Milostian National Army

Milostian National Army
Country	Milostia
Size	238,000 nominal

The Milostian National Army ('MNA') is the regular national armed forces of the Milostian state, one of the nation's three armed forces alongside the Ecclesia Guard, and the Martyr's Militia. It is composed of the Milostian National Army Ground Force, the Milostian National Army Air Force, the Milostian National Army Navy and the Milostian Army Strategic Rocket Force. It is manned by conscription - male Milostian citizens are compelled by law to serve for three years, and females two years. In times of war, it may be augmented by whatever militia and paramilitary forces which can be mustered in an emergency.

MNA Ground Force

In 2005, the MNA went to war with some modern equipment, but a force structure and operational doctrine fundamentally based on the lessons of the 1940's. It possessed 12 Infantry Divisions, 4 Mechanised Divisions, 2 Armoured Divisions, 6 Artillery Divisions, as well as a Republican Guards Corps of 2 Armoured Divisions, 2 Mechanised Divisions and an Airborne Division.

The catastrophic Milostian defeat in the 2005 Polnitsian War over the course of a three-day ground campaign fundamentally reshaped the doctrine and organisation of the MNA. Taking its cue from the 'brigadisation' reforms of Liothidia's PRA, the MNA embarked upon a decade-long process of root and branch modernisation. Gone are the ponderous infantry divisions or the inflexible command and control doctrine of yesteryears. The modern MNA is a leaner, fully mechanised land force which incorporates many key technological developments indispensible to modern armies in the network-centric age and built around mobile combined arms brigade groups, which subdivide into battalion tactical teams with great latitude for independent action. At the same time, some traditional strengths, such as the use en masse in time and space of artillery and anti-aircraft weapons, remain standard operating procedure. The result is an force structure which, whilst smaller, is many times more lethal and effective than the pre-war force.

Higher organisation

The organisation of a MNAGF Tank Brigade

The MNAGF is the largest component of the MNA. It is the regular national army of the Milostian government and its major units answer directly to the MNA General Staff.

In peacetime, the main force of the MNAGF is comprised of three Armies, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd, each comprised of two Corps, plus an independent formation known as the Army Guards Corps. The maneouvre elements of the Corps of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Armies each consist of three Mechanised and two Tank Brigades.

In each corps, two of the five brigades are classified as 'Category A' formations, meaning that they are manned at close to 95% strength in peacetime and capable of immediate offensive operations. Another two brigades are classified as 'Category B', meaning that they are manned at 50% strength and require an infusion of reservists to be capable of operations. The single remaining brigade is classified as a 'Category C' unit, meaning that it is maintained only at cadre strength in peacetime.

A Mechanised Brigade consists of some 4,500 personnel, and possesses three Mechanised Battalions (typically two of wheeled APC's, one of tracked IFV's), a Tank Battalion (with 40 main battle tanks in four companies), two Mobile Artillery Battalions, a Rocket Artillery Battalion, a SAM Battalion, an Air Defence Battalion (equipped with SPAAG), an Anti-tank Battalion, an Engineer Battalion, a Supply Battalion, a Maintenance Battalion, a Reconnaissance Company and an NBC Company.

A Tank Brigade is organised on similar lines, except that its ratio of Tank to Mechanised Battalions is reversed to 3:1 of the former to the latter, and it omits the Anti-Tank Battalion. The Tank Battalions in a Tank Brigade only have three companies instead of four, for a total of 30 MBT's per battalion and 90 in the entire brigade.

Aside from Tank and Mechanised Brigades, a Corps contains a number of support elements, including one to two Artillery Brigades, a Ballistic Missile Battalion, a SAM Brigade, an Engineer Brigade and a Combat Support Brigade.

The Republican Guards Corps provides the MNA garrison for the capital city. It consists of a high proportion of professional, full-time personnel, and typically are the first to receive newly-introduced equipment. It consists of three Tank Brigades, two Mechanised Brigades, and the Air Assault Brigade. The latter is a unique formation which is trained in conducting helicopter-mobile operations and, at least partially, parachute operations. It has two mechanised and two light infantry Air Assault Battalions.

