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(6) Tereshkova Jungle: Powder Miner, ConscriptFive, Madman, NAV, NUKE9.13, Cnidaros
(6) Plains Island: NAV, Powder Miner, ConscriptFive, Madman, NUKE9.13, Cnidaros
() Titan:
() Vlanlados Antarctic Colony:
(4) Attempt to use The Death Balls for mine clearing: NAV, ConscriptFive, Madman, eS
Withhold the Garm?
Hide it! (5): Jilladilla, McHuman, NUKE9.13, Kot, eS
--Name it "Operation Not An ICBM" (1): eS
Deploy it! (2): NAV, Cnidaros

[Sensei]

Battle Report 29: Summer 1945

A wiki, for real this time: I've been somewhat wanting a single place to keep all the Arms Race lore and information that's stored across multiple threads and isn't easy to find, and now that the Forenian equipment list alone has exceeded the 40,000 character limit for a Bay12 forum post, my hand has sort of been forced. The other website I was using was neat but it wasn't really up to the task of storing all the information I wanted in an easily accessible way. Now, there's the Arms Race Wiki. I'll be shortening a lot of descriptions for weapons down and including a link to a wiki article with the full description, as well as potentially a history of revisions and comments on its usage and performance. I hope this will make it a lot easier for newcomers to understand, since really getting an idea of what role a given weapon serves and how well it does so can involve reading a lot of snippets from battle reports, and additionally, they can include links to other equipment referenced in designs. This will be especially true if I decide to run yet another game after this one. Additionally it can serve as a repository for a variety of other lore, details, and fun stories which make up the setting and are currently spread across six different forum threads. Any help filling out the articles, especially the ancillary details on weapon articles, is appreciated, though I hope to slowly fill these out as I go. For now many of the articles will be placeholders with just the description of the weapon so I can focus on getting the turn done.

I will also be posting the full description of every new weapon in the thread at least once, so if anything bad happens to the wiki, the game doesn't become completely illegible.

Regarding the Type 5 SMG: At some point, I removed the Juraki-made SMG used by the Cannalans from their arms list, noting that it was ineffective due to a lack of reliability. I'm not sure where I got that in my head at the time, but it doesn't line up with previous battle reports. It was a quite beneficial weapon for the Juraki during the Turbados war and would serve a role in the current war as well, despite noted occasional jams. So, I will be returning it to the Cannalan arms list. I will also hold the Quickfire Shotgun is somewhat better consideration: Even with its jams, it's better performing than the Forenians' shotgun, a double-barrel breech loader, which is slow to load anyway. This is more consistent with previous battle reports. The final result of this is that Cannala is on close to equal footing with Forenia at close range, although Forenia's SMG's are still better.

New Equipment:

The Forenians, in a move I predicted they would take three or four years ago, have finally made a proper heavy bomber. The UFAF-HAFB-45 "Iceberg" is a flying boat (with landing gear as well, though it needs a long runway) powered by four jet engines, above the wings, with a large crew cabin and a single rear gun turret. It can carry a 16 ton payload, with some combination of up to 12 tons in the rotating-rack bomb bay, two four-ton wing hardpoints capable of holding Saltseekers, and two additonal one-ton wing hardpoints. As the High Altitude Fast Bomber name implies, its flight characteristics are optimized for high speed travel, and accordingly it isn't very maneuverable. For their revision they've made the UF-GARM-45 "Garm", an anti-radiation missile, that is, a missile which seeks enemy radar signals. Its design, derived from the Saltseeker, limits its ability to control its altitude, and it's really only useful for targeting ships and shore radars.

The Cannalans also made an anti-radiation missile this turn, spending their design action on the M1944 High-speed Anti-Radiation Missile (HARM) "Foul Play". The HARM has a lot nicer spec sheet than Forenia's GARM, it flies at a given altitude and actually noses down for enemy radar signals. In addition, it can be tuned to Hornet radio frequencies and it a little bit better at picking them up than the Barracuda, allowing it to fill the Barracuda's role. For their revision, they made the M1944 Night Vision System "Torch" which is an improved light-amplification system. Like the Aswang it electrically amplifies light which strikes the objective lens, but it is considerably more sensitive and can make an image from moonlight alone. It can also be used with traditional IR lamps, in which case it produces a better image than the older systems.

The Forenian Army currently has the following equipment, not including legacy equipment which can be found near the OP:

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UF Weapons:
UF-MRL-40 'SARUKH': The Sarukh is a multiple rocket launcher, which fires rockets one meter long to deliver 6kg warheads at a maximum range of 12000 meters. The rockets have impressive destructive power, compared to shells they do not need thick metal casings, so most of the weight of the rocket is either warhead or propellant. The rockets are launched electrically off of rails, and the rails are in a 4x2 array. The rockets can be fired all at once, but it takes about four minutes to reload the whole launcher, so the sustained rate of fire is not better than regular artillery. However, a rocket array is extremely light compared to a cannon, and can move very quickly, firing all at once and retreating before fire is returned from the enemy. Accuracy is poor compared to shells; to reliably hit a single target with a volley they should be used within 8km. Currently available as a truck trailer. [1 Ore, 3 Oil]
UF-ASA-40 "Overcompensator" Coastal Artillery System: This is an enormous 30cm gun, made specifically for covered ground emplacements. Full description on wiki. [5 Ore, 3 Oil]
UF-RTS-41 'Long Shot' A: This is a radar fire-control system, which allows radar operators to directly control the Overcompensator gun by its electric motors. This is based on the entirely-mechanical Bumblebee aiming system, the radar operator simply aligns a metal ring which slides on rails on two axes over the radar blip on his screen. With manual calibration for each unique gun and radar position, this sets the gun to a firing solution. It is crude, and imprecise to the point where it almost never hits. It has only found practical use as a means of moving the gun near where it will need to be aimed while a firing solution is calculated the old fashioned way, on pen and paper.
UF-RTS-43 'Long Shot' B: The Longshot B uses a more precise cavity radar, and the operator now controls the gun's position with two dials rather than a sliding bracket, which is actually capable of enough precise aim to hit something. This gives fine control over the gun, but any more complicated factors such as wind or moving targets must be accounted for manually.
UF-AC-41 Velociraptor: This autocannon is a revision of AC18, with several improvements. The gun is a little more tolerant of different ammo weights and the shells have been modified so that mixed ammo belts are possible. The use of more advanced materials has allowed some parts to become lighter, while a heavier bolt and stronger spring allows a rate of fire of 750 RPM, with a final gun weight of 21kg. In infantry use, it has noticeably more recoil, but this is less of a concern on vehicles.
UF-AMR-43 Horsekiller II: Heir to the name of the venerable Moskurg Horsekiller .60 caliber rifle, the AMR-43 is at its core a bolt-action rifle with similarly enormous rounds for use as a heavy sniper rifle and anti-materiel rifle. While it's powerful enough to injure inexperienced shooters, the ballistic performance is excellent and it is has an effective range of more than one and a half kilometers. Full description on wiki. [4 Ore (1 Al), 3 Oil]
UFN-ASM-44 "Saltseeker": [Expensive] The Saltseeker is a large anti-ship missile which is powered by a jet engine after a rocket assisted launch, and uses active radar homing. Full description on wiki. [5 Ore, 5 Oil]
UF-GAM-44 "Noose": [Expensive] The Noose is an active radar homing ground-to-air missile. Full description on wiki. [4 Ore, 5 Oil]
UF-GARM-45 "Garm": The Garm GARM is an ARM, an anti-radiation missile. Based on the Saltseeker, it follows Cannalan Viking Radar signals instead of radio signals emitted by itself, therefore steering towards a Cannalan radar source (it can also be tuned to any frequency in a wide range). Having only an amplitude of the signal to work with and no doppler effect like a normal radar, it cannot judge its distance to a target the way the Saltseeker can, requiring it to fly at an altitude which will hit a ship for its entire flight path. With the already somewhat imprecise altimeter used, this considerably increases the incidence of the missile dashing itself against the waves and that sort of thing. Cost equal to Saltseeker.

UF Other Equipment:
General Tereshkova: The Forenian army is led by General Tereshkov, an expert pilot. With experience spanning back to the days of the terrifying AS-19 aircraft which pilots believed to be haunting, he trains Forenian pilots to quick witted and always on guard, and out-fly their enemies.
RDN-39-2 "DEADLIER RAY" [Expensive] The "Deadlier Ray" is a more sophisticated radar than the old Death Ray, using an array of antennae on a rotating swivel, a single unit can get the direction and range of enemy aircraft to about 150km, and ships to within about 30km. It's huge though, and requires a building or an entire dedicated CV-22 ship to manage all the equipment. The operator can see contacts on a CRT display with a circular progression, it looks really cool and goes beep. [Complex]
RDN-42-4 "DEADLIEST RAY": [Expensive] The Mk. 4 version of the Forenian Radar Defense Network drastically reduces its size and power consumption using a cavity magnetron. This generatres high-frequency radio waves, which can be interpreted by much smaller receiving antennas, reflect clearly off of smaller objects, and generate a clearer image in inclement weather. It can interpret the range and altitude of ships and aircraft with enough resolution to make out how many aircraft are in a group, and their relative size. It can be operated off a dedicated truck using power from the truck's motor, as well as be mounted on a ship using the ship's generator, or used in camps and bases with a power source. It has a rotating antenna array which is about two meters across. [Complex]
UF-R4-39 'Tiger's Roar': This dramatically named radio is very similar to the Model 3, but fits in a single backpack and supports voice or morse over FM. When communicating in morse code, it can be attached to a separate Tiger's Whisper machine for coded messages.
Binoculars: Cheap binoculars are available to all soldiers.
Flashlights: The UF standard flashlight uses leak-resistant zinc-carbon batteries, in an aluminum frame. It fits on weapon rail mounts, or on helmets. It's rather heavy though, so soldiers prefer to hold them by hand when they can, possibly with a pistol in the other hand. Also includes colored lenses for signalling.
UF-PAR-41 'Trustfall': These are large, circular nylon parachutes, capable of supporting cargo crates on wooden pallets, or supporting some vehicles on a two-parachute rig with specialized wooden pallets under the wheels.
UF-ERA-42 'Blood Eagle': The Blood Eagle is a system of Explosive-Reactive Armor plates. These provide significant protection against shaped-charge HEAT warheads, the armor explodes on contact and the warhead becomes deformed, making it much less effective. The Blood Eagle armor tends to detonate all at once, so that all of the ERA on one side of the tank or the entire tank will be expended after one hit, causing minor damage to the tank. Blood Eagle plates cannot be quickly replaced as they destroy their mounts, requiring a mechanic to weld new ones. It's not very effective against traditional AP rounds. It can be retrofitted to existing armored vehicles, though retrofits will have noticeable gaps in their coverage. [Complex] [+1 Oil]
UF-RJ-42 'Fair Fight Module': The Fair Fight Module based on the Tiger's Roar radio system, but instead of modulating the signal's amplitude for communication, it sends a loud signal on the frequency used by Cannalan M1942 Proximity Fuzes. The radio includes a different capacitor for the frequencies it requires, making it incapable of resonating on voice frequencies, and a small, umbrella-shaped antenna array. When powered on, it fools proximity fuzes into detonating early. This is effective to about 300 meters. Unfortunately, putting more power into the system causes it to quickly overheat, so longer ranges aren't possible right now.
Eagle Sight MkIII: A refractive telescopic sight designed with the Horsekiller II in mind. It's quite large, like the rifle it sits on, with a 54mm objective lens that provides a clear, bright picture with lots of eye relief, and a rubber guard around the eye piece. It is adjustable from 4-8x magnification with a dial, and includes a very fine crosshair with elevation and windage markings, as well as range-finding markings ("find the circle that a standing pirate fits into completely"). It also has a long sunshade, which contributes to making the already large scope look enormous. Most of all though, it and the Eagle Sight MkII are cheap to produce. [2 Ore 1 Oil]
UF-APS-44 "Burning Tiger": The Burning Tiger is a decoy flare launcher which can be integrated easily into airframes without aerodynamic issues, so it can more readily be used on fighters, and drops a lot of flares quickly using a small rocket on each one. The flares burn hot, bright, and long, so they're a good distraction from a plane's engines. Also included is a chaff launcher, which deploys rolls of aluminum foil ribbons to confuse radar. [2 Oil]

