Northern Wedding
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Northern Wedding was a NATO Cold War
naval military exercise
conducted every four years, designed to test NATO's ability to rearm and resupply Europe
during times of war.
Cold War
The Cold War was the continuing state from roughly 1946 to 1991 of political conflict, military tension, proxy wars, and economic competition between the Communist World—primarily the Soviet Union and its satellite states and allies—and the powers of the Western world, primarily the United States...
naval military exercise
Military exercise
A military exercise is the employment of military resources in training for military operations, either exploring the effects of warfare or testing strategies without actual combat...
conducted every four years, designed to test NATO's ability to rearm and resupply Europe
Europe
Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally 'divided' from Asia to its east by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting...
during times of war.
Exercises
- 1978 September. The exercise was conducted by 40,000 men, 22 submarines, and 800 aircraft from nine countries . Two amphibious landing took place, one in the Shetland IslandsShetland IslandsShetland is a subarctic archipelago of Scotland that lies north and east of mainland Great Britain. The islands lie some to the northeast of Orkney and southeast of the Faroe Islands and form part of the division between the Atlantic Ocean to the west and the North Sea to the east. The total...
and a second in DenmarkDenmarkDenmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe. The countries of Denmark and Greenland, as well as the Faroe Islands, constitute the Kingdom of Denmark . It is the southernmost of the Nordic countries, southwest of Sweden and south of Norway, and bordered to the south by Germany. Denmark... - 1982 Late August to September. 160 ships and 250 aircraft participated in the exercise. And there were two amphibious landings.
- 1986 Late August to September. The exercise included an amphibious landing in Norway.