Benacian Union Defence Force

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Benacian Union Defence Force
Country	Benacian Union
Founded	1703 AN
Branches	Land Forces Maritime Forces Aviation Forces Ransenari Grouping of Forces
Headquarters	Bastion Ziggurat, Merensk
Leadership
Szodan of Benacia	Daniyal ibn Daniyal
Commissioner for War	Zacharias Avon-El
President of the General Staff Counci	Zacharias Avon-El
Manpower
Military age	13–65 years old
Conscription	Wartime only
Active personnel	1,466,012
Expenditures
Domestic suppliers	Mishalan Arsenal Rothaven Boatyards Stahl Maschinenfabrik Koïsoßwerke Stonetree Engineering Group Šlomxala Arsenal
Foreign suppliers	Constancia  Natopia  Normark  Nouvelle Alexandrie  Sanama  Sathrati  Shireroth  Talenore

The Benacian Union Defence Force is a combined-arms force charged with the territorial defence of the Benacian Union against foreign adversaries as well as the ongoing suppression of partisan rebellions and endemic banditry in the interior regions of Benacia. The BUDF consists of the Land Forces, the Maritime Forces, the Aviation Forces, and the Ransenari Grouping of Forces. The BUDF is also supported by a number of other uniformed services which act as a wartime reserve to the main force, these include the Benacian Labour Reserve, the Corps of the Gentlemen-at-Cudgels, the Women's Auxiliary Service, and the Worshipful Guild of the Sacred Carnifices.

Budget

Benacian Union Defence Forces Budget (Natopian natopos billion)

Allocated Defence Expenditure	1705 AN
Personnel	252
Operations & Maintenance	110
Procurement	72
Research & Development	63
Bases, Cantonments & Estates	61
BUDF Total	558

Personnel, recruitment & training

The peacetime BUDF relies on a combination of voluntary enlistment and purchased apprenticeships to fulfil its manpower requirements.

Any male subject of the Benacian continent may enlist with the BUDF for a five year tenure of contracted service from the ages of sixteen to thirty-five. Contracted servicemen may renew their service terms every five years for a further term until they reach the statutory discharge age of sixty-five.

The BUDF supplements voluntary enlistment with the purchase of apprentices at auctions held by the municipal corporations of bailiwicks when boys reach the age of thirteen in Elluenuueq and fifteen in the Unified Governorates.

The purchase of apprentices is discretionary but requires the use of legatine authority so as to prevent corrupt and irregular practices at the regimental level.

Once authorised, apprentices purchased for regimental requirements are enlisted on the basis that three years of further education is to be provided in exchange for five years of contracted service, which is then renewable every five years up to the age of sixty-five as with the voluntarily enlisted.

Apprentices are placed into brigade cantonment schools, operated by the inspectorate regiment attached to that formation. The curriculum provided at these schools includes grammar and arithmetic, and political-religious instruction. Those with a demonstrable aptitude are taught fieldcraft, fortification, music and singing, ledger keeping and accounting, the military sciences relevant to land, sea, or air service, or mechanics. Those lacking such talents are instead taught carpentry, blacksmithing, machine-operating, shoemaking and other trades useful to the military.

Whilst apprentices receive the same initial rank (nuïak) as voluntary enlistments, the enlistment bounty is instead deducted as a contribution towards the cost of the apprentice's purchase and the cost of his further education.

Berht Klarænst

Training for the Corps of the Black Legions, followed the pattern established under the Prince of Modan for the discipline of Imperial troops assigned to the Central Banner Group of Benacia Command. Berht Klarænst, known to those passing through it as the "Depot" is situated within an eponymous bailiwick that has been depopulated by the expulsion of the Black Lach. One thing would become apparent from the beginning for new arrivals: officers, non-commissioned officers, and men alike, all went through the same training, leapt or clambered over the same obstacles, learned to handle the same weapons in the most efficient way, and lived the same hard life together.

