Royal Pelinese Navy (Pacifica)

Royal Pelinese Navy
Naval jack of the Royal Pelinese Navy
Active	January 2, 1984 – present (1984-01-02 – present)
Country	Kingdom of Pelinai
Branch	Navy
Size	300,000 active personnel (2023) approx. 677 active ships (2023) approx. 900 fixed-wing aircraft (2023)
Headquarters	Naval Staff Headquarters, Dainēsa
Patron	Saint Pelinai
Fleet	12 aircraft carriers 2 amphibious command ships 4 landing helicopter docks 8 amphibious transport docks 8 dock landing ships 24 landing ship tanks 24 landing ship mediums 17 cruisers 52 destroyers 47 frigates 54 corvettes 42 missile cutters 32 mine countermeasures vessels 96 submarines 251 auxiliaries
Engagements	Six-Hour War
Website	rpn.pln

The Royal Pelinese Navy, also referred to as the Pelinese Navy or the White Navy, is the maritime service arm of the Pelinese Armed Forces and is responsible for maintaining its naval warfare, coastal defense, and amphibious warfare capabilities. It is the second largest branch of the Pelinese Armed Forces, with approximately 300,000 active duty personnel in 2022.

The naval arm of the Pelinese Armed Forces has existed as an independent entity since January 2, 1984, when the primarily riverine naval forces of the Civil War-era Pelinese White Army were divided into a separate branch. Ship and infrastructure construction programs proceeding since the 1990s, in addition to the procurement of vessels such as underway replenishment ships, has since advanced the RPN from being primarily a littoral navy to a capable blue-water force with extensive combat capabilities.

The Royal Pelinese Navy is one of the largest navies in Pacifica, with a fleet size of over 670 ships and an estimated combined battlefleet tonnage of over 3,500,000 tonnes as of 2023, and forms a sizable portion of Pelinai’s overseas power projection capabilities. It contains five branches of service: the RPN Surface Forces, the RPN Submarine Forces, the Royal Pelinese Navy Air Service, the RPN Coastal Defense Forces, the Royal Pelinese Marine Corps, the RPN Sealift Forces, and the RPN Special Forces. In addition to naval warfare assets such as naval vessels and navalized aircraft, different branches of the Royal Pelinese Navy also operate coastal defense missile batteries, land-based maritime patrol aircraft, amphibious ground forces such as marines, and other non-naval military assets.

Pelinese naval officials have identified the Mediterranean Sea and the Eastern Ocean as core theaters of operations for the Royal Pelinese Navy since 1985, and the RPN performs regular patrols across the eastern Mediterranean in particular. Regular naval patrols and exercises have both increased in frequency and crept westward as the Royal Pelinese Navy and the Pelinese Armed Forces in general have modernized and expanded.

Equipment

Main article: List of equipment of the Royal Pelinese Navy (Pacifica)

Ships and submarines

Main article: List of active RPN ships (Pacifica)