Engineering Systems Benacia

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Engineering Systems Benacia, a subsidiary of the Benacian Directorate of the Honourable Company established at Cortallia-Rathwood in 1731 AN, is a systems integrator supporting the complex logistics chain involved in the development, assembly, and sustainment of defence manufacturing in the Benacian Union.

Systems integration

An often underappreciated side of defence manufacturing in the modern era is the increasingly complex and interconnected system of trade in advanced technological components within the Community of Goldfield and the Raspur Pact without which the vast array of armaments manufactured within the Union-State, at the Mishalan Arsenal or elsewhere, would be, if not inert lumps of metal, then at least deprived of the arrays of sensors and precision munitions required to make them in any way at all operationally effective. Moreover the most considerable problem is the integration of technologies from fundamentally distinct engineering cultures such as those of the Benacian tradition, Natopian origin, and increasingly those of Nouvelle Alexandrie which have evolved in their own distinct direction. Integrators therefore play an essential role in allowing components to securely and meaningfully communicate with one another within the invariably complex systems that each aircraft or armoured vehicle represents. Moreover, in truth, a combat aircraft, a main battle tank, or a diesel-electric submarine represents staggeringly complex systems of systems, which have their own supply chains and maintenance networks which stretch around the globe.

As such, an ostensibly Benacian armoured vehicle may have, in its weaponry, sensors, engine, reactive or composite armour, vehicle suspension system, tracks, and so forth, components drawn from dozens of manufacturers across a half-dozen allied, or in some cases no-longer allied, countries. This soon approaches levels of complexity that even the myriad bureaucracies of the commissariats of Benacia cannot fully keep a track of, and that is where the services of the Honourable Company come in.

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See also

• Engineering Solutions Benacia
• Gaelen Technologies Corporation (Avalnes)