2023-07-12 22:23:47
Cartagena
With more than 4,500 soldiers from 20 countries around the world, 23 naval units, three submarines and 29 aircraft, operation UNITAS 2023, a naval exercise promoted by the United States since 1959, is taking place in the waters of the Caribbean Sea.
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During 11 days, representatives of Germany, Belize, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, South Korea, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Spain, the United States, France, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Panama, Peru, Paraguay, the United Kingdom, and Uruguay They will be part of this exercise considered one of the oldest and most important in the world.
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The UNITAS operation will take place simultaneously on land and at sea. On land, there will be activities focused on exchanges of experts and crews, professional symposiums and operations meetings that will take place in Cartagena, Barranquilla and Coveñas; Marines and Sailors will conduct training events in riverine operations and dive and salvage operations.
At sea, the participating units will carry out training and exercises in warfare, cyberdefense, electronics, surface, anti-submarine, air defense, amphibious operations, maritime interdiction operations, and special operations, in naval, air, submarine, and land scenarios, including fire exercises. real as SINKEX and an amphibious landing.
The exercise has evolved over the years, expanding its training objectives, going from strictly naval maneuvers to other fields, among which strategic weapons firing exercises, advanced maneuvers at sea, anti-submarine, anti-aircraft, live fire, amphibian exercises stand out. , fluvial, Special Forces, Diving and Explosives.
This, version 64, is considered the most diverse operation planned in the history of UNITAS, since it has the participation of 20 countries with different specialties available for its development; allowing to increase cooperation links and interoperability capabilities; carry out combined naval operations that allow control of the sea; improve the combat capacity of the participating naval and air forces, as well as strengthen humanitarian assistance and disaster response.
This is an opportunity to test knowledge of conventional warfare techniques, build trust among the Military Forces of the Americas, identify common challenges to hemispheric security, and prepare to defend once morest threats such as drug trafficking, irregular migration, the smuggling, among other transnational crimes.
Joint and combined military operations in cooperative maritime security settings seek to maintain access, enhance interoperability, and build lasting alliances in order to promote peace, stability, and prosperity in the world.
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