EventDuring Exercise Lion Protector 26 (Aug–Oct 2026), Danish and British special‑operations units trained together on the Faroe Islands, marking the first land‑based exercise there since the Cold War. They practised sabotage‑prevention, ship‑boarding and worked with Faroese authorities, VØRN, and the Danish Joint Arctic Command under the Joint Expeditionary Force partnership. The programme also included the Baltic Express escort of Danish equipment to Latvia.
Danish and British soldiers trained together in the Faroe Islands during Exercise Lion Protector 26, the islands’ first land‑based military exercise since the Cold War, working with local authorities and the Danish Joint Arctic Command to practice sabotage prevention and resilience under the Joint Expeditionary Force partnership.
British Royal Marines landed in Denmark’s Faroe Islands for the first time since WWII as part of Exercise Lion Protector 2026, training with Danish and Faroese forces on maritime interdiction and coastal operations in the Greenland‑Iceland‑UK Gap.
