Between February 10 and 21, it will be held The biggest exercise of the year by NATO And for which, many countries in the Alliance will be presented with hundreds or thousands of military with the aim of being trained and tested in situations and key scenarios.
The appointment will have as headquarters Greece, Bulgaria and Romaniaand the training is the Steadfast Dart 25. He will go around 10,000 NATO soldiers, as well as hundreds of vehicles and aircraft. In this training, Spain will have an important presence, which will manifest With the mobilization of the Juan Carlos I.
As reported by the Defense Staff (EMAD) in a statement, they have needed The mobilization of numerous resources of all parts of the army to be able to send all the necessary teams and armaments to Romania. Thus, they emphasize that multimodal transport systems have been used: Maritime, terrestrial and rail.
According to what they reported from the Navy, the ports of Cartagena and Almería were used to transport a large part of the resources destined to the operation, which were sent to the port of Alejandropolis, in Greece, and from there to Romania.
In total, Spain will contribute 196 military vehicles, And thanks to the railway facilities, they could be transported to Dumbraveni and voila and from there by road to Cincu, which is the place chosen for deployment and exercises by the Spanish troops.
Similarly, five other missions have been scheduled with transport aircraft from the Air Force. For all this, From the EMAD they indicate as a key factor the cooperation and synchrony of all transport missions to get the transfer to be a success.
As on so many other occasions, the work of a mission like Steadfast Dart in 2025, It has the objective of “deterring any threat against any allied territory.” In these workouts they will be put by The first time in progress of the rapid reaction force (RAF), which were included in the Alliance last year. Its main virtues include its multiple domains in addition to high availability and a very rapid deployment capacity.
