Danish Defence Agreement 2013-2017

Danish Defence Agreement 2013–2017 (Danish: Forsvarsforlig 2013-2017) for the military of Denmark was signed 30 November 2012 by the government and Venstre, Dansk Folkeparti, Liberal Alliance and Det Konservative Folkeparti.

It calls for a significant reconstruction of the entire Danish military.

Highlights

Army

• The Army should have the capacity to send a battalion on a short or long term deployment.
• The six battalions are restructured into three bigger ones.
• One battalion is on high readiness alert, with the ability to be shipped with short notice.
• Restructuring of military academic centers into:
  • Army International Center (Hærens Internationale Center)
  • Army Combat Center (Hærens Kampcenter)
  • Army Combat Support Center (Hærens Kampstøttecenter)
  • Army Support Center (Hærens Støttecenter)
  • Army Special Center (Hærens Specialcenter)

Navy

• The Navy should have the capacity to send two units on a short term, short notice mission, or one big unit for a long term mission.
• Collecting the Navy's Special School and the Navy's NCO School under one school.

Arctic

• Increase in enforcement of sovereignty.
• Collecting all North Atlantic commands under an Arctic Command.
• Inspection cutter Tulugaq is replaced by a Knud Rasmussen-class patrol vessel.

Airforce

• The Air Force should have the capacity to send up to three simultaneous contributions at short notice.
• Before the summer of 2015, a decision should be taken on the new type of fighter for the air force, between Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornet, Lockheed Martin F-35 and Eurofighter Typhoon.
• The Lynx helicopters are to be replaced by nine new MH-60R Seahawk helicopters.

Joint Service

• An organizational collection of all officer academies.
• A collection of all military police.
• Collecting all of Intelligence Services under one headquarter.
• The creation of
• Restructuring the command structure:

Disbanding:

• Defence Command (Forsvarskommandoen)
  • Army Operational Command (Hærens Operative Kommando)
  • Operative Command of the Navy (Søværnets Operative Kommando)
  • Tactical Air Command (Flyvertaktisk Kommando)

Creating:

• Defence Command^[1] (Værnsfælles Forsvarskommando)
  • Operations Staff (Operationsstaben)
  • Coordination and Development Staff (Koordinations- og Udviklingsstaben)
  • Army Staff (Hærstaben)
  • Naval Staff (Marinestaben)
  • Air Staff (Flyverstaben)
  • Special Operations Command (Specialoperationskommandoen)

References

External links

• Aftale på Forsvarsområdet 2013-2017