Duklav's Legion

Duklav's Legion

Type	Private
Industry	Private military, intelligence and security services contractor
Founded	2012
Founder	Colonel Baronness Anastasia Duklav
Headquarters	Military: Ostmark Corporate: Lion's Rock
Services	Private military force
Number of employees	6,000 military, 1,000 corporate

The Duklav's Legion is a non-government armed force active in much of the world. It is legally a private military company incorporated in Lion's Rock and predominantly active in Belisaria. With some 6,000 'military employees' on its books, it is one of the largest and amongst the best equipped mercenary forces in the world. Its main competitors are the Volsung Regiment and the Awara Clan Incorporated.

History

Baroness Anastasia Duklav

Duklav's Legion was founded by Baroness Anastasia Duklav, erstwhile Lady of Duklav Castle in Polnitsia and a paratroop officer. She was the scion of an ancient, and very well-connected aristocratic family. At the time of the Polnitsian War of 2005, the 23-year old baronness fought as a junior officer. Taking command of a company in an emergency, she was wounded in action and decorated for valour. In the post-war period, as a committed nationalist, major, then lieutenant colonel Duklav loudly and publicly declaimed the merger with Garima. This led to clashes with established interests in the military establishment, and made her progressively more unpopular. The baronness was finally suspended on the basis of a drummed-up administrative charge in 2010. Incensed, she promptly resigned her commission and left the country.

Duklav chose to base herself in Lion's Rock, where she was allegedly approached by the Arthuristan Strategic Intelligence Bureau to form and train a mercenary legion. Reaching out to her contacts in the expatriates network, she recruited a large number of former officers and NCOs who had also fallen foul of the new army establishment, thereby forming the nucleus of the new mercenary company.

As of June 2017, Lady Duklav remains the head of the Legion, serving as both its military leader with the rank of colonel, as well as the commercial side as its managing director. Lieutenant Colonel Michal Kaminski serves as the Legion's second-in-command and executive officer, as well as the company's COO on the commercial side. Its highest ranking 'civilian' executive is its CFO Andrea Nishimura, formerly the head of Lion's Rock branch of SHBC. The Legion is home-based at Ostmark, although its corporate headquarters is located in Lion's Rock where it is a public listed company.They have been active throughout the Belisarian continent and is capable of operating throughout the world.

While the founding leadership had been predominantly Polnitsian exiles, the Legion recruits globally and as of 2017 it mainly uses Latin internally. Recruits do not swear allegiance to any nation state, but to the Legion itself. As its motto states, "Legio Patria Nostra" - the Legion is our Fatherland.

Organisation

Duklav's Legion organisational chart

Main components

The Duklav's Legion is organised as an air assault regimental combat team of around 5,000 personnel. A highly trained professional unit, the Legion is capable of operating across the full 'spectrum of warfare' in a wide variety of hostile environments, including jungle, mountain and urban operations.

Command and control is exercised by Legion Headquarters, which handles the usual command, communications and administrative functions. The Legion's main manoeuvre elements consists of three battalions. The 1st and 2nd Battalions are line air assault infantry units. The best recruits, or those ordinary Legionaries who show potential, can qualify for the Ranger Battalion. This unit is trained in parachuting, unconventional warfare and special operations, and is often hired separately from the rest of the regiment for missions such as force training and counter-terrorism. The Ranger Battalion also contains the Legion' Pathfinder Company, which marks the landing zone in an airborne or air assault operation, as well as specialising in the reconnaissance and surveillance roles, including long-range penetration.

These manoeuvre battalions are supported by an artillery battalion with three batteries of six L118 light guns and one battery of eight K6 120mm mortars, an air defence battery armed with thirty MS-70 firing posts, an engineer company, a signal company, a medical company, a CRBN defence company, a maintenance company and a logistics company. Like the Legion's combat elements, these components may be hired out separately to clients in need of such specialist assistance.

Operating intimately with these ground elements is the Legion's Aviation Group. It consists of a medium lift squadron with 32 Clios Peregrine medium lift helicopters, a heavy lift squadron with 8 Aigios Heron helicopters, an attack squadron with 6 A129 Mongoose gunships and 6 Super Tucano fixed wing attack aircraft and a small UAV squadron with Phoenix drones.

Small-unit organisation

Legionnaires on patrol

An infantry battalion consists of a HQ element, three rifle companies, one fast attack company, a mortar battery of eight L16 81mm mortars, a scout/sniper section of three teams and a mini-UAV platoon equipped with AeroVironment RQ-11 Raven.

A battalion is commanded by a Major, assisted by an executive officer with the rank of Senior Captain and a Battalion Sergeant Major with the rank of Warrant Officer.

The fast attack company consists of 22 BMI Jaguar combat cars in four platoons. Each platoon consists of five vehicles, which can be armed with machine guns, automatic grenade launchers or Vesper missiles as the situation dictates.

A rifle company consists of a command element (including a mortar battery observation party), three rifle platoons of three squads each, plus a weapons platoon. The latter consists of a command team of three, one anti-armour section with eight two-men teams armed with one Vesper missile launch unit or AT48 Recoilless Rifles each, as well as one machine gun section with eight two-men medium machine gun teams.

