Armed Forces of Zeed

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Mandated in the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Zeed in 1727 AN, and established in 1732 AN, the Armed Forces of the Commonwealth of Zeed have the formal responsibility for the territorial defence of the Commonwealth of Zeed.

Remit

As per article 25 of the constitution, the Armed Forces of Zeed are obligated to secure, protect, and guarantee the security of the country’s borders and to defend Zeed.

Further defined in article 27, the armed forces consist of the active and reserve units, and elements, including military personnel working in the Ministry of Defense or any offices or organisations subordinate to it.

Accordingly, the armed forces are subordinate to the Ministry of Defense which in turn reports to the Council of Ministers via the Minister of Defense who has overall responsibility for defense matters within the Commonwealth of Zeed. Operationally, national command authority on military matters flow from the Prime Minister to the Minister of Defense to the military chain of command of the Armed Forces of the Commonwealth of Zeed. The Council of Ministers moreover appoint the officers of the Armed Forces of the Commonwealth of Zeed at the rank of general or above. Such appointments being subject to confirmation by the National Assembly.

Organisation

As of 1744 AN
  • Armed Forces of the Commonwealth of Zeed
    • Headquarters General Service Unit
      • Commissariat Department
      • Inspectorate Department
        • Aviation Forces Section
        • Land Forces Section
        • Maritime Forces Section
    • Commander-in-Chief of the Land Forces
      • 1st Zeedic Division
        • Headquarters & Command Control Regiment
        • 101 Signal Regiment
        • 102 Civil-Military Operations Regiment
        • 103 Logistics Support Regiment
        • 104 Military Police Regiment
        • 105 Military Intelligence Regiment
        • 106 Explosive Ordnance Disposal Battalion
      • 5th Mountain Division (3 inf bde, 1 ad reg)
      • 6th Motorised Division (3 mtr inf bde, 1 inf bde)
      • 7th Mechanised Division (2 mech inf bde, 1 inf bde)
      • 8th Division
      • 9th Armoured Division (2 armoured brigades, 2 mech bdes)
      • 10th Division
      • 14th Motorised Division (3 mtr inf bde, 1 inf bde)
    • Commander-in-Chief of the Naval Forces
      • 2nd Fleet Division
      • 4th Coastal Division
    • Commander-in-Chief of the Aerospace Forces
      • 3rd Air Division
        • Air Defence Demi-Brigade
          • 7th Tactical Fighter (Raptor) Squadron
        • Air Mobility Demi-Brigade
          • 1st Air Support Squadron

Establishment

Manpower
Personnel Quantity
Headquarters & Support 7,200
Land Forces 73,200
Naval Forces 21,600
Aerospace Forces 7,200
Total 109,200

Equipment

Land

Name Origin Type № in Service Image Notes
Main Battle Tanks
Lion 1A1 Main Battle Tank Natopia Natopia Main Battle Tank 340 Transferred from Oportia, 1746 AN.
Armoured Fighting Vehicles
Horjin Combat Vehicle 56 Sanama Sanama Infantry fighting vehicle 600 Transferred from Oportia, 1746 AN.
"Rustam" (WNFV 100 MBT) Zeed Rusjar Mechanical Machine-Building Plant Light Tank 1,150
  • Delivered 1723 AN–1727 AN & 1745 AN–1747 AN.
"Rakesh" (WNFV 101 IFV) Zeed Rusjar Mechanical Machine-Building Plant Infantry Fighting Vehicle 1,500
  • Delivered 1723 AN–1727 AN & 1745 AN–1747 AN.
BK-VI 102B IMV Zeed Rusjar Mechanical Machine-Building Plant Infantry Mobility Vehicle 1,140
Armoured Personnel Carriers
"Sohrab" (WNFV 102 APC) Zeed Rusjar Mechanical Machine-Building Plant Armoured Personnel Carrier 1,223
  • Delivered 1723 AN–1727 AN & 1745 AN–1747 AN.
"Kay Kavus" (WNFV 102A CV) Zeed Rusjar Mechanical Machine-Building Plant Command Vehicle 116
  • Delivered 1723 AN–1727 AN & 1745 AN–1747 AN.
"Siyavysh" (WNFV 102B IMV) Zeed Rusjar Mechanical Machine-Building Plant Infantry Mobility Vehicles 1,237
  • Delivered 1723 AN–1727 AN & 1745 AN–1747 AN.
Armoured Reconnaissance Vehicles
"Kay Khusrow" (WNFV 101A ARV) Zeed Rusjar Mechanical Machine-Building Plant Armoured Reconnaissance Vehicle 1,177
  • Delivered 1723 AN–1727 AN & 1745 AN–1747 AN.
Artillery
SAI Bigbaddaboom 155 Sanama Sanama Self-propelled 155mm howitzer 150 Transferred from Oportia, 1746 AN.
Machine guns
M1693 Natopia Luix-Satyria Scientific-Production Association LLC General Purpose Machine Gun 128,000
  • Issued at troop level.
  • Local production after 1745 AN.
Support Vehicles
Truck, Light Shireroth Shireroth Spt Vehicle 11,000 Former Arboreal Guard. Declared surplus and donated to the Armed Forces of Zeed after the Whales Confrontation. Local production after 1745.

