Royal Pelinese Navy (Pacifica)

Royal Pelinese Navy
ペリナイ海軍
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 duty personnel (2023) approx. 677 active ships (2023) approx. 900 fixed-wing aircraft (2023)
Part of	Pelinese Armed Forces
Headquarters	Naval Staff Headquarters, Dainēsa
Nickname(s)	White Fleet
Patron	Saint Pelinai
Colors	White, blue
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	None (Pelinese Civil War as PWA Naval Forces)
Website	rpn.mil.pln
Commanders
CINC	Izumi Perinaiko
Minister of Defense	General Anton Radovoy
Chief of General Staff	Mkhail Yukisorskiy
Commander of Naval Operations	Fleet Admiral Georgiy Kaigin
Insignia
Jack
Sleeve patch
Aircraft flown
Bomber	Na-11
Electronic warfare	Ae-16R
Fighter	Ae-16
Helicopter	Be-19, Yo-12
Patrol	KaR-15
Reconnaissance	Se-14

The Royal Pelinese Navy, also referred to as the Pelinese Navy, the White Fleet, 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 2023.

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 of the armed forces. Ship and infrastructure construction programs proceeding since the 1990s, in addition to the procurement of vessels such as underway replenishment ships, have 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 seven 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 continued to make progress in force modernization and expansion.

Mission

The stated mission of the Royal Pelinese Navy is to create, maintain, and deploy military naval power capabilities in the defense the national and political independence of the Kingdom of Pelinai and its allies, the protection of the national interests of Pelinai, and the insurance of the safety of citizens of Pelinai and its allies.

History

Rearmament

The end of the Cold War and the gradually increasing military-technical capabilities of the broader Pelinese Armed Forces brought significant changes to Pelinese naval doctrine and force structure during the period from 1984 to 2010. High-ranking naval officers such as Admiral Paraha Aliya had begun advocating for a Pelinese blue-water fleet as a hedge against the risks of relying on foreign allies for naval defense as early as 1985, leading to the initiation of the development program for the Admiral Seisuko-class guided missile cruiser; a variety of hurdles such as budget constraints, limits on the capabilities of available industrial facilities to construct advanced warships, and significant difficulties in the design and construction of the Admiral Seisuko class, however, acted to restrain the pace and scope of naval modernization programs for the rest of the 1980s.

Organization

Fleets

Operational forces of the Royal Pelinese Navy are divided into three separate fleets: the Eastern Fleet, the Mediterranean Fleet, and the Reserve Fleet. Each fleet possesses its own command structure, headquarters, and principal zone of responsibility, and typically functions as the assigned naval combat forces of a theater command.

Eastern Fleet

The Eastern Fleet is the RPN naval command assigned to operations in the Eastern Ocean; it operates five carrier battlegroups, as well as the majority of the Royal Pelinese Navy’s nuclear submarine forces. It is presently assigned to the Mediterranean Theater of Military Operations (TVD-M), with the option of reassignment to the Eastern TVD in the event of its reactivation. Its current operational commander is Admiral Rashid Berego, who was assigned to the position in 2020.

The primary base of the Eastern Fleet is the port of Sebaregin in southeastern Sevaria, where a large complex of underground submarine pens bases the majority of its subsurface vessels, while its staff headquarters is located northwest in Akamisu. Carriers and other surface vessels are docked in the base of Currant Bay, while air forces are stationed in Shinajima.

Mediterranean Fleet

The Mediterranean Fleet is the largest RPN naval command by number of ships, and is the primary fleet responsible for operations in the Mediterranean Sea: it commands seven of Pelinai’s twelve carrier battlegroups and two of its three marine divisions, as well as three major naval bases and numerous smaller facilities. Its presently assigned theater command is the Mediterranean Theater of Military Operations, and its current operational commander is Admiral Akira Hanareiko since 2018.

The headquarters and primary naval harbor of the Mediterranean Fleet is the port of Daishiroi in southwestern Stelossia, while most of its subsurface assets are based in west Zholtiya. Major naval aviation facilities include Yujikare Naval Air Station near Letograd and Cherry Island Naval Air Station near Shizukaiyō.

