Aerospace Defense Force (Hyboria)

Aerospace Defense Force
Active	22 July 1960 (64 years, 4 months as an independent service) 1 December 1910 (114 years as an organization)
Country	Hyboria
Type	Air force
Role	Aerial warfare Air defense Asteroid interception Nuclear deterrence
Size	550,000 active airmen 225,000 reserve airmen 175,000 civilians 8,000 manned aircraft 1,200 ICBMs 8 HALOS guns
Motto(s)	"Shield Against the Shattered Skies"
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The Aerospace Defense Force is the air and space force of the Hyborian Armed Forces. The ADF was first established as the Army Flying Signal Corps in 1910, later becoming the Army Aviation Corps in 1914 during the 2nd Hyborian Continental War as a more combat-oriented force. It would be tied to the larger army administration until the late 1940s after the end of the 3rd Hyborian Continental War when it’d be renamed to the Army Air Force. Following the Federalization of the continent however the force was separated from the army, as the mission profile of the air force expanded greatly to include ballistic missile defense, asteroid-interception, and emerging space exploration.

It would get its final name, the Aerospace Defense Force in 1960. In the post-Omandan Continental War environment, the ADF is one of the largest air forces in the world.

The ADF conducts independent air operations along with providing aerial support for the Hyborian Army and to the Hyborian Navy.