Those who dedicated themselves to the black banners of the legions swore absolute obedience to their commanders, who in turn sore unquestioning obedience to their commanders and so forth all the way up the chain of command. Soldiers, irrespective of their origins, were forbidden to pillage, steal or molest civilians, accept gifts, have relations with women, eat meat or drink alcohol for the term and duration of their service, except during specified and authorised respite periods. Officers were forced to undergo examinations to assess their familiarity with Kalgachi battle drills, Sanaman Manoeuvreist principles and Shirerithian-Laqi infiltration tactics, largely with the intention of weeding out those lacking in flexibility of thought.

The main objects of legionary training were fourfold: firstly, to produce a spirit of discipline and comradeship, second to none of the armed forces of any power; secondly, to learn the lesson that darkness is a help and not a hindrance; thirdly, to endow the legionary with a degree of physical fitness approaching that of a trained athlete, and at the same time to give him skill in handling all infantry weapons liable to be encountered on the battlefield; and finally – the most consistently reinforced message throughout training to make the legionary eager always to attack as and when opportunity permitted, even – especially – when the odds were not in his favour.

The legionary was expected, and required, to cultivate a spirit of continual aggression that would hold up under any circumstances, fair or foul; moreover, to attain this versatility, the legionary was expected to acquire a mastery of the art of war in all conditions, not only on land, his natural element, even when that land was a precarious foothold on a steep mountain crag, or a tangle of woodland brush and bog sown with dread-nettles and shrapnel-lilies, but also on sea, and, if need be, in the air.

Basic training for all personnel enlisted with the forces under the direct control of Benacia Command is the responsibility of the Inspectorate of Training and Discipline whose primary establishment is located within the Zitadelle of Merensk. Volunteers for the legions, and all personnel assigned to the legions must be volunteers, are normally recruited from amongst the wider pool of personnel maintained by the General Inspectorate, as well as the Aerospace and Maritime Forces maintained by Benacia Command. N&H and ESB paramilitaries are also eligible to volunteer although they, being blessed with their own defined career paths and material comforts, typically tended not to avail themselves of this opportunity.

The physical part of the legionaries training had its impact upon their state of mind. As the days went by and the legionary became able to march faster and still faster for longer and longer distances with heavier and heavier loads until he could cover 15 kilometres in ninety minutes, and 55 kilometres in nine hours, the innate pride born of an awareness of one's own strength took a hold on him. The legionary, spurred on by healthy competitive rivalry with his comrades, became more and more a man apart, as indeed he was by reason of his own conscious decision to join; thus the constant series of physical efforts the legionary undertook were, in and of themselves, an excellent form of mental training.

After basic training was completed the inductees were cycled through three week courses of so-called "spiritual hardening", inspired apparently by the methods and insights of the Urchagin. Those who flunked the course would be cashiered and their records stamped, in green ink, with the initials LMF ("lacking moral fibre") effectively rendering them unemployable upon their return to civilian life anywhere in the territories of the Unified Governorates of Benacia. The motto of the training regime henceforth was that 'Faith and Endurance surpasses Might'. The hardening process began on the first day with trainees forced to line up in files of ten and, at a charge, bayonet a row of live pigs suspended from the rafters before them. Each file would train together, be rewarded together, and be punished together, they were solemnly warned, for the remainder of the three weeks. As an illustration of this the files where any member had baulked at bayoneting a live squealing animal would be denied food and sleep but would be instead assigned to punishment details for the entirety of the rest period while everyone else enjoyed pork stew and a good night's sleep. As first two weeks progressed the trainees were subjected to a barrage of assault courses, long forced marches along wilderness tracks, and competitions where the files were set against one-another to obtain dispensation vouchers for meat and alcohol or else merely to avoid bringing up the rear and being assigned to yet another punishment detail. The final week consisted of tutorials on living off the land, vehicle dismount drills, counter ambush drills, and close quarter combat practice against veteran legionaries dressed up as Laqi bandits. One of the perks for the old-timers was the opportunity to inflict upon the new recruits all the nasty tricks, traps, and humiliations, that had been heaped upon them during their own induction. The concluding action of the week was a bunker clearance drill focusing on oblique angles of approach with use of stealth and concealment, forced entry with demolition charges, room to room clearance with gas grenades and thermite sticks followed by the gunning down of those still standing and the bayoneting of those prostrate on the ground. To add an extra dimension of realism each of the practice bunkers was held and defended by a detachment of surplus protected persons, tethered in place but equipped with riot guns and cudgels, who had been promised their freedom if they successfully survived the drill. None ever did.

