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A short run through the Commandian military.

The Commandian military is not large, it is 1%(120000/12 million) of the nations population.
This military is fresh, the Old Commandian military was decided to be not as effective as a new one would be.

INFANTRY

The Standard soldier:
The standard soldiers hold the following equipment:
-Standard D-F66 15mm automatic rifle
-Jolt Semi Automatic 10mm pistol
- Fragmentation grenade
-Flash Bang Grenade
-Field Kit

The Elite Soldier
The Elite Soldiers hold the following equipment:
-D-F67 fully auomatic rifle w/ sniper attachment
-Jolt Non automatic 15mm pistol
-Fragmentation v2 Grenade
-Flash Bang Grenade
-Emergency Medical supplies
-Satchel charges
-Signalling Flare
-Field kit

The Mortar crew

Standard Mortar crews contain two people, one for aiming the mortar, the other for loading the ammunation.

Supllies:

-Commandian "nevermisser" Mortar
-Ammunition
-Jolt Semi Automatic 10mm pistol
-Signalling Flare
-Field kit

The Sniper

The Standard sniper uses the following equipment:

-Cobalt v3 Sniper rifle
-Jolt Non automatic 15mm pistol
-Extra ammunition
-Field kit

The Heavy soldier

The standard heavy soldier uses the following equipment:

-Panzershreck v2 portable anti armour weapon
-Surplus of fragmentation grenades
-Jolt non automatic 15 mm pistol
-Field kit

Assault trooper

The standard assault trooper uses the following equipment:

-Becker class gattling gun
-Panzerfaust light portable anti-armour weapon
-Surplus of Stachel charges
-Surplus of fragmentation grenades
-Field kit

Sabotage trooper
-Cobalt class wide radius land mines
-Cobalt class laser trip wire
-Jolt semi automatic 10mm pistol
-Field kit


THE ARMOUR

Panzer class Light tank

-Fires 60mm rounds.
-Also equipped with a MG42 machine gun.
-Has a medical kit inside.
Requires a crew of 5.

-Cannon operator
-MG Operator
-Mechanic
-Navigator
-Driver

Panzer IV class medium tank

-Fires 105mm rounds
-Equipped with a MG42 Machine gun
-Has medical kit and field supplies inside.
-Requires a crew of 5, but can carry two extra passengers

-Cannon operator
-MG Operator
-Navigator
-Driver
-Mechanic
-Passenger
-Passenger

Panzer VI Class heavy tank

-Fires 125mm cannon
-Equipped with two MG32 machine guns
-Has field kit, medical kit, satchel charges, and signalling flare inside.
-Requires a crew of siz, and can hold 3 passengers.

-Cannon Operator
-MG Operator
-MG Operator
-Mechanic
-Navigator
-Driver
-Passenger
-Passenger
-Passenger

Hobeln-Mörder class AA halftrack

-Equipped with an 30mm flak cannon on top.
-No anti-infantry weapons
-Requires a crew of three

-Driver
-Navigator
-AA operator

Landen-Zerstörer class Anti-tank halftrack
-Equipped with an 88mm anti tank gun
-Can be used against infantry
-Requires a crew of three, and can carry two passengers

-Driver
-Navigator
-Cannon operator
-Passenger
-Passenger

Personumsetzer class land transport

-Unarmed
-Can carry 8 passengers
-Only a driver is required.

Kleiner small arms transport
-Equipped with a 50 cal machine gun
-can carry 4 passengers not including machinegunner
-Only requires a driver

THE ARTILLERY

Flak 88

The standard Commandian multipurpose artillery. This gun can shoot short-medium range, and can also be used for anti-air purposes. Requires 1 man to operate, but a spotter is recommended to confirm hit zone. Three shot reload.

Mortar: See infantry

Reichender class long range attack

Shoots long-very long range, used only in mountain batles or in wide open plains when the enemy outnumbers the Commandian army, fires 90mm rounds.
Single shot reload. Requires two members to operate (one loads ammo, other one fire) a spotter is recommended to confirm hit zone. Very heavy.

Kürzer class short range artillery

Shoots short to Medium range, shots are slower, but pack more punch then mortars. 5 shot reload, 70mm rounds. Not heavily armoured. Requires one man to operate.

Leuchtsignal flare mortar
Fire signal flares as either an SOS signal or to confirm a supply drop location or a bombing area.

Verbrennen class Napalm mortar

Possibly the most dangerous type of Commandian Mortar. This mortar launches regular mortar rounds with napalm added. On contact with anything, the round explodes into a ball of flame. A spotter is mandatory for the operation of this weapon.

