Kiravian Armed Forces
| Federal Armed Forces | |
|---|---|
| Rektārkax Hérsan | |
 Emblem of the Kiravian Forces | |
| Founded | 1607 AD |
| Current form | 1935 AD |
| Service branches |  Army
File:Kiravian Navy Jack.PNG Maritime Cutter Service |
| Headquarters | The Citadel, Kartika |
| Leadership | |
| Commander-in-chief | Adheritus Ilkashvar |
| Defence Secretary | Ivor Arolian |
| Supreme General | Sendar Vódlin |
| Manpower | |
| Military age | 17-40 |
| Conscription | Suspended since 1988 AD |
| Active personnel | 10,268,359 (8.9‰) |
| Reserve personnel | 5,337,607 (4.65‰) |
| Expenditures | |
| Budget | ₮3.497 trillion |
| Percent of GDP | 6.68% |
| Industry | |
| Domestic suppliers | Kiro-Fiannrian Armenwerke Vrixtur Aircraft Works Tredagon Arms Foundry Larserion Systems SAK |
| Foreign suppliers |  Faneria Fiannria Urcea Yonderre |
The Kiravian Armed Forces are the military forces of the Kiravian Federacy, comprising the Kiravian Army (which includes the Army Air Corps and Marine Corps), the Kiravian Navy, and the Maritime Cutter Service.
History
The Kiravian Armed Forces trace their heritage to the Kiravian Republican Army, formed in XXXXX when the Pan-Republican Kurultai resolved to unite the various militias fighting against the Viceroyalties under a common military command headed by General Vasilius? Serotin. After acheiving victory in the Republican Revolution, the KRA was deactivated and for the first decade of its existence, the Confederate Republics of Kiravia had no standing army, instead relying on voluntary contributions of state troops to Confederal officers commissioned on an ad hoc basis to carry out missions of national importance. The Confederate Republics did, however, establish the Kiravian Republican Navy to protect the island nation and its lines of communication to Koskenkorva, Sydona, Wintergen, and the western coastal settlements.
The Kiravian Republican Army was revived as a unified force in order to fight the Continental War against the Urom state of Drail and its allies. After the war and the ensuing constitutional reforms that converted the Confederate Republics into the Kiravian Federacy, the KRA was reorganised as the Army of the Federation or Kiravian Federal Army, a standing army permanently under federal command. Over the next centur(y,ies), the Kiravian Army took part in the colonisation of inland Great Kirav, Kironesia, Slakonian, Woolzistan, Avalonica, Castala, and Intida; the Kiro-Fakolan Wars; some other Ixnay thing. Then the Colour Wars. The Kiravian Navy was instrumental in the acquisition of numerous island colonies, numerous trade-related conflicts with Burgundie, and the protection of the emerging thalassocracy’s overseas possessions, sealanes, and trading interests.
Organisation
Command Structure
The Prime Executive of the Kiravian Federacy is the ultimate command authority and commander-in-chief of the Kiravian Forces, as stipulated by the Fundamental Statute. In the modern era, the Prime Executive exercises his command authority in consultation with two overlapping bodies: Kiravian High Command, which comprises the general staff of the Armed Forces; and the Strategon, which comprises the senior members of the High Command as well as the cabinet Executives and agency heads with security portfolios, the Prime Executive himself, and a coordinating advisor known as the Polemarch. Administrative responsibility for the military lies with the Chief Defence Executive, who is a member of the Strategon and supervises the High Command. The Chief Defence Executive can issue binding directives to the military (to produce information, take administrative actions, manage personnel, et cetera) but cannot independently give combat orders. However, under current protocols, the Chief Defence Executive is often responsible for relaying and confirming the Prime Executive's orders to military officers. Orders are typically transmitted from the Prime Executive through the Chief Defence Executive to the relevant member of the High Command, who then passes it down to the relevant regional or functional combatant commander, and so forth down the chain of command to field officers for execution. However, the Prime Executive can (and often does) issue orders directly, and orders can be delivered from the civilian authorities to any level of the military command structure while bypassing superior officers if needed.
Kiravian High Command comprises the Field Marshal of the Kiravian Federacy (the highest ranking officer of the Federal Army), the Fararektur (the highest-ranking officer of the Navy, best translated as "Governor of the Seas"), the commanders of each of the regional and functional combatant commands, the High General of the Air Force and High General of the Marine Corps, and (notionally) any officers at or above paygrade O-13. Its chairman holds the rank of Supreme General or Supreme Admiral, with the position alternating every three years between the Field Marshal and the Fararektur.