Battalion Tactical Groups

The basis for the MNAGF's tactical maneouvre warfare doctrine is the Battalion Tactical Group. These are ad hoc formations, created around battalion headquarters by the brigade staff, and incorporates tanks, infantry, artillery, engineering and other assets in a combined-arms formation tailor-made to fulfill its tactical mission.

Small unit organisation

A typical Mechanised platoon consists of thirty personnel – a platoon command team consisting of a platoon commander, a platoon sergeant and a radio operator, six vehicle drivers and gunners, and 21 dismounts. The dismounts are divided into three squads of seven, each accompanied by one member of the platoon command team. Each platoon is issued one M76 or M91 marksman rifle.

Each rifle squad consists of a machine gun team of three, equipped with one M72 light machine gun or, in the alternative, one M84 medium machine gun or M53 medium machine gun. It also has four riflemen armed with M70 rifles plus one to two 40mm underbarrel grenade launchers. When fighting in the open, the squad deploys as a blunt wedge formation, with the machine gun team forward, with two pairs of riflemen covering its flanks slightly to the rear, waiting for the enemy to be suppressed before moving forward to assault with automatic fire and bayonets. In close quarters fighting, such as in urban areas, MNA infantry are trained to operate in groups of four.

General Staff Reconnaissance Bureau

The GIB ('Generalstaba Biro Izvrsni'), or 'General Staff Reconnaissance Bureau' is the intelligence arm of the MNA. It serves three primary functions. The first is to operate part of Milostia's foreign HUMINT network by running agents to gather military intelligence, although it adheres to a strict division of labour with the Ecclesia, with the latter having the role of collecting intelligence on political and other non-military matters. The second is to coordinate the activities of the intelligence units of the army's front-line combat formations, most notably those of its three 'frontier' armies. The third and newest is to manage the MNA's increasingly sophisticated media warfare and cyberwarfare operations, the Unit 173, which has become the likely suspect of several major high profile hacking incidents in Belisaria.

General Staff Spesnag

The Spesnag (from "specijalne snage" - special forces) are the special forces of the Milostian People's Army. Its members are trained in special reconnaissance, unconventional warfare, covert operations, parachuting, sabotage and terrorism. It works in close conjunction with the Guard Air Assault Division in its operations, which may be tasked with providing heavy reinforcements to Spesnag operations.

Each of the three 'frontier' field armies of the MNA possesses one battalion-sized Spesnag unit of roughly 500 personnel. They are directly subordinated to the field army's intelligence formation and are tasked with long range infiltration, reconnaissance, sabotage and assassination within the army's operational zone. Two more battalions are held in reserve by the General Staff Reconnaissance Bureau to deal with unexpected contingencies.

MNA Air Force

The MNAAF consists of four main components: the tactical ‘fast jets’ force, the utility and transport force, the helicopter force and the air defence force.

For years, the MNAAF had relied on three main tactical fast jets of Liothidian origin – the Fe-20 interceptor, the Fe-19 strike aircraft and the Fe-26 ground attack aircraft. In the 1990’s, a new multirole fighter of indigenous design, the Novi Avion began to enter service. Due to the latter’s relatively high cost, it is mostly reserved for elite, high readiness squadrons. Also available are a substantial number of J-22 Orao trainers, which would be employed as attack aircraft in times of war. In air operations, these fast jets are supported by Tu-64 AWACS aircraft.

The helicopter force is intended to work in close conjunction with the MNAGF. It consists of medium and heavy lift helicopters, as well as and attack helicopters (DM-20KH).

The air defence force is charged with protecting vital areas of the republic from enemy air attack. It is separate from the MNAGF’s own air defence units, which are responsible for providing protection for mobile ground formations. Accordingly, it is equipped with weapons with greater reach, albeit lesser mobility than those available to the MNAGF, such as the HQ-9 batteries which protect the Capital Garrison District.

MNA Navy

The MNAN is the most neglected of the MNA’s three armed services, having been starved of funds in order to enable the modernisation of the MNAGF and MNAAF. Its most modern units are the trio of Ruegen-class submariness imported from Liothidia, supported by frigates, missile boats and older diesel submarines of indigenous design.

