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Kalistan Orders New Naval Exercises in the Anantonese Ocean for Late Summer
Formally invites Dolgava and Egelion to participate with Imperial Naval Forces
Port Swedes, Duchy of Vrassa
April 16, 5629


KRS- 4b17 Surfaced in Eastern Mad Dog Ocean will participate in exercises this summer

The Empire of Ananto and Kalistan have called for Naval Exercises in the Northern Anantonese this summer.  The effort is aimed at conducting wargames based on the new Future Threats Program launched by the Regular Navy last year in an effort to help Kalistan anticipate and address new rising threats on the horizon.  "The Navy would like to get out of the tendency to plan for the last war," said Regular Navy Spokesperson Lt. Helena Brevard.  "We can analyze the things we did right, and the things we did wrong to death, but the fact is:  the next war will not be like the last war, because our adversaries saw our weaknesses, and will attempt to exploit those, so we need to be ready for that."

The naval exercises have been given an Operational title "Northern Lights" and will focus on Kalistan's two front line fleets:  the 4th Fleet and the 1st Fleet.  "During the games we will be simulating a number of things, from a rogue state who has no limits with regard to its operational rules or care at all for the number of sailors it loses to an  inexplicably bellicose state which seeks war it can't possibly win, but believes itself to be invincible.  Every scenario is based on something that Kalistan could conceivably face in the next conflict, and these scenarios are ones we must prepare for."  The Exercises will take place across the entire Northern Anatnonese Ocean from the Karzon Strait to the north western coast of Dovani, and will involve various types of weather conditions, as well as marine geography.

"The exercises will focus specifically on submarine warfare, both in conducting it as well as detecting it," said Lt. Brevard.  "Planners think the worst failure of the last war was the Navy's inability to effectively target enemy subsurface assets, who subsequently wreaked havoc on the surface fleet, so these exercises seek to utilize new subsurface detection, including active and passive sonar, magnetic displacement, and satellite (Including synthetic aperture radar that is mounted on many of Kalistan's geostatic satellite systems) and ground- sea- and air-based radar detection.  Only two of those five were optional in the last war.  We are also experimenting with wake detection techniques to look for heat, chemical and radioactive disturbances in the water that signify that a submarine was present.  Some submarines in the exercise will be equip with a small box that emits radioactivity at a similar rate to the known emissions of a nuclear power reactor that powers submarines, and we will see if we can detect these trace amounts, and if we can, we will effectively render nuclear subs less invisible than they would prefer to be, hopefully and explicitly frustrating those nations who rely on nuclear power to escape detection and taking away their advantages."

The main exercises will be open to participation from Lodamun, Gaduridos, Egelion and Dolgava.  "We have formally invited our northern neighbors to participate in the exercises.  Egelion is developing new naval formations, and together we form a strong defensive core in the Northern Ananto, while Dolgava is also considered an Anantonese Nation, and security in our region is also a large concern of theirs.  This also gives our navies a chance to learn from one another and as well, to fraternize and develop a strong comradely bond."  The Exercises will take place in the Northern Anantonese Ocean north above the Northern Limit, between Seleya and Keris from August 15 through the end of September.

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