Around 1,000 NATO troops took part in exercise Bold Panzer in Estonia, combining infantry and armoured manoeuvres to test their readiness to rapidly respond to a crisis.
Units from Canada, Estonia, France, Latvia, Poland, Slovenia and the United Kingdom participated in the large-scale exercise, designed to strengthen NATO’s ability to respond to any incursion into Estonian territory.
NATO’s forces in Estonia have been under the command of the United Kingdom since 2017 – with the British Army’s Royal Tank Regiment taking the lead in September 2025 – providing troops with experience operating alongside other NATO Allies and in Estonia’s challenging forests and boggy terrain.
Armoured units from Poland, assigned to the NATO...
