania. Interview with a Canadian army engineer alongside footage of an abatis in the Lithuanian forest and a graphic showing the construction of the obstacle.

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A former secret Soviet town in Latvia is now being used for urban contact training. Skrundra-1, as it’s known, used to house a radar building which scanned the skies of western Europe.

The Latvian Ministry of Defense has just started using a former secret Soviet town for urban contact training. Skundra-1 used to be home to 5,000 Russians from the scientific and military community. The site housed a radar building which was demolished once Latvia gained independence following the break-up of the Soviet Union in 1991. The footage includes aerial shots of the site showing old apartment blocks, interior shots and live-fire training.

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The art of self-defence. Find out what this Polish MMA fighter has to say about the multinational battlegroup, led by the Americans, which will be hosted by his unit next year.

An 18-year-old female sharp shooter from Latvia won gold recently in the biathlon event at the Baltic Military Winter Games.

The Baltic Military Winter Games have taken place in Latvia. The games were held for the first time in 2014. Events included ice hockey, ice fishing and biathlon. This year participants included Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians. An invite was also sent to Ukraine and Canada in order to strengthen partnerships. Canada will soon be deploying troops to Latvia to boost NATO’s presence in the region. Footage includes aerial shots of the biathlon, shots of ice hockey and a soundbite with a participant.

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