1670 "Triplá-Álfa" Exercise

1670 "Triplá-Álfa" Exercise
Part of Trans-Euran Command (Raspur Pact)
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Date 13–24.XV.1670 Location Arak, Astérapolis, Aqaba
Belligerents
Blue Team (Aggressor) Trans-Euran Command Euran Expeditionary Force 5th Bombardment Group (NDF)	Purple Team (Defender) ICAF Constancian Army Constancian Navy Constancian Air Force Home Guard ESB Euran Directorate
Units involved
Blue Force Euran Banner Group 5th Bombardment Group Gold Banner Western Fleet of the 1st Army Vanguard Battlegroup 301st Carrier Air Group 1st Supply Column Black Banner Northern Fleet of the 1st Army 2nd Flotilla Aqaba Command 4th Aux. Vexillation of the EEF	Purple Force Aftokratorikí Frourá (Imperial Guard) Ópla Máchis (Combat Arm) 1st Syntagma (Airborne) 4th Syntagma (Marine) 5th Syntagma (Artillery) 6th Syntagma (Air Defence) 10th Syntagma (Combat Support) Local Home Guard Brigades (ad hoc) Stoliskos Antitorpilikon (Destroyer Flotilla) Air Operations Centre Iptámeno Panepistímio Moíra 11th Syntagma (Area Control) Epsilon Moíra of the 13th Syntagma (Air Combat) 14th Syntagma (Airborne Early Warning & Patrol) ESB Security Directorate 1st Communications, EW, Surveillance Regiment 2nd Anti-Tank Regiment Facility Defence Detachments
Strength
Blue Force 16,440 support personnel 4,804 auxiliaries Horjin CV35 x189 Cargo Submarine x2 Logistic Support Vessel x4 Merchantmen x15 Northman-class Corvette x14 Oil Tanker x1 Coastal patrol craft x25 A-6 Pundarikam x90 A-10 Kambera x5 GAV(P)-6 Zephyr Mark 1a x11 R-1 Whirdlebird x24 T-2 Saeqeh x16	Purple Force 8,400 first line personnel 13,390 support personnel 6,480 PMC's 7,200 home guardsmen Horjin CV35 x1,516 80 mm Field Gun x200 9K37 Buk mobile SAM batteries x5 Truck-mounted radar-tracking 75mm autocannon x200 Coastal patrol craft x235 Klimatariá-class Missile Corvette x15 AW101 Merlin Helicopter x72 Buccaneer S.2D x24 BN-2T-4S Defender 4000 x1 CN-235 Maritime Patrol Aircraft x1 MiG-29K Fulcrum x30

The "Triplá-Álfa" Exercise, carried out in the dying days of the year 1670 was a joint Raspur Pact-Constancian strategic war-game intended to evaluate the preparedness of the Imperial State to resist a USSO aggression along the lines of those observed in Normark, Haifa, and Niijima. At an operational level the exercise comprised of a series of preparedness drills in government and military-industrial facilities in the cities of Arak, Aqaba, and Astérapolis, combined with joint aerial and naval manoeuvres simulating the intrusion of a USSO raiding force into the Gulf of Aqaba.

Aftermath and analysis

Throughout the exercise it was apparent that the Constancians and Trans-Euran Command were attempting to ascertain the possible ways in which the Bassarid predilection for asymmetrical warfare, rule-breaking, and reality warping narrative short-cuts, would mesh together with the overly conventional, if not actually hidebound, Jingdaoese war of war. In fact, it became apparent that the two styles would complement each other - albeit with the New Zimian War League obliged to do most of the dirty work in disorientating, isolating, harassing, and weakening the Raspur Pact forces in theatre, before a Jing expeditionary force (most likely a full fleet to escort and deliver a Field Army into theatre) could arrive, with not inconsiderable fanfare, to deliver the final unsubtle sledgehammer blow to whatever remained.

During the course of the exercise a number of un-flagged vessels were boarded, searched for contraband, and, in a half-dozen instances out of the hundred or so boarding actions, sunk with their crews lashed firmly to the rails.