Army regional commands: Home Islands Command (Arcto-Kiravia, mid-Odoneru islands]]), Ixnay Command (Levantia, Sarpedon, Saxalins, parts of the Antarctic), Western Command (Crona, Polynesia, Australis, parts of the Antarctic), Eastern Command (Alshar and Punth)
Navy regional fleets: Kilikas Fleet (Kilikas Sea and Odoneru Ocean east of Uruvun), Western Fleet (Odoneru west of Uruvun, Kindreds Sea), Polynesian Fleet (Polynesian Sea, Ocean of Cathay east of Corumm, Okatian Sea, Orixtal, Nysdra), Pelian Fleet (Absurian Ocean, Cathay south and west of Corumm), Istroyan Fleet (Levantine Ocean, Seas of Istroya and Canete)
Service Branches
There are three primary branches of the Kiravian Armed Forces: The Federal Army, Federal Navy, and Cutter Service. The Army Aircorps is responsible for military aviation and remains organisationally integrated with the Federal Army, as does the Marine Corps.
Federal Army
The largest of the Kiravian armed forces in terms of personnel and expenditure, the Federal Army operates the Federacy's capabilities for ground, air, and amphibious warfare, as well as most of the Federacy's strategic arsenal, including nuclear and conventional missiles, cyber-warfare, and electronic warfare. As vast ocean distances have protected the Kiravian island continent from most serious threats of invasion for most of history, the Army's role has mainly been expeditionary since the end of the Continental War, with state and territorial forces shouldering much of the burden of suppressing domestic insurrections and securing the homeland. The Army ...large scale expeditionary operations during the Great Oceanic Wars and the Tropical Sea War. Under Kirosocialism, the Army was recast in a more strictly defencive role, undertaking a considerable buildup in manpower and weaponry in order to deter foreign aggression against the Federacy's major land masses. In the post-Kirosocialist era, the Army has seen a few major overseas deployments, including the Echo Islands Wars and the Puritan Cross Intervention, but has increasingly seen its overseas activity limited to brief special forces, aerial, and amphibious operations in support of Kiravian foreign policy and the KATI alliance.
In contemporary times, the Regular Army operates mainly as a colonial and expeditionary force. Since the Template:H:title, the vast majority of its overseas deployments have been to Punth, where it has been responsible for the defence and expansion of Kiravian colonies and the application of military pressure upon native Punthite states. Although readiness for and deterrence against a conventional ground invasion of Great Kirav is the Army's paramount responsibility, it has come to rely heavily upon and coördinate closely with the various State Defence Forces and the Army Reserve in this area. Meanwhile, increased attention and funding have been given to special operations and rapid-response (the Army Ranger Corps and Army Marine Corps), army aviation, and technological development in C4ISR, cyber-warfare, electronic warfare, and space in order to adapt to the threat environment of the 213th century and anticipate future challenges to Kiravian security.
Aircorps
The Kiravian Army Aircorps (Asûrfestin Kiravix Hérsask) is the nation's air force. In the postmodern era, air mobility and aerial superiority are crucial to the Federacy's military strategy. The Aircorps' mission profile includes providing air support (logistical, reconnaisance, and tactical) to the Army's ground operations, patrolling Kiravian airspace, projecting power outward from Kiravian territories into the surrounding seas and nearby continents, and providing the Federacy's capacity for strategic strikes and missile defence.
Keeping with the demands of its mission profile, the Aircorps' inventory of combat aircraft is concentrated heavily in long-range bombers and interceptors.
Marine Corps
The Kiravian Army Marine Corps (Festin Kurraxiskya Kiravix Hérsask) or Corps of Currackmen is a specialised force within the Kiravian Army that provides ground combat and other services in support of naval operations. The Currackmens' Corps primary role is amphibious warfare, coastal defence, and missions such as maritime boarding operations that involve man-to-man combat at sea. Currackmen play an important role in protecting the Federacy's far-flung territorial holdings, manning the majority of garrisons in Kiravia's smaller island colonies. They also provide security at Kiravian naval installations.
The name of the corps, Kurraxinya, comes from the Gaelic currach, referring to the boats used by Coscivian and Gaelic soldiers to attack coastal objectives during the Cromwelute Wars. Foreign marines are referred to by the more generic terms Farabandurya and Faravōlōn ("sea raiders", "sea troops").
