Confederate States Armed Forces
The Confederate States Armed Forces are the military forces of the Confederate States of Floria and were established after post War of Lost Brothers treaty restrictions were unilaterally revoked by the Florian government in 1672 AN. It consists of an Army, Navy (including marine infantry & a coastguard service), and Air Force. All Florian men ranging from 18-36 must serve at least six months of military service otherwise severe penalties such as heavy fines and imprisonment of up to six months occurs. The Confederate States Armed Forces is the successor of the Florian Security Force. The President of the Confederate States is the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces. From the modest cadre in existence on the date of the armed forces refoundation, the Florian Armed Forces have experienced sustained growth in terms of both manpower and equipment from 1676 onwards, having benefited from an exponential increase in investment following the culmination of Florian reconstruction efforts earlier in the decade.
The Confederate States Armed Forces provides, as of 1689, the largest individual national force contribution to Apollonia Command, and from 1700 AN became the lead nation for the Raspur Pact's forces on the continent of Apollonia.
History
Organisation
Administrative
The Confederate States Armed Forces comprise of three independent service branches - the Florian Army, Florian Navy, and the Florian Air Force, brought together under the authority of the War Office in Northcliff with the President serving as Commander-in-Chief.
Operational
The Confederate States Armed Forces is divided into four operational commands, these being Army Group East & Army Group West, Fleet Command, and the Home Army.
Command | Area of Operations | Subordinate Formations | Number of personnel |
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Army Group East |
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Army Group West |
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Fleet Command |
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Home Army |
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Deployments
Current
Deployment | Deployed Units | Parent Formation | Dates |
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Former
Deployment | Deployed Units | Parent Formation | Dates |
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Operation Dark Horse | Ad Hoc Units | Various | 1685 AN |
Yak Tail Banner Group (AMEAHL) |
Elements of:
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Army Group East | 1685 AN – 1707 AN |
MARSOF | Fleet Command (Florian Navy) | ||
Sanaman Mission to the Green Strip | MARSOF | Fleet Command (Florian Navy) |
1689 AN |
Operation Cobra | MARSOF | Fleet Command (Florian Navy) |
1690 AN – 1691 AN |
Operation Last Point | MARSOF | Fleet Command (Florian Navy) |
1691 AN |
Florian Expeditionary Force (Operation Retribution) |
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Home Army | 1692 AN –1695 AN |
Cuirassiers' Artillery Regiment | Republican Guard Corps | ||
Army Artillery Regiment | Home Service Regiments | ||
Operation Python |
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Fleet Command | 1705 AN – 1706 AN |
XXIV Corps | 205th Army | ||
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Air Command | ||
Exercise Driftwood |
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Army Group East | 1706 AN |
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Army Group West |
Service branches
Florian Army
Home Army
Unit Name | Commandant | Garrison | Role | Equipment | Establishment | Status |
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Republican Guard Corps | ||||||
Guards Brigade | Northcliff | Mechanised Infantry | Activated 1679 | |||
Cuirassiers Brigade
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Northcliff | Armoured | Activated 1679 | |||
1st Reconnaissance Regiment | Northcliff St. Peter International Airport (FRAF Cantonment) |
Special Reconnaissance | Activated 1679 | |||
1st (Florian) Division | ||||||
2nd (Florian) Division | ||||||
Home Service Regiments | ||||||
Army Training Regiment | Arndale Camp (Longsight) |
Basic Training | Activated 1672 | |||
Army Infantry Regiment | Montgomery Barracks (Longsight) |
Parent Regt - Infantry | Activated 1672 | |||