The MNAN is also responsible for defending the republic’s ports and coastlines. Its primary means of coastal defence consists of mobile missile batteries armed with Styx missiles, although a few more modern elements use imported Kh-35. Rumours that 3M-54 Klub missiles are deployed in the coastal defence role, hidden in containers, is unconfirmed.

The MNA Naval Infantry, a battalion-sized force trained in amphibious warfare, is a part of the MNAN. It is theoretically equipped with a number of small landing craft. Its true readiness in operating as a marine unit is unknown to most international observers, although it is reputedly one of the more professional and combat-ready of the MNA's ground units.

Strategic Rocket Force

The MNASRF is an independent arm of service directly subordinated to the General Staff. It is the republic’s primary means of strategic deterrence against ‘regime change’ actions from hostile and ‘imperialistic’ foreign powers. It is equipped with a plethora of indigenous and imported ballistic missiles, giving it the means to deliver payloads against the urban centres of Estoni’s strategic adversaries in the area.

Although the current status of the Milostia nuclear program is not known to any degree of exactitude to NATA intelligence apparatuses, Milostia is the acknowledged possessor of significant quantities of nerve agents. These include GA (Tabun), GB (Sarin), VX and the potent ‘Novinara’. The Milostian arsenal also includes blistering agents such as Sulfur Mustard and blood agents such as Cyanogen chloride, the latter being regarded as especially dangerous owing to its ability to degrade the effectiveness of CRBN filters. The Milostian military-scientific establishment is also known to have experimented with biological agents such as Anthrax, Small Pox and various viral hemorrhagic fevers.

The Rocket Guards Regiment is a professional infantry unit directly under the command of the SRF rather than the Ground Force, intended to provide security to the SRF's launch sites and storage facilities for weapons of mass destruction. It is a rapid reaction force of light mechanised infantry, equipped with the BOV family of wheeled armoured vehicles and staffed by some of the most professional and politically-reliable of the MNA's personnel.

Equipment

Small arms

Name	Origin	Type	Ammunition	Notes
M75 hand grenade	Milostia	Fragmentation grenade	N/A
CZ 99	Milostia	Pistol	9x19 parabellum
M88	Milostia	Pistol	9x19 parabellum
M57	Milostia	Pistol	7.62×25mm Tokarev
M56 Submachine gun	Template:Country data Mlostia	Sub-machine gun	7.62×25mm
Master FLG	Milostia	Sub-machine gun	9x19 parabellum
M92	Milostia	Carbine	7.62x39	Widely distributed to rear personnel, pilots and drivers. Suppressed version used by special forces.
HP9-1	Mutul	Shotgun	12 gauge
M70	Milostia	Assault rifle	7.62x39	Main service rifle, being upgraded with Kobra reflex sights
M76	Milostia	Marksman rifle	7.92x57
M91	Milostia	Marksman rifle	7.62x54mmR
M48	Milostia	Sniper rifle	7.92x57	Accurised and fitted with synthetic stock, suppressor, Harris bipod and 3-9x42 variable-zoom scope, used in small quantities by dedicated sniper teams
M93 Black Arrow	Milostia	Anti-material rifle	12.7x108
M72	Milostia	Light machine gun/light support weapon	7.62x39	Some 75-rounds drum magazines and 40-rounds extended box magazines are supplied
M53 Sarac	Milostia	General purpose machine gun	7.92x57
M84	Milostia	General purpose machine gun	7.62×54mmR
M02 Coyote	Milostia	Heavy machine gun	12.7x99
BGP 40	Milostia	underbarrel grenade launcher	40mm grenade
M93	Milostia	Automatic grenade launcher	30mm grenade
M80 Zolja	Milostia	Disposable AT launcher
M79 Osa	Milostia	Reloadable AT launcher
PzF-07	Liothidia	AT launcher
M90 Stršljen	Milostia	AT launcher		Elite units
RPO-A	Liothidia	Thermobaric launcher

Mines

Name	Origin	Type	Ammunition	Notes
PROM-1	Milostia	Bouncing anti-personnel mine	N/A
PMA-2 mine	Milostia	Anti-personnel mine	N/A
TMM-1 mine	Milostia	Anti-tank mine	N/A
MRUD	Milostia	Directional anti-personnel mine	N/A

