Dynamic Mongoose 26 Snaps
How about this PhotoEx from NATO High North ASW exercise Dynamic Mongoose 26 off Trondheim, Norway, last week.
Centered around the 65,000-ton carrier HMS Prince of Wales escorted by the Type 45 (Daring) class AAW destroyer HMS Duncan (D 37), the other escorts seen are the Danish Absalon-class frigate HDMS Esbern Snare (F 342), the German frigate FGS Sachsen (F 220), and the Portuguese Bartholomeu Dias-class frigate NRP Dom Francisco de Almeida (F 334).
Submarines include the German U-35 (S 185), the Dutch Walrus-class HNLMS Zeeleeuw (S 803), and the Tridente-class NRP Tridente (S 160).
There is also a bit of an unofficial OPFOR, as NRP Francisco De Almeida and Merlin Mk2s from HMS Prince of Wales have been closely monitoring a Russian ship, Yuri Ivanov, a (Project 18280) intelligence-gathering vessel, which is getting SIGINT close to the exercise zone.
