The troops — part of the Viking Company, a segment of the Jutland Dragoon Regiment — are formally replacing the French 5e Dragons Regiment as the additional element in NATO’s Enhanced Forward Presence battlegroup in Tapa.
The vehicles include Piranha vehicles, trucks and sanitary vehicles.
NATO’s Enhanced Forward Presence is currently led by the UK Royal Tank Regiment, with France and Denmark also providing forces on a rotating basis.
Baltic leaders have called for NATO troops to be stationed at bases such as Tapa on a permanent basis.
In addition to the 150 troops in Estonia, Denmark plans to send two fighter jets to an island in the Baltic Sea as well as a combat battalion of 700 to 800 soldiers to contribute to NATO’s operations.
