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This is the original plan left for reference purposes. Scroll down to see the updated version:


This is a plan of the military that the Democratic Republic of Praetonia hopes to create. Of course for reasons of national security, the figures shown here are merely approximations and the plan will doubtless be altered somewhat between now and its completion. We feel that although giving out this infromation may pose a security risk, the benefits of sharing the information with our neighbours (mainly in the form of comments and advice) will outweig these risks. Note that almost none of the hardware (tanks, helicopters, ships etc) has been built or indeed designed, but we plan to produce high quality equiptment, to make up for the small size of our possible military.

Population: 6,000,000
Military: 2% or 120,000

Army:

Active Regular Divisions: 10

Active Regular Comapnies in each Division: 10

Active Regular Platoons in each Company: 10

Active Regular Squads in each Platoon: 5

Organisation: 2* Mechanised squad w/GO-01 Lightning Light Combat Support Vehicle (LCSV), Light Anti-Tank Rocket Launcher
(LATRL), Light Machine Gun (LMG)

1* Heavy Infantry Squad w/LATRL, LMG, Field Mortar

2* Light Infantry Squads 1 Sqaud W/LATRL, 1 Squad W/LMG

Active Regular Soldiers in each Sqaud: 10



Active Regular Tank Divisions: 2

Active Regular Comapnies in each Division: 5

Active Regular Platoons in each Company: 5

Active Regular Tanks in each Platoon: 10

Organisation: 1* GO-02 Scimitar MBT Command Variant

1* GO-02 Scimitar MBT Recon Variant

8* GO-02 Scimitar MBT Regular Variants

Active Regular Soldiers in each Tank: 3

Total Vehicles (inc. Spec Ops and Mech Infantry): 2550



'Stalking Tigers' Special Operations Division: 1,000

Resources: 25* GO-02 Scimitar MBT Airlift Variants

25* GO-01 Lightning LCSV Airlift Variants

50* GO-03 Ascension Transpost Helicopters (TH) Carrier Variants

25* GO-04 Panther Attack Helicopter (AH) Carrier Variants

Organisation: [CLASSIFIED]

Notes: Assigned to the Feles Class Helicopter Assault Carrier



Officers and Attendants: 3,000

Total Active Regular Soldiers: 55,500




Navy:

Active Ships:

20* Scimmer Class Coastal Defence Vessels (100 crew each)


5* Aquila Class Frigates (250 crew each)

Organisation: 3* Regular Variants

1* Air Defence Variant

1* Land Bombardment Variant

1* ASW Variant


1* Feles Class Helicopter Assault Carrier (250 crew + Spec Ops)



Officers and Attendants: 500

Total Active Regular Sailors: 4,000




Airforce:

Active Planes:

50* GO-05 Eagle Fighter/Bombers

Crew per Plane: 2

Officers and Attendants: 50

Total Active Regular Airforce Staff: 150


Total Regular Active Military Personel: 59,650

Total Support and Reserve Personel: 60,350

Could I get a comment on this please? Ive never tried to design an army before...

Thanks in advance

It's certainly interesting, and I think it's all right, if your economy can support it. I think your economy would need to be at least 'strong' to sustain it.

My econ is 'reasonable'. Perhaps I will lose a division or two. However, bear in mind that only around 50% are actually active troops being paid governmnet salaries for being in the military. The other 50% are mainly support staff (who work in departments that would still be there no matter the military size) and reservists (who have jobs that are not anything to do with the army).

Anyway thanks for the advice. Ill probably update it when I get mor comments.

Realisticlly i think that 2% is a little high level of mobilisation for a country of your size and economic strength.Thats a little too close tobeing world war recruitment levels.Less than 1% is more likely.As for designing your own equipment ,that may be a little adventurous for a while at least.Firstly you should purchase equipment from one of the many storefronts before you think about bulding your own machinery.

Otherwise your layout seems well organised and thought out.

Thanks for the tips, Im making an updated version now. About the designing own equiptemnt issue I was planning on using other's military equiptment for now (and what is left from the old Praetonian military) and then get round to designing the rest in (NS) years to come.

