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| name               = Army Procurement Command<br>[[Burgoignesc language|Burgoignesc]]: ''Commandement des Acquisitions de l'Armée''<br>[[East Gothic language|Gothic]]: ''Waffenamt des Heeres''
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| motto              = ''Ferro ignique''<br>With fire and sword
| founded            = 1881
| current_form       = [[Yonderian Defence Agreement of 2000|Defence Agreement of 2000]]
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| branches           = 17
| headquarters       = [[Collinebourg]], [[Yonderre]]
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| commander-in-chief = [[Auguste IV de Somua]]
| commander-in-chief_title = [[Grand Duke of Yonderre|Grand Duke]]
| chief minister     = General Lieutenant [[Siegmund Werner]]
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The '''Army Procurement Command''', known in [[Burgoignesc language|Burgoignesc]] as the ''Commandement des Acquisitions de l'Armée'' and in [[East Gothic language|Gothic]] as the ''Waffenamt des Heeres'', is the central weapons and equipment procurement agency of the [[Yonderre|Serene Grand Duchy Yonderre]]. Replacing the previous system of quartermasters in 1881, the Army Procurement Command is responsible for the testing and acceptance of all weapons, equipment and ammunition before delivery to the [[Yonderian Defence Force]], with strict guidelines for inspections carried out in accordance with the "Technical Delivery Conditions" programme. The Army Procurement Command is subordinated to the [[Ministry of Defence (Yonderre)|Ministry of Defence]] and consists of both military and civilian employees. It has 17 departments responsible for the procurement of everything used by the [[Yonderian Defence Force]] except housing. 

The Army Procurement Command is lead nominally by the [[Grand Duke of Yonderre]] as commander-in-chief of the [[Yonderian Defence Force]] and in practice by the [[Quartermaster of the Army]] who is subordinated to the Grand Duke and to the [[Chief of Defence (Yonderre)|Chief of Defence]]. The current [[Quartermaster of the Army]] is General Lieutenant [[Siegmund Werner]].
==Departments==
{| class="wikitable" 
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! Number
! Department
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| 1
| Ammunition
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| 2
| Service weapons
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| 3
| Light support weapons
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| 4
| Optics
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| 5
| Anti-tank weaponry
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| 6
| General equipment
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| 7
| Artillery
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| 8
| Engineer equipment
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| 9
| Fortress weapons and equipment
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| 10
| Signal equipment
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| 11
| Research
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| 12
| Rocket and missile artillery
|-
| 13
| {{wp|CBRN defense}}
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| 14
| Transport vehicles
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| 15
| Logistical vehicles
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| 16
| Armoured Fighting Vehicles
|-
| 17
| Administration
|-
|}
==Controversies==
===Project Chariot===
[[File:Saline YON.png|thumb|Title page of "Concerning the effects of seawater's salinity on the rubber tire surrounding the steel road wheels of Project Chariot" by Army Procurement Command's department 16]]
A 72 page report entitled "[[Concerning the effects of seawater's salinity on the rubber tire surrounding the steel road wheels of Project Chariot]]" received national ridicule after it was leaked in full to the [[Collinebourg Gazette]] in 1923 who lampooned it endlessly in an article entitled "On the army and its unparsimonious and anfractuous use of grandiloquentient sesquipedalian longwindedness in its handling of minutia". [[Henri d'Erlinne]], [[Chief of Defence (Yonderre)|Chief of Defence]] of the [[Yonderian Defence Force]], was made aware of the report by the Collinebourg Gazette article and immediately ordered for the Army Procurement Command to send him a copy. Within the hour of recieving his copy of the report, d'Erlinne had ordered the Army Procurement Command's department 16 disbanded "for wasting time and resources that could be put to better use". Instead, d'Erlinne gave full control over Project Chariot to the now-restored Department for Tank Designs.

===1982 tanker crisis===
{{main|1982 Yonderian tanker crisis}}
The 1982 tanker crisis came from the introduction of the [[AMY-82]] main battle tank whose reduced crew of three caused uproar among tankers of the [[Yonderian Defence Force]], going as far as then-[[Yonderian Defence Force#Chief Sergeants of the Army, Navy and Air Force|Chief Sergeant of the Army]] [[Hercule de Bordelleaux]], also a tank commander with the [[Guards Cuirrasier Divsion]], writing a strongly worded letter of complaint to the [[General Staff (Yonderre)|General Staff]] of the [[Yonderian Defence Force]] signed by no less than 1465 enlisted men, NCOs, officers and even [[Marshal of Yonderre]] [[Rachet d'Everard]].

Public interest in the controversy grew as Yonderian media began reporting on it, with the [[Collinebourg Gazette]] printing de Bordelleaux's letter of complaint in its entirety in September of 1982. [[Chief of Defence (Yonderre)|Chief of Defence]] of the [[Yonderian Defence Force]] [[Ricardo de Bordelleaux]], a distant relative of [[Yonderian Defence Force#Chief Sergeants of the Army, Navy and Air Force|Chief Sergeant of the Army]] [[Hercule de Bordelleaux]], defended the decision to reduce tank crews as a direct result of technic advances and compared it to merchanization of factory work, a comment that would prove to be extremely unpopular. [[Ricardo de Bordelleaux]] ultimately resigned from his post as [[Chief of Defence (Yonderre)|Chief of Defence]] on October 11th 1982 after Yonderian tankers had been on strike since September 22nd. A compromise was reached with the new [[Chief of Defence (Yonderre)|Chief of Defence]] [[Holger Müller]] in November 1982.

==See also==
* [[Yonderian Defence Force]]
* [[Quartermaster of the Army]]
* [[Adolf Meissler]]
* [[List of equipment of the Yonderian Defence Force]]
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