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    The GIUK gap (sometimes written G-I-UK) is an area in the northern Atlantic Ocean that forms a naval choke point. Its name is an acronym for Greenland...
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    adequately safeguard. The United States views control of the GIUK Gap (Greenland-Iceland-UK Gap), as critical to the maritime defense of the Eastern United...
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    Gap (GIUK gap) also occurs from Lossiemouth which contributes to Iceland's policing. The P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft is used in the GIUK gap...
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    Atlantic was largely won. Mid-Ocean Escort Force Mid-Ocean Meeting Point GIUK gap CAM ship MAC ship Project Habakkuk Bowyer, Chaz. Coastal Command at War...
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    of the Fulda Gap, now the site of a Cold War memorial Seven Days to the River Rhine Focșani Gate GIUK gap Suwałki Gap Belfort Gap Fulda Gap (board game)...
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    Suwałki Gap using means other than deterrence. Russia–NATO relations Salient (military) Suwałki Region Other NATO vulnerabilities: Focșani Gate GIUK gap Fulda...
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    coming into the Atlantic through the Greenland-Iceland-United Kingdom (GIUK) gap by an array terminating at NAVFAC Barbados on 6 July 1962. The linear...
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  • withdraw from NATO, which would have forfeited NATO's access to most of the GIUK gap, a critical anti-submarine warfare chokepoint during the Cold War. In a...
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    Fisher. These are major British choke points today: The English Channel GIUK gap (between Greenland, Iceland, and UK) Strait of Gibraltar The choke points...
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    Focșani Gate (redirect from Focșani Gap)
    security purposes has been discussed by other analysts as well. Fulda Gap GIUK gap Suwałki Gap Mîndrescu, Mircea; Melcher, Gregory; Petersen, Phillip (2019)....
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    search-and-destroy missions—led to her own sinking three days later. Aquatic sill GIUK gap Known in Danish as the Danmarksstrædet ("Denmark Strait") and in Icelandic...
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    Channel to the submarine patrolling areas in the North Atlantic, through the GIUK gap to the Norwegian Sea. At the time it was chosen, the location was also...
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  • along a line from Greenland, Iceland and the United Kingdom known as the GIUK gap. These are capable of clearly recording extremely low frequency infrasound...
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    off the coast of Norway entering the Greenland-Iceland-United Kingdom (GIUK) gap. Caribbean Saint Clement's Church, Barbados iso:code:3166:BB, International...
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    operations in the Barents, Norwegian, Black and Baltic Sea and near the GIUK gap, as well as flights by American bombers, occasionally several times per...
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    coordinated the 57th FIS interceptors to contacts passing through the GIUK gap. It received long-range radar inputs from five radar sites: the four sites...
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    List of countries without armed forces List of wars involving Iceland GIUK gap Varnarmálastofnun Íslands. Archived 2011-11-20 at the Wayback Machine "Lög...
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  • tracking until landfall hours later; and they did not fully close the GIUK gap (Greenland-Iceland-United Kingdom). During the resurgent tension of the...
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    anti-submarine force, hunting for Soviet submarines and mostly active in the GIUK gap. Following the collapse of the Soviet Union, its focus returned to expeditionary...
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  • repairs. This leaves the Soviets in control of the strategically important GIUK gap. NATO and Soviet air and ground forces continue to battle ferociously in...
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    a hub for transports and communications to Europe, a key chain in the GIUK gap, a monitor of Soviet submarine activity, and a linchpin in the early warning...
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    the mid-nineteenth century. Strategically, the channel forms part of the GIUK gap. Since 2014 two parts of the channel lying with Scottish Offshore Waters...
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    time. The operation was supposedly testing Russian ability to breach the GIUK gap undetected and sail into the Atlantic Ocean, much like the operations Aport...
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    Ocean, by-passing the Royal Navy's defensive lines organised along the GIUK gap. Bismarck broke into the Atlantic in 1941 but was damaged in the Battle...
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    enemy Orange Fleet's submarine force along the Greenland-Iceland-UK gap (GIUK gap"). Operating above the Arctic Circle in the Norwegian Sea, the Blue...
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  • to intercept and shadow all Soviet aircraft in transit in and from the GIUK gap which passed through the detection range of its radars and relay to the...
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  • USS Dwight D. Eisenhower sailed through the Greenland–Iceland–United Kingdom (GIUK) gap undetected by Soviet radar and spy satellites, reaching the Kola Peninsula...
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    the seas around the British Isles, including the strategically important GIUK gap between Iceland and the United Kingdom, flying at high level and using...
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    an excellent hunting ground and had to be heavily defended. Irish Sea GIUK gap Long Forties Broad Fourteens Western Approaches Command Denys Rayner "Liverpool...
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    Alice North Atlantic Radio System (NARS), a similar system used in the GIUK gap area ACE High, a NATO communication system in Europe including similar...
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