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    FORMIDABLE SHIELD 2023

    Formidable Shield 2023

    Formidable Shield 2023    

    Exercise Formidable Shield 2023 demonstrates Allied interoperability in a joint live-fire, Integrated Air and Missile Defense (IAMD) environment, using NATO command and control reporting structures. Allied nations practice, demonstrate, and assess their ability to share common tactical pictures, share situational awareness, conduct NATO-level mission planning and engagement coordination, and exercise force-level pre-planned responses.

    The exercise is a biennial integrated air and missile... read more

    Highlights

    16 Featured Videos

    Formidable Shield 2023 Wrapup

    Formidable Shield 2023 Wrapup
    06.01.23 | LCDR Tyler Barker | USNFE-6FPA
    U.S. Navy video containing various segments of imagery from U.S. and Allied nations during exercise Formidable Shield 2023. Formidable Shield is a...
    USS Oscar Austin (DDG-79) Completes an SM-2 Engagement In Support of Exercise Formidable Shield 2023

    USS Oscar Austin (DDG-79) Completes an SM-2...
    05.20.23 | LTJG Thomas McGowan | USSOA-DDG79
    USS Oscar Austin (DDG-79) completed a joint Standard Missile 2 (SM-2) engagement with the USS Porter (DDG-78), not pictured, while underway in the...
    USS Porter SM-2 launch Formidable Shield 2023

    USS Porter SM-2 launch Formidable Shield 2023
    05.20.23 | PO2 Sawyer Connally | USNFE-6FPA
    The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) launches a Standard Missile-2 (SM-2) during a live-fire exercise in support...
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    USS Porter (DDG 78) participates in Formidable...
    05.23.23 | PO2 Sawyer Connally | USS-Porter-DDG-78
    NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN – The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Porter (DDG 78) participated in exercise Formidable Shield 2023 from the North Atlantic Ocean, May 8 to May 23, 2023.
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