Branches

The Royal Pelinese Navy is divided into seven administrative branches: 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. While the branches are largely separated in the realms of training specialization and administrative functions, they share a common operational chain of command and execute military operations as a cohesive force.

RPN Surface Forces

The Royal Pelinese Navy Surface Forces is the Royal Pelinese Navy branch that is responsible for operating its surface combatant and fixed-wing naval aviation assets, such as its aircraft carriers, guided missile cruisers, guided missile destroyers, guided missile frigates, corvettes, missile cutters.

Larger vessels such as aircraft carriers, cruisers, destroyers, and frigates combine their naval aviation, anti-surface warfare, anti-submarine warfare, and anti-aircraft warfare capabilities with auxiliary vessel and nuclear attack submarine support from other RPN branches to form powerful carrier battlegroup forces suitable for blue-water power projection and naval combat, whereas the smaller corvettes and missile cutters defend Pelinese littoral regions from incursions and repel hostile fleets near Pelinese home waters through anti-access/area denial operations.

The purview of the RPN Surface Forces encompasses 224 warships of the combined RPN fleet, and additional vessels are in construction facilities or sea trials. This primarily includes aircraft carriers of the Pelograd-class and Sakura-class, cruisers of the Admiral Seisuko-class, destroyers of the Umihana-class, frigates of the Ayame-class, corvettes of the Typhoon-class, and missile cutters of the Tori and Tori-S classes, as well as older vessels in reserve such as the Partisan-class. While the Surface Forces operates Pelinese aircraft carriers, the carrier air wings that operate from them are part of the Royal Pelinese Navy Air Service.

The primary role of the RPN Surface Forces at its inception in 1986 was the defense of Pelinai’s territorial waters and littoral zones in the event of hostilities with nations such as Livana and Stoinia, a function which it shared with the RPN Coastal Defense Forces whose larger surface combatants it had inherited. The force structure of the RPNSF from its formation to the end of the Cold War largely consisted of purchased or converted small craft used during the Pelinese Civil War, such as patrol boats, missile boats, and riverine craft, as well as a small force of early Cold War-era frigates and destroyers. RPN surface combatant doctrines of this era revolved primarily around the use of swarm tactics with small craft to repel hostile naval forces from amphibious landing attempts or potential land attack targets, while larger vessels were used primarily for point air defense and occasional protection of shipping missions.
The gradual acquisition of needed industrial capacity and technology during the 1980s and 1990s allowed for the slow modernization of the surface combatant force: the development program for the first flight of Admiral Seisuko class guided missile cruisers was initiated in 1986 and provided valuable design and construction experience to Pelinese shipbuilders, though at the cost of requiring extensive overhauls of the machinery, electronics, and weapon systems in the late 2000s to resolve widespread deficiencies in reliability and performance. The follow-on design projects for the Umihana and Ayame-class surface combatants, started in 1992 and 1996 respectively, met with greater success due to greater design familiarity and increased availability of ship components. During this same time period, the Royal Pelinese Navy began transitioning its force composition towards the attainment of fixed-wing naval aviation and blue-water operational capabilities; new designs and planned upgrades for RPN surface warships, such as the still in-development Umihana and Ayame classes, had their weaponry and other ship systems rebalanced towards usage in the fleet escort, area air defense, and ASW roles in order to provide support functions needed by fleet carriers to operate effectively. Shifting Pelinese strategic priorities and naval doctrines introduced the added possibility of long-range, open-ocean deployments, which further necessitated significant increases in operating range as well as per-ship combat capability; this led to large orders of destroyers and frigates throughout the 2000s and 2010s, as well as the first wave of heavy retrofits for the Admiral Seisuko class of cruisers in order to bring them up to advancing RPN technological and engineering standards. Improvements to basing infrastructure and the commissioning of critical underway replenishment vessels elevated the RPN Surface Forces to green-water operational capability in the early 2010s and then full blue-water capability in the early 2020s. The Royal Pelinese Navy Surface Forces is now currently the largest force of surface combatant vessels in the Mediterranean Sea and a highly capable, long-range overseas force, while its historical portfolios of riverine operations and EEZ patrol have been transferred to the RPN Coastal Defense Forces and the Royal Pelinese Coast Guard.

