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DEFENSE
WHAT ARE THE
PORTOCAPITALIAN MILITARY'S GOALS?
Although Porto
Capital seeks peace on Vexillium, we shall be ready for defend ourselves
against a foreign menace, as well as helping maintaining peace on other
nations. But, is not our intention to build up a large miltary force.
Our very prepared Military is made of three
branches:
THE ARMY
The Army is Porto
Capital's main strike and defence force. It shall be ready to wipe out
the enemy of our land at all time. Also, it
has Peacekeepping Forces. These shall be sent to anywhere in
the planet, to help restoring peace and order on countries recently
waged by war.
THE
NAVY
The Navy has the duty of
mantaining peace and enforce law on the Portocapitalian coast. Once a
unprepered force, fitted with no more than old patrol boats, it is
currently being modernized through the help of the Greater Zartanian
Empire. It's vessels act on a variety of missions, such as law
enforcement, patrolling, pollution fighting, defense
operations.
The 900-foot long Crossbow-class
carrier NMP Invencible (formerly ZNS Crossbow) was bought from
Zartania on late 302. Armed with anti-aircraft and anti-ship guns, this
vessel is used mainly on long-range patrol missions,
and also as a troop transport and amphibious support operations, mainly
on peacekeeping efforts.
The 378-foot Lideransa-class
cruisers are the backbone of the Portocapitalian navy. All the six units
of this series (NMP Lideransa, Libertade, Victória, Valiente, Protetora
and Paxfacer) are equiped with one 76mm main cannon, two 25mm and 50mm
machine guns, and also two torpedo launchers. It's crew is made of
170 men. Highly versatile and capable
of performing a variety of missions, such as search and
rescue, oceanographic research, law enforcement and defense
operations, the Lideransa-class cruisers are powered by diesel
engines and gas turbines. Equiped with an helicopter flight deck and all
the facilities to support helicopter deployment.
Due to it's qualities, the Kingdom
of Caledon acquired the right to build the Lideransa-class for it's own
Coast Guard. Also, such cruisers' design is related to the Greater
Burovian Realm's Burt Callawar-class.
The Portocapitalian navy owns
thirty-six 110-foot Constituison-class frigates. They were designed for
long-term patrol operations, search and rescue. Since they are equiped
only with one 25mm and four 50mm machine guns, they are not intended
mainly to defense operations. It's crew is made of twenty
men.
We also own 216 forty-foot
Delfín-class patrol boats. These mostly unarmed vessels are used for
missions such as light cargo and personel transport, fire fighting,
tugging, ports and waterways protection, boarding... Some of these act
also as light assault boats, armed with a 50mm machine gun on the
rear.
THE AIR FORCE
The Portocapitalian Air Force
is responsible for keepping our air space under
our sovereignty. It shall drive any air menace out of our
borders.
The T-27 'Deadelus' is our basic training
plane. This two-seat turboprop is the very first aircraft the
pilot-to-be shall master. The Portocapitalian Air Force currently owns
arround seventy of these aircraft.
The T-26 'Pegasus' is our advanced
trainer. This light jet aircraft has several points for the attachment
of missiles for training. If necessary, the 'Pegasus' can act as an
light bomber.
We have thirty units of
the Zartanian-made Empire Aircraft F-11 'Hawk'. They can act on a
variety of missions, such as patroling, reconaissance, bombing or
intercepting. They can be armed with as many as eight air-air
or air-ground missiles.
The Portocapitalian
Airforce owns twenty-five units of the Caledonian Airworks
F-1F. These are among the best air superiority fighters existing in
Vexillium, and are used mainly as defensive
interceptors.
The Air Force uses two roundels. One is
made of concentric circles of blue, yellow and red. The other one
is an wing-like symbol whose colors may vary according to the
plane's own color.
THE POLICE
Although not a real military
force, the Police deserves to be listed here. There are three police
forces, one for each State, all of them under the Ministerie of
Justice's Department of the Police Forces. They are responsible for law
enforcement on the cities, border guards, forest guards and
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