NATO ships take part in large scale anti-submarin exercise in the Black Sea

NATO naval group SNMG-1 (Standing NATO Maritime Group 1), which is on a mission in the Black Sea, is in Romania’s Constanta port until July 20. SNMG-1 consists of Portuguese frigate Dom Francisco de Almeida (F-334), Dutch frigate Tromp (F-803) and Romanian frigate King Ferdinand (F-221) with a Naval Puma helicopter on board. Turkish submarine Atilay arrived in Constanta port a day earlier, on July 15, reports local Digi24. During the exercise, this submarine will be the ships’ target. A total of 14 Romanian and foreign navy ships will participate at the Sea Shield 15 exercise, together with eight aircrafts and a submarine. There will also be 2,000 Romanian and foreign troops from seven NATO states, namely Bulgaria, Greece, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, the US, and Turkey. Two large scale military exercises bring 2,500 NATO soldiers to Romania American destroyer joins large-scale military exercise in the Black Sea this week Romanian frigate joins NATO military exercise in the Black Sea as Russian jets watch from the air Irina Popescu, irina.popescu@romania-insider.com (photo source: nato maritime command on facebook; photo by wo artigues)