Pelinese Armed Forces (Pacifica)
| Pelinese Armed Forces | |
|---|---|
| ペリナイ軍隊 | |
| Motto | Eternally vigilant |
| Founded | July 9 1979 AD |
| Current form | December 29 1983 AD |
| Service branches |  Pelinese White Army Royal Pelinese Air Force Royal Pelinese NavyRoyal Pelinese Space Force Royal Pelinese Gendarmerie |
| Headquarters | Pelograd |
| Leadership | |
| Commander-in-Chief | Izumi Yekaterina II Perinaiko |
| Minister of Defense | Anton Radovoy |
| Chief of General Staff | Field Marshal Mikhail Yukisorskiy |
| Manpower | |
| Military age | 18 |
| Conscription | 2-year reserve obligation |
| Active personnel | 600,000 |
| Reserve personnel | 800,000 |
| Deployed personnel | 60,000 |
| Expenditures | |
| Budget | $240.4 billion (2022) |
| Percent of GDP | 5% of GDP (2022) |
| Industry | |
| Domestic suppliers | Fuyumako Heavy Engineering Kazamatsuri Design Bureau Aetherdyne Torikov Design Bureau Shiroimizu Naval Yard Yusuko Vostochnoye Design Bureau |
The Pelinese Armed Forces (Pelinese Hinomoto: ペリナイ軍隊, Perinai Guntai) is the military of the Kingdom of Pelinai. It is comprised of five branches of service: the Pelinese White Army, the Royal Pelinese Air Force, the Royal Pelinese Navy, the Royal Pelinese Gendarmerie, and the Royal Pelinese Space Force. The commander-in-chief of the Pelinese Armed Forces is the Pelinese monarch. Military policy is determined by the Pelinese State Parliament and the Pelinese Ministry of Defense. Military conscription is practiced for men ages 18-20. All Pelinese high school students in their junior and senior years learn basic military skills in national patriotism class, and perform a mandatory conscription aptitude exam in their senior year of high school. The active force of the Pelinese Armed Forces is approximately 600,000 military personnel and 80,000 civilian employees. The reserve force is approximately 800,000 military personnel. The total personnel of the Pelinese Armed Forces, including civilian contractors, is approximately 1,480,000 personnel.
The Kingdom of Pelinai is a nuclear-armed state operating a nuclear triad. The nuclear arsenal of the Pelinese Armed Forces consists of approximately 12,000 nuclear warheads as well as delivery systems including air-launched cruise missiles, land-based ballistic missiles including intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine-launched ballistic missiles, and submarine-launched ballistic missiles.
Almost all equipment and materiel used by the Pelinese Armed Forces is manufactured in Pelinai by state-owned companies under the Pelinese Ministry of State Industry, and the PMoSI is legally obligated to maintain a minimum stake of 25% +1 shares in all domestic firms producing materiel for the Pelinese Armed Forces.
Mission and doctrine
The mission of the Pelinese Armed Forces is stated as the defense of the territories and peoples the Kingdom of Pelinai and its allied nations from foreign invasion and occupation, the defense of the legitimate governments of the Kingdom of Pelinai and its allied nations from internal or external attempts to overthrow them, and the defense of the security and interests of the Pelinese state and Pelinese citizens. Elements of the Pelinese Armed Forces also perform disaster relief and humanitarian aid in both domestic and foreign environments, execute law enforcement duties as in the case of the Royal Pelinese Gendarmerie, and perform anti-piracy actions.
The military doctrine of the Pelinese Armed Forces emphasizes the concepts of deep battle, battlefield interdiction, and superior firepower. Pelinese military forces prioritize the combination of the capability to destroy hostile combat support elements with the ability to quickly launch multiple large, parallel offensives or counterattacks at once. The ultimate goal of Pelinese doctrine is the achievement of strategic victory by stalling, confusing, disabling, and then overwhelming hostile military formations through the establishment of insurmountable advantages in operational firepower and through the destruction of hostile formations’ and units’ abilities to advance, defend, and change their positions.
