Royal Radictistan Navy
| Royal Radictistan Navy | |
|---|---|
| Country |  Radictistan |
| Allegiance | Grand Duke Xenocimedes Radicti |
| Type | Navy |
| Size | 322,000 personnel 350 ships 597 aircraft |
| Part of | Ministry of Defense |
| Website | https://www.marine.mil.rd |
| Commanders | |
| Chief of the Naval Staff | Admiral Sir Reynard Euler KCS |
| Deputy Chief of the Naval Staff | Vice Admiral Patrick Wellspring |
| Insignia | |
| Ensign |  |
| Aircraft flown | |
| Attack | Su-25RM |
| Electronic warfare | E-2C, Sportsman AEW.2 |
| Fighter | MiG-29K |
| Multirole helicopter | Ka-27 |
| Patrol | S-3B, Sirius AS.2 |
| Trainer | PC-9M, Su-25UTG |
The Royal Radictistan Navy (Radictistani: Dukliche Radictistanische Marine) is the naval warfare branch of the Radictistani military. It is the second largest branch of the military with more than 300,000 active and reserve personnel. Its major bases are at Wussrhas, Luerkraft, and Saerkust. The navy has been the most active branch of the Radictistani military having executed a number of small international deployments for humanitarian purposes as well as a carrier deployment in support of Radictistani peacekeeping forces on the island of Indras. The DRM is also tasked with assisting the Royal Maritime Police when required.
Command and organization
The Royal Radictistan Navy is headed by the Chief of the Naval Staff, a senior flag officer subordinate directly to the Minister of Defense. The Chief of the Naval Stafff is responsible for all aspects of naval planning, logistics, and operations.
Operating forces
The Royal Radictistan Navy has five main operating components: the Home Fleet, the Forward Fleet, the Northern Fleet, Naval Special Operations Command, and Naval Training and Operational Development Command. The Forward and Northern Fleets are each commanded by a Vice Admiral while the Home Fleet and NAVTRODCOM are each commanded by a Counter Admiral. Naval Special Operations Command is led by a Commodore.
The three fleets are each comprised of a number of "Groups." Each group is made up of a number of ships specialized in a particular aspect of the naval warfare mission. These include Carrier Battle Groups formed around an aircraft carrier plus escorts and Surface Action Groups, typically formed around a guided missile cruiser. Multiple Groups and individual ships are often formed into temporary formations known as Task Groups or Task Forces.
Naval Special Operations Command is responsible for all special operations units. The most well-known naval special operations units are the four Naval Scout Companies. Other units include the Naval Gunfire Support Group, a unit of special operations-trained artillery observers and forward air controllers. The command also operates Karelia- and Oste-class intelligence ships.
Shore facilities
The largest shore establishments are the three Naval Shipyards, defined as being in possession of major repair facilities including drydocks capable of servicing any ship in the navy's inventory. Wussrhas Naval Shipyard is the headquarters and main garrison for the Home Fleet. Saerkust Naval Shipyard houses the Forward Fleet. The Northern Fleet is based at Luerkraft Naval Shipyard. Smaller facilities are referred to as Naval Stations or Naval Air Stations if are primarily used for aviation. Not all shore facilities are located adjacent to ocean. Inland facilities include Magjkop Naval Station, a nuclear fuel fabrication facility, and Nufurt Naval Station which houses a VLF transmitter used for communication with RRN submarines.
Personnel
Commissioned officers
Commissioned officers enter service through three distinct routes. The first route is through Royal Naval Academy which has a three-year precommissioning program. Officer Candidate School is the second route. OCS allows university graduates to be commissioneed after an eleven week training program. Academy and OCS graduates incur a six year active service commitment, except for pilots who must serve on active duty for ten years. Graduates of the two national merchant marine academies, Brightburg Maritime Academy and Kalanach Maritime Academy are granted reserve commissions upon graduation and are required to serve in the Royal Naval Reserve for eight years.