RPN Submarine Forces

The Royal Pelinese Navy Submarine Forces is the branch of the Royal Pelinese Navy that consists of its submarine assets, including its diesel-electric attack submarines, nuclear attack submarines, guided missile submarines, and ballistic missile submarines.

Submarines of the Royal Pelinese Navy serve multiple roles. Conventional attack submarines are assigned to operate near the coasts of the Eastern Ocean and in the Mediterranean Sea as area denial and littoral defense assets, where shallow waters cause seabed clutter and other effects that contribute to their stealth. Nuclear-powered submarines of the RPN provide long-endurance commerce raiding, anti-ship and anti-land cruise missile, and nuclear second strike capabilities; nuclear attack submarines in particular may also be deployed as escorts for carrier battlegroups or ballistic missile submarines in order to defend them from submarine attack.

A total of 96 submarines are operated by the Royal Pelinese Navy Submarine Forces, not counting non-commissioned hulls such as those under construction or undergoing sea trials. Principal hull classes include the Evanescent-class nuclear attack submarine, the Biheru-class conventional attack submarine, the Snowfall-class ballistic missile submarine, and the Hurricane-class cruise missile submarine.

The Royal Pelinese Navy Submarine Forces began service in 1983 as a collection of various conventionally powered attack submarines that had seen service during the Pelinese Civil War. From the 1980s to the 1990s, its primary role during armed conflict was planned to be coastal defense and the interdiction of landing forces attempting to execute amphibious landings on Pelinese shores facing the Mediterranean Sea. The conventional submarine fleet was downsized by 18 hulls, consisting of older boats using obsolete machinery, after the end of the Cold War and the eventual abandonment of Livanan territorial claims on the island of Zholtiya in the early 2000s.

The success of the Pelinese nuclear power and weapons program in 1999 introduced new ship types and responsibilities to the Submarine Forces; the Royal Pelinese Navy commissioned its first nuclear-powered attack submarine, the KPF Evanescent in 2001, and its first nuclear ballistic missile submarine in 2003, beginning the nuclearization of the submarine force. Despite the addition of these long-endurance vessels, conventional submarines have remained in service and are expected to continue to be a critical component of Royal Pelinese Navy operations in littoral and other shallow waters.

Royal Pelinese Navy Air Service

Badge worn by pilots of the Royal Pelinese Navy Air Service.

The Royal Pelinese Navy Air Service is the naval aviation corps of the Royal Pelinese Navy, responsible for providing naval helicopter support and carrier air wings to Pelinese warships as well as for operating land-based maritime patrol aircraft, aerial refueling and AEW&C aircraft support, High-Altitude Long-Endurance maritime surveillance drones, and other military aircraft relevant to the conduct of naval warfare operations.

The role of the RPNAS covers a wide range of operational tasks due to the great variety of aircraft that it operates. Carrier-based aircraft perform combat air patrols against hostile aircraft, attack hostile surface combatants, other naval assets, and land-based targets, and provide AEW&C and electronic warfare support to friendly military forces. Land-based maritime patrol aircraft protect Pelinese waters from hostile conventional and nuclear attack submarines performing naval interdiction or commerce raiding misions, as well as ballistic or cruise missile submarines attempting to perform strikes against onshore targets in Pelinai. AEW&C aircraft and aerial refueling tankers support air operations by Pelinese carrier air wings and other friendly forces, while HALE surveillance drones serve in the roles of area patrol and target detection & tracking.

The Royal Pelinese Navy Air Service operates a total inventory of approximately 900 fixed-wing aircraft and 600 rotary-wing aircraft. Principal examples include the Ae-16 Fuyuhana navalized strike fighter, the Be-19 Cornflower naval utility helicopter, the KaR-15 Umitori maritime patrol aircraft, and the Se-14 Kaiyōtori maritime surveillance drone. No aircraft carriers or other naval aviation vessels are operated by the RPNAS; aircraft instead operate from land bases or on ships commanded by other branches of the Royal Pelinese Navy.