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Your organisation seems good but perhaps could be made a little more flexable by adding in another couple of layers and increasing the size of a divsion to 15,000men (roughly the level of manpower msot people assoiate with a divsion sized force)
you might want to go for:
5 squads=platoon=50men
5 platoons=company=250men
5 companies= regiment=1250men
4 regiments= brigade=5000men
2-4brigades= divsion= 10-20,000men

I would also suggest amlagamting your armor divsions into your infatry forces(likely a necessity with larger disvions) to create mechanised or ready divsions. Not all of your forces have to be part of a divsion a number of independent brigades and regiments are useful particularly light infantry brigades and marine units.

Oh and mixing mechanised infatry and leg infantry within the same paltoon might not be a good idea, keep you mech inf with your tanks.

this is purely my own opinion so feel free to ignore it.

This has now been updated a second time (third time in total for the whole thread):

A new and updated version of Praetonia's redevelopment plan. Thankyou to all those who gave advice.

Population: 8,000,000
Military: 1% or 80,000 *this is total, including support staff

Army:

1st Division (Home) and 2nd Division (Response Force)

1st Brigade (mechanised)

Tanks: GO-02 Scimitar MBTs
LCSVs (Light Combat Support Vehicles): GO-01 Lightnings

5 tanks = platoon = 5 tanks, 2 LCSV 17 crew, 20 soldiers
5 platoons = company = 25 tanks, 10 LCSV, 95 crew, 200 soldiers
5 companies = regiment = 125 tanks, 50 LCSV, 475 crew, 1000 soldiers
4 regiments = brigade = 500 tanks, 200 LCSV 1900 crew, 4000 soldiers
50 Self Propelled Guns, crew 100

2nd Brigade (heavy infantry)

10 soldiers = squad = 10 soldiers
5 squads = platoon = 50 soldiers
2 Squads have LMG (Light Machine Gun) and AA rocket launcher
2 Squads have LMG and AT rocket launcher
1 Squad has LMG and mortar
5 platoons = company = 250 soldiers
5 companies = regiment = 1250 soldiers
4 regiments = brigade = 5000 soldiers

3rd Brigade (light infantry)

10 soldiers = squad = 10 soldiers
5 squads = platoon = 50 soldiers
2 Squads have LMG
1 Squad has AT rocket launcher
1 Squad has AA rocket launcher
1 Squad has sniper rifle
5 platoons = company = 250 soldiers
5 companies = regiment = 1250 soldiers
4 regiments = brigade = 5000 soldiers

4th Brigade (support) *Assigned to other Brigades when needed

1 Regiment of Heavy Infantry
1 Regiment of Light Infantry
1 Regiment of Engineers
1 Regiment of Artillery
300 Self-Propelled Guns = 600 crew
100 AA Guns = 200 crew
150 Self-Propelled SAMs = 450 crew

'Praetonian Guard' Special Operations Division: 1,000

Resources: 25* GO-02 Scimitar MBT Airlift Variants

25* GO-01 Lightning LCSV Airlift Variants

50* GO-03 Ascension Transpost Helicopters (TH) Carrier Variants

25* GO-04 Panther Attack Helicopter (AH) Carrier Variants

Organisation: [CLASSIFIED]

Notes: Assigned to the Feles Class Helicopter Assault Carrier

Total Officers and Attendants: 2,000
Total Vehicles (inc. Spec Ops): 1,450
Total Soldiers: 45,000

Navy:
Active Ships:
20* Scimmer Class Coastal Defence Vessels (100 crew each)
5* Aquila Class Frigates (250 crew each)
Organisation: 3* Regular Variants
1* Air Defence Variant
1* Land Bombardment Variant
1* ASW Variant

1* Feles Class Helicopter Assault Carrier (250 crew + Spec Ops)

Officers and Attendants: 500
Total Active Regular Sailors: 4,000

Airforce:

Active Planes:

50* Attack Helicopters
50* GO-05 Eagle Fighter/Bombers
10* PEA-23s

Crew per Plane: 2

Officers and Attendants: 55
Total Active Regular Airforce Staff: 120

Other Assets:

20* GO-11 Tiger Standard MBTs *Training purposes. The only new unit that is delivered. Crew come under support.

Total Regular Active Military Personel: 49,120
Total Support and Reserve Personel: 30,880

verry verry nice

Dont bump my first ever post, TFU.