Talaharan Air Corps

TCDF Air Corps
ⵛⴰⵛⵀⴰⵜ ⵏ'ⵀⴰⵔⴱⵉⴳⵏⴰ Šašhat N'Harbigna
Roundel of the Talaharan Air Corps
Active	Since 1922 (1922)
Country	Talahara
Type	Army
Role	Aerial warfare
Size	25,100
Part of	Talaharan Commune Defense Forces
Colours	Black   Red   Steel blue
Engagements	List Liberation of Kirthan
Commanders
Commander-in-Chief	Executive Council
Executor of Defense	Taos Jebar
Defense Committee Senior Representative	General Zidan Šawis
Defense Committee Enlisted Representative	Wing Sergeant-Major Siman Anamar

The Talaharan Air Corp, (Takelat: Šašhat N'Harbigna N'Talahara; ⵛⴰⵛⵀⴰⵜ ⵏ'ⵀⴰⵔⴱⵉⴳⵏⴰ ⵏ'ⵜⴰlⴰⵀⴰⵔⴰ), officially the Talaharan Commune Defense Forces Air Corps, is the aerial warfare branch of the Talaharan Commune Defense Forces. The TCDF Air Corps has a fleet of 538 aircraft, including just under 400 fixed-wing combat aircraft. The branch consists of 25,100 personnel with administrative assistance from the Black Guard Corps as well. The senior representative of the Air Corps at the Defense Committee is General Zidan Šawis. Wing Sergeant-Major Siman Anamar holds the elected representative seat.

The main missions of the Talaharan Air Corps are air defense, local air superiority, and aerial border patrolling. The Air Corps also supports the Navy Corps in littoral defense and maritime aviation.

The TCDF Air Corps was founded in 1922 with the advent of combat-effective fixed-winged aircraft. Previously, military aviation and aerial reconnaissance units were maintained by both the Army Corps and the Navy Corps. The early Air Corps had two major divisions: the wing division and the airship division. The airship division declined in use and development as fixed-wing aircraft advanced to faster, well-armed, and comparatively more durable units. In 1936, the Air Corps was reorganized with airships taking an ancillary role.

The new organization replaced the two air divisions with a set of air groups under a central command group. At present, there are six air groups, including the command group. Each air group generally has two wings under their command. Each wing has its own airbase, housing up to three squadrons.

History

Prior to the inception of the Air Corps, balloons, airships, and early fixed-wing aircraft had been employed by both the Army Corps and Navy corps as observation platforms and limited bombing units. The Second West Scipian War saw the introduction of massed air doctrine in the region. While the Talaharan Commune did not participate in the conflict, independent observers reported on novel use cases and the development of air doctrine to the military theorists of Talahara. In 1922, the TCDF Air Corps was founded as the fourth branch of the Defense Forces.

The new Air Corps was divided into two divisions. The first division consolidated the dirigible airship assets of the Army Corps and Navy Corps into a single organization, with airship groups as the immediate subgroup assigned to land or sea missions. The second, initially smaller division was the wing division, with three wing groups eventually filled with three squadrons of fixed-wing craft each. Throughout the 1920s, the wing division grew substantially, with three wing groups growing to five by the end of the decade. Fixed-wing technology was also advancing rapidly, accelerated in Talahara with the 1933 Joint Development Agreement with Tyreseia and the covert acquisition of foreign aircraft. At the same time, the airship division remained largely stagnant. Faster fixed-winged aircraft were able to enter and exit target zones for reconnaissance faster than the airships, and the dirigibles were too slow to evade fire from planes in exercises, even despite the fact that they could bombard targets from higher elevations. As the use cases for airships diminished, the airship division began to crawl back their numbers.

In 1936, the Air Corps was reorganized into four air groups, with wings organized beneath. The airship division was effectively folded into the fixed-wing division, with remaining airships merged into airlift or reconnaissance wings. For all intents and purposes though, the Commune terminated further developments of airship technology. Fixed-wing aircraft would continue to advance rapidly. By the second half of the 1940s, jet engines were being developed for military applications. Talahara acquired a test engine in 1948 and had its first prototype jet fighter in the air by 1950. The AGMA Abelxir 60 first entered service in 1951, though only a handful was available for deployment during the 1951 Liberation of Kirthan.

The Liberation of Kirthan was the first branch-wide deployment of the TCDF. The Army Corps's land invasion of the Yisraeli-backed Protectorate of Tarshish was backed by naval landings and air power. In addition to bombing strategic targets at the onset of the raid, Talaharan aircraft maintained air superiority and provided close air support for ground troops. The Liberation took two weeks, at the end of which the Protectorate surrendered and the territory was restored to the Commune.