Infantry equipment and weaponry

Name Origin Type № in Service Image Notes
Equipment
Presently provided under a Military Assistance scheme, paid for by the Imperial Constancian Government
M1699 Mess Tin Nouvelle Alexandrie Stahl Maschinenfabrik Personal Kit -
M1700 9 Pieces Cooking Set with Burner Nouvelle Alexandrie Stahl Maschinenfabrik Personal Kit -
M1701 Stainless Steel Coffee Pot Nouvelle Alexandrie Stahl Maschinenfabrik Personal Kit -
Uniforms
Pattern M1716 Service Uniform (Officers) Suren Confederacy Zarrin-Baft Industrial Group Field Uniform -
Pattern M1716 Service Uniform (Other Ranks) Suren Confederacy Zarrin-Baft Industrial Group Field Uniform -
Personal weapons
M1591 7.62 mm Rifle Raspur Pact Allied Production Matrix
  • Service rifle
 100,000

Naval

Name Origin Type Quantity Image Note
Submarines
Franciscania-class attack submarine Nouvelle Alexandrie Nouvelle Alexandrie Nuclear Attack Submarine 4 Transferred from Oportia, 1746 AN.
Surface Combatants
Grande Union-class guided-missile frigate Nouvelle Alexandrie Nouvelle Alexandrie Multi-Role Frigate 3 Transferred from Oportia, 1746 AN.
Shadowstrike-class stealth destroyer Nouvelle Alexandrie Nouvelle Alexandrie Air Defense Destroyer 3 Transferred from Oportia, 1746 AN.
Valeria-class destroyer Nouvelle Alexandrie Nouvelle Alexandrie Multi-Mission Destroyer 3 Transferred from Oportia, 1746 AN.
Behaurnais-class amphibious assault ship Nouvelle Alexandrie Nouvelle Alexandrie Amphibious Assault Ship 2 Transferred from Oportia, 1746 AN.
Protector-class missile frigate Sanama Sanama Escort Frigate 3 Transferred from Oportia, 1746 AN.
Patrol
Piriya-class coastal patrol ship Nouvelle Alexandrie Nouvelle Alexandrie Coastal Patrol Ship 10 Transferred from Oportia, 1746 AN.
Frostbite-class arctic patrol vessel Nouvelle Alexandrie Nouvelle Alexandrie Arctic Patrol Vessel 2 File:Frostbite-class-arctic-patrol-vessel.jpg Transferred from Oportia, 1746 AN.
Cárdenas-class ocean surveillance ship Nouvelle Alexandrie Nouvelle Alexandrie Ocean Surveillance Ship 1 Transferred from Oportia, 1746 AN.
Napoleon-class maritime security cutter Nouvelle Alexandrie Nouvelle Alexandrie Maritime Security Cutter 10 Transferred from Oportia, 1746 AN.

Aerospace

Name Origin Type Quantity Image Note
Combat Aviation
Javelin F-19 Greystrike Nouvelle Alexandrie Nouvelle Alexandrie Air superiority fighter 45 Transferred from Oportia, 1746 AN.
Cargo and Logistics Aircraft
Javelin C-16 Thunderhaul Nouvelle Alexandrie Nouvelle Alexandrie Strategic Airlift Aircraft 12 Transferred from Oportia, 1746 AN.
Javelin C-15 Titanhauler Nouvelle Alexandrie Nouvelle Alexandrie Strategic Airlift Aircraft 8 Transferred from Oportia, 1746 AN.
Rotary Aviation
Training Aircraft

History

The defence portfolio, and by extension the command of the Armed Forces of Zeed, was left in the care of the first "elected" Prime Minister, Céfiro Okhsana who appointed Saulius Chiranjeevi to the role of Minister of Defence.

The first intake of trainees were taken into the Rusjar Cadre of the Combined Arms Constitutional Compliance Regiment on 1.V.1732 AN. 1,200 officer cadets were sought, of whom five hundred and twenty-five duly presented themselves. Eighty of these applicants were subsequently assessed to be physically and intellectually equipped for service as officers. Two hundred and fourteen of the rejected aspirants were subsequently enlisted and the remainder returned.

Officer cadets were dispatched to the Madrese-ye Nezām in Raspur for forty-four weeks of basic training, whilst the enlisted were attached to the 3rd Directorate of the General Inspectorate of Eura and Corum in Rusjar for an equivalent period, during which time they would receive fourteen weeks of basic infantry training.