UF Ground Vehicles:
UF-39-APC "Salamander" Pattern B: The Salamander is a large amphibious APC, with a wide body to keep itself stable on the water. It has medium armor, an autocannon, and holds up to 15 passengers. Full description on wiki [5 Ore 3 Oil]
UF-MBT-42 'Bjorn': [Very Expensive] The Bjorn is a heavy tank, with Very Heavy frontal armor and Heavy armor on the rest of the tank and turret. It is very wide and flat, to give the armor a shallow slope on all sides which extends over the top of the tracks. The armor is well-covered with ERA. It is armed with the 100mm L/55 sliding-breech Bjorn cannon. Full description on wiki Costs 8 Ore (1Mn), 5 Oil.
UF-39-APC "Salamander" Pattern F: F stands for Fire. Instead of an autocannon, this Salamander has a flamethrower powered by a strong electric pump. It fires "Napalm", a thickened fuel substance, up to 100 meters. This napalm is stored in a large tank so the weapon can be used in prolonged engagements, which reduces passenger capacity. In addition, this design includes armor slats which fit above the ERA and are not destroyed when the ERA detonates, providing additional protection against Cannalan twin-charge warheads, although its exact performance is unproven. This applies to all Salamanders.
UF-MLRS-44 "Artemis": The Artemis is a mobile rocket launcher, on an amphibious truck chassis. The truck itself slightly resembles a Salamander, but lacking armor, with the same hexagonal cabin, but which cuts short for a bed. The motor is directly below the cabin, between the front two steering wheels, and powers four drive wheels and two small propellers towards the rear. The wheels have large, wide tires and sit on portal axles for clearance. The weapon system sits in the bed of the truck, and consists of a 4x10 array of 40 rocket tubes. In each rocket tube is a 120mm rocket, 3 meters in length, which rotates 360 degrees and elevates to 90 degrees (which is used for the reload process) under hydraulic power from the motor while the vehicle is deployed. The fin-stabilized rockets are accurate to 12km, and at can be fired to 15km at maximum. Each carries a 20kg warhead, comparable to a much wider artillery shell, and weighs 60kg in total with its body and solid propellant. The missiles are reloaded an entire rack at a time, while the aiming apparatus is in full vertical position, from a second truck with a hoist. To reload or fire, the Artemis must deploy stabilizers which takes about 90 seconds, and the same time to prepare to move again. Lastly it has a device called an "air conditioner" which somehow makes cold air inside the cabin through some pressure valve parlor trick, which the crews are absolutely in love with despite its lack of specific combat value. [4 Ore 4 Oil]
UF-SPAAS-44 "Sewing Machine": [Expensive] if using radar, [Cheap] otherwise. The Sewing Machine is a quad-mount turret for 30mm Velociraptor guns, mounted on an Artemis truck. An optional second truck carries a radar array which can control the gun (through hydraulic motors) based on a system similar to the Longshot. Like the Longshot, the control over the motors isn't terribly precise, and it's especially not precise enough to aim at aircraft. For this reason it's controlled manually by a gunner, the automatic-aim system moves the entire gunner seat and the gunner aims relative to where the radar is pointing the run, trying to estimate for lead and drop as well as general inaccuracy. Unfortunately this is quite hard to do. At least gunners get Horsekiller-style optical sights to help them out. When the radar is not in use, the gun can simply be aimed manually. [Complex] if using radar. [5 Ore, 2 Oil]
UF-SPAAS-44-2 "Garlic": IR Variant: [Expensive], Regular: [Cheap] The Garlic is a Salamander with a Sewing Machine turret- plus a few extra features. For aircraft awareness, it has a reduced-sized Deadliest Ray radar similar to that found in planes, with a rotating radome. The other notable feature is a sensor based on the Piracy Warning, which when turned on detects infrared light sources near the vehicle and rotates the gun towards them automatically, hopefully homing in on IR lamps used in Cannalan night vision, or helicopter exhaust. Like the truck mounted version the turret is more sluggish than what would be ideal. Almost all of the passenger space is occupied by radar-related systems (including a radar operator seat) and much larger ammo bins for the quad-mount 30mm turret. [Complex] If equipped with the IR sensor system. [5 Ore, 3 Oil]