Army Armoured Regiment | Parent Regt - Armour | Activated 1672 | ||||
Army Artillery Regiment | Whalley Range Training Area (Las Andreas) |
Parent Regt - Artillery | Activated 1672 | |||
Army Air Defence Regiment | Whalley Range Training Area (Las Andreas) |
Parent Regt - Air Defence | Activated 1672 | |||
Army Commissariat Regiment | Arndale Camp (Longsight) |
Parent Regt - Logistics & Admin | Activated 1672 | |||
Army Signals Regiment | Parent Regt - Signallers | Activated 1672 | ||||
Army Engineering Regiment | Rusholme Barracks | Parent Regt - Engineers | Activated 1672 | |||
Army Provosts Regiment | Cheadle Barracks (Birmingham) |
Parent Regt - Military Police | Activated 1672 | |||
General Service Regiment | Salford Docks Cantonment (Port Farrar) |
Parent Regt - Specialists | Activated 1672 |
Army Group East
Unit Name | Commandant | Garrison | Role | Equipment | Establishment | Status |
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201st Army | ||||||
I Corps
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Lieutenant-General Carl Hayes |
Longsight | Combined Arms Corps | Activated 1679 | ||
XIX Corps
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Lieutenant-General Omar Merrill |
Victoria | Combined Arms Corps | Activated 1679 | ||
203rd Army | ||||||
XVIII Corps
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Lieutenant-General Terrence Christian |
Las Andreas | Combined Arms Corps | Activated 1679 | ||
XXII Corps
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Lieutenant-General Malcom Andrewson |
Port Farrar | Combined Arms Corps | Activated 1679 | ||
205th Army | ||||||
XXIII Corps
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Lieutenant-General Lewis Pender |
Diamond Harbour | Combined Arms Corps | Activated 1685 | ||
XXIV Corps
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Lieutenant-General Benedict Spencer |
Port Richard | Combined Arms Corps | Activated 1685 | ||
206th Army | ||||||
XXV Corps
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Lieutenant-General Gordon Vincent |
Sri Alba | Combined Arms Corps | Activated 1695 | ||
XXVII Corps
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Lieutenant-General Garrett Grover |
Outer Mesoun | Counter-Insurgency Force | Activated 1706 AN | ||
Etourney Banner Group | ||||||
XXVI Corps
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Lieutenant-General Wallace Williamson |
Combined Arms Corps |
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Army Group West
Unit Name | Commandant | Garrison | Role | Equipment | Establishment | Status |
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202nd Army | ||||||
XVI Corps
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Meadowedge | Combined Arms Corps | Activated 1679 | |||
XVII Corps
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Bridgemoor | Combined Arms Corps | Activated 1679 | |||
204th Army | ||||||
XV Corps
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Dragonmoor | Combined Arms Corps | Activated 1679 | |||
XX Corps
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Stonehall | Combined Arms Corps | Activated 1679 | |||
XXI Corps
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Oldhaven | Combined Arms Corps | Activated 1679 |
A naval expansion programme commenced in 1707 AN as the Florian incorporation of Port Balaine into the Confederate States combined with the Cakari occupation of Thraci holdings changed the strategic balance of power in the Norfolk Isles. To ensure that the Florian maritime trade could not be throttled by a future naval blockade of the vulnerable coast by Cakaristan, the Maritime Armada of the Raspur Pact deployed a fleet to Port Balaine.
Whilst this would suffice in the interim, it would also be necessary for Floria to build up a blue water fleet of its own, expanding upon a navy that had previously focused upon coastal defence, the provision of a coastguard service, and the maintenance of a small colonial squadron. To this end naval commissioners were sent out to the shipyards of the Raspur Pact, especially of Natopia and New Alexandria to identify ship-classes likely to meet the needs of the Navy, whilst at the same time, officials toured the ports of the Florian South so as to identify the domestic shipbuilding capacity capable of sustaining the production of corvettes and auxiliary vessels.