At the conclusion of the three weeks each participant was given a week's leave, a pint of grog from the Depot canteen and an enamelled lapel badge featuring a blood-red hand held palm upwards.

The old Imperial practice of targeting minority groups for the purposes of sharpening a unit's blood-lust and improving situational awareness has continued into the present practices of training cohorts, with regular deployments of Fiþn (Troop) sized contingents into Lach infested territory. These raids would be conducted usually via a nighttime "vertical insertion" utilising re-purposed "Walrus" gravimetric transporters escorted by Whirdlebirbs. Once delivered into hostile country, via the hair-raising practice of "grav-tank desant", the troop would be obliged to utilise the time honoured practice in dealing with the Lach and to bring a specified quantity of tongues (including some with the bodies of their owners still attached) to the prearranged extraction point within a set number of hours or days. It should be noted that gravimetric vehicles were gradually superceded by more conventional rotorcraft during the 1680's.

In addition to serving as an introduction to the basics of field craft, these "vaszvaþnur" also helped to thin out the numbers of Black Lach who might otherwise be tempted to filter southwards over the old frontier from Inner Benacia into Upper Lywall.

Since 1686 the Vaszvaþnur has been mostly conducted against recalcitrant and or primitive communities in the Upland Confederation and the Iridian Isles under the guise punitive expeditions to deter or punish banditry and piracy.

Survivors of their first vaszvaþnur received a silver-gilt lapel badge, tastefully depicting a dagger embedded in a Lach skull, a five year service bond of ₦50,000, and a fortnight's leave. As a test of the initiate legionaries initiative, the cohort upon being dismissed would be instructed to reassemble at the end of the fortnight period at a new location, entirely removed from the Depot, anywhere on the Benacian continent. The exact location and time was spelt out. How the recruits would make it to the destination was their own affair. Those who failed to be present and correct on parade at the time and place specified would be returned to the ranks of the General Inspectorate. For the most part the locations would prove to be somewhere absurdly remote and inhospitable within the Raspur Pact's sphere of operations - New Blackstone and Raikoth were popular choices for testing an initiate legionary's ability to organise his own travelling arrangements on the fly. One, somewhat rakish, instructor specified that his recruits were to assemble on the steps of a specific gin house in Shirekeep's entertainments district - which they did, prompting a riot amongst the bar's patrons and obliging the Palatini Corps to send an armoured personnel carrier equipped with a high-pressure water hose in order to quell the disorder.

These excursions, and the subsequent return journey to the Depot, would provide one final opportunity for the instructors to evaluate their charges before the final sifting. By this stage those unable to make the grade ought to have either been flushed out of the system or else solemnly cremated with all due ceremony on a pyre at the edge of the Depot's hinterland of cleared forest. This then, barring mishaps, was the opportunity to pick out candidates for commissioned and non-commissioned officer training, as well as those who might be suited for specialist training in the armoured, aerospace, or maritime arms of the Black Legions.

For those remaining at the end of the sifts however, assignment to the legions awaited. Although the need to replace casualties would sometimes override other considerations, normal practice would be to assign the newly minted legionary to a cohort at some considerable remove from his place of origin.

One of the more unusual aspects of legionary training was the insistence upon each trainee, as a part of his assigned section, tending to an allotted plot of land in which it was their duty to plant, tend, and cultivate a variety of vegetables during their time at the Depot. The purpose for this becomes more clear when the trainees are expected to first clear a patch of the forest adjacent the depot, a forest teeming with deliberately planted urtica terribilis, primula ballistis and lilium discerptionis. For the ordinary legionary it provides an education on how to recognise, avoid, or neutralise the most noxious and fatal reminders of Benacia's legacy of reckless bio-engineering by the Transhumanist foe; for junior officers on the other hand it is an opportunity to contemplate the difficulties inherent in uprooting and containing persistent rhizomic structures.