Anti-tank weapons (crew-served)

Name	Origin	Type	Ammunition	Notes
Bumbar	Milostia	Light man-portable ATGM		Special forces
AT-3D Sagger	Milostia	Man-portable ATGM		Main anti-tank missile. Mostly modernised to 2T5 standard with radio-mediated SACLOS guidance and tandem warhead capable of defeating ERA and penetrating 1,000mm+ of RHA.
AT-14 Kornet	Liothidia	Man-portable ATGM		Elite units only
AT-13 Saxhorn 2	Liothidia	Man-portable ATGM		Equips the Guard Air Assault Brigade
T-12 antitank gun	Liothidia			Mostly employed by reserve formations
Sprut anti-tank gun	Liothidia
M60 recoilless gun	Milostia			Mostly employed by reserve formations

Anti-air systems

Name	Origin	Type	Ammunition	Notes
FlaRak-2	Liothidia	MANPAD		Battalion-level AA weapon
M55	Milostia	Towed triple 20mm AA gun		Reserve formations, mostly in storage
BOV-3	Milostia	SPAAG/SAM combination system		Regimental mobile AA system, mainly the HS M09 BOV-3 version equipped with eight Strela-2 missiles and three 20mm autocannons.
SA-8 Gecko	Rhynovia/Milostia	Short range SAM system		Main division-level air defence weapon of the MNAGF, production license purchased from Communist Rhynovia.
SA-3 Goa	Liothidia	Medium range SAM system		Employed as static defence of strategic locales
SA-6 Gainful	Liothidia	Medium-range SAM system		Employed as semi-static defence of strategic locales
FlaRak-16	Liothidia	Medium-range mobile SAM system		Employed by Army-level air defence units of the MNAGF
FlaRak-9	Liothidia	Long-range area-defence SAM		One regiment employed to protect the Capital Garrison District.
AZP S-60	Liothidia	57mm anti-aircraft gun		Used by local AA gun units

Artillery

Name	Origin	Type	Ammunition	Notes
M57 mortar	Milostia	Commando mortar	60mm	Company-level weapon for infantry units
Mortar 120mm M95 Long Range	Milostia	Heavy mortar	120mm	Battalion-level weapon for infantry units
Universal Mortar UB M52	Milostia	Heavy mortar	120mm	Mainly used by reserve units at the battalion level
M-56 Howitzer	Milostia	Field gun	105mm	Mainly in reserve
Gun-howitzer M84 NORA	Milostia	Towed gun	152mm	Formerly used as a divisional-level piece. Largely relegated to reserve formations as a brigade-level weapon.
D-30	Liothidia	Towed gun	122mm	Mostly in reserve
M-46	Liothidia	Towed gun	130mm	Two battalions per Independent Artillery Brigade
PzH 12.2	Liothidia	Self-propelled gun	122mm	Formerly used as a regimental-level piece. Largely relegated to reserve formations as a brigade-level weapon.
Sora 122mm	Milostia	Self-propelled gun	122mm	Primarily used as a brigade-level artillery piece
Nora B-52	Milostia	Self-propelled gun	155mm	Primarily used as a brigade-level artillery piece
M-77 Oganj	Milostia	Self-propelled MLRS	122mm/128mm rockets	Brigade-level weapon
Kosava Rocket-Assisted Aerial Bombs System	Milostia	Self-propelled rocket-assisted aerial bombs projector	100, 250 or 500kg aerial bombs	Equips some independent battalions
M-87 Orkan	Milostia	MLRS	262mm rockets	Two battalions per Independent Artillery Brigade
M-1978	Milostia	Heavy artillery	170mm gun	One battalion per Independent Artillery Brigade
FrW-01	Liothidia	Thermobaric rocket artillery	220mm	Equips some independent battalions
2S4	Liothidia	Heavy self-propelled mortar	240mm	Equips some independent battalions