Despite the limited participation of jet fighters in the Liberation, the operation had served as a test case for several technologies and Talahara was quickly on the heels of other international developments in jet aircraft. The Abelxir 60's introduction as the mainstay of the air fleet in 1956 with the first test flight of the Tiara 600. The Tiara 600 would finally be introduced in 1961. It quickly entered into mass production, becoming the major element of the Air Corps by the end of the decade. The introduction of the 600 also saw the air doctrine pivot towards an emphasis on air superiority and interceptors, paralleling advances in armour and artillery which, in theory, mitigated the loss of effective close air support.

By the latter half of the 1970s, military thinking had tempered on pure air superiority doctrine. Thus, the necessity for a multirole fighter had become evident to the Air Corps. The Tiara 630 series introduced the Commune's first multirole fighter. Less than a decade later, the 630 was renamed the 630Y with the introduction of a dedicated attack aircraft variant, the 630S. The most recent development in the Talahara fleet is the 640U, another multirole aircraft with greater payload capacity and advanced systems which entered service in 2004. Over the past two decades, active service aircraft have undergone major upgrades in payloads, electrical systems, and engine power.

Equipment

Fixed-wing aircraft

Jet aircraft
Model	Image	Origin	Type	Quantity	Notes
Tiara 640U		Talahara	Multirole combat aircraft	182	4+/++ generation, 2× 30mm internal autocannons and 11 hardpoints with 8 tonnes capacity
Tiara 630S		Talahara	Attack aircraft	126	4th generation, 9 hardpoints with 6.5 tonnes capacity
Tiara 630Y		Talahara	Multirole combat aircraft	90	4th generation, 2× 30mm internal autocannons and 9 hardpoints with 6.3 tonnes capacity

Ranks and insignia

Officer ranks

	OF-9	OF-8	OF-7	OF-6	OF-5	OF-4	OF-3	OF-2	OF-1
Insignia
Takelat name	ⴰⵎⵖⴰⵔⵉⴳⵏⴰ	ⴰⵎⵖⴰⵔⵉⴳⵏⴰⵏⴰⵢⵉⴱ	ⴰⵎⵣⵡⴰⵔ ⵏ'ⵣⴻⵔⴷⴰ	ⴰⵎⵣⵡⴰⵔ ⵏ'ⵉⴼⵔⴰⵔ	ⴰⵎⵣⵡⴰⵔ ⵏ'ⴰⴼⴰⵍⵉⵙ	ⴰⵎⵣⵡⴰⵔ	ⴰⵎⵣⵡⴰⵔⵛⵉⵔⵡⴰ	ⵎⴰⴽⵜⵉⴱⵙⵉⵏ	ⵎⴰⴽⵜⵉⴱⵢⴰⵏ
Transliteration	Amɣarigna	Amɣarignanayib	Amzwar N’Zerda	Amzwar N'Ifrar	Amzwar N'Afalis	Amzwar	Amzwarširwa	Maktibsin	Maktibyan
Translation	General	Vice-General	Group Commander	Wing Commander	Squadron Commander	Commander	Adjutant- Commander	Lieutenant II	Lieutenant I

Enlisted ranks

	OR-9	OR-8	OR-7	OR-6	OR-5	OR-4	OR-3	OR-2	OR-1
Insignia
Takelat name	ⴷⵔⵉⵡⴰⵛⵀⵍⵓ ⵏ'ⵉⴼⵔⴰⵔ	ⴷⵔⵉⵡⴰⵛⵀⵍⵓ ⵏ'ⴰⴼⴰⵍⵉⵙ	ⴷⵔⵉⵡⴰⵛⵀⵍⵓ ⵏ'ⴰⵢⴰⵍ	ⴷⵔⵉⵡⴰⵛⵀⵍⵓ ⵎⴰⵎⴰⵜⴻⵔ	ⴷⵔⵉⵡⴰⵛ ⵎⴰⵎⴰⵜⴻⵔ	ⵣⴰⵏⵣⵓⵍⵉⴳⵏⴰⴽⵔⴰⴷ	ⵣⴰⵏⵣⵓⵍⵉⴳⵏⴰⵙⵉ	ⵣⴰⵏⵣⵓⵍⵉⴳⵏⴰⵢⴰⵏ	ⵜⴰⵍⵉⴱⵉⴳⵏⴰ
Transliteration	Driwašhlu N'Ifrar	Driwašhlu N'Afalis	Driwašhlu N'Ayal	Driwašhlu I'Mamater	Driwaš I'Mamater	Zanzulignakrad	Zanzulignasin	Zanzulignayan	Talibigna
Translation	Wing Sergeant-Major	Squadron Sergeant-Major	Flight Sergeant-Major	Watch Sergeant-Major	Watch Sergeant	Aviator III	Aviator II	Aviator I	Air Cadet

See also

• Talaharan Commune Defense Forces
• TCDF Army Corps
• TCDF Navy Corps
• Black Guard Corps