Between the 13th and the 24th days of the fifth month of 1732 AN, the 12th Inspectorate Regiment of the 3rd Directorate undertook a recruitment action in Garujulia, touring the valleys of the mountainous republic and conducting musters of available manpower in the notified settlements that the regiment was able to reach during the course of its progress. The drive yielded ninety-eight suitable candidates for officer training, who would be dispatched to the Madrese-ye Nezām, alongside seven hundred and twenty-eight specimens eligible for enlistment in the ranks, who were obliged to return with the regimental recruitment party to Rusjar.

Of the enlisted inducted during 1732 AN, one hundred and thirty-eight were chosen for non-commissioned officer training, to be undertaken under the supervision of the ESB-Jagdverbände. Of the remaining enlisted, thirty were transferred to the Labour Army on account of acute moral and intellectual failings manifesting during basic training.

The Combined Arms Constitutional Compliance Regiment (CACCR) held its first formal parade review in Rusjar on 1.VIII.1733 AN, marking the occasion of the return of the trained officer cadres and the arrival of infantry mobility vehicles and medium machine-guns with which to equip the unit. However, in the month following the parade, the CACCR was promptly disbanded and reorganised into the 1st Zeedic Infantry Regiment (1 ZIR), garrisoned at Rusjar, and the Headquarters General Service Unit (HQ-GSU) attached to the 3rd Directorate of the General Inspectorate of Eura and Corum. HQ-GSU would serve as a billet for the majority of the initial intake of officers, surplus to the requirements of 1 ZIR, and would be focused upon what was termed as "force generation".

Targets set for the expansion of the Zeedic Armed Forces were going to be ambitious. Directives from the Ministry of Defence were to the effect that, by 1735 AN, the armed forces would comprise of 150,000 active personnel and 1,400,000 ready reserves. Moreover, these personnel would be distributed in units operating in the land, sea, and air operating environments. Indeed the plan for the expansion of Zeed's brown water coastal forces into a legitimate blue water navy were also quite ambitious. The planned acquisitions were to have included seven corvettes, eight offshore patrol vessels, seven mine countermeasures vessels, eighteen fast patrol boats, one hundred and three fast attack craft, eighty-three landing craft, two survey ships, and one ice patrol ship. Yet somehow these contracts never materialised.

Moreover, by 1744 AN, however, it was apparent that the Zeedic Armed Forces had fallen far short of the objectives mandated to be met in the previous decade, with estimates presented to the Council of Ministers indicating that the total number of effective actuals in the regular armed forces did not exceed 109,200 men under arms.

The Zeedic forces had suffered brutally during the Fourth Euran War, with several divisions routed and much of the country overrun by the Oportian Security Forces. The Oportian attempt to conquer Zeed had however left it vulnerable to the counter-invasion staged by the Raspur Pact.

Emerging on the victorious side in the conflict, Zeed was generously rewarded by Trans-Euran Command and the Committee of Euran Salvation, not with territory but with a bonanza of captured enemy equipment directly transferred as a form of reparations.

Under the supervision of the occupation authorities, substantial quantities of military equipment were transferred to Zeed throughout 1746 AN. The transfer included 12 frigates and destroyers, 4 conventional submarines, 23 patrol vessels, and 2 amphibious assault ships among naval assets.

Land equipment transfers comprised 340 main battle tanks, 1,200 armored personnel carriers, 890 infantry fighting vehicles, 150 self-propelled artillery pieces, and 2,300 military vehicles. Aircraft transfers included 45 fighter aircraft, 28 transport aircraft, 67 helicopters of various types, and air defense systems.

Additional military hardware transferred included small arms and ammunition stockpiles, communication equipment, engineering and support equipment, and medical and logistics supplies. This transfer significantly bolstered Zeed's defensive capabilities while ensuring that advanced military equipment did not remain in Oportian hands during the transition period.

The scale of the largesse received was such that it would take the Zeedic Armed Forces a number of years to expand and reorganise sufficiently to integrate the incoming wave of materiel.

Ranks

Ranks of the Armed Forces of Zeed
RP Rank Code Rank Notes
Officer ranks
OF-8 Sepahbod Commander of the whole force.
OF-7 Sarlashkar Commander of a division or equivalent higher formation.
OF-6 Sartip
  • Commander of a brigade or equivalent higher formation.
OF-5 Sarhang
  • Commander of a regiment.
OF-4 Podpolkóvnik
  • Commander of a demi-regiment.
  • Excess numbers retained for general service as staff officers for higher formations.
OF-3 Majór
  • Commander of a cohort, where established.
  • Excess numbers retained for the command of vessels.
OF-2 Kapitán
  • Commander of a squadron.
OF-1 Leytenant
  • Commander of a troop.
  • Excess numbers retained for additional duties including command of vehicles, aircraft, outposts, etc.
OF(C) Kursant
  • Aspirant officer, a cadet. Excess numbers retained for additional duties
Other Ranks
OR-8 Praporshchik Exercises discipline over one hundred and twenty men
OR-3 Havildar Exercises discipline over forty men
OR-2 Yefreytor Exercises discipline over eight men
OR-1 Ryadovoy Private, subject to discipline

See also

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