List of equipment of the Armed Forces of Urcea: Difference between revisions

Prior to the deployment of [[SAV-5]] and full armored divisions trained for use with it, the [[Royal and Imperial Army (Urcea)|Royal and Imperial Army]] obtained a number of tanks - mostly of foreign design - and intended to use them as "mobile pillboxes" along the border, mostly to prevent surprise incursions into Urcean territories by [[Derian people|Derian]] nationalists in the first years of the [[Great War]]. These tanks were primarily licensed from other nations in [[Levantia]], and none of them were especially mobile or suitable for maneuver warfare. Observations of foreign conflicts, a new generation of military thinkers, and advancement in military technology moved Urcean thought away from the mobile defense notion towards a more modern understanding of the applicability of armored vehicles. The predecessors of the SAV-5 would remain in defensive service through the early years of the 1930s before the full potential of armor became clear.

Prior to the realization of the impact of air power on naval warfare at the [[Battle of the Adonáire Strait]] in 1936, [[Urcea]] employed a number of airplanes designed exclusively for scouting and spotting information for the [[Royal Navy (Urcea)|Royal Navy]]'s capital ships. The [[Canaery-class aircraft carrier|''Canaery''-class aircraft carrier]] was, consequently, designed to carry a large number of these small yet nimble scouting planes which had virtually no armament but carried photographic equipment. Following the battle, virtually all naval scout planes were retired and placed with purpose-built naval fighters and bombers. Some reconnaissance planes were also used in small numbers by the [[Royal and Imperial Army (Urcea)|Royal and Imperial Army]] in the first years of the [[Great War]], but their use was phased out by late 1933. Of the three, the SSV-2 were built in the greatest numbers, and their larger size made them the only planes that could be jury-rigged for weapons during the [[Battle of the Adonáire Strait]]. The SSV-3 was the first monoplane in service in any branch of the [[Armed Forces of the Apostolic Kingdom of Urcea]].

|Large numbers of these ships were transferred to allied nations during the [[Great War]]