PR/CP (2006)121
12 October 2006
A NATO-Russia Exercise to take place in
Moscow
Under the aegis of the NATO-Russia Council (NRC), the
Theatre Missile Defence Ad Hoc Working Group (TMD AHWG) will conduct the
third joint NATO-Russia TMD Command Post Exercise (CPX) from 16-25
October 2006 at the Russian Simulation Facility located in the Research
and Development Center of the Ministry of Defence of the Russian
Federation.
The purpose of this third CPX is to validate the Experimental Concept and
associated Experimental Concept of Operations (CONOPS) developed by the
joint NATO-Russia TMD Ad Hoc Working Group. Over sixty participants from
eleven NATO nations and eighty participants from the Russian Federation
are going to take part in CPX3. Additional support and participation will
be provided by the NATO Military Authorities (NMAs), the International
Staff (IS), the tri-national(*) Extended Air Defence Task Force
(EADTF) and the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation.
This is the third in a series of joint NATO-Russia TMD exercises. The
initial CPX was conducted at the Joint National Integration Center (JNIC)
in the United States in 2004. Last year The Netherlands hosted
Cooperative Optic Windmill (CPX2) at De Peel Airbase. This third CPX will
build on the work conducted previously and be a prelude for a first Field
Training Exercise, provisionally scheduled for autumn 2007.
The CPX is a computer-assisted, real time event that focuses on command
and control of missile defence forces deployed in a specific theatre of
operations. Together with a joint Interoperability Study being conducted
under the lead of the NATO C3 Agency (NC3A) and the Ministry of Defence
of the Russian Federation, the CPX is expected to provide the basis for
future interoperability enhancements. This is an important step in the
practical cooperation between NATO and the Russian Federation as foreseen
in the Rome Declaration of 2002.
For more information on the exercise please contact LTC Sergei
Khabibullin, Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation, +7(495)696 83
52, or Mr. James Lovell, Defence Investment Division, NATO HQ,
+32.2.707.4763.
For more information on the Extended Air Defence Task Force and
their participation in the NRC, please contact, Colonel Thomas Köhring,
Deputy Chief EADTF, +49.2736.44.2728.
(*) The three nations comprising the EADTF are Germany, the
Netherlands and the United States