A company is commanded by a Captain, assisted by an executive officer with the rank of Lieutenant and a Company Sergeant Major with the rank of Staff Sergeant.

A rifle platoon consists of three squads headed by a command team of three persons - an Ensign, a sergeant and a platoon signaller.

A squad consists of nine men, organised into two fireteams of four, which forms the basis of manoeuvre and close combat. Each fireteam consists of a rifle-armed team leader, a light machine gunner armed with an Ultimax 100, a rifle-armed assistant machine gunner who carries a spare barrel and extra ammunition, and a weapon specialist, who is either armed with a designated marksman rifle or an assault rifle attached with a 40mm underbarrel grenade launcher, usually one of each per squad.

Each squad is issued with at least six disposable Crossbow recoilless AT launchers or, if encounter with hostile heavy armour is likely, MBT LAW. The Legion aims to equip each squad with at least two passive night vision goggles and two thermal sights each, predominantly models sourced from the commercial market.

Equipment

Personal equipment

Description	Origin	Type	Ammunition	Notes
Flecktarn	Lyncanestria	Camouflage uniform	N/A
SPECTRA helmet	Lyncanestria	Combat helmet
Scalable Plate Carrier	Belfras	Body armour
Small Arms Protective Insert	Belfras	Trauma plate
MOLLE	Belfras
AN/PSQ-20	Belfras

Small arms

Description	Origin	Type	Ammunition	Notes
L109A1	Arthurista	Fragmentation grenade	N/A
P99	Ghant	Pistol	9x19 parabellum
CBJ-MS	Ghant	Sub-machine gun	9x19 parabellum, 6.5×25mm CBJ
Model 870	Belfras	Shotgun	12 Gauge
BR-055C Carbine	Belfras	Assault rifle	5.56x45	The standard aiming device is the C79 optical sight, which is gradually being replaced by a red dot close combat sight plus optional flip-down 3x telescopic magnifier. The standard combat infantry weapon has a 400mm barrel. Shorter 368mm barrels are used by certain reconaissance units and 262mm barrels are used by rear area personnel for self-defence.
BR-55M	Belfras	Marksman rifle	5.56x45/7.62x51	Both 5.56 and 7.62mm variants are in use, the former being more common. Generally equipped with a gripod, 6x scope and backup RDS
Arctic Warfare Magnum	Arthurista	Sniper rifle	.338 Magnum	Used in small quantities by dedicated sniper teams
AS50	Arthurista	Anti-material rifle	12.7x99
Ultimax 100	Lion's Rock	Light machine gun	5.56x45
MG 710	Latium	General purpose machine gun	7.62x51
CIL50MG	Lion's Rock	Heavy machine gun	12.7x99
M203 grenade launcher	Belfras	Underbarrel grenade launcher	40mm grenade
MGL	Belfras	Multi-launch handheld grenade launcher	40mm grenade
CIL 40 AGL	Lion's Rock	Automatic grenade launcher	40mm grenade
GL09 Advanced Airburst Weapon	Arthurista	Handheld automatic grenade launcher	25mm grenade	A consignment was reportedly stolen from an Arthuristan armoury in 2016, before finding its way to the Legion via black market channels.
Crossbow	Arthurista	Disposable AT launcher
AT48 Recoilless Rifle	Arthurista	Recoilless Rifle

Anti-tank guided missiles

Description	Origin	Type	Ammunition	Notes
MBT LAW	Arthurista	Light man-portable ATGM
Vesper missile	Arthurista	Man-portable ATGM

Anti-air systems

Description	Origin	Type	Ammunition	Notes
MS-70	Ghant	MANPADS

Artillery

Description	Origin	Type	Ammunition	Notes
L16 81mm mortar	Arthurista	Infantry mortar	81mm
K6	Yisrael	Heavy mortar	120mm
L118 light gun	Arthurista	Towed gun	105mm

Land vehicles

Description	Origin	Type	Variants	Notes
BMI Jaguar	Belfras	Light general purpose vehicle
HMATV	Arthurista	Light lorry
Bv 206	Ghant	Light bandtrack
DAF T-244	Arthurista	General purpose lorry
Marauder (vehicle)	Sydalon	MRAP

Aviation

Description	Origin	Type	Variants	Notes
A129 Mongoose	Latium	Attack helicopter		6 in service, 2 spare,
Aigios Heron	Belfras	Heavy lift helicopter		8 in service, 3 spare,
Clios Peregrine	Belfras	Medium lift helicopter		32 in service, 5 spare
Phoenix	Arthurista	UAV
Super Tucano	Sante Reze			6 in service, 1 spare
RQ-11 Raven	Belfras	Mini-UAV
S-100	Arthurista	Mini-UAV
Black Hornet Nano	Arthurista	Micro-UAV

Radars

Description	Origin	Type	Variants	Notes
MSTAR	Arthurista	Battlefield surveillance radar