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Warships

Offensive Weapons

Railguns: The most common short to medium range offensive weapon found on GAE warships. While capable of accelerating their projectiles to extreme speeds, their effective range is much shorter than that of guided missiles and smart torpedoes. These are normally fire either a single projectile of high density metal or a canister of several flechettes which are suitable for dealing with fighters, bombers and other small ships.

- Rail Cannon: These are the secondary armament used against other warships, effective at short to medium range. Dotted all across a ship's hull, these cannons are arranged in two or three per turret. In addition to being used against enemy ships, these guns can also target smaller vessels but only larger than a bomber due to their slow traverse.

- Plasma Seathed Railguns: A ship's primary weapon used against enemy warships. Typically very large and arranged three per turret, they can only reliably engage anything larger than a destroyer.

- Relativistic Railgun: Also sometimes referred to as spinal guns, Some ships such as destroyers were purposely built around this weapon, specifically the Z-Class destroyers which rely heavily on their main guns over missiles and torpedoes.

Missiles: Used as the primary source of long range firepower, these missiles are essentially upsized versions of their wet navy counterparts. Smaller versions of these are used as torpedoes and are as such, weaker.

- Kinetic Kill Vehicles: While most see this as a method of engaging other ships, the GAE use these in large numbers and are used to engage large threats such as fighters, bombers and enemy missiles. Carried in either a turret or fixed tube launchers, these missiles are sent out in significant enough numbers to guarantee a kill.

- Thermonuclear missiles: The most common form of anti-ship missile. Fitted with a penetrator at its head, it is designed to dig into the armor before detonating in the armor or inside the ship. It is not uncommon for these warheads to enter and exit a ship without exploding, especially when used against weakly armored targets. While it is termed as a missile, they are also fired from rotating torpedo launchers.

- Sustained Fusion Missiles: These missiles are still relatively new in the Kriegsmarine Araxia and can only be found on capital ships. They were first deployed during the Araxium Empire's reunification war but after one of their ships was caught in its own weapon's blast, it was decided to use these as purely long range weapons and can only be found aboard capital ships. Similar to how their Thermonuclear missiles operate, these warheads have a penetrating head that allow the missile to enter a large ship and detonate inside the hull. The explosion from these warheads last up to 5 seconds.

Defensive Weapons & Systems

Armor: Unlike its weapons, the GAE did not advance much from the armor they had from long ago. Armor was always seen as the GAE as easily defeated since adding additional armor would make a ship slower and consume more fuel, engineers constantly improved the armor type to be lighter while still maintaining its effectiveness.

- Composite Armor: The Kriegsmarine Araxia finds that this was the armor that would save ship cost and still remain effective. Destroyers and ship larger than them are able to have their armor replaced piece by piece as it made repairs and refitting easier since only one company managed the design, construction, repair, refitting and recovery of warships.

Shields: The primary defense against enemy fire. While the GAE considers their shields to be strong enough they do not cover the whole of the ship, especially at the rear where the engines are.

- Combined Layer Shields: A combination of magnetic, cyclic energy and charged energy shields, they are arranged in that manner from the outermost to the innermost. While the magnetic shields can hope to redirect some of the fire, projectiles flying at greater speeds cannot be redirected away from the hull, especially when approaching from above and below the ship since those two offer the largest target. This outer layer does not affect energy weapons. The cyclic and charged energy shields are closer to the hull, the former being around 200 meters from the hull while the latter is present just above the hull and is the last tine before the armor.

Active Defenses: These are weapons developed with the sole purpose of defending a warship, the GAE have quite a few of these scattered around the ship should one system fail to intercept. As mentioned previously, Kinetic Kill Vehicles are also commonly used to target large missiles and enemy fighters and bombers.

- Flak Guns: The flugabwehrkanone or Flak guns are dedicated anti-aircraft guns, on warships they are designed to be able to fire in space. Their warheads contain either a timed fuse to detonate some distance away from the ship or a proximity fuse designed to detonate when near a target. Due to their relatively low muzzle velocity and thus low accuracy, these guns are more numerous than any other weapon onboard a single warship, making up to 50 percent of a ship's firepower in some cases. While they do have a special armor piercing shell for anti-ship roles, it is only effective at point blank range. The main role of these guns is therefore to intercept incoming fighters, bombers and missiles. Flak guns are anywhere between the large 128mm flakzwilling and the small 20mm flakvierling.

- Point Defense Systems: Similar to their wet navy warships, their spaceships also carry missiles meant for anti-threat or anti-weapon role. These are normally the 35mm Rheintochter RT-33 surface-to-air missile. They are arranged in turreted platforms all across the hull.

Electronic Systems

Electronics: GAE ships are not well known for their electronics, although research is now being done in this area to enhance their current ability to fight off electronic threats and confuse enemy systems.

- AI Sentience: Very few commanders ever actually rely on their AI, choosing to rely more on their crew for jobs. This was primarily due to the nature of GAE systems. During the Thramas battle for example, GAE ships were forced to switch to manual targeting and operate on the bare minimum due to an attack on their systems. The AI in the Araxium Empire are generally built into large warships, meant to operate the engines, power plant and some of the weapons systems. However, there are some commanders such as Lilith and Wilhelmina who rely on their AI to deploy fleets and coordinate attacks between groups of small ships.

- Quantum Computers and Communications: Typically this is used to run the AI, perform encryption and decryption of communications and also calculate faster than light jumps.

