07/26/2023
NATO Allies enhance readiness in Latvia exercise
US High Mobility Artillery Rocket Systems (HIMARS) M142 demonstrated their ability to deploy rapidly in the defence of the Alliance. The US Army regularly deploys the system to the Baltics to train alongside NATO Allies. Should a crisis occur, US Special Operations Command Europe (US SOCEUR) will be able to rush HIMARS launchers nearly anywhere in Europe on short notice
The systems were flown to Rīga and Liepāja airfields with C-130 aircraft. During the live-fire exercise, they were used to shoot rockets on a target in the Baltic Sea waters of Latvia’s exclusive economic zone.
Exercise Silver Arrow 2022, a long-planned and annual exercise, involved around 4,200 troops from 17 Allies