Duklav's Legion

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Duklav's Legion
Private
IndustryPrivate military, intelligence and security services contractor
Founded2014
FounderColonel Baronness Anastasia Duklav
Headquarters
ServicesPrivate military force
Number of employees
6,000 military, 1,000 corporate

The Duklav's Legion is a non-government armed force active in much of the world. It is legally a private military company incorporated in Lion's Rock and predominantly active in Belisaria. With some 6,000 'military employees' on its books, it is one of the largest and amongst the best equipped mercenary forces in the world.

History

Baroness Anastasia Duklav

Duklav's Legion was founded by Baroness Anastasia Duklav, erstwhile Lady of Duklav Castle in Polnitsia and a paratroop officer. She was the scion of an ancient, and very well-connected aristocratic family. At the time of the Polnitsian War of 2005, the 23-year old baronness fought as a junior officer. Taking command of a company in an emergency, she was wounded in action and decorated for valour. In the post-war period, as a committed nationalist, major, then lieutenant colonel Duklav loudly and publicly declaimed the merger with Garima. This led to clashes with established interests in the military establishment, and made her progressively more unpopular. The baronness was finally suspended on the basis of a drummed-up administrative charge in 2011. Incensed, she promptly resigned her commission and left the country.

Duklav chose to base herself in Lion's Rock, where she was allegedly approached by the Arthuristan Strategic Intelligence Bureau to form and train a mercenary legion. Reaching out to her contacts in the expatriates network, she recruited a large number of former officers and NCOs who had also fallen foul of the new army establishment, thereby forming the nucleus of the new mercenary company.

As of June 2017, Lady Duklav remains the head of the Legion, serving as both its military leader with the rank of colonel, as well as the commercial side as its managing director. Lieutenant Colonel Michal Kaminski serves as the Legion's second-in-command and executive officer, as well as the company's COO on the commercial side. Its highest ranking 'civilian' executive is its CFO Andrea Nishimura, formerly the head of Lion's Rock branch of SHBC. The Legion is home-based at Ostmark, although its corporate headquarters is located in Lion's Rock where it is a public listed company.They have been active throughout the Belisarian continent and is capable of operating throughout the world.

While the founding leadership had been predominantly Polnitsian exiles, the Legion recruits globally and as of 2017 it mainly uses Latin internally. Recruits do not swear allegiance to any nation state, but to the Legion itself. As its motto states, "Legio Patria Nostra" - the Legion is our Fatherland.

Organisation

Duklav's Legion organisational chart

Main components

The Duklav's Legion is organised as an air assault regimental combat team of around 5,000 personnel. A highly trained professional unit, the Legion is capable of operating across the full 'spectrum of warfare' in a wide variety of hostile environments, including jungle, mountain and urban operations.

Command and control is exercised by Legion Headquarters, which handles the usual command, communications and administrative functions. The Legion's main manoeuvre elements consists of three battalions. The 1st and 2nd Battalions are line air assault infantry units. The best recruits, or those ordinary Legionaries who show potential, can qualify for the Ranger Battalion. This unit is trained in parachuting, unconventional warfare and special operations, and is often hired separately from the rest of the regiment for missions such as force training and counter-terrorism. The Ranger Battalion also contains the Legion' Pathfinder Company, which marks the landing zone in an airborne or air assault operation, as well as specialising in the reconnaissance and surveillance roles, including long-range penetration.

These manoeuvre battalions are supported by an artillery battalion with three batteries of six L118 light guns and one battery of eight K6 120mm mortars, an air defence battery armed with Rapier missiles, an engineer company, a signal company, a medical company, a CRBN defence company, a maintenance company and a logistics company. Like the Legion's combat elements, these components may be hired out separately to clients in need of such specialist assistance.

Operating intimately with these ground elements is the Legion's Aviation Group. It consists of a medium lift squadron with 32 Clios Peregrine medium lift helicopters, a heavy lift squadron with 8 Aigios Heron helicopters, an attack squadron with 6 A129 Mongoose gunships and 6 Super Tucano fixed wing attack aircraft and a small UAV squadron with Phoenix drones.

Small-unit organisation

Legionnaires on patrol

An infantry battalion consists of a HQ element, three rifle companies, one fast attack company, a mortar battery of eight L16 81mm mortars, a scout/sniper section of three teams, a MANPAD section with eight launch teams and a mini-UAV platoon equipped with AeroVironment RQ-11 Raven.

A battalion is commanded by a Major, assisted by an executive officer with the rank of Senior Captain and a Battalion Sergeant Major with the rank of Warrant Officer.

The fast attack company consists of fourteen BMI Jaguar combat cars in four platoons. Each platoon consists of three vehicles, which can be armed with machine guns, automatic grenade launchers or Vesper missiles as the situation dictates.

