Ships from several NATO countries conducting an integrated air and missile defense exercise defended against a supersonic target in waters near Scotland Oct. 17, wrapping up a two-week effort to improve interoperability using alliance command-and-control reporting structures and datalink architecture, according to U.S. 6th Fleet. Naval ships from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, the United Kingdom and the United States participated in the fourth and final event of Formidable Shield 2017, exercising a connective defense scenario where the...