The Royal Pelinese Navy Air Services traces the beginning of its history to the Pelinese White Army Naval Air Service (PWANAS), which was founded as a sub-branch of the PWA Naval Forces in September 1979 to operate a handful of maritime patrol aircraft and naval helicopters that had been captured from the Belogoran People’s Army Air Forces. These aircraft would see light combat during the Pelinese Civil War from 1979 1981 while performing anti-submarine warfare duties in defense of foreign military aid shipments to the Pelinese Provisional Government, losing 2 maritime patrol aircraft out of a total of 31; some planes would also be retrofit into makeshift bombers for use in the Southern Campaign, primarily in the Battle of Letograd. The immediate postwar era brought a period of stagnation to the RPNAS as the military budget shifted towards infrastructure repair and the replacement of damaged equipment; the number of naval aircraft operated remained stagnant aside from losses due to accidents from 1982 into the late 1990s.
This would be ended in 1997, when the first plans to construct what would later become the Pelograd-class aircraft carrier for the Royal Pelinese Navy were proposed. Developing the capability to operate fixed-wing aircraft at sea required substantial investments in, among other fields, navalized aircraft development and naval aviator training: fighter squadron SIS-7 of the Royal Pelinese Air Force was officially transferred to the RPNAS in 2006 to begin training with the prototype Ae-16 Fuyuhana in February 2005, while carrier landing practice facilities were added to the Hanahi Naval Aviation Academy in July of the same year. The RPNAS later attained full STOBAR carrier operation capability in 2007 while the KPF Pelograd was performing sea trials. Subsequent realignment of Pelinese naval combat doctrine towards emphasizing the strike capabilities of fixed-wing naval aviation forces, as well as the concurrently increasing helicopter capability on surface combatants, led to a further shift towards naval air forces development: the Royal Pelinese Navy Air Service has grown to be responsible for operating roughly 15 carrier air wings from 12 carriers as of 2023, and now forms the core of of the Royal Pelinese Navy’s maritime power projection and fleet defense capabilities.

RPN Coastal Defense Forces

The Royal Pelinese Navy Coastal Defense Forces are the coastal defense arm of the Royal Pelinese Navy and are responsible for repelling sea-based attacks on Pelinese territory, such as amphibious landings and combat diver operations. It operates primarily shore-based and near-shore assets, such as the RPN’s anti-ship missile batteries, base protection troops, and anti-frogman patrol vessels.

Assigned responsibilities of the RPN Coastal Defense Forces include the military defense of Pelinai’s littoral waters, provision of base protection troops and vessels for anti-infiltration defense of RPN military installations, and the operation of shore-based anti-ship cruise and ballistic missiles. Near-shore non-military patrol duties such as EEZ enforcement, anti-smuggling and customs enforcement, and fisheries regulations enforcement do not fall under the scope of the Coastal Defense Forces, and are instead performed by the Royal Pelinese Coast Guard.

The principal vessel operated by the Royal Pelinese Navy Coastal Defense Forces is the Ogon-class anti-saboteur patrol vessel, of which 61 are presently in service as part of base garrisons and patrol detachments. Base protection troops commanded by the Coastal Defense Forces fall under the RPN Onshore Protection Division, which administers the security and MP units stationed on RPN bases, naval air stations, and other facilities. Also operated are five coastal defense brigades, with a combined total of 20 battalions operating 120 Z18S Spessartine and Z82S Caltrop coastal defense missile systems.