UF Air Force:
TPD 'DOLPHIN' 38b: This is an aerial torpedo, weighing in a bit more than half a ton. It is powered by a wet heater motor, and stabilized by a gyroscope. The revised 'b' version includes a magnetic detonator to explode beneath ships, and can be dropped from considerable height and speed without failure. [2 Ore, 1 Oil]
UFS-BL-38-A 'Firecracker': This bunch of letters followed by a word denotes a 2.5kg finned bomblet, with a either a HEAT+Fragment warhead, or an incendiary warhead. These come in pods of 100 which fit on standard bomb mounts, and release their bomblets at an experimentally-determined altitude which causes them to cover a 50 meter square with roughly one bomb every 5 meters- enough to hit a group of armor, or more forgiving of error than a single 250kg bomb when trying to hit a single target.
UFAF-MTA-38 'Reckless Effect': The MT stands for Military Transport Aircraft, but nobody is sure what 'Reckless Effect' is supposed to mean other than sounding cool. This is a large cargo aircraft with four V12 engines, normally aspirated with an eye towards fuel efficiency. It has a broad wingspan with a high wing, ample cargo space, and adequate power to take off from a long runway with a four ton load, just don't expect much in the way of evasive maneuvers. Befitting its role as a dedicated cargo craft, the body terminates is a large cargo door/ramp at the rear. The frame is largely aluminium for weight. Even an L-1 Tiger truck or AS-MV-21-AL just barely fit within the size and weight limits! The door can also be opened in flight for paratroopers, or for an emergency cargo jettison. It's remarkably durable, and can keep flying even through two engine failures. [4 Ore (1 Al), 4 Oil]
UFAF-F39-W 'Haast': The Haast is a single-engine heavy fighter. It has some mangalloy armor in a "tub" around the cockpit, and carries two Sorraia machine guns, four Velociraptor cannons, and up to a ton of bombs on three bomb mounts. Slow, but sturdy and handles well at low speeds. Full description on wiki. [5 Ore (1Al, 1Mn), 4 Oil]
UFAF-F-40 "Thunderbird": This is a jet aircraft, powered by two of Forenia's first functional turbojet engines. It is a relatively small fighter, the pilot sits in a round glass cockpit with two AS-AC18 cannons and a Sorraia in the nose. The wings are as narrow as possible, low-mounted and swept back, and have small wing fences to prevent sweep-related instability. The tail is relatively high-mounted to put it outside the jet wash from the wings. It also features air brakes. The Thunderbird's revised aT-J04b engines are relatively small, axial-flow turbojets, and they are somewhat crude in nature. The interior of the turbojet becomes extremely hot, the moving parts are made of complicated nickel alloys, and they burn lean using excess air for cooling. The two engines burn kerosene, and lots of it, and they sit in nacelles under the wings- each generates almost as much power as a Haast engine. Overall the aircraft has a speed a significantly faster than the Stinger (though much less than what these new turbojets are theorized to be capable of), and its jet engines have a higher altitude ceiling. The air brakes are a good choice, because the jet engines must maintain a lot of thrust at their minimum speed to avoid a flame out, so landings and slower combat engagements benefit from them. Requires a long runway for takeoff. [5 Ore, 4 Oil]
UFAF-HAT-41 "Ice Giant" B: [Very Expensive] This is an enormous transport aircraft, powered by eight turbo-prop engines. Each of these engines is based on the aT-J04b, but drives a shaft which powers a propeller, which is more efficient for low-speed applications. The final result is engines which are relatively efficient, but each of them is small, as designing larger turbines would have taken too long. Most of the effort is poured into the enormous airframe, constructed largely of wood. The wing spar and some important reinforcements use aluminum beams. The majority of the frame is arranged in a geodetic structure, but it's still much less resilient to damage and fire than a metal frame. It can carry a single fully loaded Salamander, or about 13 tons of cargo. Compared to smaller bombers, it's slow and flies with the grace of an emu. It lands on eight large, partially-retracting wheels to support its weight. [6 Ore (1 Al), 2 Wood, 7 Oil]
UFAF-F-41 Lightning Streak: This is a single-engine jet fighter, with a large aT-J20 jet taking up most of the fuselage. The aT-J20 is a low-bypass turbofan; some of the air taken in by the compressor blades passes around the engine core and is not combusted. A planned afterburner system wasn't prepared, but the bypass system provides useful cooling. The Lightning Streak has a relatively fat fuselage, which widens out in the middle after the intake and narrows again at the exhaust, there there is a rudder and two tail wings directly on the fuselage. With the round glass canopy (using 15mm of heavy laminated glass) the aircraft has sort of an egg shape, with thin swept wings. The wings have no bomb mounts and are as light as possible for speed and maneuverability, it is armed solely with three AC41 Velociraptor cannons in the nose above the intake, with somewhat limited ammo. It also includes airbrakes on the body near the tail, and hydraulic controls. Since it was designed as an absolutely dedicated fighter, and the aT-J20 is larger and with better weight-specific performance than the J04b, the speed and maneuverability are remarkable. [5 Ore, 4 Oil]
APS-42 "Reality Check": This "Active Protective System" is a module bolted on to the outside of planes, which deploys 25mm magnesium flares, to distract infrared guided missiles. Each canister contains 25 flares. There are five fuses, each of which lights off five flares (and causes them to drop from the plane) at half-second intervals. The fuses are ignited electrically by the pilot. The APS is a bit of a large box which mounts on the outside of a plane and isn't aerodynamic, which is a small concern for bombers but a larger one for fighters.
Piracy Warning: [Expensive] A derivative of the Cannalan Hellfire Missile. [Complex][3 Ore, 3 Oil]
UFAF-RF-43 "VV Frightening": [Very Expensive] The "Very Very Frightening" fighter jet is Forenia's attempt to make the fastest conceivable jet aircraft.  It's a slightly large fighter compared to the Lightning Streak. The fuselage houses two engines under the swept, anhedral wings, which themselves run much of the length of the plane giving it a wide and flat appearance, and the canopy bulges out of the top, extending past the space necessary for the pilot to create room for extra equipment. The tail is unconventional: The fuselage forks at the rear terminating in two engine outlets, and there are two vertical stabilizers supporting two rudders, each directly in the path of the engine exhaust, as a form of crude thrust vectoring. Also close to the rear, a swept "flying tail", a horizontal stabilizer which moves to serve as an elevator extends off each side of the fuselage. The engines are new aT-J30's, developed with the aid of Leipzig University, which are large engines with a low-bypass which burn a new high performance fuel blend of of kerosene and hydrazine, equipped with afterburners. Internal components and the rudders rely on rare metals to withstand the engine's intense heat. Its equipment includes two 30mm Velociraptor-based cannons in the top of the nose, with the main portion of the nose contains a severely down-powered "Deadliest Ray" Mk4 radar system connected to a display in the cockpit, the range and resolution is limited. It also contains three hardpoints, one center and one under each wing, capable of holding half a ton of ordnance or fuel in total. Behind the pilot is additional equipment space, which by default carries integrated flare modules and a Fair Fight module, as well as part of the radar equipment. It's a heavy aircraft but incredibly fast, capable of approaching the sound barrier under afterburner power. Its large power-assisted control surfaces let it make some tight maneuvers, but careless use can harm the pilot or threaten the structure of the craft. It's amazing to see in action, but wait until you see the price tag. [Complex if using radar] [6 Ore (1 Al), 6 Oil]
UFAF-RF-43-Q "VV Frightening-Q": [Expensive] Maintaining performance while reducing fuel use is an incredibly hard task, but even for merely reducing fuel use the aT-J30-Q fails to meet expectations. After Leipzig-based consultant Gottfried Q. Wolfram left the project, claiming an engineer had horribly insulted his family, Forenian engineers were only able to cobble together a half-completed version of the project which runs on plain kerosene to reduce fuel costs and even omits afterburners to save fuel. With the altered fuel blend, the engines are prone to flameouts at low speed (which in the two-engine design invariably leads to a dangerous flat spin). VV-Frightening-Q Variant: [6 Ore, 5 Oil]
UFAF-HAFB-45 "Iceberg": [Very Expensive] The new successor to the High Altitude Fast Bomber name, the Iceberg is large, high-wing flying boat. It has a broad front cabin composed of four window panes with space for a pilot, co-pilot, radar engineer and bomb aimer, as well as a turret in back. The wings, while enormous, are relatively small for its load and gently swept back. On top of them are four aT-J40 engines, large engines burning a normal fuel mixture to approximately equal the aT-J30's thrust, which was the hydrazine-burning engine in the VVF. The engines are in pairs close to the wing root and their position helps minimize intake of water. Below the wing root are fairings which conceal the side landing gear, which in addition to a set of nose landing gear allows the plan to use land runways. Its emphasis on high-speed performance means it needs a lot of space to land or takeoff, which makes it best suited for water use. Its bomb bay is set on a rotating apparatus: the bottom half is an aerodynamic shape for flying and landing, which seals against the frame of the plane with an inflating rubber cushion (fed by an engine exhaust outlet) to prevent intrusion of water or outside air. The bombs sit on top, inside the cabin, and the rack rotates upside-down to expose them to the outside for deployment, which takes several seconds. The internal bomb rack can hold 12 tons of bombs. Additionally it has four wing hardpoints, two close to the wing root which support fully four tons each (for Saltseeker missiles) and two more one-ton mounts for other uses. The plane can carry a total of 16 tons spread across its internal bomb bay and hardpoints at once. Its other equipment includes the rear turret, sitting in a ball at the tail with a pair of 20mm Velociraptors, and the radar system. The radar, based on a Deadliest Ray, also includes a radar altimeter and a crude ground-scanning system which can approximate the outlay of hills and mountains, illuminating the display variously based on the range of the contact, to assist in flying at night or in poor weather. Lastly it's painted with a paint which the scientists claim reflects UV light, therefore preventing Balefire Violet missiles from locking onto it, it reflects visible light as well and appears bright, matte white. It reaches very high altitudes (oxygen masks and pressurized cabin both included of course) and speeds, albeit less than the VVF or Charlotte, and has a moderate climb rate with a turn-time of 'eventually'. [7 Ore, 6 Oil]


UF Navy:
UFS-DD-38 Pattern E 'Archer': The Archer is Forenia's first combat ship. It is relatively small, and made of steel but unarmored, with two 90mm Bumblebee guns, complete with targeting system, in covered turrets on either side of a center con tower. There are also two more Bumblebees not in covered turrets, as the ones in the turrets were supposed to be larger originally. It is powered by two steam turbines, and it is relatively fast. Auxiliary weapons include an AS-AC18 on each side, and some Sorraia machineguns on railing mounts. There are also four Dolphin torpedo in launchers on deck: These are basically wooden chutes which can be aimed on a swivel, before the torpedo is released by untying a knot. [3 Ore, 2 Oil]
UFS-CV 'Wasp Nest' 38, Pattern A: Forenia's first aircraft carrier, and their biggest ship by far compared to the CV22 cargo ship and Archer. Its hull contains four of the turbines used to power the Archer, and is unarmored except for a torpedo belt. ABout a dozen planes stored belowdecks are lifted by a single hydraulic lift. The command center is below-decks, so that the wooden flight deck almost completely covers the ship, giving it a low, flat appearance. There are two Bumblebee AA guns on each side, one deck below on exposed platforms, plus several AC18's for point defense. The last important feature is a set of arresting cables on deck allowing planes to land safely, these catch hooks on the planes themselves, and are lowered out of the way for takeoff. [4 Ore, 2 Oil]
UFS-CV-40 'Zheleznogorod' B: [Expensive] This is Forenia's biggest ship yet; an aircraft carrier with two vertically stacked flight decks. Each deck is longer than those of the Wasp Nest, and built of steel. The lower flight deck is directly connected with the hangar deck, and can only launch aircraft. The upper flight deck can launch and recover aircraft with an arrester, which are transported from the hangar deck with a lift. Each flight deck terminates in a "ski ramp". Between some space on the top flight deck, the hangar deck's floor, and cable winches from the hangar deck ceiling, the Zeleznogorod can carry about 36 planes, but only 20 are able to quickly deploy. However, planes stored on the ceiling are prone to swinging about and often damaged during ordinary ship maneuvers. There is a steam catapult launch assist system, on the lower and longer flight deck only.. This system, broadly speaking, works: heavier aircraft are accelerated enough to take off, but a launch fills the hangar deck with smoke for a few minutes and the rocket motors are lot more expensive than a steam system. There is a con tower as well, but no radar. The space taken up by the two flight decks, hangar, and living quarters leaves fairly little space for the engines. The ship is armed with a few AS-AC18's for point defense only, and armored with a moderate torpedo belt. It is top-heavy, and neither fast nor maneuverable. [6 Ore, 5 Oil]
UFS-CV-50b 'Sea Lift': [Expensive] This is a ship based on the Zheleznogorod hull, but used instead to transport cargo. It includes its own crane and is lightly armed with a Bumblebee and some AC18's. It provides 3 TC, and serves for general purpose logistics such as moving tanks and soldiers to areas with docks.  [6 Ore, 4 Oil]
UFN-CA-41 Catraphract: The Cataphract is a cruiser built to rival Cannala's ships. It is armed with 3x3 150mm gun turrets, each using a fully electrified loading system based on the moderately-performing Overcompensator, except that the 60kg shells are moved in one piece. Each gun can fire 8 times a minute. It has an armored citadel with 300mm of nickel-steel armor (Heavy), and a torpedo belt as well. The deck is also heavily armored, at 120mm (Light) to defend against plunging fire, plus an extra splinter deck. The turrets are similarly armored but take advantage of mangalloy for greater durability. There is a central director in the con tower which controls all the electrically-driven turrets, though there is no advanced firing calculator. Additionally there are three turrets with two bumblebees on each side of the ship, capable of firing on aircraft or ships, and miscellaneous autocannons wherever there is room. It is powered by oil-burning steam turbines, and there are a lot of them though with its considerable armor it only musters moderate speed. [5 Ore (1Mn), 4 Oil]
UFN-BB-41 Vodka: [Expensive] This is a direct copy of the Cannalan Victoria Battlecruiser, from stolen plans. The radar system is not included, and it uses gun turrets derived from the domestic Overcompensator design. Like the Victoria, it has three turrets with two 30cm guns each, a gun control system, heavy citadel armor, and under-performing diesel-electic engines. [7 Ore, 4 Oil]
UF-LST22-42 "Wooden Spear": This is a lander based on the AS-CV22 hull, which has large clamshell doors on the bow and a keel capable of beaching safely. On the lower deck with direct ramp access, there is space for four vehicles, and above there are living quarters to support infantry. The clamshell doors are prone to being wedged shut on the sand when the ship beaches itself, which can make exiting the ship extremely difficult. They also leak constantly and require pumping, if the pumps fail for any reason the ship is endangered.
UFN-MAM-43 Whalesong Acoustic Mine: The Whalesong is a huge bomb floating off an underwater tether. It's triggered by sound received into a piezoelectric quartz device instead of direct contact, and can be configured to be sensitive to different frequencies, with the intent of targeting smaller or larger ships (or both), and it also has a delay fuze. Its large explosive charge and acoustic trigger mean can be effective some meters away from its target. (2 Ore, 3 Oil)


UF Design Doctrines:
Vehicle Radios: Most vehicles are equipped with a Model 3 Radio set, in a configuration suitable to the size and power source of the vehicle.
Retractable Landing Gear: Unless noted otherwise, aircraft are fitted with retractable landing gear.
Oxygen Regulators: Aircraft are equipped with oxygen systems which are self-regulating and allow the crew to operate at a significant altitude.
Fuel Tank Liners: Unarmored combat vehicles have foam fuel tank liners which can stop or slow leaks if the tank is punctured.
Warheads: Missiles, shells and bombs of various sizes can have various types of warhead attached, such as high-explosive, HEAT, incendiary, and so on. Developing a new warhead type means it will be available in other applications where it could easily apply, and new sizes of shells or bombs are available with various warheads.
Pintle Mounts: Following old Arstotzkan design doctrine, machine guns are placed on pintle mounts where possible, to give them a good vertical aiming range capable of hitting ground and air targets.

