North Euro Alliance:Balzac, Camastan,Sweden, Norway, Finland

[chrisswim]

Balzac Republic is drawing down the air group from Norway, flying back to the Republic.

[chrisswim]

The Naval Parade of the Northern European Alliance has been postponed. One of our members has lost a naval participant. We may proceed later with the first naval parade in the near future or post-pone for a year.
Greenland and Iceland have meet the requirements of membership in the Northern European Alliance (NEA), after they were accepted into the Commonwealth of Chrisdom. Iceland will need to develop a defense force of some sort for full acceptance and compliance into both the Commonwealth and NEA. There will also be a tax to the Commonwealth for sharing opportunities and defence of the Realm. Expected economic trade increase, which has already been observed, will continue as we move forward.
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The initial purchase and training for Iceland will be M113 and M60A3 from surplus stocks. The CoC has over 2,000 M60A3 in storage in the Med and in Moroccodom, Tunisadom, and Mali. M901s will also be in the initial equipment that is deployed. Greenland is expected to receive similar equipment.
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the NEA would prefer that Iceland and Greenland purchase CV90 vehicles for the AIFV, vs. the M113. Finland is wanting some extra M113 and trade away some BMP-1/2 vehicles.
. The CC-SSGN Marshall made port in NS Ivittuut, Greenland. Armed with torpedeos, and other missiles. It was a Franklin class boomer, but was converted to carry cruise missiles, ASROCs, and rumor SAMs. A Kilo, a 688 and U-214 submarine all recently made port at NS Ivittuut. A Delta is expected to make a port-o-call from Putinville to NS Ivittuut. The crew would like to enjoy some of the snow activities.
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The Bancroft made port-o-call in the Falkland Islands. The Stimson is expected very soon in the Falklands, to also enjoy the warm weather there.

[Guroburov]

Finnish Foreign Minister Rakastan Lihapullia lodged a formal complaint with the UIN today. He accused PROG of targeting airliners departing from Helsinki Airport with an "attack radar." Experts verified that for a period of almost 30 minutes aircraft were tracked by a Fan Song radar array located at a military base on the coast of PROG. The PROG UIN minister, Marshall Sukorovski, in a rare move, admitted that the events were true and issued an apology. "Recruits were testing the SNR-75 radar array near the capital without proper supervision. During this period they engaged in tracking exercises using unarmed civilian aircraft as targets. At no time were any of the aircraft in any danger as the base is not part of the defense net but is an early warning station and as such is not armed. But Finnish officials could not be aware of this fact and are rightfully concerned. Acting immediately, the recruits have been dismissed from the military and assigned to a hard labor gang. The base commander and officers in charge of the recruits have both been held by police and will face a military court later this week on charges of dereliction of duty and reckless endangerment. On behalf of our nation, I want to apologize for this egregious incident." For CCNN this is Blake Dyson.
Pictured: a Fan Song radar array. Source: Wikipedia

[chrisswim]

Secret Conference of the the North Europe Alliance, ... TOP Secret conference, had those in attendence: Camastan, Finland, Balzac, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, and Greenland. Grave concern was raised with PROG and their laser targeting to affect pilots, crews, and passengers.
Sweden sent a submarine onto the PROG waters to find, identify and determine purpose of specific radio frequencies, search & patrol zones, to assess capabilities of the PROG.
. A corvette in the LCS class mono-hull stayed offshore 15 NMs to gather info and run intel-electronic ** CENSORED **.

[Guroburov]

Swedish SIGINT assets have identified 6 coastal Fan Song radar arrays and eight more in the central valley in PROG. Bounded by rugged mountains their main military airstrip lies in that valley but no air traffic beyond training flights by a helicopter crew have been reported in almost 20 years. The Fan Song arrays operate on the standard E, F, and G bands and lack any laser targeting systems. Further air traffic radar systems are noted at the capital and major southern city airports. Their low band transmissions are consistent with 1970s radar systems employed in the Soviet Union. Satellite overflights uncovered numerous SA-2 missile sites but no missiles were emplaced except at one location that appeared in the process of removing them under the supervision of Russian operatives. SA-8 units and ZSU 23/4 units were sited in the central valley but their H and J band radars lack the range to reach more than 2-3 km beyond PROGs borders. If coastally deployed their radar arrays would still fall well short of the territorial waters of Finland and Estonia. Radio traffic is extremely quiet but could be masked in civilian traffic if there is such a thing in PROG. Reports indicate the primary air defence is currently reliant on numerous MANPADS deployed with infantry units. The lack of transport to move troops and a border shared only with Russia indicates a threat level consistent with the American state of Rhode Island at this time. As a proxy state to Russia, however, their threat cannot be fully dismissed.
edit: PROG still maintains an active army of almost 500,000 troops.

[chrisswim]

this is of concern to members of the Alliance along with PROC.
Concerned with PROC, are they going to invade or be invaded by Russia, the Evil Empire?
The North Euro Alliance we need to keep our guard up.
Drone recon flights along the boarder and fly along the 12 mile territorial limit as the drones looking in to PROC.
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Balzac has announced that it is building to more ships similar to the MV Horton that was sold to Yer Bouti, later renamed. It is configured as a Ro/Ro, auto-transport. The supports and survivibility improvements will be included in the two ships for the Commonwealth. These two ships have high speed, expensive to operate because of speed and the fuel, sometimes using high octane aviation fuel.

[chrisswim]

Winter Wunderland 2019
Finland, Sweden and Balzac Republic are holding Winter Wunderland 2019.
Finland is the actual host for the event. Norway, and Camastan are invited to participate.
This is a training exercise for winter operations primarily defensive in nature.
Eurasia has filed a complaint with the UIN for holding this exercise 230 km away from Eurasia, they find it threatening.
. It will consist of ground, air and naval asset for the exercise. About 10,000 soldier, sailors and airmen/women are expected to participate.

[chrisswim]

Finland Winter Wunderland
Training operations have begun. The usual problems: reading the map wrong, not being in the right place at the right time. Orders not communicated to subordinate commands. Some cases of mild frostbite. Soldiers that sweat not ventilating the sweat, so it freezes and those soldiers get really cold because they did not listen to their NCOs. Radio discipline at times is frustrating, even using satellite phone. The detection system to find, monitor radio, ground surveillance radar are not working as told by the manufacturers.
. Wonderful fun.