Northern Challenge 19 Main Planning Conference
The exercise Northern Challenge is a multi-national bomb disposal exercise at the top of Europe, which will take place at the coast guard facility in Keflavik, Iceland. This year is the exercise is scheduled from 8th of September to the 20th September 2019. The purpose of Northern Challenge is to train response to real- life terrorist incidents involving improvised and military explosives devices, similar to those that have in recent NATO missions.
The main planning conference (MPC) was conducted from 18 to 20 of June 2019. During the conference there have been finalized the last points for the preparation of the EX NC 19. At the same time, bomb building seminar was conducted. The different nations supported this seminar and manufactured more than 400 different IEDs which will be used during the EX NC 19.