This year's exercise, which will be organized and conducted by the Slovenian Armed Force’s 15th Wing Command, will train certified JTACs, shooting platform teams, company commanders and Forward Air Controllers (FACs). Adriatic Strike 2021 will be linked to the joint multinational exercise Astral Knight 2021. Participants from both exercises will conduct joint search and rescue training.
Slovenia has achieved a good mix of Allied and Partner aircraft that will enable challenging and theatre-realistic JTAC training
In Slovenia, exercise Adriatic Strike will include approx. 650 participants, 400 of them from Allies Belgium, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, North Macedonia, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, United States of America and the United Kingdom as observer; NATO Partners Austria and Bosnia and Herzegovina will also participate.
Allied and Partner helicopters usually play an important role in facilitating theatre-realistic Joint Terminal Attack Controller training and will be employed in exercise Adriatic Strike 2021. Archive photo by Goran Kroselj.
“Meaningful JTAC training depends on a truly multinational environment where JTACs from one nation work with ground force commanders from another and supporting aircraft from yet another nation,” said Lieutenant Colonel Janez Gaube, Commander of the Slovenian 15th Wing. “Slovenia has achieved a good mix of Allied and Partner rotary wing and fixed wing aircraft as well as unmanned aerial vehicles that will enable challenging and theatre-realistic JTAC training allowing participants to keep their tactical specialist capabilities and skills current,” he added.
“Meaningful JTAC training depends on a truly multinational environment where JTACs from one nation work with ground force commanders from another and supporting aircraft from yet another nation,” said Lieutenant Colonel Janez Gaube, Commander of the Slovenian 15th Wing. “Slovenia has achieved a good mix of Allied and Partner rotary wing and fixed wing aircraft as well as unmanned aerial vehicles that will enable challenging and theatre-realistic JTAC training allowing participants to keep their tactical specialist capabilities and skills current,” he added.
Thee basic mission of JTACs is to provide the commander on the ground with advice on the use of air and other types of fire support; as advisors they control fire support operations.Archive photo by Damjan Vodenik.
Aircraft supporting JTAC training will be based at Cerklje ob Krki and Brnik Air Bases, while some Allied aircraft will be flying missions from their home bases. JTAC training will take place at five locations around Slovenia. Aircraft, tanks and mortars will provide fire support at the main SAF training area in Postojna, while air support will be simulated only in the areas of Tolmin, Radeče, Murska Sobota, and the wider surroundings of the Kamnik-Savinja Alps.
This year’s addition to the exercise is an uninterrupted 72-hour training which will take place at and around the barracks of Maribor, Celje and Ljubljana, and at the Divača airport from May 18-20. dummy text of the printing industry.