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|name              = Federal Armed Forces
|name              = Federal Armed Forces
|native_name        = Rektārkax Hérsan
|native_name        = Rektārkax Irthuderix Hérsan
|image              = [[File:KiravianArmedForces.png|200px]]
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* Air Corps
* Marine Corps
[[File:Kiravian Navy Jack.PNG|25px]] [[Kiravian Navy|Navy]]<br>[[File:Kiravian Navy Jack.PNG|25px]] [[Kiravian Littoral Force|Maritime Cutter Service]]  
|headquarters      = The Citadel, [[Kartika]]
|headquarters      = The Citadel, [[Kartika]]
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|commander-in-chief = [[Adheritus Ilkashvar]]
|commander-in-chief = [[Adheritus Ilkashvar]]
|commander-in-chief_title= [[Prime Executive of the Kiravian Federacy#Commander-in-chief|Commander-in-chief]]
|commander-in-chief_title= [[Prime Executive of the Kiravian Federacy#Commander-in-chief|Commander-in-chief]]
|minister          = [[Ivor Arolian]]
|minister          = [[Epavran Xesparav]]
|minister_title    = Defence Secretary
|minister_title    = Ch. Defence Executive
|commander          = [[Sendar Vódlin]]
|commander          = [[Sendar Vódlin]]
|commander_title    = Supreme General
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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 [[Kiravian Littoral Force|Maritime Cutter Service]].
The '''Kiravian Armed Forces''' are the military forces of the [[Kiravian Federacy]].


==History==
==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 history of the Kiravian Armed Forces begins with the formation of the Kiravian Navy by the Kiravian Confederation. It was agreed that a single navy financed jointly by the states to protect the Confederation's coasts, commercial interests, and growing overseas settlements would be more effective than the existing naval forces maintained by individual coastal states.
 
The Confederation had no standing army. Small units of professional soldiers were maintained full time under the authority of individual states and at their expense; full-fledged armies were raised by each state when needed. The states were obligated to provide armies to the Confederation in wartime, which would serve under the command of grandees appointed by the Confederal Stanora.
 
A truly national army was first organised for fight the [[Continental War]], and a standing army under permanent federal command would be established when the new federalist constitution was enacted after the war.


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.
In 1967 AD, during the [[Kiravian Sunderance|Sunderance]], civilian responsibility for both the Army and the Navy was consolidated under the [[Kiravian Defence Executive|Defence Executive]], with the Cutter Service remaining within the purview of the [[Kiravian Maritime Executive|Maritime Executive]].
 
Following Kiravian Reunification in 1985 AD, the Armed Forces faced the monumental tasks of adapting to a radically different threat environment and absorbing the personnel and assets of the defunct [[Kiravian People's Army]].
 
In the 2020s AD, the Kiravian Armed Forces were a major participant in the [[Final War of the Deluge]], by far their most extensive mobilisation since the First Great War. Although the Kiravian forces ultimately prevailed over [[Varshan]] and would come to occupy the debellated country's eastern third, this victory came at a high cost, exemplified by the prolonged and bloody stagnation of the Kiravian advance during the [[Battle of the Yaviža Gap]]. The war exposed many serious weaknesses, mainly in the Army and particularly in its infantry capabilities, raising grave concerns at the highest levels of the military and government.
 
In 2026 AD the [[Ilkaśvar administration]] undertook comprehensive reforms to modernise the Armed Forces. These reforms included the reorganisation of the Army Air Corps as a service branch in its own right, the Kiravian Air Force.


==Organisation==
==Organisation==
===Command Structure===
===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 of the Kiravian Federacy|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.
====Apex Command Authority====
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 of the Kiravian Federacy|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 civilian 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''.
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]], [[Saxalin Islands|Saxalins]], parts of the Antarctic), Western Command ([[Crona]], [[Polynesia]], Australis, parts of the Antarctic), Eastern Command (Alshar and Punth)
<!--'''Army regional commands:''' Home Islands Command ([[Arcto-Kiravia]], mid-Odoneru islands]]), Ixnay Command ([[Levantia]], [[Sarpedon]], [[Saxalin Islands|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)
'''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 Daxia, Okatian Sea, Orixtal, Nysdra), Pelian Fleet (Absurian Ocean, Cathay south and west of Daxia), Istroyan Fleet (Levantine Ocean, Seas of Istroya and Canete) -->


==Service Branches==
The Kiravian Armed Forces comprise the Army, Air Force, Navy, a yet-unnamed territorial defence branch, and the Maritime Cutter Service


==Service Branches==
===Army===
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===
[[File:Lithuanian jagers during exercrise.jpg|thumb|Kiravian Army Rangers]]
[[File:Lithuanian jagers during exercrise.jpg|thumb|Kiravian Army Rangers]]
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 [[Great Kirav|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.  
The '''[[Kiravian Army]]''', officially the Federal Army, operates the Federacy's capability for {{wp|Land warfare|terrestrial warfare}}. The Federal Army was organised after the final unification of the [[Great Kirav|Kiravian island continent]] by the Continental War, which left the homeland well-protected by vast ocean distances. As such, the Federal Army's role been mainly expeditionary and colonial for most of its history, the chief exceptions being the [[Kiravian Civil War]] and the consequent defencive retrenchment of the [[Kiravian Remnant]].  


In contemporary times, the Regular Army operates mainly as a colonial and expeditionary force. Since the {{H:title|2010s AD|21190s}}, 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.
Since Kiravian reunification, the Army has reverted to its traditional mission profile, chiefly concerned with the security of Kiravian overseas territories and interventions in the regional neighbourhoods thereof, with most of its resources devoted to [[Crona]].


====Aircorps====
===Air Force===
The '''Kiravian Army Aircorps''' (''Asûrfestin Kiravix Hérsask'') is the nation's {{wp|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.
The '''Kiravian Airforce''' (''Asûrhérsan''), previously the '''Kiravian Army Aircorps''' (''Asûrfestin Kiravix Hérsask'') is the nation's {{wp|air force|air}}, {{wp|space force|space}}, and {{wp|strategic missile force}}. In the postmodern era, air mobility and aerial superiority are crucial to the Federacy's military strategy. The Kiravian Airforce 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.  
Keeping with the demands of its mission profile, the Airforce's inventory of combat aircraft is concentrated heavily in long-range bombers and interceptors.<sup>[''[[Should have been|source?]]'']</sup>


====Marine Corps====
<!-- ====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 {{wp|amphibious warfare}}, coastal defence, and missions such as {{wp|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 '''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 {{wp|amphibious warfare}}, coastal defence, and missions such as {{wp|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 ''{{wp|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 name of the corps, ''Kurraxinya'', comes from the Gaelic ''{{wp|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"). -->
 
===Navy===
The '''[[Kiravian Navy]]''' is a {{wp|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.
 
===Territorial Defence Forces===
[[File:DayTechnologies2017p1-27.jpg|thumb|[[Hiterna]] Mechanised Infantry]]


===Federal Navy===
The Fundamental Statute preserves the right of the federated states to maintain armed forces for their own defence by virtue of {{wp|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. Since 2026, the relationship between the federal and provincial armed forces has existed within the framework of the [[Index of Kiravian legislation|Territorial Defence Act]], which established the '''[[Territorial Defence Forces]]''' as a branch of the Federal Armed Forces responsible for organising and coördinating provincial forces in support of overall national defence goals.
The Kiravian Federal Navy is a {{wp|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 Territorial Defence forces form the largest component of the Federacy's military reserves (the other components being the Naval Reserve and Army/Airforce Retired Reserve), 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.
The [[Maritime Cutter Service|Cutter Service]] is an agency of the [[Kiravian Maritime Executive|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===
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.
[[File:DayTechnologies2017p1-27.jpg|thumb|[[Hiterna]] Mechanised Infantry]]


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. The relationship between provincial and federal forces has evolved over the centuries through legislation, changes in practice, and federal-state compacts. Today, 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. 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.
===Maritime Cutter Service===
The [[Maritime Cutter Service|Cutter Service]] is the enforcement and operations agency of the [[Kiravian Maritime Executive|Federal Maritime Executive]]. In addition to its civilian functions, which include {{wp|search and rescue|search-and-rescue}}, marine law enforcement, and navigation safety; the Cutter Service has military and paramilitary roles, and remains a component of the Armed Forces by law. The Cutter Service is involved in {{wp|coastal defence}}, maritime surveillence, and {{wp|defence readiness}}. It bears primary responsibility for patrolling certain designated 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 [[Æonara]], [[Great Kirav]], or [[Suderavia]], and is actively involved in ensuring the security of [[New Ardmore]].  


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 {{wp|coast guard}} role. A few Mainland states - [[Fariva]], [[Kiygrava]], [[Hanoram]], and [[Ventarya]] - maintain small naval auxiliaries.
====Provincial and Thematic Navies====
The official geographic remit of the Cutter Service is limited to the waters surrounding [[Great Kirav]], [[Æonara]], [[Koskenkorva]], [[Suderavia]], and [[New Ardmore]]. Beyond these regions, {{wp|coast guard}} roles are performed by provincial maritime forces, such as the [[Sydona|Sydonan]] Navy and the consolidated [[Sarolasta|Sarolastan]] Thematic Navy. A few Mainland states - [[Fariva]], [[Kaviska]], [[Hanoram]], and [[Ventarya]] - maintain small naval auxiliaries largely limited to civil defence support roles.


==Equipment==
==Equipment==
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====Mortars====
====Mortars====
*{{wp|120 Krh/40}}
*{{wp|120 Krh/40}}
*[[M103 Shovel Mortar]] (legacy status in the Regular Army, still actively used by Territorial Defence units)


====Field Artillery====
====Field Artillery====
*{{wp|155 GH 52 APU}}
*{{wp|155 GH 52 APU}}
*[[M103 Shovel Mortar]]


====Anti-Armour====
====Anti-Armour====
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==Installations==
==Installations==
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===Home Islands Command===
===Home Islands Command===
*[[Kartika Citadel]], Arthodun, [[District of Coīnvra]]
*[[Kartika Citadel]], Arthodun, [[District of Coīnvra]]
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===Pelian Fleet===
===Pelian Fleet===
*Destransar Naval Harbour, [[Sydona Isles]]
*Destransar Naval Harbour, [[Sydona Isles]]
-->


==See Also==
==See Also==
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*[[Armed forces of Mid-Atrassic Crona]]
*[[Armed forces of Mid-Atrassic Crona]]


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[[Category:Kiravian government agencies]]
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Latest revision as of 16:14, 26 November 2023

Federal Armed Forces
Rektārkax Irthuderix Hérsan
Emblem of the Kiravian Forces
Founded1607 AD
Current form1935 AD
Service branches Army
Navy
Airforce
Territorial Defence
Maritime Cutter Service
HeadquartersThe Citadel, Kartika
Leadership
Commander-in-chiefAdheritus Ilkashvar
Ch. Defence ExecutiveEpavran Xesparav
Supreme GeneralSendar Vódlin
Manpower
Military age17-40
ConscriptionSuspended since 1988 AD
Active personnel10,268,359 (8.9‰)
Reserve personnel5,337,607 (4.65‰)
Expenditures
Budget₮3.497 trillion
Percent of GDP6.68%
Industry
Domestic suppliersKiro-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.

History

The history of the Kiravian Armed Forces begins with the formation of the Kiravian Navy by the Kiravian Confederation. It was agreed that a single navy financed jointly by the states to protect the Confederation's coasts, commercial interests, and growing overseas settlements would be more effective than the existing naval forces maintained by individual coastal states.

The Confederation had no standing army. Small units of professional soldiers were maintained full time under the authority of individual states and at their expense; full-fledged armies were raised by each state when needed. The states were obligated to provide armies to the Confederation in wartime, which would serve under the command of grandees appointed by the Confederal Stanora.

A truly national army was first organised for fight the Continental War, and a standing army under permanent federal command would be established when the new federalist constitution was enacted after the war.

In 1967 AD, during the Sunderance, civilian responsibility for both the Army and the Navy was consolidated under the Defence Executive, with the Cutter Service remaining within the purview of the Maritime Executive.

Following Kiravian Reunification in 1985 AD, the Armed Forces faced the monumental tasks of adapting to a radically different threat environment and absorbing the personnel and assets of the defunct Kiravian People's Army.

In the 2020s AD, the Kiravian Armed Forces were a major participant in the Final War of the Deluge, by far their most extensive mobilisation since the First Great War. Although the Kiravian forces ultimately prevailed over Varshan and would come to occupy the debellated country's eastern third, this victory came at a high cost, exemplified by the prolonged and bloody stagnation of the Kiravian advance during the Battle of the Yaviža Gap. The war exposed many serious weaknesses, mainly in the Army and particularly in its infantry capabilities, raising grave concerns at the highest levels of the military and government.

In 2026 AD the Ilkaśvar administration undertook comprehensive reforms to modernise the Armed Forces. These reforms included the reorganisation of the Army Air Corps as a service branch in its own right, the Kiravian Air Force.

Organisation

Command Structure

Apex Command Authority

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 civilian 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.


Service Branches

The Kiravian Armed Forces comprise the Army, Air Force, Navy, a yet-unnamed territorial defence branch, and the Maritime Cutter Service

Army

Kiravian Army Rangers

The Kiravian Army, officially the Federal Army, operates the Federacy's capability for terrestrial warfare. The Federal Army was organised after the final unification of the Kiravian island continent by the Continental War, which left the homeland well-protected by vast ocean distances. As such, the Federal Army's role been mainly expeditionary and colonial for most of its history, the chief exceptions being the Kiravian Civil War and the consequent defencive retrenchment of the Kiravian Remnant.

Since Kiravian reunification, the Army has reverted to its traditional mission profile, chiefly concerned with the security of Kiravian overseas territories and interventions in the regional neighbourhoods thereof, with most of its resources devoted to Crona.

Air Force

The Kiravian Airforce (Asûrhérsan), previously the Kiravian Army Aircorps (Asûrfestin Kiravix Hérsask) is the nation's air, space, and strategic missile force. In the postmodern era, air mobility and aerial superiority are crucial to the Federacy's military strategy. The Kiravian Airforce 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 Airforce's inventory of combat aircraft is concentrated heavily in long-range bombers and interceptors.[source?]


Navy

The Kiravian 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.

Territorial Defence Forces

Hiterna Mechanised Infantry

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. Since 2026, the relationship between the federal and provincial armed forces has existed within the framework of the Territorial Defence Act, which established the Territorial Defence Forces as a branch of the Federal Armed Forces responsible for organising and coördinating provincial forces in support of overall national defence goals.

The Territorial Defence forces form the largest component of the Federacy's military reserves (the other components being the Naval Reserve and Army/Airforce Retired Reserve), 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.

Maritime Cutter Service

The Cutter Service is the enforcement and operations agency of the Federal Maritime Executive. In addition to its civilian functions, which include search-and-rescue, marine law enforcement, and navigation safety; the Cutter Service has military and paramilitary roles, and remains a component of the Armed Forces by law. The Cutter Service is involved in coastal defence, maritime surveillence, and defence readiness. It bears primary responsibility for patrolling certain designated 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 Æonara, Great Kirav, or Suderavia, and is actively involved in ensuring the security of New Ardmore.

Provincial and Thematic Navies

The official geographic remit of the Cutter Service is limited to the waters surrounding Great Kirav, Æonara, Koskenkorva, Suderavia, and New Ardmore. Beyond these regions, coast guard roles are performed by provincial maritime forces, such as the Sydonan Navy and the consolidated Sarolastan Thematic Navy. A few Mainland states - Fariva, Kaviska, Hanoram, and Ventarya - maintain small naval auxiliaries largely limited to civil defence support roles.

Equipment

Armaments

Gats

Mortars

Field Artillery

Anti-Armour

  • MAS-12 - Guided anti-tank missile

Anti-Aircraft

Psychological warfare

Ground Vehicles

Installations

See Also

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