Having been approved by NTADO high command; Neunesetienlande deployed 2 Walrosse Class Submarines to the immediate area to provide a more effective Hunter Killer ASW capability to defend the Vespacian SSGNs. This represents a new foreign policy direction by the Federal Government to provide a greater level of commitment to NTADO's combined defence; the peace dividend evidently no longer exists. In the same announcement, the Government also announced the Verteidigungsinterventionszerstörer Destroyer, and Unterseebooteabwehrzerstörer ASW Frigate programs as having been moved from Dockyard Reserve into the Navy. This happened as new legislation was successfully passed by an 80 seat majority to reform the Armed Forces and expand military capacity to provide further Anti-Terror and Naval Task Force capability. After achieving parliamentary approval, the bill for the expanded armed forces has now officially been codified into the constitution.
