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African Lion 25 is U.S. Africa Command's largest, premier, annual exercise, hosted across Morocco, Ghana, Senegal and Tunisia. This joint, all-domain, multi-component, and multinational exercise includes more than 10,000 participants from more than twenty nations, including contingents from NATO. African Lion aims to strengthen interoperability among participants and build readiness to respond to crises and contingencies in Africa and around the world.

The exercise will include a command post exercise, field training exercises, a live-fire demonstration, and humanitarian civic assistance program events. Additionally, humanitarian civic assistance missions will feature a combination of medical, dental and veterinary assistance and exchanges across Morocco, Ghana and Senegal.

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Exercise Dynamic Monarch 2017 - Soundbite 1

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Oct. 13, 2017 | 1:21

Dynamic Monarch is a series of live submarine search, escape and rescue (SMER) exercises that provide the opportunity to share related knowledge among NATO Allies and other nations worldwide.
The sea is a difficult environment to deal with in an emergency situation. The aim of this exercise is to train mariners in cooperating when saving crew members from a distressed submarine and to help develop tactics and test equipment in order to provide options if an emergency does strike.
Dynamic Monarch 2017 kicked off on 8 September and is due to run until 22 September in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Aksaz, Turkey. The NATO nations participating in this year’s drills are Canada, France, Italy, Norway, Poland, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States. Representatives from Bangladesh, Chile, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Pakistan, South Korea and Sweden have also been invited to the exercise as observers.
Footage includes Italian soundbites from an Italian Navy Lieutenant explaining how one of the submarine rescue vehicles works, as well as soundbites from one of the engineers working for NATO’s Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE) talking about a new system of underwater communications being tested during the exercise.
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The sea is a difficult environment to deal with in an emergency situation. NATO Allies are training alongside other nations to prove their interoperability and cooperation in a submarine search-and-rescue scenario during exercise Dynamic Monarch.
1. Soundbite in Italian: Lieutenant Matteo Rosso, Italian Navy – “We have this rescue vehicle which is autonomous. It is released near a submarine that is stuck on the seabed, at depths down to 300 metres. With the engines, I can move autonomously. It lays on the submarine, and then we create a watertight seal between the rescue vehicle and the submarine through a hatch on its deck. This way, water that’s inside the skirt is being drained, so the personnel can transfer from the submarine that is trapped on the seabed, to my rescue vehicle”.
2. Soundbite in Italian: Alberto Grati. Engineering Department at NATO’s Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE). “Dynamic Monarch is an experiment, it’s an experimental mission for us. We have installed a system able to receive signals from JANUS [Underwater Communication Protocol] aboard the submarine Tramontana. As far as Dynamic Monarch is concerned, only this submarine can receive our signal. So the idea is to show to the scientific and technical community the possibilities of this new technology, so that in future all submarines can be equipped with this receiver.

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