Exercises in the Snow

[Yawoo]

A private message would be hand delivered to the Danish King from Prussian diplomats in Copenhagen. In addition to a formal offer to upgrade the current relationship to one of mutual defense there would be a transcript of the chancellor's recent visit to Warsaw.  A proposal for a large scale exercise in southern Prussia involving elements of the each nation's complete armed forces would be included under the codename Sleigh Drive. With Polish leadership making accusations of historical claims to Prussian land, the time for increased military cooperation - as agreed upon in previous summits - had come to pass. 

[Zoot Zoot]

Frederik received the notice from the Prussians around the same time he was reading his morning paper with the children. He signed the pre-written MDP document immediately after reading the notice and send the Prussians on their way with his own message confirming that Norse troops would be deployed for the exercises.

 

One squadron of Thor's Hammer Strategic Bomber's would depart their base and fly to a Prussian airbase in the South of the country, along with one Norse Thunder Advanced Air Superiority Aircraft squadron and two Saab JAS 39 Gripen squadrons.

 

Land forces deployed would be the Royal Danish Parachute Division, the Second Danish Line Infantry Division and the Jutland Division. In addition to these forces, 3 Royal Marine Commando Regiment, 4 Royal Marine Engineer Regiment and 5 Royal Marine Artillery Regiment would also be deployed for river operations. A total of 21,600 troops.

 

Whilst the foot units would be transported by air, all vehicles would be moved on military trains across the railways to various military depots in Southern Prussia.

 

The Baltic Sea Surface Squadron would also leave port and head eastwards towards Danzig to take part in several live fire exercises.

[Yawoo]

Preußen Bahn trains would wait at the border to transfer men and materiel onto government tracks set aside for a speedy transit to the south. Sleigh Drive would began as a test of movement between the secured northern border and situations would present themselves to the train officials, as conceived by Prussian training officers, as the train moved southwards. An early test of Prussian planning would be when officials informed the train that their preferred track had been "damaged" near Lübeck and would need to quickly find a new route. Such tests would continue to ensure the Bahn officials had a well established system in place to ensure continued movement in the event of conflict. 

 

Likewise, air assets would target Danish planes as they entered Prussian airspace to both test regional response time and escape and evasion tactics. During the exercise, a missile lock-on without an evasion in the established "escape" time would serve as a kill. For this situation, Prussia would only use planes and would save ground based systems for further exercises. No naval situations would be planned for the day to ensure proper docking procedures were handled in the military port in Danzig. 

 

Bases in Silesia, Brandenburg, West Prussia as well as Posen would participate in the upcoming exercises and as such would see a number of new people both foreign and domestic to both participate and observe the exercises. 

 

A message would be sent to all of Prussia's south-eastern neighbors (Greater Russian Empire, Poland, Austria, and Greater Sith Empire) informing them of a number of large exercises near their respective borders in the coming weeks. Assurances would be made to limit live fire exercises to outside an area of five kilometers from each nation's borders. Increased border patrol units would be added to help avoid in mishaps attributed to the exercises. 

 

Edit: Name correction to the Siths. 

Edited January 12, 2014 by Yawoo