UF Resources:
Transport Capacity: 1 by land, 3 by sea, 2 by air
5 Ore, using 1 TC by air, and receiving 1 from the Axis
4 Oil, using 1 TC by sea, and 1 TC by air
1 Aluminum
1 Manganese

[Sensei]

The Cannalan army currently has the following equipment, not including legacy equipment which can be found near the OP:

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CANNALAN WEAPONS:
4" MSLAAC "Daybreaker": The Mechanical Self-Loading Anti Armor Cannon is 4" autoloading cannon, used on multiple vehicles. Wiki [+1 Ore if retrofitted to vehicles with a smaller gun]
M1939 "La Sierra" GPMG: The La Sierra is gas-operated open bolt machine gun for the BRC1913 rifle cartridge. It fires from 50-round belts, which can be strung together. It has mounts for a bipod, standard tripod/pintle mounts, or an optical sight, but it's normally used with iron sights. It's relatively light at 21 pounds. [2 Ore 1 Oil]
Gast Autocannon Modernization Revision: This is an update to Cannala's Gast-style autocannons, the Can Shredder and its smaller derivative the Can Perforator. Weight has been saved by altering the alloys used in parts of the gun and replacing some heavy cast parts with smaller stamped ones. The barrels are closer together and the guns are more compact. The weight saving on vehicle mounted guns is minor (though beneficial to aircraft), but carriages have been lightened significantly with hollow aluminum frame construction. All autocannons can easily fit belts or drums, and mixes of ammo types are standardized into anti-infantry, anti-armor and anti-aircraft belts, as well as general purpose belts. Vehicle-mounted guns use electric triggers. There is also a gas bleed valve to tweak rate of fire; normally vehicle rate of fire isn't tampered with but infantry prefer a low rate of fire (and recoil) except when firing up at aircraft. Recoil felt by users has been reduced slightly.
M1943 Multiple Use Rocket Device - Explosive, Ranged (MURD-ER-43): This is a 4" wide, 42" long rocket tube meant to be fired from the shoulder. The secret to its effectiveness is tandem-charge HEAT warheads designed to defeat ERA. Good range and accuracy. Wiki (2 Ore, 2 Oil)
M1943 Anti-Tank Semi-Active Radar Guided Missile (ATSARGM) "Hornet": Never to be referred to by its unpronounceable acronym, the Hornet is a guided missile designed to strike ground targets. It consists of three components: The first is the radar-seeking missile. Similar to the Hellfire, it flies towards a radio source, instead of IR sensors it has an array of antennae and steers until the signal is strongest in the center using a series of comparators. It has a range of up to one mile, weighs 40lbs, and is about 6 inches in diameter by 24 in length. It comes with a variety of warheads, typically TCHEAT. The second is the disposable launch tube. It's made from leftover wooden palettes and a metal bracket. The bracket can mount on a tripod for infantry use, or on a vehicle (particularly the RPG mount on the Raider and its variants). The third part is the radio transmitter: The size of an ordinary radio used for communications (it can be carried as a single backpack) and has a "gun" connected by a wire, which resembles a tiny radar dish with a pistol grip. This has a "total range" of two miles, which is the distance from the transmitter, to the target, to the missile. Simply pointing the "gun" will send radar signals in a straight line to the target, which then reflect in all directions to attract the missile ("painting" the target). The radar gun can itself be mounted on a tripod to ease the use of an optical sight, including night vision sights (not included in the price). [2 Ore 1 Oil]
M1944 Anti-Materiel Rifle: Loosely adapted from the M1913, but having almost no metal parts commonality due to the size, this is a bolt action rifle for .50 caliber Muerte rounds. It holds three cartridges, one in the chamber and two in a magazine similar to the that of the stripper-clip loaded M1913, but they are inserted singly. The barrel is thick, with a much thicker section close to the base to withstand the initially high chamber pressure. It lacks iron sights, being issued standard with an M1944 Service Rifle Scope, and it lacks any ancillary features except a bottom tactical rail which accepts a La Sierra bipod. It has a simple wooden stock, and weighs 24 pounds. The recoil is awful and it is difficult to shoot accurately, though it provides reasonable groups in vice testing. [3 Ore 1 Oil]
M1944 Rifle Module, Grenade Launcher (RMGL): A lightweight aluminum version of the Thumper grenade launcher, designed for mounting below a rifle. It lacks a stock and is shorter, but still weighs a few pounds and is very cumbersome.
M1944 Missile, Anti Ship, Seeker Active GuidancE (MASSAGE) "Stingray": The Stingray is a ramjet-powered anti-ship missile, with active radar guidance. It can be fed a compass heading on launch or acquire a lock before launching if possible. At launch two large rocket boosters on the sides are activated to bring it up to cruising speed, and then the ramjet ignites, keeping the missile just under Mach 1. It has a radar altimeter which keeps to a very low altitude of 30 feet for most of its flight. The ramjet has a square intake underneath the body of the missile, which is about 18 inches in diameter. The nose of the missile contains the radar transceiver, behind which is a 650lb shaped warhead, then the control system and wings, then fuel, engine, and stabilizer fins. It can fly to a maximum range of 40 miles, though the radar lock range is shorter. It can be launched from a ship-deck launch tube (which are arrayed in pairs), a truck, or even an aircraft such as the Vengeful Charlotte on a special launch rack. The Stingray weighs four tons. [4 Ore, 4 Oil]
M1944 Semi-Active Radar Guided Cruise Missile (SARGCM) "Barracuda": This is a Stingray missile, which instead of using active radar homing, is tuned to Hornet radar target painters. For over-land use it has been configured to fly at 1000 feet so as to avoid obstacles, but still lacks any situational awareness which might help it avoid mountains or other obstacles. Once it acquires a radar signal it ignores the altimeter and attempts to center on the target both horizontally and vertically. It struggles to reliably pick up on the relatively weak target painter signals, often causing it to simply overfly the target, or may only notice the signal late enough that it struggles to descend from its cruising altitude for a hit (with the original Stingray not having been intended to dive steeply). Price equal to Stingray.
M1944 High-speed Anti-Radiation Missile (HARM) "Foul Play": The "Foul Play", a dig at the Forenian "Fair Fight Module", is a Stingray-based missile which homes in on a radar signal- not one emitted by itself or an ally, but by enemy radar systems. The intent is that it will home directly in the radar system in an enemy ground installation, ship, or even aircraft. By default it is tuned to the frequency used by Forenia's ubiquitous Deadliest Ray radar, (which conveniently is quite different from Cannalan radars) but it includes a tuner which a mechanic can use to set it to a wide range of radio frequencies. Like the Barracuda or Stingray, it flies on a fixed compass heading and altitude, then steers itself directly towards a radar contact, but sets both its pitch and heading when it does so, such that it will maintain its vector if the enemy turns the radar source off. Some care should be taken when deploying the missile, in theory it could lock onto another object from which the enemy radar signal reflects rather than the radar source itself, if the radar source is not in front of it. It seems to get better reception than the Barracuda, so it can serve the Barracuda's purpose of homing onto a Hornet's target painter signal as well (again care should be taken that it sees the reflection of that signal rather than the original source). Cost equal to Stingray.


CANNALAN NAVY:
Santos-Class Naval Aircraft Support Vessel: [Expensive] The Santos is a large aircraft carrier. It is about the size of the Khorne but not armored. It's powered by four oil-burning steam turbines, which are more powerful than coal ones. The hangar deck stores two dozen fighters, moved to the flight deck by a hydraulic lift. On deck is an Eagle Eye Radar system, con tower, a few Firecracker AA guns and a miscellaneous autocannons wherever there's spare room. It also has a decent sized flight deck, with an arrester cable for landing aircraft, and two overlapping runways with room for ready aircraft on deck. It also has a steam catapult, which allows it to launch some planes which could not normally take off from its short runway. [5 Ore, 4 Oil]
Victoria-Class Battlecruiser: [Very Expensive] The Victoria is built to carry her three gun turrets, each of which mounts two 12" cannons, a vast increase in size over the Nightstorm guns. Each gun (for now called a Victoria Cannon) fires shells weighing about 800 pounds out of a built-up barrel nearly 50 feet long, to a distance much greater than the Nighstorm (though moderate for guns of this class). Shells and powder charges are rammed in separately by a complicated hydraulic lift system, the guns can fire once about every 25 seconds. Each gun is controlled by a more advanced version of the fire director from the Khorne: Various information is fed by spotters on deck to the fire control room, where mechanical calculators aid a team to form a firing solution, which they feed back to the guns, and the system also helps to fire the guns when the ship is exactly level. This is necessary to effectively aim at the ranges the guns are capable of. There is a Heavy armored citadel, a torpedo belt with empty compartments, and large diesel-electric engines. They are the first diesel engines of this size in Cannala, and are less powerful than steam turbines but easier to fit within the safety of the citadel armor, the Victoria is a slow and lumbering beast. Extra armaments include six Firecracker-style AA turrets, on a separate director system, about a dozen Can Shredders, and a few Type 45 Torpedo launchers on deck where there was room. It has a radar system as well; the deck is crowded between the turrets, armaments and other features. [7 Ore, 4 Oil]
Keres-Class Cruiser: The Keres is essentially a Victoria variant designed to be cheaper. Is has only 2x3 batteries of 9" guns, and the armor around the citadel is less but it has gained an armored deck. It has the same engines, but it's a bit faster for the lost weight. [6 Ore, 4 Oil]