Noncomissioned officers
After four years of service with good conduct, enlisted personnel can be promoted to the rank of Petty Officer Third Class, the first petty officer rank. Petty Officers are commonly considered to be the backbone of the navy and certain postings such as submarines are off-limits to junior enlisted personnel.
Warrant Officers
Enlisted personnel with at least nine years of service and having obtained the rank of Petty Officer Third Class or higher can apply to attend Warrant Officer Candidate School for training as Warrant Officers. At the completion of the eight week WOCS course, graduates are promoted to the rank of Warrant Officer Third Class.
Other ranks
Like the Army and Air Force, the Royal Radictistan Navy obtains a large percentage of its enlisted personnel through conscription. Conscripts serve for three years. Conscripts serve in a variety of shipboard and shore-based roles but are excluded from service on submarines and in special operations units.
Equipment
Ships
The Royal Radictistan Navy has over three hundred and fifty active vessels ranging from large aircraft carriers and cruisers to fast, light attack craft to a variety of support vessels. The total fleet displacement is almost four million tonnes. The navy does not use a standard ship prefix; vessels are referred to by hull number and name.
Surface vessels
The navy operates five aircraft carriers. The two Unicorn-class and three Battle-class carriers operate fixed-wing aircraft and form the center of the RRN's four Carrier Battle Groups. One Unicorn-class ship is maintained as a training carrier, the two active vessels of that class alternating between the training and operational roles.
The Royal Radictistan Navy maintains a large force of oceangoing surface combatants as its doctrine emphasizes anti-surface warfare to a greater extent than many other navies. These include eight guided missile cruisers, thirty-three destroyers, and twenty-eight frigates.
The Home Fleet maintains twenty coastal patrol vessels of the Grisha and Steregushchy classes geared for the ASW mission as well as a large number of fast attack craft.
Amphibious warfare vessels include a sole Kazatlan-class amphibious assault ship plus eighteen Ivan Rogov-class landing ships and fifteen smaller sea-going landing craft.
Submarines
The Royal Radictistan Navy has forty-six submarines of which twenty-six are nuclear powered. Eight Antey-class nuclear guided missile submarines (SSGNs) armed with P-700 anti-shipping missiles are the main ASuW assets. Eighteen Archer-class nuclear attack submarines (SSNs) and twenty diesel-electric Project 636 submarines (SSKs) round out the submarine force. All submarines are assigned to the Forward and Northern Fleets with the exception of boats used for training.
Aircraft
The Royal Radictistan Navy operates over five hundred aircraft organized into a number of squadrons. All aircraft operated by the RRN are ship-based with the exception of training aircraft and remotely piloted vehicles. Most shore-based naval air operations are performed by RRAF Coastal Command with naval personnel seconded to operate mission equipment. These aircraft include Tu-142MZ anti-submarine warfare aircraft and Tu-142MR submarine communications aircraft.
The four Carrier Air Groups operate MiG-29K multirole fighters and Su-25RM ground attack aircraft. Ninety-two MiG-29s and fifty-two Su-25RMs are in service. The S-3B and Supermarine Sirius AS.2 are operated in the ASW role while the E-2C and Supermarine Sportsman AEW.2 are operated in the airborne early warning role.
PC-9 single turboprop aircraft are operated in the primary training role.
The Naval Gunfire Support Group operates RQ-7B remotely piloted aircraft in the artillery spotting role.
Custom and tradition
Unlike most other navies, the Royal Radictistan Navy allows alcohol to be consumed onboard ship by off-duty personnel. When toasting the Grand Duke or any other dignitary onboard ship, officers and enlisted personnel of the Royal Radictistan Navy remain seated in contrast to the practice in the other military services.
The Manual for Burials at Sea requires that, when circumstances permit, the body be wrapped in the national flag at the time it is placed into the water and that flag is allowed to remain with the body as it descends. This is in contrast to the practice in most other navies where the flag is retained by the ship. When a regulation flag is not available, it is permitted to substitute any sizeable piece of fabric with a representation of the flag may be substituted.