ＮＡＴＯ、フィンランドで大規模砲兵演習

【ロバニエミ（フィンランド）ＡＦＰ＝時事】北大西洋条約機構（ＮＡＴＯ）に昨年加盟したフィンランドで、大規模な砲兵演習が行われている。１７日には実弾射撃訓練が始まった。（写真は、フィンランド北部ロバニエミ近郊で行われている北大西洋条約機構（ＮＡＴＯ）の演習で、１５５ミリ自走榴弾砲「カエサル」を操作する仏第９３山岳砲兵連隊の兵士）
　同国北部ラップランド地方で実施中の演習は、欧州におけるＮＡＴＯの砲兵演習としては過去最大の「ダイナミックフロント２５」の一環。エストニア、ドイツ、ルーマニア、ポーランドでも射撃訓練が実施される。期間は今月４～２８日。
　ＮＡＴＯがフィンランドで大規模な砲撃訓練を行うのは初めてとなる。
　フィンランドのほか英米仏、スウェーデンなどＮＡＴＯ加盟国の兵士最大３６００人が、北極圏に位置する厳寒の地で演習に参加する。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2024/11/18-17:09）

Finland is hosting its first large-scale NATO artillery exercise since the Nordic nation joined the military alliance last year, with live fire drills starting on Sunday.
The exercise conducted in the northern Lapland region in November is part of Dynamic Front 25, the largest NATO artillery exercise ever held in Europe, with fire drills in Finland as well as Estonia, Germany, Romania and Poland.
Running from 4 to 28 November, it marks the first time NATO allies are practicing artillery fire at a large scale on Finnish soil.
The Nordic nation, which shares a border with Russia, joined NATO last year, dropping decades of military non-alignment after Moscow's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
We work on interoperability with our allies, to carry out artillery fire in coherence with our NATO allies, said Romain, a French army captain and unit commander of the Ecrins battery of the 93rd mountain artillery regiment, giving only his first name.
His team was dressed in warm camouflage uniforms in a field where the temperature was a few degrees below zero Celsius (32 degrees Fahrenheit).
Up to 3,600 soldiers from Finland, the United States, Sweden, Britain, France and some other NATO members were rehearsing as a damp cold took hold of Lapland's vast arctic landscapes.
The Lapland firing range and training area, called Rovajarvi, is Europe's biggest.
The area itself is the reason why allies want to come to the Rovajarvi exercise area to train, Finnish Colonel Janne Makitalo, director of the exercise, told AFP.
It allows for multi-sided tactical fire exchanges for field artillery while training soldiers to handle the challenging conditions and varying terrain in the Arctic region, Makitalo said.