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100 US and European fighter jets just started an exercise near Russia's borders

Published by Business Insider on Mon, 25 May 2015


OSLO (Reuters) - About 100 fighter jets from the United States and eight European nations began an Arctic training exercise in the Nordic nations on Monday, a region worried by increased Russian military activity.The exercise, based in the north of Norway, Sweden and Finland with 4,000 personnel, is meant to test cooperation among Arctic nations near Russia. It was planned before Moscow's annexation of Ukraine's Crimea region last year raised regional tensions."The aim is to exercise and train units in the orchestration and conduct of complex air operations, in close relations to NATO partners,' Norwegian brigadier general Jan Ove Rygg, heading the exercise, said in a statement.The exercise, lasting from May 25 to June 5, is one of the biggest fighter jet exercises in Europe this year and the second of its type after one in 2013. Plans are for exercises every second year, testing everything from shooting down airborne targets to mid-air refuelling.NATO members involved were the United States, Germany, Britain, France, the Netherlands and Norway, as well as non-members Sweden, Finland and Switzerland, which are linked to the alliance via NATO's partnership for peace.Russia has stepped up military activity around the Nordic and Baltic region. Incursions into airspace have especially rattled the Baltic states and Sweden last year hunted in vain for a suspected submarine in its waters.(Reporting by Alister Doyle; Editing by Andrew Heavens)Join the conversation about this storyNOW WATCH: Two models in Russia just posed with a 1,400-pound bear
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