04-07-2025, 03:07 AM
Defense Weekly
A publication by Gath Defense Collective
Dundorf and Dorvik agree to reopening joint air base in southern Dundorf.
November, 5650
Officials from the Foreign Defense Office of the Supreme General Staff confirmed that the Dorvish and Dundorfian governments have agreed to the reopening of a joint air base located in southern Dundorf. The joint air base will primarily be utilized as a joint training facility, notably in airborne operations and the Joint Airborne and Air Assault School (Dundorfian: Gemeinsame Fallschirmjäger- und Luftangriffsschule) will be reopened. The air base will also serve as home to a contingent of Dorvish Air Force formations on a rotating basis to train with the Dundorfian Air Force; while not confirmed the Dorvish and Dundorfians will likely reopen their joint intelligence operations on the base.
Perhaps the most integral component of the joint base reopening is the school, which served as a vital component for training both Dundorfian and Dorvish Fallschirmjäger, or paratroopers, has remained active in Dorvik following the end of the joint base during the run-up to the Kirlawan conflict. The cadre's from the Dorvish end of the school noted that they were eager to begin training again with their Dundorfian counterparts. The Fallschirmjägeror paratroopers in both Dundorf and Dorvik share a close relationship and have trained together for centuries and the two have formed a bond that highlights the Pan-Dundorfian spirit as well as hopes of deeper Artanian cooperation. While the domestic situation in Dorvik seeks to stabilize, notably following several scandals in the dominant era of the Social Democratic Party of Dorvik, the ties between Dundorf and Dorvik will certainly push closer in the field of defense and the field of economic cooperation. Officials from Foreign Defense Office have also highlighted their desire to deepen military technical cooperation with Dundorf and hope that the reopening of the base will provide just that.