Military of Florencia
| Union Defense Forces | |
|---|---|
| Motto | "In Defense of the Motherland" |
| Founded | 1866 |
| Current form | 1920 |
| Service branches |
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| Headquarters | Citadel, Sankt-Vera, Florencia |
| Leadership | |
| Supreme Commander in Chief of the UDF | Chancellor Maxim K. Tyrol |
| Secretary of the War Department | Chessa Impala |
| Personnel | |
| Military age | 18 |
| Conscription | 3 years minimum; varies by branch |
| Available for military service | 310,318,134 males, age 18-50 (2019), 309,556,818 females, age 18-50 (2019) |
| Fit for military service | 201,842,429 males, age 18-50 (2019), 186,711,414 females, age 18-50 (2019) |
| Reaching military age annually | 3,142,002 males (2019), 3,174,735 females (2019) |
| Active personnel | 2,100,000+ active personnel |
| Reserve personnel | 1,800,000 mobilized reserves 14,000,000 emergency reserve personnel |
| Deployed personnel | 56,000 |
| Expenditure | |
| Budget | $717.1 billion |
| Percent of GDP | 3.5% |
| Industry | |
| Domestic suppliers | Zhenia |
The Union Defense Forces (UDF) is the professional standing military of the UFSR and consists of four armed services: the Union Army, Union Navy, the Air Defense Forces of the Homeland, and the Union Strategic Weapon Force. A byproduct of revolutionary values places the structure of the active professional armed forces separate of the massed reservist levy force in the form of the Republican Guard. However given the sole focus of the armed masses as a ground militia contingent, both the Union Air Defense Forces and Union Navy organize reservist formations with a pool of former airmen, sailors, or marines.
Union Army
Born from the fires of revolution, the Union Army is the oldest, largest, and most diversified branch within the Union Defense Forces. In many ways the Union Army is a microcosm of the rest of the Defense Forces, with their own rocketry troops, air defense troops, aircraft, and paratroopers. Originally a loose grouping of patriotic rebels resisting tyranny, the army has grown exponentially in terms of size and power. The mission of the Army is the defense of Florence's people and territory on the land and air. To fulfill this mission the army maintains extensive commands, deploys a wide range of weapons and vehicles, and makes a great use of special purpose troops.
The Union Army does not administer a reservist formation directly subordinate to it, no doubt because of the extensive conscripted formations in the armed masses plus voluntary National Militia. For all intents and purposes the Republican Guard and constituent republican ran National Militias are de facto organized as the reservist formation of the Union Army. Replacements from the guards would replenish regular army units during wartime, national militia units operate alongside their active counterparts, and all forces ultimately fall under operational authority to the Stavka.
For administrative purposes the Union Army is divided into the Army Ground Forces (training and procurement of combat troops and equipment) and Army Rear Forces (rear support services that provide the material, infrastructure, and other miscellaneous services) while two other major autonomous services stands out: the Union Army Air Forces and the Airborne Troops.
The aerial warfare component, the Union Army Air Forces are tasked with the overall administration of the military's principle air force in support of the Army Ground Forces. The debate over the future of the air force within the Defense Forces led to the fracturing of the independent air force and the re-acquisition of frontal, long range, and material aviation responsibility by the army air forces. An extensive fleet of attack planes, multi-role fighters, swept-wind or four engine turboprop bombers, light and heavy transport movers, and rotary assets fall under the administration of the Union Army Air Forces, in addition to self propelled artillery anti-air assets. The air forces wield aerial mastery over the front line and beyond in support of the ground forces.
Well motivated volunteers with superior training, the Airborne Troops are some of the best troops in the army. Union paratroopers have no reason to be envious of their "straight legged" infantry counterparts when it comes to sheer firepower. Mechanized light armor enable Florencian "paras" a much greater deal of mobility over their foreign counterparts, at the same providing the airborne a lighter vessel for wrecking the same amount of destruction regular motorized infantry can wrought. Ferocious mobile assault troops or specialized rapid deployable paratroopers, the airborne is the Union Army's premier shock force.
Air Defense Forces of the Homeland
The Air Defense Forces took to its redefined mission after the dissolution of the independent air force brancb with great vigor and dedicated its assets to the job of fighter, bomber, and missile interception. The branch comprises three specialized types of troops to provide for the anti-air defense of Union territory. That being the Radio-technical troops, Anti-Air Defense roops, and Fighter Aviation (FA). The principle role of UADF is the interception of enemy bomber forces should they penetrate Union airspace, or intercontinental ballistic missiles on a trajectory for Florencian cities. The Air Defense Corps deploys heavy interceptors, extensively organized SAM sites, and an encompassing expansive radar array for the defense of Union air space.
Florencian Marine Service
The expeditionary wing of the Defense Forces. The Florencian marines are built around flexible combined arms formations that enable them to conduct seaborne landings and seize hostile territory from sea. By utilizing the sea-lift capability of the Navy the Marine Service is able to operate far from Union shores and respond to emergencies quicker than their Army counterparts. Also charged with both the defense of the Navy vessels and installations on land and sea. Perhaps most known for their unique "esprit de corps", ferociousness in combat, and vulgarity. Union Naval Reserve
Union Strategic Weapons Force
The National Militia
Army National Militia
Army Air National Militia
The Republican Guard
Standing Republican Guard
Unorganized Republican Guard
Office of Strategic Services to the Stavka
The OSS is directly an independent uniformed intelligence gathering and covert espionage apparatus subordinated directly to the Stavka High Command. Despite being apart of the military establishment the service essentially acts as the virtual foreign intelligence service for the whole of the Union government. Uniformed members of the OSS range from deep cover special agents to militarized special purpose operations teams. Responsibilities include more wartime orientated duties such as sabotage, subversion, use of propaganda and any other actives under the umbrella of espionage. Most recently this has included the training of foreign paramilitaries. More wartime orientated activities include the covert surveillance of enemy forces during wartime or commando like operations conducted by OSS special purpose troops. The OSS maintains an extensive amount of spetsnaz reconnaissance groups that largely perform similar roles to their army counterparts. However Union Army Diversionary Troops are primarily concerned with wrecking havoc behind enemy lines, whereas OSS Spetsnaz is more so focused on gathering intelligence and eliminating high valued targets. In practice with Florencian maskirovka ideology, very little is publicized about the Office of Strategic Services. The size and general scope of the military intelligence collecting branch is kept vague and secretive for a reason. It is speculated that there are OSS operatives serving in nearly every corner of the globe. It can also be reasonably theorized that OSS penetration of foreign nations is so extensive that hidden caches of weapons lie in wait, ready to be used by spetsnaz or foreign guerrillas. The extent and validity of such hearsay is difficult to discern.
Combined Special Operations Center — 450th OSS Special Purpose Group — Union Army: 1st Special Combat Applications Regiment (1st-SCAR/Jessie Scouts) "Saturn Group" — Union Navy: 42nd Naval Special Reconnaissance Detachment "Cascade Group"
The most elite tier one group of operators in the Union belong to the Office of Strategic Service's own spetsnaz Saturn and Cascade. Both groups are the premier special forces of the Union and specialize in hostage rescue, special reconnaissance, direct action, and assassination. While both groups perform the same missions and have the same operational capabilities, the culture of both groups are completely different. Saturn Group recruits exclusively from the army's diversionary troops, whose operators are already veterans of conflict and have several years of experience under their belt. Cascade Group is comprised of a mixture of OSS and navy spetsnaz operators who are fresh out of training and the top of their class.