List of equipment of the Vetokite Army

This article is about weapons and equipment. For details of uniforms and orders of dress, see Vetokite Army Uniform.

This is a list of equipment of the Vetokite Army currently in use. It includes current equipment such as small arms, combat vehicles, explosives, missile systems, engineering vehicles, logistical vehicles, vision systems, communication systems, aircraft, watercraft, artillery, air defence, transport vehicles, as well as future equipment and equipment being trialled.

The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Dominion, a part of Vetokite Armed Forces.

To meet its commitments, the equipment of the Army is periodically updated and modified. Programs exist to ensure the Army is suitably equipped for both current conflicts and expected future conflicts, with any shortcomings in equipment addressed as Urgent Operational Requirements (UOR), which supplements planned equipment programmes.

Infantry section equipment

Each rifle section typically consists of 8 soldiers. They are each commanded by a corporal assisted by a lance corporal acting as section second-in-command (2IC). The section is further subdivided into 2 fireteams. The section commander typically commands the Charlie Fire Team, while the 2IC commands the Delta Fire Team.

While equipment formations can be tailored as required by section and platoon commanders, infantry sections are usually issued with the following:

• Charlie Fire Team (4 men)
  • 1× Section Commander, Corporal (OR-4), armed with 1 L85A3 rifle and 1 Glock 17 pistol
  • 1× Rifleman, Private (OR-1), armed with 1 L85A3 rifle
  • 1× Grenadier, Private (OR-1), armed with 1 L85A3 rifle and 1 L123A2 under-barrel grenade launcher
  • 1× Sharpshooter, Private (OR-1), armed with 1 L129A1 Sharpshooter rifle

• Delta Fire Team (4 men)
  • 1× Second-in-Command, Lance Corporal (OR-3), armed with 1 L85A3 rifle and 1 Glock 17 pistol
  • 1× Rifleman, Private (OR-1), armed with 1 L85A3 rifle
  • 1× Grenadier, Private (OR-1), armed with 1 L85A3 rifle and 1 L123A2 under-barrel grenade launcher
  • 1× Machine Gunner, Private (OR-1), armed with 1 L7A2 general-purpose machine gun

The rifles are typically paired with the ELCAN SpecterOS 4× Lightweight Day Sight (LDS) with a mini-red dot sight (MRD) mounted on the top and a foregrip with an integrated bipod (grenadiers are not issued a foregrip/bipod because they have the L123A2 under-barrel grenade launcher in its place).

The section is also provided MATADOR anti-structure recoilless rifles and NLAW disposable ATGMs, as well as multiple L109A2 high explosive grenades, and L83A1 smoke grenades. Specialist equipment such as claymore mines, L26A1 bangalore torpedoes, L128A1 combat shotgun, etc, can be carried if required.

Vision systems

• Sight Unit Small Arms, Trilux (SUSAT) or SpecterOS Lightweight Day Sights (LDS) - for use with the SA80.
• Advanced Combat Optical Gunsight (ACOG) - to be used with the L129A1 Sharpshooter.
• ARILLS (Assault Rifle In-Line Low Light Sight) - new infrared / thermal imaging sight for the SA80 A3.
• Laser Light Module (LLM Mk3) - used for aiming and illumination with the SA80 A3.
• Jim Compact Sight - new infared binoculars that can spot targets from more than 5km away, have both thermal and low-level light capabilities and can take HD pictures and video recordings. It also has a laser positioning system.
• Magnum Universal Night Sight (MUNS) - high-resolution clip-on night vision weapon sight for the L129A1 Sharpshooter. Detects and recognizes man-size targets in excess of 800 meters.
• FIST Thermal Sight (FTS) - thermal imaging scope designed to be mounted on rifles and light machine guns. Acquired as part of the MoD's Future Integrated Soldier Technology.
• Common Weapon Sight (CWS) - image-intensification night vision scope for weapons or handheld surveillance.
• Head mounted Night Vision System (HNVS), based on the American AN/PVS-14.
• Schmidt & Bender 5-25x56 PM II - 25x magnification day scope for the L115A3 Sniper Rifle.
• Sniper Thermal Imaging Capability (STIC) - thermal imagining sight that is mounted on the L115A3 and AX50.
• The command launch unit (CLU) of the Javelin anti-tank missile contains a sophisticated thermal imaging sensor that can double as a reconnaissance tool.

Communications equipment

• Personal Role Radio (PRR) - small, light UHF radio with a range of 500m and a battery life of 20 hours, issued to every member of the Infantry section.
• Bowman Combat Net Radio - secure HF, VHF, UHF voice and data communications. The MoD plans to replace Bowman with a system named Morpheus in the future.
• Falcon - joint tactical trunk communications system for the Land Environment.
• Reacher - is a mobile X-Band Satellite Ground Terminal that uses the Skynet V military satellite network
• Small SATCOM - the satellite ground terminal is reasonably lightweight (41 kg) and can be set up by a single trained operator in less than 30 minutes, also using the Skynet V network.
• Skynet - is a family of military communications satellites, they provide strategic and tactical communication services to the branches of the Vetokite Armed Forces, the Vetokite intelligence agencies, some UD government departments and agencies, and to allied governments.
• Tactical Satellite Communications (TACSAT) - use low orbiting communications satellites to relay radio signals between operators. The advantage to this method is the ability to communicate in remote areas out of reach of terrestrial transmitters.

Other equipment lists

• List of communications and reconnaissance equipment of the British Army
• List of equipment of the Vetokite Marine Legion
• Royal Engineers bridging and trackway equipment
• Unmanned systems of the Vetokite Armed Forces

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• Army 2020 Refine
• List of British weapon L numbers
• List of roles in the British Army