Noble jump
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Noble Jump was a NATO - maneuvers , which in the summer of 2015 in Żagań / Poland took place. A second edition of the maneuver (Noble Jump II) took place in Bulgaria and Romania in the summer of 2017. In May and June 2019 the exercise will take place again in Żagań / Poland.
assignment
In the two-phase exercise Noble Jump, the ability to deploy and deploy the rapid reaction forces on the grounds of the uppenagań military training area was to be demonstrated for the first time. In addition, the tactical deployment concept of NATO had to be checked in a simulated crisis.
Troops involved
Noble Jump was under the command of SACEUR , General Phillip M. Breedlove. Units of the (VJTF) Very High Readiness Joint Task Force of NATO were involved in the exercise . A total of 2,100 men from nine different nations. While the land units were led by the NRF, the I. German-Dutch Corps in Münster under Lieutenant General Volker Halbauer, the 371 Panzergrenadier Battalion ("Marienberger Jäger") from Marienberg / Saxony was also part of the core contingent of the spearhead. The contingent also included artillery troops, medics, supply units and tank engineers. The maneuver was visited by NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg and Federal Defense Minister von der Leyen, among others.
scope
Noble Jump was part of the "Allied Shield" maneuver series, in which 15,000 NATO soldiers are involved. In Żagań the efficiency of the spearhead was to be tested, which was under Dutch, Norwegian and German direction. Army units from Belgium , Germany , Lithuania , the Netherlands , Norway , Poland , the Czech Republic , Hungary and the USA were in action with 440 wheeled and 65 tracked vehicles.
procedure
The second part of Noble Jump took place from June 9th to 19th, 2015. This was preceded by phase 1 in April 2015, an alert exercise (AlertEx) by the NATO Response Force (NRF), during which the units involved with personnel, material and combat vehicles had to be fully ready to move within a specified time window of five days. The starting point for the German troop contingent was the Bergen / Lüneburger Heide military training area , from where it was relocated to the fictitious operational area in Żagań by rail loading and later by road and air. Noble Jump simulates a training scenario in which an officer "Birdman" leads pro-ethnic separatists from the hostile "bothnia". A combat scenario against irregular troops should be simulated. The exercise started as planned with the arrival of Dutch and Czech special forces, helicopters and F-16 fighter planes. In the following, the PzGrenBtl 371 with Marder armored personnel carriers and reinforced by Leopard 2 battle tanks received the order to take the "presidential hill" of the separatists.
Conclusion
Noble Jump was also planned as a demonstration and reaction to the Russian annexation of Crimea.
“ It's an appropriate, defensive measure. It is important that we make it clear to the Baltic countries, but also to Poland, Romania and Bulgaria, that their worries are also ours and that all 28 of us in NATO are responsible for their protection. Because of its geographical distance, the US would have to bring troops and equipment to Europe. The Germans knew that well, after all they would have benefited from it for many years. We Germans have not forgotten what it means to be protected by friends. "
See also
Web links
- Federal Ministry of Defense - Noble Jump
- Pictures of the exercise “Noble Jump”
- SACEUR / NATO - Noble Jump
- Die Süddeutsche, June 19, 2015, NATO shows what it can do
- Der SPIEGEL, Spiegel-Online, Politik, by Matthias Gebauer: NATO maneuvers in Poland: Greetings to Moscow from the rapid reaction force