Florian Air Force
Florian Air Command
Commander: Colonel-General George Strelling | ||||||||||
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19th Bombardment Group |
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F-11GM Florentine | Attached 203rd Army | |||||||
22nd Attack Group |
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T-2/A-2 Saeqeh, T-3 Akóntio | Attached 201st Army | |||||||
92nd Attack Group |
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T-2/A-2 Saeqeh, T-3 Akóntio | Attached 203rd Army | |||||||
98th Attack Group |
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T-2/A-2 Saeqeh, T-3 Akóntio | Attached 204th Army | |||||||
307th Attack Group |
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T-2/A-2 Saeqeh, T-3 Akóntio | Attached 202nd Army | |||||||
8th Fighter Group |
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FA-9 Banshee A | Attached Home Army | |||||||
35th Fighter Group |
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F-9 Ashavan II | Attached Army Group West | |||||||
49th Fighter Group |
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F-9 Ashavan II, F-17 Axarana | Attached Army Group East | |||||||
543rd Tactical Support Group |
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T-2/A-2 Saeqeh, T-3 Akóntio | Attached Home Army | |||||||
31st Transport & Communications Regiment | ADAPTOV Helicopter | Attached Fleet Command | ||||||||
624th Reconnaissance Regiment | F-12(PR) Pterosaur, UAV Reaper, VT-UAV 1 Tadpole | Attached Home Army (75%), Fleet Command (25%) |
Equipment
Aircraft
Name | Origin | Type | Quantity | Photo | Notes | |
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Fixed-wing aircraft | ||||||
FA-9 Banshee A | Talenore | Multirole fighter aircraft | 100 | Delivered 1676–1679 AN | ||
F-9 Ashavan II | Talenore | Air superiority fighter aircraft | 175 | Delivered 1676–1679 AN | ||
F-11GM Florentine | Floria | Guided Munition (Piloted) | 5,940 | In service from 1680 AN. Estimated production rate of 330 per Norton year until production ended in 1698 AN. | ||
F-12(PR) Pterosaur | Floria | Long-range photo reconnaissance aircraft (reduced radar cross-section) | 18 |
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F-13 Demon | Floria | Stealth air superiority fighter aircraft | 80 | Developed from F-12(PR) Pterosaur. Technology demonstrator. | ||
F-17 Axarana | Raspur Pact | Stealth air superiority fighter aircraft | 22 | |||
T-2/A-2 Saeqeh | Unified Governorates | Trainer / Light Attack Aircraft | 2,400 | Delivered 1679 AN | ||
T-3 Akóntio | Unified Governorates | Jet Trainer / Light Attack Aircraft | 1,200 | Delivered 1679 AN | ||
Rotary-winged aircraft | ||||||
UH-3 ADAPTOV | Floria | Transport helicopter | 100 | |||
SH-2 Lark | Floria | Scout helicopter | 500 | |||
GH-4 Warthog | Floria | Helicopter gunship | 200 | |||
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) | ||||||
UAV Reaper | Floria | Unmanned aerial vehicle | 200 | Modified target drone retrofitted with photo-reconnaissance pod | ||
VT-UAV 1 Tadpole | Unified Governorates | Unmanned aerial vehicle | 2,650 | Delivered 1679 AN. Unmanned artillery spotter | ||
UAV CLAW | Floria | Unmanned combat aerial vehicle | 300 | Developed under Project TUSK. Swarm concept, attack and scouting UCAV. Initial order of 300 for evaluation and proof of concept testing. Ordered 1687 AN. Recieved 1705 AN. | ||
UAV Raider | Floria | Quadcopter Assault Drone | 10 | Developed under Project TUSK. Initial order of 10 for evaluation and proof of concept testing.ordered 1687 AN. Recieved Template:An. | ||
Inactive Reserve | ||||||
FLO Helicarrier | Floria | Helicarrier | 1 ?? | Rumours of the FRAF retrofitting salvaged Menelmacari gravimetric engines to the hulk of an ex-Florian capital ship sunk at Blythe during the War of Lost Brothers have been denied by the Florian Government as well as by the alleged facilitators of the technology transfer. |
Air Defence
Name | Origin | Type | Quantity | Photo | Notes | |
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Air defence weapon | ||||||
M1673-L7 Avenger | Floria | Early warning radar | 25 | |||
M1679-L6 Close-in Air Defence System | Alduria | Short range air defence system | 2 batteries | Purchased 1679 for ₦ 470M. Purchase comprises
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M1680-L8 Longbow | Sanama | Ballistic missile defence system | 1 battery | Purchased from Sanama Arms Industries 1680 AN | ||