The other positive was that it kept catering costs for the establishment at Berht Klarænst under control.

Command structure

Top-level organisational structure of the BUDF, as proposed in 1701 AN.

The Benacian Union Defence Force reports to the High Presidium of the Benacian Union via the Benacian Security Council and the Commissioner of Defence.

It is subjected to ideological discipline, at all levels above the regiment, by units of the General Inspectorate which provides supporting political officers and Mobile Security Troops who served as blocking detachments.

General Staff Council

The General Staff of the Benacian Union Defence Force mirrors closely, for simplicity and interoperability, the pattern set by Benacia Command. Indeed, the Command Executive of Benacia Command, headquartered in Merensk, maintains an interface with the General Staff of the BUDF via a liaison office in Chryse in addition to its political representation on the High Presidium of the Benacian Union.

The Commissioner of Defence, on behalf of the High Presidium, appoints a President of the General Staff Council, who holds the post for four years, and who in turn nominates banner officers to head the three service branches of the BUDF as well as the seven specialist support directorates of the General Staff itself. These officers, all on four year terms similarly, therefore comprise the totality of the General Staff Council.

The seven directorates are as follows:

• D1 - Information Technology
• D2 - Logistics
• D3 - Manpower
• D4 - Planning
• D5 - Operations
• D6 - Military Intelligence
• D7 - Political Relations

The General Staff Council and its supporting directorates, as constituted, therefore are responsibile for operational and strategic level planning, where operational planning covers units and formations above the legion ("Salb") level.

In practice, under most circumstances, operational deployments, including combined arms, joint, and allied operations, would be conducted via the substantially parallel structures of the Benacian Continental Theatre Command of the Raspur Pact, which organises a number of combined arms corps, field armies, and banner groups. Accordingly the foremost concern of the General Staff Council of the BUDF in wartime would be force generation and sustainment.

Personnel selected for assignment to the General Staff Council and its directorates are rebadged and assigned to the General Service Corps so as to detach them from their previous service branch and area of specialism. The General Service Corps, in addition to supporting the General Staff Council also provides the Command and Control Regiments encountered at the corps-level formation and higher.

Branches

Ransenari Grouping of Forces

The Ransenari Grouping of Forces was established as a branch of the BUDF in 1713 AN so as to receive the balance of manpower transferred from the Grand Army of Ransenar, Navy of Ransenar, and the Riverine Forces of Ransenar after the accession of Ransenar to the Benacian Union in 1711 AN.

Equipment

Infantry weapons & equipment

Name	Origin	Type	№ in Service	Image	Notes
Equipment
M1699 Mess Tin	Stahl Maschinenfabrik Koïsoßwerke	Personal Kit	-
M1700 9 Pieces Cooking Set with Burner	Stahl Maschinenfabrik Koïsoßwerke	Personal Kit	-
M1701 Stainless Steel Coffee Pot	Stahl Maschinenfabrik Koïsoßwerke	Personal Kit	-
Personal Weapons
M1686 assault rifle (7.62×67mmB)	Mishalan Arsenal	Small Arms	4,265,860		2/3 of total quantity held in storage. 75,000 transferred to Highpass Defence Force at the instigation of Benacia Command, 1706 AN.
M1690 machine pistol (9x19mm)	Mishalan Arsenal	Small Arms	442,604
Squad Weapons
M1703 Wren MK II general purpose machine gun (7.62x67mmB)	Mishalan Arsenal	Machine Gun	101,205		Belt-fed replacement for the Wren Mk I. Introduced to Palatine regiments in late 1703 AN, thereafter to be issued to motorised infantry regiments in 1704 AN. Planned total production to be 25,200 per year for four years (1704 AN–1708 AN).
Troop Weapons
Polybolos 12.7 mm HMG	Shireroth	Machine Gun	7,090
M1700 82 mm Recoilless Rifle	Mishalan Arsenal	Anti-Tank System	17,660
Squadron Weapons
M1701 14 mm sniper rifle	Mishalan Arsenal	Sniper Rifle	8,333
Protective Equipment & Body Armour
M1639 Stahlhelm	Shireroth	Steel Helmet	2,335,283
Pattern M1671 Combat System	Neridia Defense Industries	Body Armour (inc. M1671 Stahlhelm)			Issued to legionary assault cohorts only.
Uniforms
Pattern M1702 Service Uniform	Guilds of Benacia	Garrison Uniform	-
Pattern M1703 Field Uniform	Guilds of Benacia	Field Uniform	-

