[ARG] Exercise Cold Eyes

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EXERCISE COLD EYES Classified Information ​

Operation Background

As part of the routine training of the Argentine Navy, and considering the importance of aerial maritime surveillance evidenced in the recent incidents in Antarctica, military command would order the execution of a series of training flights for the different argentine navy aerial maritime surveillance squadrons, to be held on international waters in the South Atlantic. The Exercise would also be used to monitor foreign activity in the southern ocean.

Deployed Forces
1st Maritime Patrol Squadron 5x P-3B Orion 2nd Maritime Patrol Squadron 5x P-3B Orion 3rd Maritime Patrol Squadron 2x P-3B Orion

Logistical Details
All aircraft would be fully supplied and crewed before any schedules departure. They have all their systems active and operating. If any technical problem should come up, they would immediatly return to their homebase. They would always proceed complying with all safety flight standards and have their transponders on. FD - FC - GC - FE - GE

 

[Naio90]

The Orion's would take off from their respective air bases and head out to open sea. Each would be assigned a specific area to operate in without interfering among themselves and their instruments. These sectors would span all across the indicated areas of operation and would be assigned always within operating range from each aircrafts respective air base.

The 1st Maritime Patrol Squadron would operate mostly on FE-GE, the 2nd Squadron on FE-FD and the 3rd on FC-GC.

Once in their designated areas, the crews would begin maneuvering and using some of their onboard systems to track maritime traffic in the area, without interfering or disturbing them.

- AN/APS-115 - Radar, Radar, Surface Search, Long-Range.
- AN/ALD-2 DF - ESM, HF/DF.

All this would remain secret.

 

[Naio90]

The aircraft would continue their respective trainign flights, testing the crews capabilities to detect, classify and track different naval targets. The Orion's would conduct flight patters at different flight levels and pay with different power and frequency ranges for their instruments, adapting to environmental and climate conditions.

The flight crew would also use the opportunity to conduct some more radical evasive and escape maneuvers should they need it sometime in the future during real combat situations.

The Orion's would be able to detect transmissions and radar signatures several hundred kilometers away. Operations would continue on international waters and in the Antarctic Peninsula area. The 2 Orions operating on these latter area would at all times be trackable for any foreign ship or aircraft, to make it clear that they were on a training mission and had nothing to hide.

 

[Naio90]

The training operations would continue as planned, giving the crews the opportunity to improve their operational capability.

With the exception of one of the Orion's operating from Ushuaia and currently performing standard maneuvers over antarctic airspace.

One of the pilots would suddently see some light reflected few kilometers away, on the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, immediatly discarding it as just the sun reflecting on the ice. But as the aircraft continued it predictable flight route, the reflections woudl multiply and actually become embedded among a distinguishable gray spot around the white and blue environment. The pilot would point this out to his colleague on the siea next to him, which in turn would call one of the operators who was sitting just outside of the cockpit doing some paperwork.

The Orion would turn slightly towards the spot and do a flyover at a safe altitude of around 1,800m, banking right. That was the moment they saw it.

Despite the announced and promised retreat, the Kingdom of Sweden still mantained an important military presence on the Antarctic Peninsula, clearly violating all ceasefire agreements.

The crew would take pictures of the stationed vessels, clearly identified with swedish markings and immediatly turn around leaving the area. Not wihtout reporting the incident first.

All this would be secret.

Connor

 

[Connor]

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As stated as part of the Argentine Antarctic Summer Campsign all Swedish materiel and assets were deconstructed and military vessels were relocated towards Queen Maud Land where they would remain in a non-operational role pending their return to the Swedish mainland. The Argentine deployment would absolutely find no trace of Sweden whatsoever on the Antarctic Peninsula, the documentation referred to is of the highest security classification and is very clearly out-of-date with the newly formed Swedish Royal Navy structure (following the 1997 Defence White Paper) has meant the 3rd Naval Warfare Flotilla is not positioned at Kungbacka Naval Base.

Naio90

 

[Naio90]

Apparently the gray spots were just a rock formaion with a strange ship-like shape, and the reflection was just ice. Easy to confuse with some of the older ships operated by Sweden, rookie mistake.

All Orions would continue their training, testing their capacities to the limit and being able to improve their detection capacity under different weather conditions, flight patterns and detection ranges.

Special attention would be given to the skills to detect enemy signals at longer ranges, to improve the efficiency with whom the maritime patrol aircraft could detect incoming enemy vessels on the vast expanses of the South Atlantic Ocean.

 

[Naio90]

The Orions would have by now completed several training missions, performing a variety of tasks and operating under varying parameters. This would give them an improved operational capability and a better readiness level for the time real action is required. The recent incidents on Antarctica clearly proved the importance of long range maritime reconaissance and tracking.

The crews would have used and practiced on all their sensors, and would continue so for the next few scheduled days of training.

All this would be done privately.

 

[Naio90]

With several days of training behind, the capacity and efficiency of the argentine navy maritime patrol squadrons would have significantly increase, giving the navy a better surveillance capacity over the South Atlantic Ocean. The crews would now be able to better detect and track enemy ships and relay vital information to coastal defence systems and naval units.

After the last run, each aircraft would return to their respective base for a last debrief and afterwards each squadron and personnel would return to their routine schedules.

Training complete.