Brisk Fray
Brisk Fray ( English "Kühner Streit / Flotter Kampf" ) was a German - Danish FTX military maneuver series at division level in Schleswig-Holstein , which took place in autumn 1981, 1983, 1984 and 1987 (the exercise series Bold Guard and Brisk Fray took turns) and in which the NATO corps LANDJUT participated. In addition to the Danish armed forces, there was also a participation of the British allies and partly also the US-Americans .
Brisk fray 83
In the exercise Brisk Fray 83, which was scheduled from October 31 to November 3, 1983 in the Ostholstein , Eutin , Malente and Neumünster area , 12,000 soldiers as well as 2,300 wheeled and 650 tracked vehicles took part.
Division of troops
- Schleswig-Holstein Territorial Command
- 6th Panzer Grenadier Division
- 1st Panzer Grenadier Battalion des Prinsens Livregiment (part of the Jutland Division ), Viborg , DK
- DK reconnaissance company of the Jutland Dragon Regiment, Holstebro , DK
- UK reconnaissance company of the Queen's Royal Lancers ( Tidworth , UK)
- Air force units from the FRG, USA and DK
procedure
The command of the 6th PzGrenDiv Major General Dieter Clauss was in charge of maneuvering in the maneuvering center in the Lettow-Vorbeck-Kaserne / Bad Segeberg . The agglomerations were along the B-76 , Lübeck , Kiel , B-432, Bad Segeberg, Pönitz , Neumünster , Bordesholm , Preetz , Eutin, B-4 , Bad Bramstedt , B-404 , Kirchbarkau , B430 and Lütjenburg . Larger combat activities were concentrated in the Neumünster area on October 31, in the Ahrensbök area from November 1 to 2 and again in the Neumünster area on November 3. Overall, the maneuver damage was around 3 million DM . A sergeant of the Pz AufklBtl. 6 Eutin sustained severe head and hand injuries after training ammunition from his reconnaissance tank Luchs exploded.
Brisk fray 87
In the exercise Brisk Fray 87, which lasted from October 30 to November 6, 1987 , 13,000 soldiers and 5,000 wheeled and tracked vehicles, including 600 battle tanks, were involved in the Husum - Putlos -Bad Segeberg area. The 6th Panzer Grenadier Division in Neumünster played a central role. In order to prevent major damage from maneuvers, attempts were made to conduct a large part of the fighting on military training areas.
assignment
The order of the 6th PzGrenDiv (filled with mob reservists to 28,000 manpower) under the orders of Commander Klaus-Christoph Steinkopff and the DK-Jutland Division was to counter and prevent an amphibious landing of the Warsaw Pact on the Schleswig-Holstein Baltic coast that enemy forces could penetrate to the North Sea and thus cut off NATO's maritime supply routes to West Germany. To this end, the attacking forces ORANGE fought against the defenders BLUE. Another aspect was the assumption that the Warsaw Pact could possibly destroy the Elbe crossings at Lauenburg / Elbe , Geesthacht and Hamburg with a nuclear strike. These considerations were taken into account in Brisk Fray's order book. The first and introductory phase of the exercise was a command post exercise (at the level of the division and brigade command posts of the units involved) without troops. Steinkopff also developed the multi-part concept of the plan, framework and combat exercise "Sharp Shot" . The aim of this exercise was often general knowledge, for example for the battalion commander, in order to collect empirical values on how long it takes for his unit to “completely dig in” .
Web links
- Brisk Fray 83 on M136
- Brisk Fray 87 on M136
- BRISK FRAY 83 - Division Combat Exercise: Vol. 2
- BRISK FRAY 84 - Division Combat Exercise: Vol. 1
media
- The great exercises of the Bundeswehr 2nd DVD. Breucom-Medien, 2011, ISBN 978-3-940433-33-6 .