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Over 20,000 men, 110 aircraft and over 50 naval units: The major NATO exercise “Nordic Response” starts on Monday in the Arctic and will have troops from 13 allied countries and Sweden, which is about to join the alliance, in the Atlantic until March 15th , bring together. The exercise to simulate the response to an attack from the East will focus on Norway, Sweden and Finland as well as in the corresponding air and sea zones. The activity at sea will be particularly intense with over fifty vehicles, including submarines, frigates, corvettes, aircraft carriers and various amphibious ships, we read on the website of the NATO Air Command (Aircom), based in the German city of Ramstein.