CANNALAN LAND VEHICLES:
M3T1A1 Raider: [Cheap] Daybreaker Variant: [Cheap] The Raider is a Diesel-Electric tracked APC designed to serve as a base platform for many roles. It has light RHA armor with a sloped front, plus slats. It holds ten passengers and three crew, making it look like a large metal box. It has an interchangeable turret, which is very wide and flat with medium armor. Default armament is a Can shredder, plus 6 external Thumper barrels for smoke grenades and an RPG, these can only be reloaded from the outside. It's also chemical warfare protected, and last but not least, amphibious, with a trim vane and two electric powered propellers. Exits are on large rear hatch and one small top hatch, only latter can be used while afloat. [3 Ore 2 Oil] Daybreaker Variant: [4 Ore 2 Oil]
M3T1A3 "Dragon" Flamethrower Raider: The Dragon is a raider turret which spews flame over a long distance, it occupies most of the passenger space with fuel. To work the raider must be stopped, and a lever thrown to connect the engine to the pump instead of the transmission. Fuel can be pumped out to medium range over a pilot light, burning everything in its path. Operators need to watch the pressure of their tanks very carefully, as they grow hotter while the Dragon flames. It is best to operate only in short bursts. +1 Oil over regular Raider cost.
M3T3A1 SPAAG "Firecracker": The Self-Propelled AA Gun is placed on a Raider chassis, although it was found far easier to operate with the entire roof of the Raider removed and some of the passenger space taken up by the weapon than fitting in the existing turret place. It relies on a specially modified Daybreaker system, the section which lifts rounds out of the carousel is curved to match the gun's movement range. It has a fuze system for air-burst rounds, where the gunner sets the altitude on a dial and the actual fuze time is determined based on that and the angle of the gun. [4 Ore 2 Oil]
M4A1 "Bull": [Very Expensive] The bull is a main battletank powered by a novel turboshaft engine. It carries a Daybreaker in a heavy-armored turret with heavy front armor, and medium armor over the rest of the tank. Secondary armaments include a coaxial MG and pintle MG, and 14 smoke grenade launchers (6 on the turret 8 on the body), arguably a result of interference from contractor Al's Fireworks and Parlor Tricks. The bull's kerosene-fueled turboshaft engine is the first example of a self-compressing gas turbine motor in Cannala, and relies on high-temperature alloys to allow the turbine blades to function downstream of the combustor, and it's watercooled to keep it from getting too hot. The turboshaft is small, mainly because only a small design was found to be reliable, but it it allows the tank a relatively low profile and generates as much power as a Blackhawk engine. It sucks in air through small scoops on the back and exhausts hot air through the top, which cause a moderate weak spot in the armor. It's been revised with an air conditioner and heater so it's comfortable inside the tank in all environments, and a filter system to keep dust and sand from gumming up the engine or anything else. [6 Ore (1 Ti), 4 Oil]
M3T2A1 6" Automated Self-Propelled Gun Heavy Ground Barrage Unit (M3T2A1 6’’ ASPGHGBU) "Firebrand": The Firebrand is an M3 (Raider) chassis retooled with an open top, to carry a modified auto-loading 6" Nightstorm Howitzer. The gun itself benefits considerably from an autoloader system, packing completed shells into the gun at full inclination 8 times a minute, a considerable improvement over manual loading. It is aimed with hydraulic controls powered from the main motor, with 120 degrees of horizontal rotation and a minimum of 20 degrees vertical inclination. It must deploy stabilizers to load and fire, which takes about 30 seconds. The auto-loader can change ammo types on the fly because it pulls from six vertical racks each of which holds six shells, crew members can pre-load racks with separate shell types and change which rack the autoloader will draw its next shell from. [4 Ore 2 Oil]


CANNALAN AIR FORCE:
M1938 A-3 'Parrot': The Parrot is a low-cost air superiority fighter, designed to counter the Yellowjacket. It looks very similar to the Falcon, but without the complicated prop system and reduced to a 10-cyclinder, normally aspirated power plant. It too is fully aluminum, and contains most of the little features like retractable gear, an oxygen system, and a reflex sight. It is actually quite heavily armed with two Muerte heavy machine guns and two Can Perforators, though the perforators don't have a lot of ammo. [3 Ore (2Al), 2 Oil]
M1940 A-5 'Spearhead' Air Superiority Fighter: [Expensive] Following Forenia's Thunderbird design, the Spearhead is an aluminum-built fighter with two turbojet engines. It features a rounded canopy, swept wings, pointy nose, and the engines are under each wing, but hug the body closely; the inlets are flush with the fuselage. It's also fairly heavily armed: Each wing has a double-barrel Can Perforator, and a heavy Can Shredder sits in the nose, so the whole thing is built a bit beefier than the Thunderbird. The two Morei turbojets burn kerosene and take some advantage of experiences of the Bull tank's turboshaft, it includes a water-cooling system (the shared radiator creates a third intake under the body). They use the same easier manufacturing process too, and the performance of the plane is only slightly worse for the added weight of the cooler. Despite carrying more weight, it's very nearly as fast as the Thunderbird, but it does have trouble recovering from stalls. On the other hand, when it's keeping good speed it can make impressive turns thanks to its hydraulic control system; the pilot can pull the relatively large control surfaces with ease. It has good killing power too: The smaller cannons are good for dogfighting and the Can Shredder can do serious damage to bombers from a safe distance. It has very little ammo, but also needs very little: pilots must simply be careful not to waste it all on a quick burst. [4 Ore (1 Ti, 1 Al), 4 Oil]
M1942 A-5B ‘Spearhead-B’ Air Superiority Fighter: [Expensive] The B version of the Spearhead has the heavy Can Shredder autocannon removed. A bunch of stuff the American wind tunnel engineer tried to explain about votrexes or teeth or whatever was ignored, it didn't make any sense. The empty space where the Can Shredder was has been used for a little more Can Perforator ammo and fuel, and a hardpoint for 500lb bombs or missiles has been added under each wing.
M1942 Spearhead-C 'Super Spearhead': The Super Spearhead has had its twin Morei engines replaced with a single newer Vengeance engine, the one designed for the Charlotte bomber. It has two intakes on the fuselage below the wings (in a quarter-circle shape flush with the rest of the plane), and the larger single engine has its one exhaust in the tail. Its performance is comparable, but new metal additives allow this to be accomplished without the use of titanium, a resource now in short supply. As an additional minor change, the cannons have been moved next to the cockpit on either side (creating two small bulges) leaving empty space in the nose for future equipment additions. Pilots remark that the single-engine Spearhead-C has a quicker roll rate but somewhat slower climb and top speed than the Spearhead-B, but overall it's surprisingly similar. [4 Ore (1 Al), 4 Oil]
H-1 "Twinblade" Combat Synchrocopter: [Expensive] The Twinblade is a synchropter (I checked the spelling twice), which is a helicopter with two closely intermeshing rotors, each with two blades, separated on the roll axis. They're powered by jet engines. In general, its maneuverability is so poor as to make it ineffective, but it's remarkable as Cannala's first helicopter. Wiki [5 Ore (1 Ti, 1 Al), 4 Oil]
M-1942 Missile Auto-Guided Infrared Camera (MAGIC): The MAGIC is a guided missile, controlled by a system of five infrared sensors. Low accuracy. Wiki [Complex] [3 Ore, 3 Oil]
M1942 Missile, Auto-Guided, Infrared Camera (MAGIC) Mk.2 "Hellfire" Rev2: The Hellfire Missile is an improvement over the original MAGIC Mk.1 in a few ways. It's seeker head, rocket motor, and servo system are all considerably improved. Wiki Costs 3 Ore, 3 Oil.
B3A-1 Vengeful Charlotte Strategic Bomber: [Expensive] The Charlotte is a large, swept-wing bomber aircraft intended to fly faster and higher than enemy craft which would intercept it. It's powered by two new JAB.42 Vengeful turbofan engines, with a low bypass that serves to keep the engine cool. They're larger than those on the spearhead, but more powerful and get better performance at altitude. The engines are flush to fuselage with a broad semi-circular intake. The wing surface is very long and broad, almost resembling a delta wing, with a low aspect ratio, and include strakes and a reduction in sweepback angle down the length of the wing. It also has a tall, swept T-tail. The aircraft is constructed from aluminum as much as possible, to reduce its weight. It has a total bomb carrying capacity of eight tons, which can be entirely within the bomb bay or on the four wing hardpoints which support two tons each. The cockpit is entirely pressurized, and the bomb bay is is pressurized while the doors are closed, with oxygen masks available for all crew (a pilot, co-pilot, radio operator, bomber, and bring-your-kid-to-work-day seat) in the event of depressurization while dropping bombs or any other reason. Durability is aided by segmented fuel tanks, and redundant hydraulic control lines. [5 Ore (2 Al), 5 Oil]
M1943 Missile, Auto-Guided, Infrared Camera (MAGIC) Mk. IIIb "Balefire": The Balefire is a smaller missile designed to hit fighter aircraft. It uses an improved seeker head with proportional navigation, and reaches incredible speeds. Wiki [3 Ore, 3 Oil]
M1944 H-2 Synchropter Assault Gunship "Chupacabra": [Expensive] After an initial failed prototype, the final Chupacabra airframe was completed with advice from Igor Sikorsky himself. It is based on the same synchronized-rotor principle as the Twinblade. It accomplishes the considerably difficult task of carrying considerable armor (medium on the bottom "tub" of the cockpit and around a few important spots, and light on the rest of the aircraft) while flying in a controllable fashion. It has a pilot and gunner in closed-canopy cockpits in the nose, with the gunner below and in front of the pilot. Instead of a crew compartment it houses a radar similar to that in the Spearhead, which can find air targets or, newly, create a ground image, which with some training can can allow a user to interpret obstacles, landmarks and targets on the ground in front of the Chupacabra from very blurry images. It carries up to a ton of weaponry on winglet hardpoints, including new MURD-ER rocket pods which each weigh 250lbs and carry six rockets which fire sequentially, as well as existing missiles and bombs. Also like the Twinblade it has a Can Perforator turret below the gunner, who aims it with a hydraulic joystick and spots targets through a periscope. It's powered by two turboshafts, and has a tail boom with a rudder and elevator. With its considerable weight of armaments armor and radar, it is a clumsy flier, cruising much slower than an airplane. It has a lot of inertia in any direction and is particularly slow to yaw or climb, but it is indeed controllable unlike the Twinblade. Pilots just need to think in advance about where they're coming to a stop- for example turning 90 degress to the right means pushing the yaw pedal hard right, but then hard left after turning 60 degrees or so. [5 Ore (1 Al), 4 Oil]
M1944 'Javelin' Air Superiority Fighter (A-6F): [Very Expensive] The Javelin is a twin-engine fighter intended to fight enemies at extremely high speeds using its missile armament and new afterburning engines. The body blends into the wings which are a wide, cranked delta wing design (the angle of the wings widens out at the rear adding stability) with dog tooth close to the edge and a leading edge extension nearly up to the nose, where the elevated cockpit sits. Its equipment includes two can perforators and a radar in the nose, like on the Spearhead. The wings contain segmented fuel tanks and four hardpoints each, it can carry a two-ton load of ordnance, normally in the form of eight Balefire missiles. The JAB-44 engines are large and located below the wing close to the fuselage, and the rudders and stabilizers are located directly above them. Their afterburners have suffered significant problems, specifically, the heat can cause turbine bearing failures which will effectively decommission the engine in entirety during flight. As such, pilots have been ordered to use afterburners only when absolutely necessary, mainly takeoff. The afterburners are indeed absolutely necessary during takeoff, the plane with its large wings, ordnance, and the structure to the support them is quite heavy and the delta design gives it a high minimum speed. In flight it's fast but not maneuverable, it must keep its speed up and makes wide turns in general. It's a very large fighter, owing to the need to support large engines and lots of ordnance and the wings which provide lift for all that weight. [6 Ore (2 Al), 6 Oil]


