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The Republic of Cielonia.
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Foreign Policy and Military [OLD]
Ensign of the Federal Forces.
Service branches:
- Democratic Federation Aeronautic Service
- Democratic Federation Naval Service
- Democratic Federation Land Service
- Democratic Federation Marine Corps ("Blacktips")
- Democratic Federation Coast Guard
Headquarters: Grand Pointe Centre, Jakarta, Pasundan
Commander-in-Chief: Madhava Bechard Konchady
Minister of Defense: Jaswinder Ghosal
General Commissioner: Mana S. Sutilo
Military age: 18
Active personnel: ~1,819,000
Reserve personnel: ~1,532,000
The Cielonian military does not win battles because it has the largest ships. It does not win because it has the most tanks, the biggest space presence, the fanciest superweapons or the most numerous infantry. It does not have the most heavily-armed planes or the battleships with the most guns. It does not have a big dumb starfleet. It cannot even field 3,000 aircraft in a single battle. None of those things are what makes fighting the DFC so dangerous.
The DFC is dangerous because it can kill other countries' 3,000 aircraft in a single battle before any of those aircraft ever caught a glimpse of their enemy.
The DFC is known for fighting smarter, not harder. Their military is known for its adaptability, flexibility and capacity to fight economically and efficiently, with an incredibly high degree of command and control and a strong emphasis on logistics and fitting combat capacities perfectly to the opponent. While the DFC is sometimes outnumbered against larger military powers, the country embraces the philosophies of a true modern army, namely that mobility, flexibility and communication are paramount - and that in the right circumstances, the smallest tool can defeat the largest enemy weapon.
Cielonian foreign policy emphasizes peaceful co-prosperity, economic co-operation which balances the needs of local workers with greater access to foreign markets, and solving problems through negotiation.
The DFC generally holds its military in reserve and does not embark lightly on foreign wars. The nation prefers to maintain positive relations with its neighbours and resolve conflicts at the negotiating table, and it is not prone to American-style military interventions; Cielonian forces are more likely to provide humanitarian aid to refugees, while the nation's diplomats attempt to mediate conflicts along outcomes the DFC considers most desirable. However, the DFC has inserted itself into foreign wars in the past, most notably against Canudrum, which led to the DFC controlling Cyprus until ceding it to a nation better positioned to govern it. The DFC has also occupied and rebuilt at least one small country in the past.
In general, it takes a lot to move the DFC to war, but when Cielonian troops do mobilize, very few nations in Asia can really take them on. They are essentially Asia's big friendly giant.
Cielonia maintains a relatively large all-volunteer military organized as the Democratic Federation Armed Services, commonly shortened to Federal Forces. The size of the DFC's armed forces varies as the country's population grows but typically encompasses between .7 and 1.2 per cent of the population, with half of that number given over to reserve forces. Nevertheless the country maintains about 15% to 20% of its budget dedicated to defense spending. The DFC's military philosophy generally favours precision strikes with exceedingly high technology, and indeed the nation maintains what is in all likelihood the most technologically advanced military in Asia. It is known they developed practical directed energy weaponry in 2007, but it has yet to appear on the battlefield.
Cielonia's military is all-volunteer and consists of a relatively egalitarian sample of men, women and transgendered; the country has strongly encouraged equality in its military forces. The DFC places no barriers to entry and welcomes soldiers of all races, faiths and identities, without prejudice. In practice, Cielonian air force pilots are mostly women, and Cielonian ground infantry are mostly men, a phenomenon the country is aware of but does not actively try to foster; the results of aptitude tests and physical requirement thresholds ends up funneling staff in these directions.
The military is governed by the Ministry of Defense in conjunction with the Joint Defense Advisory Congress. The JDAC is made up of the most senior commanders from all branches of the DFC's military and governed by a senior official who holds the rank of General Commissioner of the Armed Forces. Currently this rank is held by Mana S. Sutilo; a veteran Air Force commander born in 1965, she climbed through the ranks fairly swiftly.