Armoured fighting vehicles

Name	Origin	Type	Variants	Notes
IMV 0.75	Milostia	Light general purpose vehicle
Spähwagen-2	Liothidia	Wheeled armoured reconnaissance vehicle
9P148 tank destroyer	Liothidia	Wheeled tank destroyer		BRDM-2 fitted with AT-5 missiles
OT M-60	Milostia	Tracked APC	All variants	Mostly in reserve
TPZ-70	Liothidia	Wheeled APC		Reserves
BOV	Milostia	Wheeled APC	All variants	Mostly in service with the Strategic Rocket Force Regiment, border guards, and the armed forces of various internal security apparatuses.
BOV-1	Milostia	Tank destroyer		Armed with six AT-3D Sagger missiles in two launch baskets.
BOV M11	Milostia	Armoured reconnaissance vehicle		To be introduced with the Guards Corps
BVP M-80	Milostia	Infantry fighting vehicle
M-84	Milostia	Main battle tank
M-84AS	Milostia	Main battle tank		Roughly 800 in service, equips elite units
Pz-55	Liothidia	Main battle tank		Reserves
Lufsturmpanzer-125	Liothidia	Airborne light tank		One company in service with the Guards Airborne Brigade
Lufsturmpanzer-1	Liothidia	Airborne infantry fighting vehicle		In service with the Guards Airborne Brigade
VIU-55 Munja	Milostia	Heavy engineering vehicle
PP-64	Liothidia	Pontoon bridge
MT-55	Liothidia	Armoured bridgelayer
Tpz-152	Liothidia	Wheeled-APC		Mainly reserve/paramilitary use

Rotary-wing aviation

Name	Origin	Type	Variants	Notes
Dem-20KH	Liothidia	Attack/utlity helicopter		60
Dem-11H	Liothidia	Medium lift helicopter
Dem-80HK	Liothidia	Heavy lift helicopter

Drones

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Vrabac Mini UAV	Milostia	Light drone
Pegaz 011	Milostia	Medium drone

Fixed-wing aviation

Name	Origin	Type	Variants	Notes
Fe-20	Liothidia	Fighter-bomber	Built under license until 1997. Being upgraded en masse to the Bison configuration	150 (120 in reserve)
Fe-19	Liothidia	Strike aircraft		60 (48 in reserve)
Fe-26	Liothidia	Ground attack aircraft		48
Novi Avion	Milostia	Multirole fighter		96
J-22 Orao	Milostia	Trainer/light attack aircraft		84
Tu-62	Liothidia	STOL AEW&C aircraft		9
Tu-64	Liothidia	STOL medium transport		15
Ze-75	Liothidia	Medium transport		12

Naval forces

Name	Origin	Type	Variants	Notes
Kotor-class frigate	Milostia	Coastal frigate		4 in service, re-armed with 16x Kh-35 in lieu of Styx missiles
Končar-class missile boat	Milostia	Missile boat		5 in service, equipped with Kh-35
Kralj-class missile boat	Milostia	Missile boat		4 in service, equipped with Kh-35
Ruegen-class submarine	Liothidia	Diesel-electric submarine		3 in service, rumoured to be upgraded with 3M-54 Klub missiles in 2015-2016.
Sava-class submarine	Milostia	Diesel-electric submarine		2
Heroj-class submarine	Milostia	Diesel-electric submarine		2
Gersfeld-class landing craft	Liothidia	Small landing craft/coastal mine-layer		4 in service
Mirna-class patrol boat	Milostia	Patrol boat		9 in service
SS-N-2 Styx	Liothidia	Anti-ship missile		Equips most coastal defence batteries
Kh-35	Liothidia	Anti-ship missile		Equips a number of modernised coastal defence batteries

Ballistic missiles

Name	Origin	Type	Variants	Notes
OTR-21 Tochka	Liothidia	Short-range ballistic missile		Standard battlefield ballistic missile employed by the MNAGF, 70-185km
BM-4 SCUD-B	Liothidia	Theatre ballistic missile		300km
BM-6 SCUD-E	Milostia	Theatre ballistic missile		500km
BM-7 SCUD-F	Milostia	Medim range ballistic missile		1,200km
BM-25	Milostia	Mobile IRBM		4,000km