CANNALAN COMMUNICATIONS AND OTHER:
General Cortez: General Cortez is a storied pirate sailor, and under him the Cannalan Navy has an inherent advantage in battle.
M1938 HEAT: These shells contain a shaped charge, like with the antitank RPG warheads. At 100mm, they are effective against heavy armor. These are still fairly basic, like Forenian rounds.
M1938 APDS: A long and narrow kinetic penetrator fired from cannons in a sabot. Unlike HEAT, they're good against spaced armor but poor against sloped armor. Currently accuracy is poorer than conventional rounds. Made from hardened steel, they're cheaper than existing full sized hardened steel rounds.
Drunken Pirate Encryption: The Cannalans have adopted a slightly modified One-Time-Pad encryption system. Paper sheets with a unique encryption key are distributed by courier before important orders are read aloud but in code over radio. There are a couple other simple steps to obscure the message, and decoy couriers are also sent with fake pads, but it still has the inherent drawbacks of OTP. There is a delay in sending pads and confirming they have arrived safely, and then since the pads are only used once, encryption is reserved for important and long-term orders.
Eagle Eye RADAR: [Expensive] The Eagle Eye is a relatively advanced radar system which can identify an aircraft at significant range, showing the range, direction, and approximate altitude. This is accomplished with an array of antennae in a metal frame, which rotates on a turntable. It has a CRT display with a rotating refresh line which the operator can read. It can be mounted on ships, where it takes up about a turret's worth of space including the magazine below deck, or in a temporary installation of four trucks, which takes a few hours to set up. There is also a separate version which looks identical, but can only identify sea-surface contacts. [Complex]
Bureacrat's Wife Radio Equipment: This is a portable radio system with a variety of new features. First, the entire system fits in a single backpack, with a battery good for about an hour and a hand crank charger (it can also charge off a truck). A two-way voice handset or morse transmitter can be attacked. It also has a "scrambler" which comes in a separate backpack-sized box- the vaccuum tubes necessary to make it work couldn't fit in the first. On this are three dials which set a "scramble pattern" and buttons for "wait" and "start". While in the "wait" state, the radio does not begin working until hearing a three-second "start tone" from another scrambler. Then both both begin switching frequencies multiple times per second in sync with each other, on an arbitrary pattern determined by the setting dials, making the voice or morse communication impossible to listen in on.
'Immortal' Armor: This alternative armor set replaces the chest and back piece two back plates, and four chest plates of thin molybdenum steel alloy. The splitting of chest and back coverage into multiple plates gives soldiers the ability to crouch, crawl and maneuver in relative comfort. The plates are in a "carrier vest", allowing them to be easily removed and replaced. However the important feature is that soldiers in immobile positions, such as aircraft crews, some tank crew members, and machine gunners can double-layer the chest and back armor. [3 Ore]
1941 Infrared Sighting System "Aswang": [Expensive] This is a night vision device, consisting of an infrared spotlight, a scope which allows the user to view infrared light, and a rechargeable battery. The spotlight is simply filtered, so that only invisible infrared light passes through. The scope contains a small cathode ray tube, operated by power transformed from the battery to several kilovolts. The battery is in a backpack and makes up the bulk of the system's weight, at 32 pounds it is man-portable but uncomfortably heavy. The large spotlight and scope are normally attached to the weapon, whether the weapon is a sniper rifle or machine gun, and these add seven pounds to weapon making it unwieldy without a bipod. The scope looks bulky and the seven-inch spotlight looks enormous on top of it, and there are some wires running along the outside and a cable to the backpack, as well as some adjustment dials and an on/off switch visible along the side of the scope. The Aswang's spotlight illuminates targets up to a little over 100 yards, without revealing the user's position. [Complex]
1942 Infrared Sighting System "Aswang II", 2nd Revision: The Aswang II is based on the original Aswang night vision system, but the entire thing is smaller and more efficient. The system is down to about 22 pounds for the same lifetime, and the spotlight is only four and a half inches. Vehicle-powered spotlights are larger, at ten inches, and illuminate to about 250 yards. The viewing scopes are also a bit shorter. The system is no longer Complex as of Winter 1943.
M1942 Proximity Fuze, Radio Detection: This is a fuze which projects a radio signal, and detonates if the radio signal is reflected off of an object which is close enough. It can fit in shells or missiles with at least a 3 inch diameter. The distance from a solid object at which is detonates is configurable, from 2-10 yards.
M1943 Proximity Fuze, Electrostatic: Like the radio fuze, this detonates some yards away from the target. It's adjustable but the exact distance depends on humidity as well. However it is immune to radio jamming.
Tandem Charge HEAT: Cannon shells derived from the MURD-ER RPG, with a tandem-charge warhead.
R1M1943 NJEC 'Viking' RADAR: The Viking is a multi-functional radar system build on extremely high-frequency signals produced by a traveling-wave tube amplifier. This is received by an array of very small antennae in front of an amplifying dish, which are delicate but shielded under a plastic dome. It can be arranged in a direction and display contacts within its 30-degree field of detection (such as on the nose of an aircraft), it can rotate about its base horizontally to scan the horizon (such as on a ship), it can scan conically to display contacts in the entire airspace around it, but with a slow scanning time (such as on a truck looking for air contacts) and it can even track a moving target using technology inspired by the MAGIC missile, but it gets confused if other contacts come near the tracked target. As an added bonus, it can even heat rations placed in front of it. Information from the radar is displayed as dots on a green circular CRT screen, which vary in angle and distance from the center of the screen as well as size. The exact interpretation of this depends on the mode the radar has been configured to operate in. [3 Ore, 1 Oil]
M1944 Service Rifle Scope B: The function of the original Service Rifle Scope is unchanged (fixed 3.5 magnification, short eye relief) but it has been rendered inexpensive and is rail-ready making it easy for soldiers to affix in the field.
M1944 Night Vision System "Torch": The Torch is a passive night vision system, similar to the Aswang but usable without the IR lamp. It uses an improved photosensitive material to achieve better light amplification, so on a clear night with good moonlight it provides vision to a considerable range, albeit on a small, somewhat blurry monochromatic lens. It still uses a battery pack and weighs 15 pounds with no IR lamp, or 22 pounds with it. With the lamp a user can see to about 150 yards, and without the lamp the range could be anywhere from useless to a few miles depending on natural illumination. It's also useable on vehicles, and with the larger vehicle lamps can see to about 450 yards.

CANNALAN DESIGN DOCTRINES:
Vehicle Radios: Most vehicles come standard with a Bureaucrat's Wife radio system, with broadcast range appropriate to the size of the vehicle and its power source.
Slat Armor: Ground armored vehicles are retrofitted with slat armor over their normal armor, to help defeat HEAT warheads.
Retractable Landing Gear: Unless otherwise specified, aircraft have retractable wheeled landing gear.
Oxygen Systems: Aircraft come with an oxygen system for the crew.
Filters: Enclosed armored vehicles come with the necessary equipment to seal themselves and filter the crew's air in case of a gas attack.
Warheads: Missiles, shells and bombs of various sizes can have various types of warhead attached, such as high-explosive, HEAT, incendiary, and so on. Developing a new warhead type means it will be available in other applications where it could easily apply, and new sizes of shells or bombs are available with various warheads.
Compartmentalization: Large ships are separated into many compartments which can be sealed individually if one begins flooding, to prevent the flooding from spreading to the rest of the ship.
Tactical Rails: Cannalan small arms and mounted machine guns are outfitted with rails which allow optics and attachments to be added and removed in the field. Iron sights which come with the gun are mounted on the rail, and removable.

CANNALAN RESOURCES:
Transport Capacity: 1 by land, 3 by sea, 1 by air.
2 Wood
4 Ore, using 1 TC by sea
4 Oil, using 1 TC by sea, and receiving 1 from the Allies
2 Aluminum, using 1 TC by sea
1 Magnesium
1 Uranium, Transported by air

[Sensei]

The War This Turn:
This season, both sides are attempting to gain ground on Tereshkova, as usual. Cannala also will be attempting to wrest Vlanlados out of Forenian control again, for the Uranium there. Forenia will be attempting a shore landing, which they haven't done in a while, on Saint Oros, the plains island.

The Battle at Sea
It's mostly about missiles, again, at sea this season. Both sides' anti-radiation missiles are demonstrated. The Cannalan HARM, unsurprisingly, works much better, as the the extremely low cruising altitude of the Forenian GARM (which does not even change altitude upon seeing the target, so much constantly fly no higher than the radar array being targeted) but they both essentially fill roles already being served by active radar homing missiles, except for the occasionally-useful advantage of working better near background clutter, such as land.

The bigger actual difference is Forenia's Iceberg bomber. It's capable of carrying two Saltseeker missiles, to the Vengeful Charlotte's one, which the Forenians hope will allow them to put the firepower they need to seriously damage Cannala's ships in the air. It is, in fact, effective- the ability to drop two anti-ship missiles, each likely to destroy a ship on its own (or at least, very likely to hit at least one ship between the two of them), on a fleet can be devastating. While the range of the Saltseekers means a Forenian jet must get far closer to the Cannalan naval targets than vice versa, the general Forenian air advantage afforded by their faster fighter jets makes up for this. The Iceberg is no slouch either, reaching speeds on its own which are only a little slower than Cannala's Spearheads, making interception difficult and time-consuming. Its rear turret was a wise choice. If they've not managed to get in front of the Iceberg, which requires early warning and some luck, a fighter following up from the rear needs to get within a mile and a half or so just to be in Balefire missile range (the missile will have traveled its full three miles by the time it reaches the target). The turret, operated by a skilled gunner, can be a threat from that range, occasionally claiming kills and warding off Cannalan pilots from closing for a better shot. The movement of the two aircraft works in the Iceberg's favor just as it works against an attacking Spearhead or Javelin. On the other hand, the UV-reflecting paint doesn't seem to do much to ward off missiles, making flares the main defense if a missile is locked and fired. Plus, unlike with Forenia's traditional tactics which involve the slow, low-flying Haast, the Iceberg can stay at ranges where anti-air fire such as from Cannala's Seaweed cruisers is impossible.

