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Start of Breeze 2016 naval exercise in the Black Sea

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A national naval exercise with international participation - Breeze 2016 – has started in the territorial sea, the contiguous zone and the exclusive economic zone of Bulgaria and will go on until July 17.

The main aim of the exercise is naval operations training in coalition format as a crisis response. The exercise will involve more than 25 combat and auxiliary ships and cutters, two aircraft and two helicopters, over 1,700 personnel from the naval forces of Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Turkey and Spain, as well as the Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group Two.



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