LaWS | Floria | Laser weapon | 10 |
Artillery
Name | Origin | Type | Quantity | Image | Notes | |
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Experimental | ||||||
M1692-L7 Coronal Mass Projector | Farrar Technologies | Scaled Plasma Rail Gun | 1 | Technology Demonstrator | ||
Mortars | ||||||
M1676-L1 37mm Mortar | Floria | Light Infantry Mortar | 1,907 | |||
M1676-L6 70mm Barrage Mortar | Floria | Bomblet Dispensing Infantry Mortar | 5,863 | |||
Rocket Launchers | ||||||
M1676-L2 Anti-Drone Projector (Steam) | Floria | Grenade Projector | 433 | |||
M1676-L3 Fixed Rocket Barrage System | Floria | Multiple Rocket Launcher | 849 | 36-tube 76mm diameter Unguided Rockets | ||
M1676-L4 Land Mattress Rocket Barrage System | Floria | Multiple Rocket Launcher | 796 | 30-tube 76mm diameter Unguided Rockets | ||
M1676-L5 Fixed Rocket Barrage System | Floria | Multiple Rocket Launcher | 152 | 20-tube 177mm diameter Unguided Rockets | ||
Self-propelled guns | ||||||
BK-IV 155 mm self-propelled howitzer | Mishalan Arsenal | 155 mm self-propelled howitzer / field gun |
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Evaluation piece received 1690 AN. x2,000 ordered 1692 AN. |
Armoured vehicles
Name | Origin | Type | Quantity | Photo | Notes | |
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Tanks | ||||||
T-105 Self-Propelled Gun | Floria | Self-Propelled Gun | 121 | Main armament: 105 mm (4.13 in) L/25 with 48 rounds. Operational range 180 km. Maximum speed: 33 kmph. | ||
T-113 | Floria | Main battle tank | 432 | Main armament: modified 105 mm gun, fitted with a fume extractor and thermal sleeve, 80 rounds. Operational range: 170 km. Maximum speed: 55 kmph | ||
T-120 Ghost | Floria | Stealth Tank | 10 | qty 10x T-113 redesigned to incorporate active camouflage technology developed by Titan Automotives and the University of Northcliff to protect military vehicles from detection by near infrared night vision devices, providing infrared stealth. | ||
Reconnaissance Vehicles | ||||||
Universal Carrier Scout | Floria | Light Scout Vehicle | 1,200 | All-electric battery-powered lightly-armoured personnel carrier / scout. Main armament: 23 mm anti-aircraft twin-barrelled autocannon. Endurance on single charge: 400km. Maximum speed 60km on road, 30km off-road. | ||
LAV-1 | Floria | Light Scout Vehicle | 500 | |||
LAV-2 | Floria | Armoured Car | 250 | |||
Autonomous Armoured Vehicles | ||||||
Colossus Drone | Floria | Autonomous Mobile Land Warfare Platform | 100 | Armed with two gattling guns, SAM and mortar launcher. Mortars can be replaced with gas launchers. Developed under Project TUSK. Can be used for defense or large scale assault on settlements. |
Missiles
Name | Origin | Type | № in Service | Image | Notes |
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AAM-1 Sonderwang | Unified Governorates | Missile – AAM | 10,000 | Purchased from the Allied Production Matrix – 1679 | |
SA-1 Red Mist | Shireroth | Missile – SAM | 600 | Purchased from the Allied Production Matrix – 1679 | |
X-69 Hypersonic | Floria | Missile - Hypersonic | 1 | File:X-69 Hypersonic.png | Experimental prototype – 1681 |
Small Arms
Name | Origin | Type | Quantity | Image | Notes | |
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Knives, Grenades, Miscellaneous Implements | ||||||
Florian Cocktail (Tar, sulphur, petrol, sand, & wick) |
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Petrol Bomb | 6,275,510 | Donated by Trans-Euran Command in 1672 AN. Domestic replenishment and production from 1686 AN | ||
Scorpion bomb | Domestic workshops | Anti-personnel device | 2,237,434 | Entering production from 1686 AN | ||
Pistols / Carbines / Rifles | ||||||
M1525 9 mm Pistol | Allied Production Matrix | Pistol | 49,961 | Supplied by ESB Group in 1672. Licensed domestic production from 1686 AN. | ||
M1581 7.62 mm Machine Carbine | Allied Production Matrix | Carbine | 52,842 | Supplied by ESB Group in 1672. Licensed domestic production from 1686 AN. | ||
M1591 7.62 mm Rifle | Allied Production Matrix | Marksman Rifle | 30,000 | Supplied by ESB Group in 1672. | ||
M1656 9 mm SMG | Allied Production Matrix | Submachine Gun | 124,762 | Supplied by ESB Group in 1672. Licensed domestic production from 1686 AN. | ||
M1686 7.62 mm Assault Rifle | Mishalan Arsenal | Assault Rifle | 530,000 | x 530,000 ordered 1687 AN. | ||
FLO-57 SMG | Farrar Technologies | Submachine gun | 125,000 | |||
