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Originally Posted by Kapitan
We already do this as a matter of normal course, you will often find we practice regularly with the Belgian Dutch Danish French Polish and Norweigen navies regularly.
Perisher right now is UK instructor staff teaching perisher on Dutch Submarines (Dolfijn if i'm not mistaken a Walrus class boat), the European side of NATO is very very intertwined we regularly practice and European nations are regularly involved with Thursday war.
Technically the European Union wants to create a defence force its the whole reason the QE and POW were built, this started back in 1998 under the St Malo treaty and the UK was to build two large carriers while France was to provide the 3rd this gave the EU a 3 carrier strike group.
Other nations such as Belgium Germany Spain Norway were to provide main escorts for the CSG's with countries like Italy and Spain providing smaller carrier groups.
The Joint Anglo Dutch marine expeditionary force centered around the Dutch ships Rotterdam, Johan de witt and also the Karel Doorman with the British ships HMS Bulwark and HMS Albion were to provide Amphibious tasking backed up by a Joint Anglo German Auxilary supply force.
Also to bring into the frey here and to note, European ferry operators are always on call for duty, the roll on roll off capacity in Europe cannot be matched not even by the US MSC.
Other forces also integrate especially in the Baltic countries where the UK works with those host countries but also countries like Poland Germany Italy Spain Greece and France.
So you see we do already integrate heavily
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Within the EU, there is great gratitude that the US+UK has the opportunity to line up with crew and ships, Sweden has unfortunately chosen to have a low profile mostly due to the left movement in the country,
however, there is a majority in many stages to line up with submarines. and management-equipped Gripenplan. To at least secure strategic locations, but is happening more now than before. But this is "off topic" in some way.