The Kiravian Federal Navy is a blue-water navy tasked with defending Kiravian holdings and interests at sea. The contemporary Navy's primary concerns are defence of the Kiravian overseas colonies; the protection of Ixnayan and interregional sealanes vital to the Federacy's pluricontinental security, energy supply, and commercial navigation; and the projection of military power in support of Kiravian foreign policy. The Federal Navy relies on an extensive network of island bases and cutting-edge naval aviation and naval artillery to maintain a regionwide presence.
Maritime Cutter Service
The Cutter Service is an agency of the Federal Maritime Executive rather than the Federal Defence Executive, it nonetheless remains a component of the Kiravian Forces under the law. The Cutter Service has a diverse mission profile that includes search-and-rescue, immigration/customs, and law enforcement duties in the Federacy's territorial and internal waters, as well as primary garrison responsibility in certain strategic waterways such as the Straits of Ilánova and the Æonara Sound. The Cutter Service trains and plans for combat missions as part of the Federacy's contingency plans for an invasion of Great Kirav.
Relationship with Provincial Forces
The Fundamental Statute preserves the right of the federated states to maintain armed forces for their own defence by virtue of dual sovereignty. Leave to raise defence forces is also extended to non-state provinces (territories, federal districts, etc.) by legislation. Under the Confederate Republics and early Federacy, voluntary contributions of state forces and militia provided the backbone of Kiravian military manpower.
Under the current post-Restoration system, provincial forces form the largest component of the Federacy's military reserves (though a purely federal Army Reserve does exist), and play an integral rôle in its homeland defence planning. They are now closely tied to the federal military through financial, training, and equipment transfer arrangements. Whereas the Regular Army and the Army Marine Corps are focused on an expeditionary and colonial mission profile, the provincial forces have taken on primary responsibility for homeland defence readiness, serving to deter aggression against the Federacy's major landmasses and to combat domestic threats.
Provincial forces are regularly deployed in support of federal operations overseas, and are highly valued for their terrain specialties. For example, if fighting in a subarctic environment, the Federal Army would call upon the state troops of Koskenkorva or Saxalin Islands who routinely train in comparable conditions.
In core regions of the Federacy, provincial forces normally comprise only ground and air branches. In more remote regions outside the remit of the Maritime Cutter Service, such as Sarolasta, provincial naval forces fulfil a coast guard role. A few Mainland states - Fariva, Kaviska, Hanoram, and Ventarya - maintain small naval auxiliaries.
Equipment
Armaments
Gats
- RCA-2009 - Primary infantry rifle
- MDNS «Maktstepân» - Secondary infantry rifle
- FP-2000 - Sniper rifle
- MAG-17 - Primary service pistol
Mortars
Field Artillery
Anti-Armour
- MAS-12 - Guided anti-tank missile
Anti-Aircraft
- TAF98 «Trakśa» - Man-portable air-defense system
- ITO05M - Man-portable air-defense system
Psychological warfare
Ground Vehicles
- Potato IFV - Primary infantry fighting vehicle
- Utah Jazz - Self-propelled howitzer (tracked)
- GSW 2433 - Self-propelled howitzer (wheeled)
- System 8
- K239 «Asûrsterliń» - Multiple rocket launcher
- Tivômok APC - Armoured personnel carrier
- Honeybadger MIS - Unmanned ground vehicle
- ŪSA Patriot - Patrol SUV for military policing and domestic deployments.
Installations
Home Islands Command
- Kartika Citadel, Arthodun, District of Coīnvra
- Katolien Armoury, Estòvestra, Niyaska
Western Command
- Fort Kenmór, Atrassica
- Fort Mérovin, Anaqua Joint Security Area
- Jeb!ultepec Airport, LON-occupied Varshan
- Camp Federlæn, LON-occupied Varshan
Ixnay Command
- Prehnite Hills Military Reservation, Shulikert Raion, Sydona Islands
Eastern Command
- Rental logistics depots in random shithole countries
Kilikas Fleet
- Scapa Naval Base, Scapa
Western Fleet
- Nevisar Naval Harbour, Ilfenóra
Polynesian Fleet
- Rubix Bay Naval Base, Levité, Sarolasta
- Joint Naval Station Leighton-Lennox, Sarolasta
- Joint Base Abuluoha, Sarao
- [Name Here], Seváronsa
Istroyan Fleet
- Mirśamur Naval Harbour, Melian Isles
Pelian Fleet
- Destransar Naval Harbour, Sydona Isles