The Coastal Defense Forces is one of the oldest branches of the Royal Pelinese Navy, being first organized on July 26, 1979 in order to oppose possible landings on PPG-held Zholtiya. It was also the largest branch of the PWA Naval Forces by personnel for the entirety of the Pelinese Civil War; it ended the war with six assigned divisions of coastal defense troops totalling roughly 90,000 personnel versus the then approximately 10,000 sailors under the RPN Surface Forces. Although its assigned forces would be reduced to three divisions shortly after the conclusion of the Pelinese Civil War as part of general downsizing in the armed forces, the Coastal Defense Forces continued to play a major role in RPN doctrine and strategic planning for the remainder of the Cold War due to a short supply of modern warships. This would slowly change after the beginning of the 21st century, when the Royal Pelinese Navy began to acquire newer ships with modern technology; some of its roles in coastal patrols and maritime law enforcement were additionally transferred to the Royal Pelinese Coast Guard over time, which resulted in force downsizing. Despite the partial shifting of budgetary and doctrinal focus to other branches, the RPN Coastal Defense Forces continues to receive equipment upgrades in the form of modernized missile batteries and other systems.

Royal Pelinese Marine Corps

The Royal Pelinese Marine Corps is the amphibious warfare force of the Royal Pelinese Navy, specialized for conducting opposed amphibious landings, air assault landings, and long-range power projection operations. It commands the RPN’s 3 divisions of marines, along with supporting landing craft and rotary-wing aviation elements.

RPN Sealift Forces

The Royal Pelinese Navy Sealift Forces is the underway replenishment and strategic sealift branch of the RPN, and works in conjunction with strategic airlift forces to provide logistics support for Pelinese naval and other military forces operating overseas. It operates the Royal Pelinese Navy’s fleet of underway replenishment vessels, cargo freighters, tankers, RORO ships, and other logistical support vessels.

Relationship with other military and maritime entities of Pelinai

The Royal Pelinese Navy maintains the ability to assume wartime operational command of assets operated by the Royal Pelinese Coast Guard in order to supplement organic RPN naval forces. RPCG ships may be fitted with light weaponry such as CIWS emplacements, short-range SAMs, and compact anti-ship missiles under such an arrangement, after which they are used in low- to medium-theat environments as high-endurance patrol vessels.

Personnel

Uniforms

RPN dress and office uniforms are primarily black, with light blue as a secondary color. Sailors serving on ships at sea, as well as base protection personnel, wear a battle dress uniform patterned with blue digital camouflage. Rank is indicated by sleeve patches (for enlisted personnel) or epaulettes (for warrant and commissioned officers), while branch and specialization are indicated by badges.

Commissioned officers

Category	Flag officers					Senior officers			Junior officers
Int. rank code	OF-10	OF-9	OF-8	OF-7	OF-6	OF-5	OF-4	OF-3	OF-2		OF-1
Royal Pelinese Navy Shoulder insignia
Rank	Fleet Admiral	Admiral	Vice Admiral	Rear Admiral	Flag Captain	Captain 1st Rank	Captain 2nd Rank	Captain 3rd Rank	Senior Lieutenant	Lieutenant	Junior Lieutenant	Ensign
Abbreviation	FADM	ADM	VADM	RADM	FCPT	CPT1	CPT2	CPT3	SLTN	LTN	JLTN	ENS

Enlisted personnel

Category	Chief petty officers							Petty officers			Seaman rates
Int. rank code	OR-9				OR-8		OR-7	OR-6	OR-5	OR-4	OR-3	OR-2	OR-1
Royal Pelinese Navy Right shoulder insignia	File:RPN mcn.png
Rank	Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy	Force Master Chief Petty Officer	Command Master Chief Petty Officer	Master Chief Petty Officer	Command Senior Chief Petty Officer	Senior Chief Petty Officer	Chief Petty Officer	Petty Officer 1st Class	Petty Officer 2nd Class	Petty Officer 3rd Class	Seaman	Seaman Apprentice	Seaman Recruit
Abbreviation	MCN	MCF	MCC	MC	SCC	SC	CPO	PO1	PO2	PO3	SN	SA	SR

Approximately 80% of the Royal Pelinese Navy’s personnel are enlisted; subcategories in the RPN rank system include, in order of increasing responsibility, seaman rates, petty officers, and chief petty officers.

