WFEL’s Rapidly-installed Bridge deployed during exercise Trident Juncture 2018

U.S. Marines and U.S. Navy Seabees jointly deployed a WFEL Medium Girder Bridge (MGB) in Norway during exercise Trident Juncture 18, the largest NATO exercise in more than 16 years. The troops demonstrated their bridge-building skills in a constricted workspace in an extremely harsh weather environment and tested their ability to ensure mobility of forces during the scenario of an existing bridge over a gap becoming structurally unsound due to battle damage and unsafe for military vehicles to cross.  The need for the new bridge was, therefore, critical.
During exercise Trident Juncture 2018, almost 100 U.S. Marine Light Armoured Vehicles and Norwegian Bandvagns (all-terrain tracked carrier vehicles) crossed the bridge immediately after its completion. (Picture source: WFEL)

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