By far the DFC's largest branch is the navy given that it's an island nation. As well, the DFC does not maintain a nuclear arsenal, having unilaterally disarmed and dismantled all of their known nuclear weapons in 2003. Some intelligence sources suggest Cielonia maintains a small arsenal of massive-yield antimatter warheads for deterrence purposes, but the Cielonian government disavows this rumour very strongly.
Of note is that the DFC's current force size represents only a small percentage of what it could actually mobilize. The nation maintains at least three known storage facilities for decommissioned aircraft, thought to number thousands of Ku-2000E Khayal and PT-52 Bedudak fighters among a vast surplus of Haneul Type 7s salvaged from Norf Korea, and the nation's Naval Reserve Fleets - floating storage depots for decommissioned ships - could double the size of the Cielonian fleet overnight were those ships recalled to service.
List of Exporting Defense Contractors
Cielonia, as one of Asia's superpowers, allows for the export of combat equipment to nations it deems "acceptable" to receive domestically-manufactured military assistance. The country works closely with its defense contractors and maintains strict controls on what can be exported.
Note that while all DFC military aircraft receive their own designations (fighters, for example, are PI), for commercial purposes fighters are not marketed with the Cielonian military designation attached. They are generally appended with an internal designation number and a company indicator.
Notable companies are as follows:
* Sistem Kuat Pertahanan (Kuat Defense Systems)
Kuat Pertahanan, or just Kuat, is a defense subsidiary of the massive multinational engineering and design corporation, Sistem Kuat Dunia (Kuat World Systems). The company, founded in 1948 as Kuat Aerocorp by British-educated Javanese expat Somoukil Kuat, maintains a headquarters in Surabaya, but its most notorious facility is its Advanced Design Centre in Jember - the so called "Ironworks." Kuat's first military product was the 1955-era PI100U Super Panah - the DFC's primary second-generation fighter. Between 1957 and 1989, the company was known as Kuat Dassault Aviation and was the Indonesian subsidiary of Dassault, mostly building license-produced versions of Dassauly aircraft - the Ku-2000 Khayal, for instance, is a license-built Dassault Mirage 2000. The company split off in 1989 under its current name. Today the country enjoys a fruitful relationship with many prominent technical colleges and attracts the best minds in the country - and from abroad.
Kuat works closely with the Cielonian government and is effectively the country's largest defense contractor, providing the lion's share of the DFC's military aircraft and missiles.
President: Yusuf Tazman Jr. (since 2008)
Subsidiaries: Kuat Guidance Systems; Kuat Detector Systems; Kuat Spatial Systems.
Products for sale: Ku-2000E Khayal (fourth-generation multirole fighter, export version), Ku-35E Bedudak (fourth-generation multirole fighter, limited export version)
* MaKota Aerodynamique
This 1952 company, based in southern Sumatra, is known for splitting its focus. MaKota tends to work with other defense companies on some projects and has an internal advanced design bureau focused on churning out occasional cutting-edge combat aircraft for Cielonia. However, most of MaKota's business is focused on the export market. The company has made a killing - probably several literal ones - marketing older jet fighters and missiles to small countries. MaKota's old third-generation fighter, the Jago (known as the PI-34 when it served the DFC), is still supported today, and MaKota farms it out to backwater countries and supports it with a steady stream of parts.
President: Sarwono Kenggen (since 2011)
Subsidiaries: MaKota Composants
Products for sale: Ma-7 Jago (third-generation multirole fighter)
* Perusahaan Dinamika Nasional (National Dynamics Company)
PDN is a relatively new conglomerate created when Le Duc Industries, builder of the ubiquitous Ringan fighter, merged in 2010 with an old jet bomber manufacturer, Dinatek, and several civilian aerospace firms. The new firm is based out of Kuala Lumpur and is rumoured to be in the hunt for the new sixth-generation fighter, though they continue to produce the Ringan in a scaled-down export version aimed at the DFC's allies.
President: Soewarsih Pernia (since 2013)
Subsidiaries: Le Duc Industries; Dinatek
Products for sale: PDN Active Eagle (4++ generation multirole fighter, limited export version)
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