The Royal Pelinese Navy and Royal Pelinese Marine Corps under it perform most military power projection operations for the Pelinese Armed Forces. In contrast to the Pelinese White Army’s focus on simplified and mass-deployable equipment, the RPN fleet relies on a combination of sophisticated naval aviation, surface combatant, subsurface, and amphibious warfare units to quickly establish naval supremacy before performing close air support, battlefield interdiction, and amphibious landing operations as necessary.
The Pelinese White Army, Royal Pelinese Air Force, and Royal Pelinese Navy share the deployment capability of the Pelinese Armed Forces’ nuclear and other WMD capability. The Kingdom of Pelinai is a nuclear triad power fielding land-based ballistic and cruise missile, aircraft-launched ballistic and cruise missile, and submarine-launched ballistic and cruise missile-based methods of deploying nuclear weapons against tactical and strategic targets. Pelinese doctrine and legislation designate nuclear and certain other weapons as “special defensive weapons” which can only be deployed in the case of a “war of aggression against the existence of the Pelinese nation.” Authority to declare a war as such is normally given to the Prime Minister and the Pelinese State Parliament, but is automatically delegated to the Chief of General Staff and then further down the PAF chain of command in the case of each previous authority-holder in the hierarchy being incapacitated. In the event that nuclear weapons are deployed, PAF doctrine calls for their immediate and free usage as tactical weapons in order to prevent the war situation from becoming desperate enough to strictly require them.
History
Command Structure
Service Branches
Pelinese White Army
The Pelinese White Army (PWA) is the land combat branch of the Pelinese Armed Forces, as well as the largest of the branches. A fully mobilized PWA force structure is capable of fielding up to approximately 2.36 million personnel, but it maintains 10% staffing unless reserve personnel are mobilized. The highest command of the army is the Supreme High Command, below which are three army groups and three corps that hold the vast majority of the PWA’s combat forces. The Pelinese White Army fields approximately 84 divisions as well as other separate brigade and battalion-sized formations when fully mobilized.
PWA maneuver forces divisions include:
- Motor rifle division x 39: The core infantry forces of the PWA, which are fully mechanized and equipped for combined arms warfare. Maneuver forces, fires, combat support, combat service support, and army aviation elements are all organic to motor rifle divisions in variable amounts. Many of the secondary CS and CSS elements in both motor rifle divisions and armored divisions are attached on a per-mission basis; some divisions also possess independent tank battalions.
- Armored division x 21: Strongly resembles the MRD; the greatest divergences are the rebalancing of its maneuver forces towards more tanks and the removal of dedicated antitank elements that are made unnecessary by the tanks’ increased firepower.
- Artillery division x 3: Each PWA army group is assigned a single artillery division, whose purpose is to provide operational level forces with overwhelming firepower in critical areas. Artillery divisions possess a wide variety of gun, rocket, and tactical ballistic missile artillery.
- Airborne division x 6: Performs expeditionary and airborne operations in support of operational goals; the Pelinese VDV reports directly to the PWA Supreme High Commands, but divisions or brigades may be attached to army groups or armies as per operational requirements. PWA airborne divisions are fully mechanized and field infantry fighting vehicles, light tanks, self-propelled artillery, and other military vehicles.
- Mountain air assault division x 4: Provides Pelinese operational formations with a highly mobile light infantry force that possesses air assault capabilities. DShV troops also train for operation in alpine environments and are the PWA’s second choice for mountain warfare after its dedicated mountaineers.
- Mountain division x 2: Possesses additional helicopters, engineers, communications, and other elements suitable for warfare in mountainous environments.
- Antarctic division x 2: Adapted for operation in extreme cold-weather environments that preclude the use of the PWA’s standard cold-weather equipment and training.
- Combat aviation division x 3: Provides operational level PWA formations with gunship, transport, scouting, and other army aviation elements; also operates surveillance UAVs and minimized-facility-requirement UCAVs.
