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Full Name: The Imperial Zarustran Armed Forces (IZAF)

Number in the Armed Forces: 200,000
Number of Fighting Personnel: 47,900

Branches of the IZAF:
Imperial Zarustran Ground Forces
Imperial Zarustran Navy
Imperial Zarustran Air Guard

Order of Battle:

Imperial Zarustran Ground Forces

40,000 Imperial Guardsmen - 1x M16A1 Rifle, 1x .45 Colt Sidearm, 2x Fragmentation Grenades, 1x Smoke Grenade each
200 Chieften Mk5 MBTs - 800 Crewmembers
200 AS90 155mm SPGs - 500 Crewmembers
200 Saracen APCs - 400 Crew, 2,000 Infantry Capacity
100 UH-1Bs - 400 Crew, 1,200 Infantry Capacity

Total Personnel: 42,100

Imperial Zarustran Navy

10 Type 22 Frigates - 2,500 Crewmembers
20 Hunt Class Patrol Vessels - 800 Crewmembers
100 LCU 1600s - 1,100 Crewmembers, 300 Tank/4,000 Infantry/1,7000 ton Cargo Capacity

Total Personnel: 4,400

Imperial Zarustran Air Guard

100 Hawk Light Attackers - 100 Crewmembers
150 Tornado GR1A Fighters - 300 Crewmembers
100 F15A Fighters - 100 Crewmembers
50 P3 Orions - 550 Crewmembers
50 E3 Hawkeyes - 250 Crewmembers
Total Personnel: 1,300

Unconventional Weapons Stocks:
Mustard Gas
Napalm
VX Nerve Agent

[OOC: A neatly made, but seriously outdated military. You should get new and modern (NS-modern, not RL-modern) equipment and weapons. If you're in need of new Navy vessels, please feel free refer to my storefront (in my signature) and browse the selection.]

[OOC: A neatly made, but seriously outdated military. You should get new and modern (NS-modern, not RL-modern) equipment and weapons. If you're in need of new Navy vessels, please feel free refer to my storefront (in my signature) and browse the selection.]

OOC: With his military budjet, this is quite right as it is though.

OOC: With his military budjet, this is quite right as it is though.

Yeah, my general idea is that a small nation such as myself can't really afford the better tech stuff until later on, so...

Yeah, my general idea is that a small nation such as myself can't really afford the better tech stuff until later on, so...
OOC: Good. Many if not most of newcomers forget this, it's nice to see something different for a while. Btw, here's a page most of the people, including me, use to define their economical stats. (http://nstracker.retrogade.com/index.php?nation=zarustra&nation2=Madnestan&nation3=&nation4=&nation5=&nation6=)

OOC: Good. Many if not most of newcomers forget this, it's nice to see something different for a while. Btw, here's a page most of the people, including me, use to define their economical stats. (http://nstracker.retrogade.com/index.php?nation=zarustra&nation2=Madnestan&nation3=&nation4=&nation5=&nation6=)

Thanks, I appreciate the link. :)

OOC:
Very nice indeed. A bit overly weighted towards the airforce but there is nothign wrong with that.
The one quibble i have is with your airforce personnel level, you have 350 aircraft with 500 staff. This is fine pilots wise (although a large number of airforces have more pilots than aircraft and some have more aircraft than pilots) but you are forgetting your huge number of support crew aircraft need, as a rule of thumb i tend to use 12 ground staff (not all gorund crew soem are admin and airtraffic controllers) per pilot/aircrew member.
The other thing your airforce seriously needs is soem sort of patrol/surveilance aricraft, possibly of a maritime nature. It doesn't need to be a big bugger like the Nimrod or a P-3 Orion it could be soemthing as cheap and cheerful as a BN-2 Islander/Defender or soemthing mroe middle amrket like the CN-235 or bizjets like the EMB-145 or Dassault Falcon 20 (or even the new 7 series models if you want).

AWACs/AEW would be a another nice addition but aren't nessicarily needed (although if this was real life the time for buying maritime patrol and AWCs birds is now what with the US selling off its E-2 hawkeyes and S-3 Vikings. Now the vikings would be an interesting choice: Maritime surveilance, sub hunting and air to air refeuling in a nice cheapish aircraft.

Of coruse this is all merely my opinion so feel free to take what you will from my wibblings, oh and if you ever want a really nice strictly modern tech (as in could be biult tomorrow without the slightest whiff of ETC) gun upgrade i have a few ideas, designed essepcially for the cheiftan.

OOC: Not bad, not bad at all. I agree with you here Madnestan and Cotland, I did focus on RL tech, but it was unrealistic (ain't no way M1A2s can work in RL Southeast Asia) and bigger.

Xandabia is building up its military force from scratch along similar lines. Our policy has been to start with the Air Force & Ground Forces as the first step and then look to develop a naval force to patrol our coastal waters as a first step and then look to develop that into a military resource that is capable of projecting power further afield or providing support as part of a peacekeeping force.

OOC: I am trying to stick to RL tech so that capability boundaries are clear both for me and anyone I'm rp-ing with. I would welcome any advice particulalrly on NS time: Real time issues and logistics.

OOC: Updated with the addition of AEW/Maritime Patrol Aircraft as suggested.

Strathdonia - I know what you're getting at with regards to ground crew - just to clarify, all logistical and support staff are included in the total enlisted personnel at the top - for ease and speed of updating, I only work out the personnel directly involved in warfare (i.e. the pilots/crewmembers of the Air Force.) Thankyou for all the advice though.

Not everyone likes to use NS designs, though some of the weaponry and equipment is farily outdated (like the Huey and the APC). I suggest switching to the warrior IFV, which is very well armored and extremely versatile. You also probably want some kind of mobile anti-air.

Just a question though: How many logistical vehicals will I want per man/tank? Would 1 truck/palletized loading system/artillery loader be able to serve 4 divisions if one is fully armored? And what is a good ratio of non combat personal:combat personal?

I've heard a lot of people say that a logistics ratio of five to eight men per fighting soldier is a good ratio, somewhat smaller for special forces.

Cotland, just to clarify, is that including logistical vehicals or is that just administrative/mechanical/etc. personal?

Personell.