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"Together" is one of the primary mottoes of Aurora 23. Swedish units are to increase their capability to exercise together with foreign units, and for the first time, Swedish and Finnish air defence...

During Aurora 23, the JEF cooperation was put to the test as Swedish and British Royal Marines exercised together in Oskarshamn. The features involved securing and defending Oskarshamn airport.

Defence exercise Aurora 23 is well underway. Additional personnel have been drafted in the past days and several units are on the roads. An air defence battalion from Halmstad, among others, has...

The Swedish - Icelandic team won Locked Shields, the largest cyber security exercise in the world. The Swedish Armed Forces headed the Swedish participants during the exercise at the Joint Signal...

On Monday 24 April, a mobilisation message was broadcast on the radio nationwide. The message was sent as part of the Aurora exercise currently conducted in Sweden.

A few days ago, the Swedish Armed Forces (SwAF) reached forward deployment near Khartoum in order to support the evacuation of Swedish citizens. The SwAF is cooperating with partners in order to...

Defence exercise Aurora 23 has now been launched. With the arrival of the US Marine Corps across the border from Norway into Sweden and the town of Östersund yesterday, the exercise was formally...

During defence exercise Aurora 23, there will be a new way to control and command the Swedish Armed Forces’ logistics. A part of a so-called Logistic Command is to be located in Halmstad, where...

In order to exercise mobilisation measures in a realistic way, a mobilisation message is to be broadcast on the radio at the start of the exercise AURORA 23. Swedish Radio P4 will broadcast the...

In two weeks time, the Armed Forces’ exercise Aurora 23 begins. The exercise is part of the continued enhancement of the Swedish Armed Forces’ operational capability. In total, some 26 000 people...