NationStates Jolt Archive

OOC: I'm asking you guys for help so I can adjust this to make it realistic. More to come. This is current as of 4:15 EST 06/15/04

IC:

The Japanese Antarctican Military is at the following strength:

Army

Strength: 500,000

Ground Forces

Standard Issue for all infantrymen:
One (1) Type-89 Assault Rifle
One (1) Nambu M-57A Pistol

Tanks:
Type-74 MBT: 3,000
Type-90 Tank: 5,000

Artillery:
Type-99: 3,000
Type-75: 1,000
120mm mortars: 1,000

Armored Vehicles:
Type-96: 4,000
Type-89: 2,000

Anti Air:
Type-87: 2,000

Air Force

Strength: 500,000

Fighter
F-2 Support Fighter- 300
F-4EJ- 200
F-15J- 500
MiG-39- 750

Bomber
100 B-2 Spirit
500 B-52 Stratofortress

Attack
100 A-10 Thunderbolt

I thought you had way more stuff than that, I'd like to see the size of your navy. Didn't you have T90s, or did we kill all of them?

Navy
Strength: 500,000

Carriers
Yorktown CVN- 6
Nimitz CVN- 5

Ballistic Missile Submarines
Ohio SSBN- 4
Ohio SSGN- 6

Diesel Submarines
Kilo Class- 50
Upholder Class- 2
Oyashio Class- 10

Battleships-
Arizona BBG- 8
Iowa II BBG- 2

Destroyers-
Arleigh Burke Class- 5
Takanami Class- 8
Murasame- 4

Landing
LCAC- 1000
Osumi- 5

Cruisers
Ticonderoga- 2

Patrol Boat
1-GO - 20

I thought you had way more stuff than that, I'd like to see the size of your navy. Didn't you have T90s, or did we kill all of them?

Read:

Type-90 Tank: 5,000

We have scrapped the older MiGs in exchange for more MiG-39s.

The T90 and Type-90 are two completely different tanks.

The T90 and Type-90 are two completely different tanks.

OOC: The Japanese Type-90 is also known as T-90. And about your previous post, many weapons were lent to us during the war, now that it's over, we gave the weapons back.

are you acctually in antartica? cause if you are 90% of that stuff is useless.......

Yes we are, but in northern antarctica, slightly east of the Antarctic Peninsula.

Here's a picture of some of our nicer weather:

http://www.taylor.org/~argus/all/travel/ciudad_juarez/gilaweekend/el_butte/elephant_island.jpg

A little 1/3rd of the country is covered with ice, to the south is the Ronne Ice shelf. And some of our equipment isn't useless, we can always use our equipment on other countries.

Way too large. 5% army size should only be in war. 2% should be max standing.

Way too large. 5% army size should only be in war. 2% should be max standing.

Wait, i'm confused, I only have 9 Million in the military, a little less than 6%. What do you mean by 2% standing? Specifically what is too large?

Way too large. 5% army size should only be in war. 2% should be max standing.

Wait, i'm confused, I only have 9 Million in the military, a little less than 6%. What do you mean by 2% standing? Specifically what is too large?

For a population of 99 million, you really shouldnt have a military over 2 million. Even a militaristic one shouldnt have over 2% of their population in the standing military.

Way too large. 5% army size should only be in war. 2% should be max standing.

Wait, i'm confused, I only have 9 Million in the military, a little less than 6%. What do you mean by 2% standing? Specifically what is too large?

For a population of 99 million, you really shouldnt have a military over 2 million. Even a militaristic one shouldnt have over 2% of their population in the standing military.

Wow, I made a stupid calculation. You're right, 9 is 10%. Editing right now, thanks for pointing this out.

are you acctually in antartica? cause if you are 90% of that stuff is useless.......

As an aside (and totally irrelevant, but not quite), I thought that
Scott's trip to the Antarctic, where one or two of the things he brought were useless, was amusing.

What, you might well ask, was useless? His ponies! He brought ponies across the frozen tundra of the Antarctic!

And to add insult to injury, ORCAS ate them!