The Royal Marine Commandos in Plymouth recently undertook their most ambitious and gruelling training exercise to date, spending 10 days in the freezing Arctic Circle in temperatures of -10°C.

The Bay-Class auxiliary dock landing ship, RFA Lyme Bay, embarked on a two-hour transit through Norwegian Fjords, with a wind chill reading of minus 10 degrees, before conducting a night raid with inflatable raiding craft on a beach as part of a stress testing exercise in Northern Norway under the guise of night.

It was part of Exercise Tarasiss, a ten-day workout in the Arctic fjords around Troms County in Northern Norway, and the largest-ever military drills in the 11-year history of the Joint Expeditionary Force – a group of ten like-minded nations who together aim to react rapidly to security t

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