Quetanan Navy

Quetanan Navy
Active	1911 (constituted in current form)
Country	Quetana
Allegiance	Government of Quetana
Branch	Navy
Size	90,700
Fleet	1 carrier 7 submarines 14 frigates 12 corvettes 4 amphibious warfare ships 6 mine countermeasures vessel 22 oceanic patrol boats 20 fast patrol craft 30 oceanic auxiliary ships 12 river patrol boats 16 river auxiliary ships
Engagements	World War Verdusa Civil War
Commanders
Commodore	Erasmo Venâncio
1st Fleet Commander	Faustino Silva
2nd Fleet Commander	Aleixo Couto
President of Quetana	Emília Medeiros

The Quetana Navy is the maritime and naval warfare arm of the Quetanan Armed Forces. It is responsible for naval and amphibious operations. The Quetanan Navy was established in its current form on April 2nd, 1911, although it has existed since the early 1300s, as the Imperial Quetanan Navy. For several centuries, it played a crucial logistical role in the expansion and consolidation of the Quetanan Empire, and defended a vast trade network across the Olympic Ocean and Toyana Ocean across their territories in Adula, Euronia, and Ausiana.

The Quetanan Navy was the most powerful maritime force in the world in the 16th and 17th centuries, and possibly the world's largest navy at the end of the 16th century and in the early 17th century, after which it experienced a steep decline upon the wars with Skith. The navy was absolved by Skith, but was reinstituted upon independence in 1835, and improved its logistical and military capacity in the 19th century, for most of which Quetana possessed the world's fourth largest navy. Following the 1911 Revolution, Quetana transitioned to a smaller fleet but maintained a shipbuilding industry which produced important technical innovations. The Quetanan Navy built and operated one of the first military submarines, made important contributions in the development of destroyer warships, and again achieved a first global circumnavigation, this time by an ironclad vessel. Since the end of the World War, the Quetanan navy had concentrated its efforts on building naval forces to counteract hostilities of aggressive nations in Southern Adula.

Today the Quetanan Navy is one of the most important in the world, and one of the only a few naval forces on the planet capable of projecting an important level of force in their own hemisphere.

Equipment

Carriers and Amphibious Assault Ships

Aircraft Carrier

The QWS Nicolau Silvestre

Quetana has one aircraft carrier, the QWS Nicolau Silvestre. Typical Quetanan naval doctrine holds that there should be at least two in the fleet detachment, but a referendum and resolution in 2011 resulted in the scrapping of the QWS Gieu Arnauda. The QWS Arsenio Fontes is planned to launch in early 2023.

Frigates

A port bow view of the Quetanan Navy, Q100-class frigate, Almirante Cavaco Borbón (Q102)

• QNAV Almirante Cavaco Borbón
• QNAV Reynaldo Barbosa
• QNAV Almir Carneiro
• QNAV Netuno Siqueira
• QNAV Ernesto Batista
• QNAV Aldo Bettencourt
• QNAV Danilo Guimarães
• QNAV Bernardino Góes
• QNAV Carlos de Sá
• QNAV Eusébio Monteiro
• QNAV Ivo Bettencourt
• QNAV Thiago Araújo
• QNAV Samuel Sousa
• QNAV Severino Fernandes

Corvettes

A Q700-class corvette, Manel Lobo (Q705)

• QNAV Manel Lobo
• QNAV Luca Neves
• QNAV Gervásio Caetano
• QNAV Fausto Dias
• QNAV Elder Pascoal
• QNAV Reynaldo Medeiros
• QNAV Timoteo Furtado
• QNAV Duda Vila
• QNAV Artur Mendes
• QNAV Zeferino Abril
• QNAV Carlito Mendez
• QNAV Pio Barboza

Naval aviation

A Quetanan Navy AV-44 Varrie operating from an aircraft carrier

The Quetanan Naval Air Arm constitutes the naval aviation branch of the Quetanan Navy. The Quetanan navy's main jet aircraft is the AV-44 Varrie, of which it utilizes 40.