A rifle company consists of a command element (including a mortar battery observation party), three rifle platoons of three squads each, plus a weapons platoon. The latter consists of a command team of three, one anti-armour section with eight two-men teams armed with one Vesper missile launch unit or AT48 Recoilless Rifles each, as well as one machine gun section with eight two-men medium machine gun teams.

A company is commanded by a Captain, assisted by an executive officer with the rank of Lieutenant and a Company Sergeant Major with the rank of Staff Sergeant.

A rifle platoon consists of three squads headed by a command team of three persons - an Ensign, a sergeant and a platoon signaller.

A squad consists of nine men, organised into two fireteams of four, which forms the basis of manoeuvre and close combat. Each fireteam consists of a rifle-armed team leader, a light machine gunner armed with an Ultimax 100, a rifle-armed assistant machine gunner who carries a spare barrel and extra ammunition, and a weapon specialist, who is either armed with a designated marksman rifle or an assault rifle attached with a 40mm underbarrel grenade launcher, usually one of each per squad.

Each squad is issued with at least six disposable Crossbow recoilless AT launchers or, if encounter with hostile heavy armour is likely, MBT LAW. The Legion aims to equip each squad with at least two passive night vision goggles and two thermal sights each, predominantly models sourced from the commercial market.

Equipment

Personal equipment

Description Origin Type Ammunition Notes
Flecktarn  Lyncanestria Camouflage uniform N/A
SPECTRA helmet  Lyncanestria Combat helmet
Scalable Plate Carrier  Belfras Body armour
Small Arms Protective Insert  Belfras Trauma plate
MOLLE  Belfras
AN/PSQ-20  Belfras

Small arms

Description Origin Type Ammunition Notes
L109A1  Arthurista Fragmentation grenade N/A
P99  Ghant Pistol 9x19 parabellum
CBJ-MS  Ghant Sub-machine gun 9x19 parabellum, 6.5×25mm CBJ
Model 870  Belfras Shotgun 12 Gauge
BR-055C Carbine  Belfras Assault rifle 5.56x45 The standard aiming device is the C79 optical sight, which is gradually being replaced by a red dot close combat sight plus optional flip-down 3x telescopic magnifier. The 10.4-inch barrel version is used by rear-area troops as a self-defence weapon.
BR-55M  Belfras Marksman rifle 5.56x45/7.62x51 Both 5.56 and 7.62mm variants are in use, the former being more common. Generally equipped with a gripod, 6x scope and backup RDS
Arctic Warfare Magnum  Arthurista Sniper rifle .338 Magnum Used in small quantities by dedicated sniper teams
AS50  Arthurista Anti-material rifle 12.7x99
Ultimax 100  Lion's Rock Light machine gun 5.56x45
MG 710  Latium General purpose machine gun 7.62x51
CIL50MG  Lion's Rock Heavy machine gun 12.7x99
M203 grenade launcher  Belfras Underbarrel grenade launcher 40mm grenade
MGL  Belfras Multi-launch handheld grenade launcher 40mm grenade
CIL 40 AGL  Lion's Rock Automatic grenade launcher 40mm grenade
GL09 Advanced Airburst Weapon  Arthurista Handheld automatic grenade launcher 25mm grenade A consignment was reportedly stolen from an Arthuristan armoury in 2016, before finding its way to the Legion via black market channels.
Crossbow  Arthurista Disposable AT launcher
AT48 Recoilless Rifle  Arthurista Recoilless Rifle

Anti-tank guided missiles

Description Origin Type Ammunition Notes
MBT LAW  Arthurista Light man-portable ATGM
Vesper missile  Arthurista Man-portable ATGM

Anti-air systems

Description Origin Type Ammunition Notes
FIM-92 Stinger  Belfras MANPADS
Rapier FSC  Arthurista SHORAD

Artillery

Description Origin Type Ammunition Notes
L16 81mm mortar  Arthurista Infantry mortar 81mm
K6  Yisrael Heavy mortar 120mm
L118 light gun  Arthurista Towed gun 105mm

Land vehicles

Description Origin Type Variants Notes
BMI Jaguar  Belfras Light general purpose vehicle
HMATV  Arthurista Light lorry
Bv 206  Ghant Light bandtrack
DAF T-244  Arthurista General purpose lorry
Marauder (vehicle)  Sydalon MRAP

Aviation

Description Origin Type Variants Notes
A129 Mongoose  Latium Attack helicopter 6 in service, 2 spare,
Aigios Heron  Belfras Heavy lift helicopter 8 in service, 3 spare,
Clios Peregrine  Belfras Medium lift helicopter 32 in service, 5 spare
Phoenix  Arthurista UAV
Super Tucano  Sante Reze 6 in service, 1 spare
RQ-11 Raven  Belfras Mini-UAV
S-100  Arthurista Mini-UAV
Black Hornet Nano  Arthurista Micro-UAV

Radars

Description Origin Type Variants Notes
MSTAR  Arthurista Battlefield surveillance radar