- Infantry division x 1: The singular non-mechanized infantry division in the PWA performs honor guard, VIP and government protection, capital police, and capital defense duties.
Royal Pelinese Air Force
Royal Pelinese Gendarmerie
The Royal Pelinese Navy is the naval combat and amphibious forces branch of the Pelinese Armed Forces and consists of the RPN Surface Forces, the RPN Submarine Forces, the RPN Auxiliary and Marine Sealift Forces, the Coastal Defense Forces, the Royal Pelinese Marine Corps, and the Royal Pelinese Navy Air Service. It contains 383 commissioned vessels and additional auxiliary and reserve vessels, 12 carrier air wings, 12 MPA squadrons, 20 coastal defense missile battalions, and approximately 27,000 marines in nine brigades. The Royal Pelinese Navy is a blue water naval force with a high degree of amphibious and underway replenishment capability abroad. The two highest operational commands in the RPN are the Mediterranean Fleet and the Eastern Fleet, which are assigned carrier, surface combatant, subsurface, aviation, amphibious, marine sealift, and auxiliary forces as per operational needs. The Royal Pelinese Coast Guard is a command of the Royal Pelinese Gendarmerie.
Commissioned RPN vessels use the prefix KPF, which is short for Корабль Пелинская Флотта (“Ship of the Pelinese Navy”).
Active ships
There are 383 non-auxiliary vessels in commission, including 12 aircraft carriers, 4 guided missile cruisers, 49 guided missile destroyers, 42 guided missile frigates, 36 corvettes, 42 missile cutters, 2 amphibious command ships, 4 amphibious assault ships, 8 amphibious transport docks, 8 dock landing ships, 24 tank landing ships, 24 medium landing ships, 36 nuclear attack submarines, 36 diesel-electric attack submarines, 12 nuclear ballistic missile submarines, 12 nuclear guided missile submarines, and 32 mine countermeasures ships. The total displacement of the commissioned force of the Royal Pelinese Navy, calculated using full-load displacement and submerged displacement, is approximately 3,335,000 tonnes.
Active bases
Primary naval facilities in Pelinai include:
- Daishiroi Harbor: South-southeast of Korolyeviya. Primary base of the Eastern Fleet; stations the majority of surface and subsurface vessels assigned to the Eastern Ocean as well as multiple squadrons of maritime patrol aircraft. Possesses a military airfield and underground submarine pens in addition to normal facilities.
- Zholtiya Naval Base (“Cave of Lights”): Western coast of Zholtiya Zemla, southern Pelinai. Bases primarily nuclear submarines.
- Sorentsusubeta Naval Base: Southwestern coast of mainland Pelinai. Bases most vessels on the Mediterranean Fleet as well as maritime patrol aircraft assigned to the Mediterranean Theater of Military Operations.
- Dainazeba Naval Base: Northern Yukisora. Docks vessels operating in the northern zone of the Eastern Ocean.
- Nobizemura Naval Base: Southwestern coast of mainland Pelinai. Houses Shiroimizu Naval Yard, which constructs most large RPN vessels.
Royal Pelinese Space Force
The Royal Pelinese Space Force is the branch of the Pelinese Armed Forces that is responsible for cyberwarfare and electronic warfare as well as planned space-based military assets. The RPSF’s cyberwarfare elements, in combination with the PWA’s Peli-Spetsnaz special forces, the RPN’s Morspesi combat divers, and the Ministry of Defense’s Main Directorate of Military Intelligence (GVRU), form the core of the Pelinese Armed Forces’ grey-zone operational capabilities.
Active commands
The following is a list of major commands of the Royal Pelinese Space Force.
- Nyeba Command: Manages satellites and other space-based military assets of the Pelinese Armed Forces; currently inactive.
- Myech Command: Cyberwarfare section; subdivided into squadrons specializing in a certain type of action.