THE ANTI-AIR

Flak 88mm
See artillery.

Raketengeschoss AA missile launcher

This immobile missile launcher launches small missile which are either heat seeking of seek a target chosen on a radar. The standard anti air weapon, used for fighters- bombers

Lichtmissile light AA missile launcher

Again AA missile, but is intended for helicopters, cargo planes, and small fighters. Also immobile, and each missile is manually operated.

Schwerer class heavy AA missile

Immobile AA missile launcher, each missile is manually controlled, and is intended for fighter-bombers to heavy bombers. Missile fires really slow.

Flak 60mm

Four barrels loaded with lots of round which explode into black clouds after being launched in the air, and is deadly agaisnt planes. Immobile, and once is out of ammo must be abandoned. Plenty of ammo, high damage, high innacuracy.
SOON TO BE ADDED: AA, Air, Naval, and other

OOC: Actually, that is not large... it is huge! Two or three hundred percent larger than the largest real-life militaries, relative to population. If you're looking for a small, highly modern and flexible military, you probably want more like half a percent of your population, maybe less, and certainly less than one percent. You could have a couple of percent, even four or five, but that would be a major drain that would limit spending elsewhere. To have more than twelve percent... well, you'd better be fighting a war for the very survival of your nation's people!

Whoops, that was my bad.
Changed the number.

Your infantry fires a 25mm rifle?! That's almost twice the size of a damn fifty cal. Those thing's will kick like a horse and will have a long recovery time, not to mention mechanical difficulties for such a large round operation.

25mm is about 2.5cm, which isn't actually all that big.
UPDATE: Adding Armour statistics

OOC: Yes, but a .50 is 12.7mm, or 1.27cm, and you can't fire that from your shoulder, as it gives quite a recoil, and with a .50 being only half of your rifle's caliber, yours would give twice as much recoil. Not to mention the fact that they use 25mm cannons to mount on IFV's. It isn't about the size of the bullet, you have practical problems with the recoil of the weapon.

Ok, then, Ill change it.

If you want a man-stopper that isnt rediculously large, just stick with the thirty-odd six's. .30cals are fast, heavy, accurate, and cheap. Exotic sized bullets (like the newer .293 rounds) may offer speed advantages, but are almost twice as expensive to make or buy as standard NATO 5.56mm or 7.62mm rounds.

Currently adding artillery

OOC: I see your going for a large army armed with highly obsolete equipment.

Your Assault troopers seem rediculously overburdened, unless their all World's Strongest Man winners than I highly doubt they'll be able to carry a gattling gun, a rocket launcher, and a surplus of anything...I dunno if that much realism really matters but just felt i'd throw it in.

15mm assualt rifles?!

12.7mm is 50 cal. lower it to 10mm

OOC: Yes, but a .50 is 12.7mm, or 1.27cm, and you can't fire that from your shoulder, as it gives quite a recoil, and with a .50 being only half of your rifle's caliber, yours would give twice as much recoil. Not to mention the fact that they use 25mm cannons to mount on IFV's. It isn't about the size of the bullet, you have practical problems with the recoil of the weapon.

yes you can fire 50 cal. from the shoulder. there are lots of 50. cal varmit rifles out there.

yes you can fire 50 cal. from the shoulder. there are lots of 50. cal varmit rifles out there.

50 cal varmits? talk about overkill, but there are no practical 50 infantry rifles in service is what he means. Their fine for snipers and what not but for a regular infantry man it would be a little too hollywood. There is no 50 cal infantry rifle in service with any army anywhere in the world. There are plenty of sniper rifles for sure, but thats as far as it goes.

yes you can fire 50 cal. from the shoulder. there are lots of 50. cal varmit rifles out there.
Every one of which is no more than semi auto, and fire with a bipod underneath..

Actually there are some .50cal "Assault rifles" in service with various branchs of the US armed forces and law enforcement, although they use specialised short .50 and .499" roudns that are designed to feed through an M16 lower receiver/magazien well assembly, the .499LW round was adopted by the US coastgaurd as a special purpose weapona nd i belive the .50Beowulf has seen soem testing for various organisations (there is also a rumor that at least one federal department has used a tromix .50AE jackhammer AR-15 conversion). But these are purely specialised short to emdium rnaged rounds that are notably uncomfortable to fire.

Actually the sweet spot for a standard infantry round is in the 6-8mm range with a lot of eveidence poitning at something in the 6.35(.25") to 7mm region (hence the popularity of 6.5mm grendal and 6.8mm SPC).

Added Anti-air