On the other hand, the expense of the Forenian Iceberg bombers as well as their Saltseekers works against them- despite the benefit of it carrying two missiles, Vengeful Charlottes still carry a greater number of their Stingray missiles into sorties. That might not be a deciding factor on its own, but General Cortez's superior tactics help to keep Cannala superior at sea.

Missile combat hasn't completely erased conventional battles either. Part of this is because even with Cannala having cheap missiles, their ships aren't well suited to carrying them, and the Forenians are in a similar situation. The lack of dedicated missile positions on ships means that some of the most effective weapons in use right now are just awkwardly retrofitted in, wherever there's space. After initial blows are dealt at extreme range, fleets will often close in to fight, or chase one another around if the losing side tries to retreat.

Cannala has an advantage at sea

The Battle for Vlanlados
Attacking: Cannala

Cannala is trying for a do-over of their Barracuda missiles with the Foul Play. This time, the primary tactic is to seek out Forenian radar sources. It can be launched from a ship (taking advantage of Cannala's sea advantage for reliable positioning) or a truck, and fly for miles before finding a Forenian radar source, such as a radar truck or Garlic anti-air vehicle with its radar activated, then home in on it and usually hit somewhere in the general vicinity, with the collective explosive power of more than two dozen Nightstorm artillery shells hitting the same spot at once. This is enough to devastate a fortified position. Of course, the Forenians can avoid it with a little warning, sometimes even the crew of a radar installation can shut the radar off just upon seeing the missile, before it vectors towards them. When they do so, of course, they've created a gap in their radar coverage, which is beneficial to the Cannalans. This allows Cannala to reliably suppress the use of ground radar in an area for a short time, which is a major nuisance. Luckily for the Forenians, they're recently begun to widely deploy radar-equipped aircraft which aren't vulnerable to the missiles, so they aren't completely reliant on ground radar, but the expense of these aircraft still means that this makes a difference. The Foul Play missile can also home in on a Hornet target painter signal, and more reliably than the Barracuda, effectively supplanting that missile's role. It's still not extremely reliable, the Hornet target painter is still a weak radar source, but it's an improvement and makes this sort of targeted artillery strike an option. While Forenia's common artillery, the Artemis missile truck, still outperforms Cannala's cannon trucks, these cruise missiles give Cannala a unique advantage of their own so that both sides have perks to their artillery.

The Torch night vision system is first deployed here, but the weather of Vlanlados makes it less than ideal. On occasion some valuable intel is gathered by its long visible range on clear nights, allowing Cannalans to see the Forenian positions and strategically position themselves under cover of darkness, but most of time it's overcast, which means the Torch is only an incremental improvement over the Aswang II, as it must still rely on bulky infrared spotlights with a limited range, which are vulnerable to a Garlic's IR sensors.

Forenia fights back with more bombs. Their Iceberg bombers land in the water near Vlanlados (fortunately, there's not too much ice in the water during the summer so they don't have to encounter their namesake), and from their launch sorties with many tons of bombs. They have a pretty good survival rate, as discussed in the sea battle report, and they can fly at speeds and altitudes which make defense against them by way of cannon fire very difficult (if the weather permits them to see their target from up high). Their favored choice of ordnance is still the Firecracker bombs, which spread over a considerable area. An entire load of these at once can render a surprisingly large swath of land completely inimicable to human life, and even tanks for that matter, for a short time. While saturation bombing has been a common tactic in the rest of the world, Forenia's application of it is a first for the archipelago, and the successful application of a large, modern bomber such as the Iceberg can be a game-changer on the tactical scale. It's lucky for Cannala that these aren't less expensive.

The battle continues in Forenia's favor.

Forenia holds Vlanlados. [Cannala 0/1, Forenia 1/1] Men continue to work the mines, although Forenia has ceased stockpiling any more Uranium in their homeland for fear of its harmful effects.

The Battle for the Tereshkova Jungle
Attacking: Both

Forenia was victorious here last season, and unfortunately for Cannala, neither of their two new designs this season are massive changes. The widespread tree cover makes the Torch's starlight system generally ineffective, so despite its somewhat better range, it's still pretty much where the Aswang left off: capable, with some difficulty, of getting infantry moving around in the dark, but with the risk of being revealed by a Garlic it's not so great for daring night raids of Forenian encampments any more. The Foul Play can destroy Forenian radar positions, but it's not use with the Hornet target painter is ineffective due to tree cover. The Foul play is also effective in destroying or suppressing Forenia's Noose Ground-Air-Missiles. This is somewhat redundant since Forenia has superior fighter cover to secure their air advantage, but it will be valuable to Cannala if they ever have an air advantage and need to press it. Notably, a Vengeful Charlotte bomber can deliver a Foul Play missile from outside Noose range, making it effective in a SEAD (Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses) role, capable of preventing Forenia from using their anti-air weapons while itself being in the air.

If destroying ground radars would guarantee that Forenia's Iceberg bombers were flying blind, it might have given Cannala a serious advantage against them, but the Iceberg itself has a radar system to keep it (and any nearby fighter escorts) aware of threats in the area. Forenia's icebergs firebomb their way through the jungle. If the fighting keeps up like this, sections of the jungle may turn to only scorched wasteland.

Forenia advances. [Cannala 2/4, Forenia 2/4]

The Battle for Saint Oros
Attacking: Forenia

Having successfully driven the Cannalans back from their homeland, the Forenians set their sights on Saint Oros, the wide, grassy island which the Cannalans have held for four years with the strength of their navy since their initial invasion. Now, of course, the Cannalans have an advantage at sea again, thanks to superior anti-ship missiles, so the Forenians will be relying heavily on their air forces.

The initial assault begins with suppressing Cannala's shore defenses: batteries of both cannons, such as the Maretto, and Stingray missiles line the shore. This includes AA batteries with a sufficient volume of fire to prevent the approach of near-flying aircraft, such as a Haast using its cannons. Some of Forenia's anti-radiation missiles, the GARMs, are deployed, but the low, flat beaches prevent Cannala's radar installations from being vulnerable for the most part, although some hit ships including the Seaweed AA cruisers which are a thorn in Forenia's side. The radar-seeking GARMs have no problem distinguishing a valid target from a landmass, which is an issue for Saltseekers. However, there's nowhere near enough firepower on the sea surface. Fortunately, Forenia has a confident air advantage, using their extremely fast VV-Frightening fighter jets to systematically hunt down opposition, and relying on countermeasures to mitigate the range advantage granted by Cannala's Balefire missiles. The bulk of the damage to shore defenses is delivered by the Iceberg bomber, which is ideal for the role, and the Haasts return to the fray for more precise attacks once the most concentrated AA batteries are softened.

Once this is done, and the Forenians have suffered their initial losses in the fighting including an occasional bomber which has had several missiles fired at it by a Stingray, the bulk of the forces can move in. Paratroopers make up a disproportionately large part of Forenia's vanguard, but their weapons are somewhat limited. Men drop alongside Salamander and Garlic APC's, armed with AS-AR34's as their primary armament, with a mix of heavier weapons- M3 Sorraia's for machine guns, and Horsekillers for anti-armor. These are sufficient to take on Cannala's M3-chassis vehicles, the Raider and its variants such as the Firecracker anti-air gun and Firebrand artillery. The good performance of Forenia's infantry weapons at long range and the advantage of their Salamanders of Cannala's raiders serves them well here. They can even defend themselves against Chupacabras. However, up against anything heavier, such as an Armadillo medium tank (yes, those are still around) or a Bull, they're under-equipped. Carefully-positioned shots with the Horsekiller and skullduggery with anti-tank mines will only get you so far, when the enemy can win using more expedient tactics such as "move forward and shoot at them."

Once the paratroopers have made their initial assault, most of them are suppressed by heavy armored vehicles or stymied by concentrated defenses. At this point, they're waiting for the cavalry to arrive: Bjorn Main Battle Tanks. This is an issue. First, Forenia's Very Expensive tanks have suffered from attrition in the sea battles just getting here, Cannalan attacks and mines have taken their toll. Then, there are issues with the landing craft themselves. Forenia's "Wooden Spear" landers leave much to be desired. A couple begin sinking more or less on their own and have to be abandoned. Once actually, finally, on the beaches, some of them get their doors stuck closed in the sand. Captains back their landers up to try again, or order their crews to frantically shovel sand to give the doors more clearance- all while being shelled or counterattacked by Cannalan armor and 'pteros. The final result is that Forenian heavy armor, which would normally be better than their Cannalan opponents, arrive too few and too late.

Cannala also has a few advantages. Their Hornet missiles perform well in the open fields, and their Torch sights allow infantry to spot for artillery at night, for 24-hour shelling.

Cannala gives no ground on Saint Oros. [Cannala 3/3, Forenia 0/3] Cannala has the initiative: If they attack, the battle will take place in Forenia.

Events outside the War:

The Outside World:
The Allied advance continues closing in on Germany, and the Soviet Union occupies Warsaw, as other nations begin recognizing the legitimacy of their Polish puppet government, the Polish Committee of National Liberation. In America, Franklin D. Roosevelt is sworn in for his fourth term as President, while in Germany, Hitler begins residing in a bunker. Auschwitz is evacuated in the face of the Soviet advance, leaving behind thousands of prisoners too sick to move for the Soviets to discover. Hungary agrees to an armistice with the Allies, terminating their alliance with Germany. The war continues in the Philippines as well, with American forces driving the Imperial Japanese Army out of Manila. The American a British air forces bomb Dresden, killing an estimated 25,000 civilians. The Americans continue their advance in the Pacific, capturing Iwo Jima after a large battle. Finland and Turkey, not wanting to be left out of the list of victorious countries, join the Allies in war against the remaining Axis powers. By the end of the season, the Allies are clamping in on Germany, with Russians pushing the German forces out of Hungary and into Austria, and the western Allies crossing the Rhine at Ludenorff Bridge. Tokyo and Kobe are firebombed in Japan, and Berlin is bombed as well.

