Project Horizon

Project Horizon was a Janpian revolutionary force initiative conducted from 1980 to 2010, meant to transform the Janpian Union of Revolutionary Navy from a submarine-based Ocean Denial Strategy focused on external defense, to an Ocean Control doctrine that is focused on projecting the Revolution abroad. It was initiated by Marshal Kemeliseki as part of his campaign promises to reform the Janpian Union of Revolutionary Forces and opening Janpia internationally. The Project initially received backlash, particularly from certain conservative members of the Union of Party Members Committee, calling it as unnecessary and puts Janpia at the crosshairs of foreign capitalist states. They have also mentioned that Janpia can just remain isolationist, as a lorist revolution is inevitable on every countries as provoked from the prevailing material analysis. Despite these calls, the Project was greenlit and the expectations was passed to the Workers' Council of the Revolutionary Council.

Throughout the time period, the project was divided into 4 periods, known as the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th Rays, with each having their own defined limit to what should the Janpian Navy acquire and what objectives they should attain. These rays sets the number of personnel, what ship types and weapon systems to acquire, as well as the format for naval officers restructuring, which led the Revolutionary Navy to be one of the largest and most capable navy in Marinan by 2010.

Background

Since Operation Flower Festival, the entire defense doctrine of the Party relies on the use of nuclear weapons as a deterrent, and as a way to enforce its isolationist policy. Although the Party had limited foreign participation, particularly on aiding lorist movements worldwide, it was mostly closed off both politically and economically to any nations. This in turn made the Revolutionary Navy much weaker as compared to any Hiakemirian nations at that time, and lacked any resources to sustain their naval assets. This has led to the decommissioning of their Great War-era Lilyakitovosch-Class Carriers as well as the scraping some ships, including all their battleships in 1963, which deduced the Revolutionary Navy's projecting capabilities to defense roles. To cope with this shift, as well as to sustain their objectives of defending Janpia, the Revolutionary Navy adopted a doctrine separate from nuclear deterrence, wherein they will deny all sea lanes in Janpia with the use of cheap submarines or mines. Based on their lessons from the Great War, it was also figured that the nearby islands are important when defending the Janpian mainland itself, which also led to another concept that they adopted, known as the Island Carrier Concept.

Regardless, the general idea was that in an event where an enemy is still capable of mobilizing its fleet after a nuclear strike, or incase of a conventional warfare against an enemy, the Janpian navy would hunt their surface fleet, in an attempt to whittle their forces down before they can reach the Janpian mainland. And by the time they reached the Janpian mainland, they are too few or weak, just enough to be handled by the army and the air force. Which at that time, was also negated and among the weakest in the region.

All these changed under Marshal Kemeliseki, which adopted an Open Janpia for his foreign policy, which will open the Janpian Domain to the rest of the nations in political and economical terms. This means that they will also need to reform the Janpian Union of Revolutionary Forces for external uses, in order to project their interest abroad when necessary. Given that Janpia is an island nation, the Revolutionary Navy was given the utmost priority, hence creating purpose and establishing Project Horizon.

Horizon Rays

The Project Horizon has its own rays spanning in different times. Although the Project was almost shelved entirely during Marshal Khirelya's term, it nonetheless persisted given that the Revolutionary Navy was the most influential branch in the Revolutionary Council at that time, and the only branch capable of challenging his authority. This seems much more plausible, considering that inter-faction rivalry was strong at that time, and Khirelya was a Revolutionary General. Noting this, Khirelya pursued the project as a way to keep the Revolutionary Navy from destabilizing his position.

Nonetheless, the end goal of the Project was to create a navy capable of challenging any naval force within its zone of interest, particularly in Marinan, as well as securing future or current Janpian sea routes. This means that they have to further their capabilities beyond the Janpian Domain, and by doing so requires the Island Carrier Concept as well as its ocean-denial doctrine to be discarded. This will be done in favor of Ocean Control and all-domain warfare doctrines, which means reviving aircraft carriers back to Janpia as well as its strike groups. The Decisive Strike Doctrine which had long been the pillar of the Revolutionary Navy was retained, as it was still seen as compatible and relevant. Despite this, the rechanging of the two doctrines also requires a new Janpian naval strategy as well as assets. But due to cost and changing commitments, as well as requirement creep, the project was divided into the different rays

Ray 1

Ray 1 was the first phase of the Project, which spanned for 10 years before being abrupted by General Khirelya's coup. Nonetheless, the Ray 1 was a program meant to reform the Janpian Union of Revolutionary Forces for external uses, which means changing its officer corps, changing the curriculum of the Janpian naval academies, swapping Janpian doctrines and strategies, as well as reforming the fleet formation, with future accomodation for larger vessels in mind. After 17 years of having no aircraft carriers, construction for a new Janpian carrier has also begun in this period, with the additional Kalingrad-Class Destroyers being laid down for its strike group. Previous crew of the Lilyakitovosch-Class carriers were also returned back to the Revolutionary Navy to teach the new officer generation about naval aviation.

Ray 2

1990-2000. Addition of new Hanschinburg-Class Destroyers. Also creation of the Revolutsiya-CMS that came along with it

Ray 3

1990-2010. New Revolution-Class Carrier meant to replace the 2 Hanosche-Class cope slope carriers. This program, although over, still technically continues to this day. Also add Hisshin acquisition.