Artillery

Name	Origin	Type	№ in Service	Image	Notes
Towed Artillery
M1681 105 mm howitzer	Javelin Industries	105mm Howitzer	2,365		Replaced the M1584 80 mm Field Gun in 1703 AN. Import of 150x pieces per Norton year until 1715 AN (halted by 1711 AN). Assigned to Artilleriregementen.
M1701 158mm MLRS	Mishalan Arsenal	158mm Multiple Rocket Launcher	9,306		Introduced into service 1701 AN–1702 AN. Production of 1,034x pieces per Norton year (1703 AN–1715 AN) (halted by 1711 AN). Assigned to Artilleriregementen and Dragonregementen.
Self-Propelled Artillery
HK-III M1675 155 mm mobile gun (wheeled)	Sanama Arms Industries	Mobile Gun Wheeled 155 mm	2,627		Assigned to Area Defence Regiments and Artilleriregementen.
HK-IV 155 mm self-propelled howitzer	Mishalan Arsenal	155 mm self-propelled howitzer / field gun	359		Production of 30x units per Norton year (1704 AN–1716 AN) (halted by 1711 AN).
Anti-Aircraft Artillery
System-2 Missile Complex	Šlomxala Arsenal	SAM system / rocket artillery	146 batteries		Initial entry into service 1700 AN. Full operational capacity 1709 AN onward. Assigned to area defence regiments and luftvärnsregemente.

Land Vehicles

Name	Origin	Type	№ in Service	Image	Notes
Main Battle Tanks
BK-III Verteidiger	Mishalan Arsenal	Main Battle Tank	1,405		Production of 50x units per Norton year (1704 AN–1716 AN) (halted by 1711 AN).Assigned to Pansarregementen.
Armoured Combat Vehicles
BK-IV Bastiat	Mishalan Arsenal	Armoured Guided Missile Vehicle	1,572		Production of 100x units per Norton year (1704 AN–1716 AN) (halted by 1711 AN). Assigned to Dragonregementen.
CV-56 Horjin	ESB Group (Keltia)	Multi-Role Armoured Fighting Vehicle	14,167		Assigned to Motorised Infantry Regiments & Infanteriregementen. 1,638x received from the Grand Army of Ransenar (1712 AN)
HK-IV M1707 Stalker	Mishalan Arsenal	Anti-Tank Missile Vehicle	50		Introduced into limited service, 1713 AN. Assigned to the Honourable Artillery Regiment.
Rz.Kfz 1714 Razkampfwagen	Mishalan Arsenal	Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicle	0/4,000		Ordered in 1714 AN. To be assigned to inspectorate regiments.
Support Vehicles
Pod Personnel Carrier	Shireroth	Spt Vehicle	12,424		10,507x transferred from the Grand Army of Ransenar (1712 AN)
Snatch Land Rover	Shireroth	Spt Vehicle	271,266		21,243x transferred from the Grand Army of Ransenar (1712 AN)
Truck, Light	Shireroth	Spt Vehicle	125,400		19,586x transferred from the Military of Ransenar (1712 AN)
Truck, Medium	Shireroth	Spt Vehicle	235
Specialist Vehicles
GV(MCB)-7 Leviathan	Ryker Airships	Mobile Command Base	6

