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Finland hosts American and allied artillery drills amid renewed Baltic Sea tensions

By 

Lydia Gordon

Stars and Stripes • November 19, 2024

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The British army's Archer mobile howitzer launches an artillery round during exercise Dynamic Front at the Rovajarvi training area in Finland on Nov. 18, 2024. (Lydia Gordon/Stars and Stripes)

ROVANIEMI, Finland — U.S. soldiers are firing away north of the Arctic Circle this week as Finland hosts the largest NATO artillery exercise in Europe for the first time since joining the alliance last year.

The U.S. Army is training with 27 other nations for Dynamic Front, a 20-day exercise that spans the alliance’s eastern flank with Russia, to include sites in Estonia, Germany, Poland and Romania.