Local Events:
In Forenia, a reactionary pro-capitalist vote (supported largely minor-issue parties such as PAROI and FSDAO) has made the National Forenian Bank an independent entity from the government. The duties of minting currencies and issuing and buying government bonds have been separated into the new Ministry of Finances, but the bank exists as a for-profit entity on its own now, making loans at exorbitant interest rates available to every Forenian citizen who has property that might be taken as collateral. Actually, since the bank was operating well enough before, it's unclear how this exactly benefits citizens. The Forenian Communist Party has already tried passing a bill to re-nationalize the bank, but it didn't pass, being immediately in the wake of the bank being made independent. They have at least agreed to a resolution to tell the Russians that the Forenian National Bank has always been an independent entity, if they come around asking about it. In other news, Gottfried Q Wolfram, the German aeronautics engineer who helped in the design of the VV-Frightening fighter jet, has had his home destroyed in an Allied bombing raid, which "appears to have been narrowly targeted" according to the Forenian Times' remaining German correspondent. Some members of the Forenian Engineering Ministry were, reportedly, "enthusiastic" upon hearing the news.

In Cannala, a TORCH-led corruption investigation of Rumton Casting & Milling Company has revealed that after they were awarded the contract to manufacture the Juraki Type-5 SMG, they used inferior metals and cut corners (sometimes literally) in manufacturing to save costs, and blame the resulting unreliable weapons on the Juraki design. This is why Cannalan soldiers in the field found their Type-5's to be so useless. The anti-corruption committee found the differences pretty quickly when they compared the Cannalan-made guns with some JDM ("Juraki Domestic Market") versions found in a Juraki antique shop. The owner of Rumton C&M, a man named Rainerio Rojo, fled the country when he was summoned to before the House of Brothers to explain himself. After forming a lawsuit against him in absentia, the Cannalan government seized all of the company's assets, and handed a contract for Type-5 SMG manufacturing to a fledgling company called New Juraki Armory, owned and operated by Juraki businessmen in the city of Juraki. The choice to give a valuable government contract to the Jurakis without taking bids was controversial, but the resulting guns work reliably. Cannala has gained an expense credit from seizing Rumton C&M's assets.

Turn 30, Commence!

You may now begin voting for your design phase!

[Zanzetkuken The Great]

Missile Cruiser Design with a revision to cheapen or otherwise improve missiles, anyone?

[Taricus]

Vertical launch systems for it?

[VoidSlayer]

Project Liberation

A number of devices and techniques have been used to try and purify mined uranium into the more fissile U-235.  Early attempts at rocket powered centrifuges and using tigers to "scare" the uranium have been abandoned in favor of a gaseous separation process.  Uranium is combined with fluorine then diffused as a gas across a membrane, producing a mix with slightly more U-235 isotope.  A vast facility has been named the Tiger's Cage which contains hundreds of separators linked together.  When passed through a series of these chambers the concentration of Uranium isotope 235 can be increased to at least 85%.  The purified isotope is then formed back into a solid metal for use in an explosive device.

[Kpkdktswnw2018]

Submersible launchers dropped from Icebergs into the sea that have radar. When something enters their radar range they shot missle at it. Something like big cylinder with only radar antenna over water. Alternative use would be putting then on the ground into the holes along border/beach as automated first responde system/makeshift radar( maybe able to connect to normal radars as support and get additional data from them?)

[ConscriptFive]

UFS-DDG-45 'Onegin' Guided Missile Destoyer

Named in honor of the war-hero Artyom Onegin, the 'Onegin' is a lightly-armored guided missile destroyer.  The primary armament is a single-arm SAM launcher, with a modest magazine of Noose missiles.  This AA capability is supported by a dedicated air search RADAR and two Sewing Machine turrets on the fore and aft deck.  Primary anti-ship armament are 6 oversized 650mm UF-TPD-45 'Orca' torpedo tubes, (upsized from the high-tech but underweight Dolphin torpedoes.)  This is augmented by a single-arm ASM launcher, with a modest magazine of Saltseeker missiles.  The bow deck is dominated by a single-barreled version of the 150mm autoloading cannon from the Cataphract cruiser.  The traditional anti-boat role of the destroyer in further bolstered by the aforementioned two Sewing Machine turrets.  Several rail mounted pintels amidship allow the manning of crew-served weapons, such as Velociraptor autocannons or LMG's, for additional close combat capability.  Davits on both sides amidship also allow for the launch and recover of two aluminum hulled 6 m-length motorskiffs for search & rescue, boarding, or other special operations.

This should clear the waters and skies for a sub next turn.  The 650mm torpedo tube is actually a thing on present-day Israeli "Dolphin" subs.  The oversized tube allows launching SOF swimmers with minisubs as well as guided missiles from submerged submarines.  (They've actually even launched Tomahawks through those things! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolphin-class_submarine)  I put it on the destroyer, so we wouldn't have to develop it for the sub.  I added the motorskiffs for SOF as that's something that would never get voted as a standalone.  Per critiques, I added in an ASM launcher and set the missiles magazines as 'modest' for GM's discretion.

[Kashyyk]

Add a launcher for SaltSeekers and you'll have my vote.

[NAV]

We absolutely need a missile cruiser capable of launching Saltseekers.

Could name it after Bogdanov, the PAROI hero.

[NUKE9.13]

Is it really a DDG if it can't launch ASMs?

[evictedSaint]

It needs saltseekers.

Additionally, it may benefit from balloon radar, either passive or active; a radar receiver on a weather balloon that can be towed above and behind the ship to give it a greater range than traditional surface ships.

[Cnidaros]

I thought we agreed to hide the GARM? Anyway, seems like the Cannalans did it too, and better than us. Though that might have been their design instead.

I also thought we should have sent the excess Uranium to the Soviets for ore, but I guess I forgot to include it in the votebox. And speaking of which, pretty sure that it's supposed to be the Soviets sending us ore, not the soon-to-be wiped out Axis.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure making a guided missile destroyer solely for the Nooses isn't quite worth it.

UFS-CG-45 'Bogdanov' Guided Missile Cruiser

A guided missile cruiser based off the Cataphract cruiser and about the same dimensions, but foregoing the heavy manganese alloy armour and citadel armouring scheme in favour of Light armour throughout, hopefully increasing its speed. It replaces the 3x3 150mm gun armament with 3 double mount Saltseeker launchers, and carries two sets of reloads, situated for fast reloading onto the missile mounts. Two slightly different Deadliest Ray Radars are included in the superstructure: one specialised for naval search and the other for aerial search, to assist both targeting of Saltseekers and situational awareness of the battlespace. Anti-aircraft defense is provided by two Noose SAM launchers to port and starboard, each with a magazine of 10 Noose SAMs, and two Sewing Machine turrets, mounted on bow and stern. Additional stations are placed for Velociraptor autocannons where space can be found along the rails. The Bogdanov is equipped with our standard countermeasures against Cannalan missiles, such as flares and chaff, located around the perimeter of the deck. In its bow, the passive sonar array of the Whalesong mine is combined with a ping generator into a crude active sonar for anti-mine avoidance.

Or alternatively, if you all want something 100% immune to Cannalan SAMs, because that was a pretty big hint to both sides to make missile ships:

UFN-SS-45 Archer II

The Archer II is a vessel that builds on the tradition of the old Archer Destroyers, albeit by sinking intentionally. It's Forenia's first proper submarine, using a strengthened pressure hull and ballast tanks to sail safely beneath the waves, with bow planes for quicker diving and stern rudders to steer. It features a double-hull design, with a cigar-shaped inner pressure hull to withstand the pressures at depth and a streamlined, ship-shaped outer hull, allowing it good speed and better seakeeping on the surface. The Archer II has dual diesel-electric propulsion depending on whether it's surfaced or submerged, based off the diesel-electric engines in the Vodka.

It's armed with a load of up to 14 torpedoes, fired from 4 bow and 1 stern 600mm torpedo tubes, with its intended role being to sneak up and put torpedoes into Cannalan ships. As part of the design, a new torpedo, the UFN-TPD-45 'Whale' is developed. The Whale is a naval torpedo retaining exactly the same magnetic detonator and gyroscope-assisted running of the old Dolphin Torpedo, but upsized to a 1.5 tonne weight with a 350 kg explosive warhead and improved range. The torpedo rooms are designed with extra space to accommodate the larger 'Whale' torpedoes.

On deck, its conning tower features a periscope for stealthy observation, as well as an extensible radar mast for long-range detection. Short-range however, it relies on an active sonar in the bow to seek out and target enemies, developed from the passive sonar of the Whalesong mine. It doesn't have any on-deck weapons, forgoing these in favor of a more streamlined design for speed. Instead, emphasis is made to improve its crash-diving speed, with features such as fast-flooding ballast tanks and pitchable bow planes, should the Archer II come under aerial attack. If there is time, a snorkel is developed to allow the Archer II to recharge its batteries when submerged at slow speed. Variants of the Archer II may also serve as special forces transports if the torpedo armament is stripped out.

(0) UFS-DDG-45 'Onegin' Guided Missile Destroyer:
(1) UFS-CG-45 'Bogdanov' Guided Missile Cruiser : Cnidaros
(0) UFN-SS-45 Archer II:

[evictedSaint]

UFS-GMC-45 "Outmatch" Pattern A

The United Forenian Ship Guided Missile Cruiser 1945 "Outmatch", Pattern A.

Although similar in size to the Cataphract, the Outmatch differs from its predecessor in a few key areas.  Armor is downgraded to Light and Thin throughout the ship, cutting Ore costs to make up for the rise in Oil the armament will incur. 

Secondly, artillery turrets are reduced to two small 150 mm emplacements on the bow and aft of the ship, featuring electrically driven rotation, integrated firing control, and the autoloading elevators from our previous ships.  The other artillery emplacements are taken up by two 3-mounted Saltseeker launchers (total of six) for long-range anti-ship capabilities.  A similar 3-mount launcher is equipped with Garm's, and two Noose GAM's are mounted on the port and starboard sides, each of which are flanked by two Sewing Machine emplacements as CIWS.

Thirdly - new toys.  The Chaff and Flare packages receive a larger launching charge to throw disruptive countermeasures higher (for greater and longer effects) as weight is not as big a concern for ships as it is for planes.  Additionally, the passive sonar array from our Whalesong is integrated into the keel of the ship, along with a ping generator to enable active sonar use.  Lastly, net mountings are available for anti-mine operations.

Cannala is obviously going to be making a cruiser this turn too, so ours has to have more bells and whistles or we don't get an advantage.