The working uniform worn by enlisted sailors on Pelinese warships consists of a Type 017 fire-retardant battle dress uniform patterned in ocean blue UFA camouflage, Type 004B tanker boots, and an optional blue baseball cap with the ship’s badge. The office uniform consists of a dark blue office shirt and pants, as well as black dress shoes.
Rank insignia for enlisted personnel are worn on the upper right sleeve, while a Royal Pelines Navy service insignia is worn on the upper left sleeve. Technical specializations are indicated by a badge worn over the uniform’s nameplate.

Contemporary topics

Strategic doctrine and priorities

The Royal Pelinese Navy has historically concentrated the vast majority of its strategic planning on the theaters of the Mediterranean Sea and the Eastern Ocean, which constitute the maritime regions immediately bordering Pelinai; continuing Livanan claims on the Marahu Delta and Zholtiya regions, as well as a lack of acute naval threats from elsewhere, led most contemporary naval officers to prioritize the areas of coastal defense and other defensive operations until the early 2000s. The withdrawal of these claims, along with other factors such as the continued presence of Emeraldian warships in the Mediterranean, the recent formation of the Concordia Entente, and the increasing industrial and technological capacity of the Pelinese state, have since resulted in a long-term doctrinal shift in the navy; expanded levels of responsibility in furthering Pelinese security and interests against newer, more varied threats has resulted in a wide-reaching series of naval rearmament and reorganization initiatives. These campaigns have made substantial progress in developing the modern Royal Pelinese Navy into a powerful naval warfare force capable of successfully waging all levels of military conflict against sophisticated, highly advanced adversaries.

Published statements and directives by high-ranking Pelinese naval officers, such as Fleet Admiral Georgiy Kaigin and Admiral Haru Koraba, have repeatedly emphasized the necessity of a powerful navy to maintaining Pelinai’s security in the modern era. Admiral Koraba stated in April 2022 during an interview with the Pelograd Apostle that the RPN continued to maintain plans for further improvement of its capabilities, continuing that the Navy was a necessary counterbalance against the other major naval powers in the Mediterranean.

Force restructuring efforts of the RPN have focused on the sectors of expanded ship capability and range, expansion of ship type variety, addition of new aerial systems, and increases to both the size and quantity of operational task forces. Newer surface combatant designs such as the Umihana destroyers have prioritized increased operational range and endurance, and have implemented great improvements in the performance and reliability of Pelinese naval powerplants, ship electronics and sensors, weaponry, and other systems. The addition of aircraft carriers to the Pelinese combined fleet introduces critical capabilities in overseas power projection and fleet defense, and carriers have become the new central ship of the RPN’s reorganized surface task forces. Nuclear attack and guided missile submarines have massively increased the reach and flexibility of Pelinese operational groups, and nuclear ballistic missile submarines now underpin the second-strike credibility of Pelinai’s nuclear forces. Maritime surveillance drones and loitering munitions, of both land-based and ship-based varieties as well as fixed and rotary-wing models, add powerful and flexible reconnaissance and strike assets to the Pelinese inventory. Both the Mediterranean and Eastern Fleets have added substantial tonnage of ships in recent decades, with the current number of operational carrier battlegroups standing at 12 and the number of operational amphibious strike groups standing at 4. Expanded flotillas of missile cutters, corvettes, and diesel-electric submarines provide the RPN with a credible littoral combat element that complements its larger blue-water naval assets.

The primary Theater of Military Operations (TVD) that the RPN is concerned with remains the Mediterranean Sea, to which the accompanying Mediterranean Fleet is assigned. Substantial combat and infrastructure elements introduced throughout the 2000-2015 period, including surface warships, conventional and nuclear submarines, maritime patrol and surveillance aircraft, and shore-based sensors have all added critical offensive and defensive naval capabilities to Pelinese forces in this region; the Mediterranean Fleet now possesses the full range of modern naval-based power projection elements, and benefits from extensive strike and C4ISTAR support by land-based aircraft of both the Navy and the Royal Pelinese Air Force.

