The Navy got the indication of unknown objects – was forced to cancel the exercise – Aftonbladet

Since a few days, the Navy has been practicing in the Stockholm archipelago.

Today you had to cancel the exercise – after receiving an indication of a foreign object.

– We now have an expanded maritime surveillance, says Niklas Englund, information officer at the Swedish Armed Forces.

in the midst of the Navy’s large practice in the Stockholm archipelago, an event occurred receiving units to cancel the exercise and enhance preparedness.

– They got an indication of something which made you took a time-out from the exercise, says Niklas Englund, information officer at the Swedish Armed Forces.

“Extended maritime surveillance”

Exactly what “indication” consisted in is unclear.

– We now have an expanded maritime surveillance in the area, says Niklas Englund.

the newspaper the archipelago was first with the news and stated that maritime surveillance is still going on in the evening in the southern archipelago.

The Navy submarine rescue ship Belos has remained static during the afternoon north of Muskö in southern Mysingen.

Great exercise that was interrupted

At 20 o’clock put Belos However southerly course and was at 21 o’clock on Monday evening just south of Nåttarö, reports the archipelago.

in the exercise, which lasted several days, attending two sjöstridsflottijler tillsamans with amfibieregementet and submarine flotilla.