Military

"It is today, friends of liberty that we call you once more onto the breach to protect your freedoms. We all have stood together against tyranny before, and once more it knocks at our door. We have attempted avenues of peaceful dialogue, yet they respond with force. Perhaps tomorrow, we may be forced to make the unsavoury, yet ever present choice between security and liberty. Perhaps tomorrow, we may be forced to resort to violence to defend ourselves and our liberties. However, that is not the fate of today."

Background

[History under construction]

Overview

Financing

List of active ADF equipment

The following is an exhaustive list of equipment currently in use with the ADF and its reserves.

Weapons

Note: due to official restraints set by the Capital Act of 1673, this means that most of the following are either produced locally under licence from respective companies, or purchased from Act-complying countries.

Infantry weapons

Precision rifles

Machine guns

Pistols

Projectile weapons

Aircraft

All ASDF aircraft, which includes UAVs and helicopters, fall under the command of the Astorian National Air Force (ANAF).

Combat

Patrol / reconaissance

Non-lethal defences

Note: these types of defences have since been downgraded for the past few years of auxiliary police units (such as SWAT teams), and local police departments in either low-risk situations, or for high-speed interception units. As such, the last use of non-lethal weapons by an ASDF unit was on August 4th, 2016.

These types of defences are specifically designed to be as non-lethal and painless as possible, acting as the first line of defence, in the event that lethal means can be avoided, such as attacks by a single, or multiple hostile vessels. To this end, Astoria's federal government has started to partner with private companies in devising defensive weapons, with sale to the public being explicitly prohibited. Below are some of the defences that Astoria uses:

This type of gun fires incapacitant gels, or foam, primarily made out of a viscous substance (made from polyurethane), when fired at a target, quickly hardens, which can easily stop someone in their tracks while running. This gun can also be used to cover up tank turrets and observation hatches, quickly rendering their ability to see, or shoot, impotent. In sea combat, it can be used for the above ways on submarines.

This type of gun fires pulses of electro-magnetic light beams, which are capable of completely immobilising aircraft electronic systems within 20 kilometres, through the light beams being fitted with a homing device. However, as the gun's purpose is solely to neutralise enemy aircraft, and not to eliminate the enemy, technologies have since been developed with the use of 'windfall' techniques - that is, to make the aircraft land safely, at no cost to ground or aerial losses.

Vehicles

Utility vehicles

Unmanned air vehicles (UAVs)

Mine-retardant vehicles

Armoured fighting vehicles

Engineering / support vehicles

Miscellaneous

Camouflage

The type of vehicle camouflage used by the CDF is the four-colour (green, brown, black and olive drab) type. However, while in service under United Nations missions are painted blue with the words 'UN' in white, or with the UN seal and a blue banner with the words 'United Nations' in white atop an off-white bodywork.

Further information

For more information, you can send an email to infodesk@defence.gov, or send a letter to the following address: