Talk:National Army Naval Forces (Faneria)

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Army Sea Bureau
Biùro Mara an Fyddin Feadaral an Fhainn
Active1543 (1543)–present
Country Faneria
TypeNavy
Role
Size
  • approx. 180,000 personnel
  • 31 heavy surface combatants
  • 123 light surface combatants
  • 35 submarine combatants
  • 65 patrol and littoral ships
  • 165 auxiliaries and civilian craft
HeadquartersArmy Hydrospace Command Center, Sethsport
Motto(s)"Fhasen Here" (From the Gods' fresh waters to the Great Sea's spray)
ColorsBlue, White, Black    
Equipment
EngagementsSince 1991: Great War
Vandarch Canal Crisis
Malokan Months' War
Final War of the Deluge
Commanders
Commander-in-Chiefdouble decker dude
First Deputy Commander-in-Chiefdouble dude
Deputy Commander-in-Chiefdude

Origins and History

Royal Navy

Revolutionary Peoples' Army Naval Service

Army Sea Bureau Reorganization

The modern Sea Bureau performs numerous tasks, and oftentimes its ships are not even operated by Army personnel, at least entirely - the Bureau's patrol craft and most of its icebreakers, while registered as military ships, are operated by various minor organizations involved in customs, coastal patrol, ice clearing, and antipiracy operations in Fhainnin coastal waters and waterways. This practice is due both to a desire to inflate the official numbers of ships available to the Army for public image and posturing as well as easy tracking of strategically valuable and otherwise armed vessels outside the direct command structure of the Army itself. As a result, some vessels are discounted entirely in terms of actual military significance.

As a result, the Sea Bureau takes on a long list of roles - antipiracy, coast guard, customs and shipping escort, combat operations, transport, rescue, and first response duties all fall within the maritime forces' jurisdiction, only then breaking into delegation to civilian government organizations.


Organization

Insignia

Doctrine

Going into the second quarter of the century, the composition of the Army naval service is changing as older, larger warships become slightly less prominent compared to a larger force of smaller surface combatants. While the light support carrier doctrine employed by the Army remains a key point in Fhainnin strategy within the Vandarch Sea and in its littoral waters along the open ocean, budget cuts and the lack of a serious neighboring rival make lobbying for a larger navy a weak political position. Currently, the Army plans to phase out much of its older surface fleet in favor of modern designs. While the total number of heavy surface combatants will drop, a larger array of small vessels is planned. Forays into missile boats in particular are in vogue for white-water operations, though the overall trend in modern naval design is a greater integration of air assets with naval ones, as evidenced by the fact that the vast majority of new designs take landing pads into account compared to older Fhainnin designs, many of which lagged behind in this area.

Modern Fanerian battlegroup composition segregates tasks into distinct roles for each ship - primarily air defense, mine and antisubmarine warfare, surface warfare, and air support. Generally, any ship can perform multiple roles, but each specializes in a particular field and is expected to operate in that role unless circumstances require otherwise.

Ship design is typically funneled into a single production model, with a great deal of competition between design variants. The design process for lighter Fhainnin vessels also involves prototype construction and testing, and increasingly involves computer simulations as well. The army has displayed gaps in its production lines between ship classes over the years, indicating an ad-hoc design process. It is currently believed that the army is conducting panels to standardize the design process further to create some overlap and ensure regular updates to the naval service's assets.

Technologically, a majority of the fleet is second-line, or constructed between 1980 and 2010, with roughly fifteen percent of its ships being newer and another ten percent or so being constructed prior to 1980. This ageing has made for a considerable cost in maintenance and refits to keep the fleet operational. The main symptom of this was the production of smaller missile boats meant for mass production in the 1970's, bloating the fleet with over fifty light vessels in line with the posturing the navy preferred. In 2012, policy was changed to reflect a growing budget and need to maintain a technological edge rather than rely on dated equipment, demanding that naval production focus on role-dedicated destroyers and air power over the previous cruiser-centered model, along with the discontinuation of later missile boat programs and reforms in the design and planning process.

