Watch highlights of this year’s NATO Strong Europe Tank Challenge
NATO’s Strong Europe Tank Challenge 2017, co-hosted by the US and Germany, has come to an end.
This year’s four-day event was held in at the US Army’s Grafenwoehr Training Area in Germany, with the participation of teams from NATO states -- France, Poland, and the US -- and non-members Austria and Ukraine.
During the games, tank platoons demonstrated their skills inside and outside of the vehicles, as well as the capabilities of their tanks in a series of events such as vehicle classification, battle damage estimation, and precision military exercises.
Austria’s team, using Leopard 2A4 tanks, came in first this year. Germany, using Leopard 2A6s, came in second and the US achieved third place with Abrams M1A2 SEP tanks.
Russia held a similar event last year as part of its large-scale International Army Games.
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Nineteen teams from across the globe took part in the two-week games which came to an end at the Alabino firing ground outside the capital city Moscow on August 16, 2016.
Russia won the event, with 20 medals, while Kazakhstan and China came in second and third place respectively from among several teams from Iran, Azerbaijan, India, and other countries.
The US and its allies have been at odds with Moscow since the strategic Black Sea peninsula of Crimea, controlled by Ukraine, joined Russia following a referendum in March 2014.
Western countries have been fearful of a repeat of that scenario in other countries, and have sought to step up their military presence in Eastern Europe.
Moscow is seriously wary of the US-led alliance’s military buildup near its borders. In response to the aggressive measures, Russia has beefed up its southwestern military capacity, deploying nuclear-capable Iskander-M missiles to its Baltic enclave of Kaliningrad bordering Poland and Lithuania.
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