Overview

• The exercise runs September 25–27 with about 500 soldiers, numerous vehicles and several helicopters participating.
• Under Landeskommando Hamburg, the drill rehearses receiving forces at the port and moving them east by road and rail, including a simulated mass-casualty event.
• Police advise residents to expect heightened military presence citywide and convoys secured from the air, with possible loud bangs and smoke near the shipyard area.
• Drivers are told not to cut military columns, which legally count as one vehicle; convoys are marked with a blue flag at the front and a green flag at the rear, and only the lead vehicle follows signals.
• Civil–military coordination includes police, fire, THW, port and logistics firms, named Bundeswehr units and an operations center in Iserbrook, with a drone forum and a labor‑agency readiness drill planned as protests are announced.