Fleets

Vandarch 1st Squadron Vandarch 2nd Squadron Vandarch 3rd Squadron Vandarch 4th Squadron High Seas Squadron Northern Squadron Eilada Squadron Maloka Squadron Misc. Task Forces

Attached Forces Vandarch Naval Aviation Brigade 2. Foot Marines Brigade 3. Mechanized Marines Brigade 3. Foot Marines Brigade


Equipment and Assets


Ship Class Produced Years Produced Planned Sunk Mothballed Active Type Displacement Air Compliment Notes
SM-1921 34 1927-1941 - 25 1 - Fire Support Destroyer 630 tons -
SM-1943 19 1943-1951 - 14 2 - Fire Support Destroyer 1,330 tons -
SM-1950 4 1950-1953 - - 1 - Fire Support Frigate 2,400 tons -
SM-1978 14 1980-1987 - 1 6 7 Fire Support Destroyer 3,798 tons - Sovremenny-class destroyer basis
SM-1995 5 1995-1999 - - 1 2 Fire Support Destroyer 4,518 tons 1 Helicopter or VTOL 3 sold to Cape in 2003
SM-2002 4 2004-2006 - - - 4 Fire Support Destroyer 3730 tons 1 Helicopter or VTOL
SM-2015 10 2016-present 1 - - 10 Fire Support Destroyer 3,981 tons 1 Helicopter or VTOL
SM-2019 3 2020-present 14 - - 3 Fire Support Destroyer 5,136 tons 1 Helicopter or VTOL
STL-1961 7 1963-1970 - - 3 - Air Defense Destroyer 1435 tons -
STL-1970 3 1972-1975 - - - 3 Air Defense Destroyer/Special 2365 tons - Experimental and research class
STL-1997 14 1998-2004 - - - 14 Air Defense Destroyer 3815 tons 1 Helicopter or VTOL Kashin-class destroyer basis
STL-2003 2 2005-2012 2 - - 2 Research Ship 4375 tons tons 1 Helicopters or VTOL Deep Sea or Environmental Studies Research
STL-2013 11 2015-present 3 - - 11 Air Defense Destroyer 3760 tons 1 Helicopter or VTOL
STL-2020 1 2021-present 16 - - 1 Air Defense Destroyer 3710 tons 1 Helicopter or VTOL
STB-1946 6 1948-1953 - 3 - - Mine Warfare Frigate 1360 tons -
STB-1981 11 1982-1999 - - 6 1 Mine Warfare Destroyer 3,290 tons - Udaloy-class destroyer basis
STB-2001 4 2001-2006 - - - 3 Mine Warfare Destroyer 3,600 tons 1 Helicopter or VTOL 1 gifted to Prevalia in 2006
STB-2010 6 2010-2019 - - - 6 Mine Warfare Destroyer 3,630 tons 1 Helicopter or VTOL
STB-2022 0 planned 2023 8 - - - Mine Warfare Destroyer 3,925 tons 1 Helicopter or VTOL
SC-1935 28 1935-1950 - 21 - - Patrol and Escort Frigate 230 tons -
SC-1951 30 1951-1974 - 7 4 - Patrol and Escort Boat 457 tons -
SC-1980 18 1980-1988 - 1 2 12 Patrol and Escort Corvette 660 tons -
SC-2004 16 2004-present 6 - 16 Patrol and Escort Corvette 730 tons -
SC-2020 1 2020-present 4 - 1 Patrol and Escort Frigate 1135 tons
CO-1984 3 1986-1998 - 1 2 Hospital Ship 8,120 tons 2 Helicopters or VTOLs
CO-2017 1 2019-present 1 - 1 Hospital Ship 18,980 tons 4 Helicopters or VTOLs
SE-1967 4 - 1 - - Missile Boat 260 tons - 3 sold to ______ in 1976
SE-2002-1 41 2003-present 3 - 2 36 Missile Boat 430 tons -
SE-2002-2 22 2006-present 12 - - 21 Missile Corvette 725 tons - 1 gifted to Vandarch Canal Garrison
