Brilliant Mariner 2006
Exercise Brilliant Mariner 2006, a major NATO exercise to provide Combat Readiness and certification training for the Maritime forces of the NATO Responce Force will take place in the waters between the Dutch and Scandinavian coast. The exercise has been designed to provide training in many of the NRF tasts in witch maritime forces play a major part, inc. humanitarian relief, The weekend before the exercise started i was able to visit Den Helder Naval base and the Principe de Asturias http://brmr06.marine.de/portal/a/brmr06 special thanks to Marine Voorlichting Den Helder SH-3H HS.9-18/01-508 onboard of the Flagship SPS Castila Lynx Has4 801 onboard of the Primauguet D-644 L-9892 San Giorgio enters the harbour SH-3D MM5010N/6-08 3 Grupo
The concept of the NATO Responce force (NRF)is to provide a fully joint land , sea and air force
to operate in a crisis response situation.
embargo operations. Most of the navy ships visited the Netherlands before the exercise In Den Helder the biggest part and in Amsterdam the Principe de Asturias (R11) this carrier wasn't able to go to the Den helder port becasue of its depth 9,5M.
The Command ship during this exercise is the SPS Castilla L-52.
in Amsterdam.
from left to right the TCG Geliboli F493 ,SPS Almirante Juan de Borbon F102, HDMS Peter Tordenskjold F356, HrMs Van Amstel F831, FS Primaguet D644
The Swedish navy delegation with from left to right H(SW)MS Sundsvall K24 , H(SW)MS Gavle K22 and H(SW)MS Visborg A265 
SH-2G 3543 28 EML onboard of ORP Gen K Pulaski 272