Vessels

Name	Origin	Type	№ in Service	Image	Notes
Behaurnais-class amphibious assault ship	Pontecorvo Firm	Amphibious assault ship	4
Carrillo-class amphibious command ship	Pontecorvo Firm	Amphibious command ship	2
Coastal Patrol Boat	Amity Shipyards	Patrol	109		9x received from the Navy of Ransenar (1712 AN) Assigned to riverine duties
Florimell-class Troop Landing Ship	Rothaven Boatyards	Fleet Auxiliary	393
Logistic Support Vessel	Amity Shipyards	Fleet auxiliary	27		10x transferred from the Navy of Ransenar (1712 AN)
Melusine II-class	Rothaven Boatyards	Fast attack craft	60
Montran-class	Sanama	Destroyer	7
Protector-class missile frigate	Sanama State Maritime Industries	Missile frigate	16
Rhodondra-class amphibious assault ship	Sanama State Maritime Industries	Amphibious assault ship	7		4x ordered by UDF, 1693 AN; 3x purchased from People's Navy, 1703 AN.
Seafox-class corvette	Sanama State Maritime Industries	Corvette	36		12x transferred from the Navy of Ransenar (1712 AN)
Type XXV U-Boat	Port Niyi Shipyards	Attack Submarine	16		4x transferred from the Navy of Ransenar (1712 AN)
Type XXVI U-Boat	Amity Shipyards	Nuclear-powered Cruise Missile Submarine	1
Type XXVII U-Boat	Pontecorvo Firm	Fleet submarine	6
Type XXVIII U-Boat	Amity Shipyards	Nuclear-powered Attack Submarine	1
Decommissioned
Viviantia-class logistic support vessel	Amity Shipyards	Fleet Auxiliary	6		Retired by 1710 AN. Disarmed and employed as barracks ships in the Warring Islands Special Autonomous Region.

Aircraft

Aircraft are formed into numbered aviation regiments of 240x aircraft each, and numbered squadrons named by type where the numbers are insufficient for a full aviation regiment.

Name	Origin	Type	№ in Service	Image	Notes
Combat Air
B-67 Shahrukh	Mishalan Arsenal	Strategic Bomber	66		Shahrukh Operational Training Unit – 18x airframes 1st & 2nd Shahrukh Squadrons – 48x airframes. To be replaced by the F-18 Cyclone by 1725 AN.
F-9 Ashavan II	/ Brightworks Mistra	Multi-role Strike Fighter	1,365		1st to 5th Aviation Regiments – 1,200x airframes 6 Ashavan Squadrons – 144x airframes 26x airframes sold to Oportia, 1714 AN. Anticipated final out of service date by 1720 AN.
F-9 Ashavan III	ESB Susa  Mishalan Arsenal	Multi-role Strike Fighter	292/1200		Evaluation prototypes received 1708 AN. 360x ordered, to be delivered in 3x tranches by 1715 AN. Further 840x ordered in 1714 AN as rebuilds of the F-9 Ashavan II, to be completed by 1720 AN. Ashavan Operational Training Unit (est. 1714 AN) – 24x airframes
F-17 Axarana	Axarana Consortium	Stealth Air Superiority Fighter	62/115		In service from 1704 AN. Axarana Operational Conversion Unit – 22x airframes 20x airframes received from Ransenar, 1712 AN.
F-18 Cyclone	Cyclone Consortium	Strategic deep-strike fighter	2/114		Prototypes received from Ransenar, 1712 AN
Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance
AEW-1 Floret	Kalavia Fixed-Wing Works (initial build & flight avionics) Ergostásio Aeroskafón (conversion work) Gaelen Technologies Corporation (active phased array radar & panopticon suite)	Airborne Early Warning Aircraft	6		Airborne Early Warning Squadron – 6 airframes
AEW-1 Buscadora	ESB Susa	Airborne Early Warning	5		Airborne Early Warning Squadron – 9 airframes
Javelin M-2 Dragoon	Javelin Industries	UAV	60
P-2 Navegador	ESB Susa	Air Policing / Maritime Patrol	24
P-3 Bailiff	Brightworks	Rural Policing / Patrol	16		12x inherited from Black Legions. 4x purchased from Sanama.
VT-UAV 1 Tadpole	/ Brightworks Mistra	Unmanned Aerial Reconnaissance Vehicle	669
Air Mobility
GAV-4(U) Jackalope	Red Bear LLC	Transport Utility	754		Gravimetric Training Unit – 24x airframes 6th Aviation Regiment – 240x airframes 7th Aviation Regiment – 240x airframes 8th Aviation Regiment – 240x airframes 1st Jackalope Squadron
TR-279 Dront	Brightworks	VTOL Transport	96
Helicopters
AH-75 Cobra	Brightworks	Attack Helicopter	42
CH-276 Camel	Brightworks	Utility Transport	88
R-2 Krähenwürger	Javelin Industries	Heavy Assault Rotorcraft	146
NH-76 Dromosker	Brightworks	ASW Patrol	272
UH-76 Dromosker	Brightworks	Utility Transport	142
Training
T-4/A-4 Flecha	ESB Susa	Training/Light Attack	120
T-5/A-5 Tejón de Miel	Javelin Industries	Training/Light Attack	40
T-6 Preceptora	ESB Susa	Trainer	120
Decommissioned, retired, scrapped
GAV(P)-6 Zephyr Mark 1a	Auger Industries	Patrol	51		Retired for lack of components and placed into storage pending return to the Natopian Defense Force, 1714 AN.