Bases

Mediterranean Sea

Daishiroi

The largest military harbor in Pelinai is the port of Daishiroi on the western Mediterranean coast, which acts as the designated headquarters of the Mediterranean Fleet and docks the majority of large surface combatant forces assigned to it. Two squadrons of MPA aircraft and a squadron of maritime surveillance drones are additionally stationed at the adjoining Yukihana Naval Air Station, which perform coastal patrol duties.

Equipment

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

As of the end of 2022, the Royal Pelinese Navy operates 677 commissioned warships and auxiliary vessels, approximately 900 aircraft including navalized multirole and strike fighters, AEW&C aircraft, transport aircraft, and naval utility helicopters, as well as land-based aircraft such as maritime patrol aircraft, aerial refueling tankers, HALE maritime surveillance drones. Pelinese military vessels operate modern radars and fire control systems, missile systems, and other equipment.

Ships and submarines

Main article: List of active RPN ships (Pacifica)

The Royal Pelinese Navy operates approximately 350 combat warships, including 12 aircraft carriers and 96 submarines. Vessels of the RPN are overwhelmingly designed and constructed within Pelinai using domestically sourced components, although some interest has been expressed in purchasing coastal patrol craft from Weisserstein.

Pelinai has operated the full range of naval warships since 2009, including aircraft carriers, amphibious warfare ships, conventional and nuclear-propelled attack submarines, nuclear-propelled guided and ballistic missile submarines, and underway replenishment craft, as well as surface combatants ranging from missile cutter to cruiser size.

Aircraft

Main article: List of active Pelinese military aircraft (Pacifica) § Navy

Approximately 900 aircraft of various types are operated under the Royal Pelinese Navy, including piloted fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft as well as various types of UAVs.

The Royal Pelinese Navy Air Service operates a wide range of naval aviation assets, including ASW and utility helicopters, shore-based maritime patrol aircraft and surveillance drones, and weapons targeting drones; carrier air wings further possess navalized fixed-wing aircraft such as multirole fighters, AEW&C aircraft, and transport aircraft. All aircraft currently in RPNAS service are produced domestically in Pelinai, and most airframe models were also designed there as well.

Naval weaponry

Pelinese ship-mounted weaponry includes a variety of surface-to-air, ship-to-ship, land-attack cruise, and point defense missiles, as well as autocannons, Close-In Weapon Systems, naval cannons, and torpedoes. RPN missiles are normally installed inside VLS blocks, but some larger, long-range cruise missiles use prominent deck launchers instead.

The Royal Pelinese Navy possesses one of the largest single-nation inventories of naval mines in the world, and is capable of deploying them from ships, submarines, and aircraft. Deployed mines may be contact-based or influence mines.

Future of the Royal Pelinese Navy

Long-term military priorities of the Royal Pelinese Navy center around establishing naval supremacy in the Mediterranean Sea and expanding Pelinese sea-based power projection capabilities. Significant expansion, reformation, and modernization programs have been implemented and continue to be implemented in all branches of the RPN in the interest of attaining these objectives: Massive increases in the quantity and quality of all types of RPN combat assets, which are projected to be supported by a further several dozen vessels within the next decade. Improvements in branch interoperability with the RPAF now allow for more effective land-based strike support, and new surveillance assets such as the AURORA OTH radar array, EMDA and EMOSA hydrophone installations, and the Atēru satellite imaging surveillance network add substantial improvements to situational awareness in critical maritime theaters. Progress in the Pelinese space program is expected to bring additional space-based sensor and targeting support assets into operation.

Pelinai is expected to decommission the last of its mothballed Partisan class destroyers in the near future; these are expected to be replaced in their past role as primarily near-shore patrol ships by the Tori-S class of missile cutter, along with the Umihana class destroyer for the more traditional destroyer role. Refits of early-model frigates in the Ayame class are also occurring, primarily to replace outdated radar systems and other electronics.

The KPF Kihana is testing a ship-borne, directed energy-based CIWS assembly intended for usage against drones, missiles, and aircraft.

The Royal Pelinese Navy is currently in the process of adopting wide-bandgap semiconductor based naval radar systems, primarily using gallium nitride (GaN), in order to increase effective transmission power and concomitant anti-stealth capabilities.