NATO battlegroups taking shape in Baltics, Poland
Brooks Tigner, Brussels - IHS Jane's Defence Weekly
24 March 2017
Deployments of troops and weaponry for NATO's four Enhanced Forward Presence (eFP) battlegroups in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland are picking up speed, with planned contributions from 17 allies.
The battlegroups are part of NATO's Readiness Action Plan, which is aimed at deterring Russian aggression.
The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced on 22 March that the first 120 of 800 British soldiers had arrived in Estonia with armoured vehicles that included Challenger 2 tanks, Warrior infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs), and AS90 self-propelled howitzers.
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