Missiles

Name	Origin	Type	№ in Service	Image	Notes
Air-to-Air
AAM-2 Sonderbotschaft	Šlomxala Arsenal
S-2/A	Šlomxala Arsenal
Air-to-Ground
S-2/A(S)	Šlomxala Arsenal
Ground-to-Air
S-2/S(A)	Šlomxala Arsenal
Ground-to-Ground
S-2/S	Šlomxala Arsenal
Maritime
S-2/N	Šlomxala Arsenal
Short & Medium Range Ballistic
S-3 Schlächter	Šlomxala Arsenal	Intermediate-range Ballistic Missile	3,840		16x Ballistic Missile Regiments assigned to fixed launch sites

Ranks, Insignia, Uniforms & Wages

Table of Grades and Ranks of the Benacian Union Defence Force

Grade	Insignia	RP Rank Code	Rank	Pay
Chiefs of Staff (4.0)		OF-10	Frumst Frainan	Combined Officer Pay x10
General Officers (3.0)		OF-9	Frainan Streïakeï	Combined Officer Pay x9
		OF-8	Frainan Hohmin	Combined Officer Pay x8
		OF-7	Frainan Uihmanzis	Combined Officer Pay x7
		OF-6	Salbnan	Combined Officer Pay x6
Senior Officers (2.1)		OF-5	Ahmst Bræþstranin	Combined Officer Pay x5
		OF-4	Ahmst Tazstraneï	Combined Officer Pay x4
		OF-3	Ahmst Mairstranin	Combined Officer Pay x3
Junior Officers (2.2)		OF-2	Fiþnan	Combined Officer Pay x2
		OF-1	Golsapbir	Standing Grant to Officers 360 marks and basic rate of pay 180 marks providing Combined Officer Pay of 540 marks.
		OF(C)	Silbir	Standing Grant to Officers set 90 marksper annum. Educational Bursary set at 135 marks per annum.
Non-Commissioned Officers (1.1)	File:BUDF Grade 1.1.png	OR-9	Ænst Opratzan	Basic rate of pay x9
		OR-8	Opratzan	Basic rate of pay x8
		OR-7	Ahtaldan	Basic rate of pay x7
		OR-6	Tzæknak	Basic rate of pay x6
		OR-5	Frum	Basic rate of pay x5
Enlisted Men (1.2)	File:BUDF Grade 1.2.png	OR-4	Usczosoþ Streïak	Basic rate of pay x4
		OR-3	Usfaroþ Streïak	Basic rate of pay x3
		OR-2	Streïak	Basic rate of pay x2
		OR-1	Nuïak	Enlistment bounty 12 marks (less deductions); Basic rate of pay 3,600 chits per annum