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 "slug": "silver-wotan-2026-bundeswehr-500-personnel-reinforce-gotland-visby-harbour-swedish-anti-ship-missiles-joint-force-command-sollfrank",
 "title": "Silver Wotan 2026: Bundeswehr Personnel Reinforce Gotland by Ferry and Airlift to Protect Swedish Anti-Ship Missile Batteries",
 "url": "https://www.grosswald.org/silver-wotan-2026-bundeswehr-500-personnel-reinforce-gotland-visby-harbour-swedish-anti-ship-missiles-joint-force-command-sollfrank/",
 "canonical": "https://www.grosswald.org/silver-wotan-2026-bundeswehr-500-personnel-reinforce-gotland-visby-harbour-swedish-anti-ship-missiles-joint-force-command-sollfrank/",
 "type": "dispatch",
 "published": "2026-09-18T19:50:00.000+02:00",
 "updated": "2026-09-22T19:50:56.000+02:00",
 "excerpt": "\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVisby, 18 September 2026\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKey points\n\n\n * The Bundeswehr and the Swedish armed forces are conducting the bilateral exercise Silver Wotan \"in the air, on land and at sea\" around and on Gotland from 14 to 23 September, run by the Bundeswehr Joint Force Command with the Swedish operations staff\n * More than 500 Bundeswehr personnel take part; the Swedish side puts total participation at 1,500. Two German Tornados fly airspace surveillance\n * In the scenario Sweden, its own forces tied",
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  "arc-arctic-northern-europe",
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 "sources": [],
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