LB-1922 5 - - - Submarine -
LB-1934 36 - 1 - Submarine -
LB-1940 17 - - - Submarine -
LB-1956 1 1957 - - - Submarine - Initially 18 planned, others scrapped
LB-1963 4 1968-1969 - - - Submarine -
LB-1978 12 1980-1991 - - 2 1 Submarine - 6 sold abroad in 1986
LB-1990 19 1991-1998 - - 4 15 Submarine -
LB-2001 16 2002-2018 - - - 15 Submarine - One scrapped due to mechanical error
LB-2018 4 2018-present 4 - - 4 Submarine -
CM-1931 18 1931-1948 - 7 - - Line Cruiser 16,784 tons -
CM-1955 2 - - - - Line Cruiser 8990 tons -
CM-1963 1 - - 1 - Line Cruiser 7695 tons -
CM-1967 4 - - - - Line Cruiser 9310 tons 1 Helicopter or VTOL
CM-1988 16 - 12 - Line Cruiser 9380 tons 1 Helicopter or VTOL
CM-2002 10 - 1 8 Line Cruiser 9255 tons 1 Helicopter or VTOL 1 sold abroad in 2019
CM-2004 12 - - 12 Line Cruiser 8990 tons 1 Helicopter or VTOL
CM-2016 3 6 - 3 Line Cruiser 11,605 tons 1 Helicopter or VTOL
CT-1958 1 1958 - - - Shore Support 9,125 tons -
CT-1987 4 1990-1996 - 1 1 Shore Support 11,425 tons 3 Helicopters or VTOLs 1 sold abroad in 2019
CT-2012 3 2014-2018 - - 3 Shore Support 12,355 tons 4 Helicopters or VTOLs
LD-1923 27 1927-1946 - - - Icebreaker 19,590 tons -
LD-1984 38 1985-2000 - 6 29 Icebreaker 17,805 tons 1 Helicopter or VTOL
LD-2006 9 2008-present 2 - 8 Armed Icebreaker 25,430 tons 2 Helicopters or VTOLs 1 sold to private company in 2019
CS-1925 4 - 2 - - Battleship 47,619 tons 1 given to Fiannria as war debt, 1 converted to CE-1928.
CS-1936 3 1937-1942 - 1 1 - Battlecruiser 28,810 tons 1 given to Fiannria as war debt
CS-1966 1 - - - - Battleship 43,619 tons Used as live fire target for 1014 centennial founding day show
CS-1990 3 - - 1 1 Battlecruiser 22,090 tons 1 Helicopter or VTOL 1 sunk as target in livefire test
CS-2000 3 - - - 3 Battlecruiser 22,680 tons 1 Helicopter or VTOL, 1 stored
CS-2019 - 2019-present 1 - - - Battlecruiser 24,540 tons 2 Helicopters or VTOLs
CE-1928 1 1929 - 1 - - Support Carrier 14 light fixed wing craft Experimental conversion carrier.
CE-1934 7 1934-1978 - 3 - - Support Carrier 43,150 tons STOBAR configuration, 25 light fixed wing craft, 2 Helicopters (later) 3 given to Fiannria as war debt; 1 built 1978 to restart carrier program
CE-1980 1 1981 - - 1 - Carrier 48,650 tons CATOBAR configuration, 25 fixed wing craft, 3 Helicopters or VTOLs Proof-of-Concept for CATOBAR and nuclear carrier programs.
CE-1988 1 - - - 1 Helicopter Carrier 21,470 tons 8 Helicopters or VTOLs
CE-1999 1 - 1 Support Carrier 48,230 tons STOBAR configuration, 28 fixed wing craft, 4 Helicopters or VTOLs
CE-2004 1 2007 - - - 1 Carrier 69,930 tons STOBAR configuration, 34 fixed wing craft, 10 Helicopters or VTOLs
CE-2015 1 2018-present 1 - - 1 Support Carrier 47,760 tons STOBAR configuration, 20 fixed wing aircraft, 4 Helicopters or VTOLs