FLO-7 SMG | Farrar Technologies | Submachine gun | 125,000 | |||
FLO M4A1 | Farrar Technologies | Assault rifle | 125,000 | |||
FAF SMG | Farrar Technologies | Submachine gun | 70,000 | |||
SA1680 | Farrar Technologies | Assault rifle | 125,000 | |||
LR06 | Farrar Technologies | Sniper rifle | 1,000 | |||
Machine Guns | ||||||
SAI MG1 5.56 mm Machine Gun | Sanama Arms Industries | Light Machine Gun | 12,700 | Purchased 1687 AN | ||
Polybolos 12.7 mm HMG | Allied Production Matrix | Heavy Machine Gun | 25,125 | Supplied by ESB Group in 1672 & Raspur Pact in 1679. | ||
Infantry Support Weapons | ||||||
Waspsting Man-portable Air Defence System | Allied Production Matrix | Anti-Air | 525 | Supplied by Raspur Pact in 1679 | ||
Hornet Recoilless Rifle | Allied Production Matrix | Anti-Tank | 2,257 | Supplied by Raspur Pact in 1679 | ||
Tankgewehr 13.2 mm Rifle | Allied Production Matrix | Anti-Materiel | 1,525 | Supplied by Raspur Pact in 1679 | ||
CP 60 "Cherry Picker" | Sanama Arms Industries | 7.62 mm Marksman Rifle | 1,000 | Purchased 1687 AN |
Support vehicles
Name | Origin | Type | Quantity | Image | Notes | |
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Utility | ||||||
Pod Armoured Personnel Carrier | Shireroth | Support Vehicle | 18,000 | In service – 1679 | ||
Snatch Land Rover | Shireroth | Support Vehicle | 36,000 | In service – 1679 |
Vessels
Name | Origin | Type | Quantity | Photo | Notes | |
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Auxiliary Vessels | ||||||
Florimell-class Troop Landing Ship | Unified Governorates | Troop Landing Ship | 80 | Transferred from Benacia Command 1675 | ||
Armed trawlers | Floria | Naval trawler | 215 | Taken into service, 1680 | ||
Patrol Vessels | ||||||
In-shore rigid-hulled inflatable patrol craft, various types | Floria | fast attack craft | 1,500 | - | Entered service 1680 | |
Melusine-class Missile Boat | Constancia | Missile attack craft | 25 | Transferred from Imperial Constancian Armed Forces 1672. | ||
Northman-class Corvette | Passio-Corum / Constancia | Corvette | 4 | Transferred from Imperial Constancian Armed Forces 1672. | ||
Submarines | ||||||
FLO Etourney-class | Floria | Coastal submarine | 25 | |||
Submersibles | ||||||
Type 1 Operator Directed Torpedo | Floria | Human torpedo | 200 | - | Entered service 1680 | |
Type 2 Operator Directed Torpedo | Floria | Human torpedo | 420 | - | Entered service 1680 | |
Surface Combatant Vessels | ||||||
Protector-class missile frigate | Floria | Missile frigate | 20 | Entered service 1693 AN |
Static defences
Given Floria's unfavourable strategic position, the War Office's categorical imperative was to harden the national infastructure against attack and establish defensive lines so as to ensure that the country could not be swiftly divided and overrun by any putative invader.
One of Floria's great strengths was its famously overactive construction industry, and the national familiarity with pouring concrete in vast quantities was duly leverged in the cause of national defence.
Frontier defensive zones
Starting in 1679, the Florian Army commenced a programme of "bunkerisation" that saw the construction of hundreds of thousands of bunkers in a belt of fortifications 72km in depth and running parallel to Floria's border with Jingdao, screening Floria's primary western population centres and the tenuous land corridor connecting Las Andreas with Port Farrar in the east.
Within the fortification belt constituting the frontier defensive zone bunkers would be installed in every viable location from hilltops and woodlands to villages and towns, even in such incongruous locations as hospital car parks and regional post offices.
The bunkers were constructed of concrete, steel and iron and ranged in size from one- or two-person pillboxes with gun slits to large underground nuclear bomb shelters intended to serve as Corps command headquarters. The most common type of bunker was a small concrete dome set into the ground with a circular bottom extending downwards, just large enough for one or two people to stand inside. These domes were prefabricated and transported to their final positions, where they were assembled. They consist of three main elements: a 3 m diameter hemispherical concrete dome with a firing slit, a hollow cylinder to support the dome and an outer wall with a radius 60 cm larger than the cylinder. The gap between the cylinder and outer wall is filled with earth.