- Electronic Jamming: Normally seen aboard ships no larger than a heavy cruiser, this system generates a wave of noise across most frequencies and is primarily used to disrupt enemy communications when carrying out raiding attacks on unescorted enemy ships, essentially raiding.

- Mechanical Jamming: Chaff and Active Decoys. Found primarily on smaller ships such as Frigates and Corvettes, used to create false targets that confuse enemy systems. They are not used on larger warships as the decoys and chaff cloud would need to be proportionately scaled up in order to be effective.

Stealth/Sensors: Stealth systems are rare on Araxian ships, since their ship's primary role is to engage enemy fleets in the defense of their own ground forces during planetary assaults or defenses.

- Advanced Sensors: Gravimetric sensors specifically, used to detect enemy warships that may be hiding and waiting to attack. While carried aboard some ultimate fast battleships, they are found mainly on heavy cruisers and destroyers responsible for performing screening for the main fleet.

- Basic Active Stealth: Featured on special ships such as the Lupus Class Destroyer Leader and the lesser known Sköll Class Attack Ships, these are primarily used to mask a ship's presence along with the help of mechanical jamming devices to help escape detection when encountered.

Power & Propulsion

Power Generation:

- Cold Fusion Reactors: Normally located in more than one room aboard a ship, these reactors are used to generate electricity for the whole ship, which is like a city out in space. In the event that one reactor room stops operating, there are more than one other reactor rooms located in another area of the ship, especially on the largest Araxian capital ships.

Sublight Propulsion:

- Fusion Torch: Open cycle inertial fusion, this engine type is used to drive ultimate fast battleships and some advanced experimental ships.

- Metallic Hydrogen drives: This is the standard engine for most Araxian warships, excluding the ultimate fast battleships.

FTL Propulsion:

- Jump Drive: The standard form of FTL propulsion used by the GAE, finding no problem with it, the technology has been in use for hundreds of years.

[Updated 22nd October 2018]

After the reunification war, all private companies associated with the old Axonn Empire and Terran Federation were bought up by the government of the newly created Grand Araxium Empire, effectively turning them into state owned companies. In addition to these companies, several more were created to better suit the needs of the empire at the time. While most if not all companies were effectively state owned, several others were allowed to remain as private companies who would do other work for other sovereign nations outside of the empire.

Adler Mechanical Yards (AM-Y)

Also known as Adler Mechanical, they are the largest single company with its sister company Brunhildr Mechanized. AM-Y is the company responsible for the creation of all Araxian warships and handles their repair. As such, they have no additional industrial capacity for the production of anything else, though they do occasionally turn out ground vehicle designs they cannot even produce their prototypes.

The previous name of the company was the Axonn Mechanical Yards, changed to Adler after the reunification war due to Arabel purchasing the whole company. Under the old Axonn name, they produced most of the armored vehicles found in all wars the empire fought in up until the civil war when the multi-system company was split due to the breakdown of the empire. After the reunification war, a portion of its old industrial power was assigned to the newly formed Brunhildr Mechanized.

Walküre Motorisiert (WM)

A unique weapons manufacturer, Walküre Motorisiert has designed and built the only successful Araxian fully mechanized infantry unit known as the White Noise. Known as such due to its distinct jamming capabilities when hunting down enemies by isolating them during the jamming and seemingly making its enemies disappear from the battlefield overnight. While the early models relied heavily on the time of usage to be effective due to its weak ability during the day, later models such as the Type 23, Type 24 and Type 25 were able to operate in broad daylight without issue. However, the system still relied on its pilot on making correct decisions when in combat as mistakes could result in the pilot's death.

Aside from producing the White Noise units now renamed Walküre or Valkyrie, the company also builds personal transport vehicles such as motorcycles and luxury cars for the military. Two such vehicles under its production are the C75 motorcycle with side car and the Series 320 officer's car.

Brunhildr Mechanized (BM)

A arm of Adler Mechanical, the Brunhildr Mechanized company handles the production of a few of the armored vehicles in the Araxian Reichswehr. Purposely set up by the imperial government and initially funded by Erika Brunhildr von Raxia, the company was to handle the production of vehicles that the AM-Y could no longer handle such as the mass production of vehicles and construction and testing of prototype vehicles.

These vehicles included but are not limited to the MBT Lowe, LT-88 Gepard, Flakpanzer Norden, Flakpanzer Sud and IFV Faust.

Aside from vehicles, they also produce small arms and infantry based weapons including rifles, ATGMs and MANPADS. Some variants of Araxian power armor are also produced for the Araxian Schutzstaffel Panzermensch divisions.

Titan Heavy Engineering (T-HE)

One of the original companies from the old Axonn Empire, it used to be owned by the Axonn government before the civil war and after which it became a private company building industrial equipment for the Terran Federation. After the reunification war, the company was bought by the Araxium government and became a state run company again. Before the wars, they were responsible for creating heavy industrial equipment for other companies and were the only industrial company with their own biological research lab. This was used to the advantage of the Axonn government to create crossbreed human-katzians.

After the civil war they became smaller in size, with much of their industrial capacity being handed over to BM. They became much more focused on the production of prototype vehicles and their science department soon turned out to be far more capable, producing stronger medical consumables and significantly stronger and more dangerous gasses to be used in artillery and bombs. They were most known for the creation of the MBT Panther, designated as an advanced medium MBT by those involved in the development. The production of the Panther has since been handed over to MAR.

A new air portable railgun platform currently designated the LT-50 firing a 20 x 200 mm projectile from a 50 mm barrel is being made for the Araxian fallschirmjager airborne infantry.

Drachen Flugzeug (D-FZ)

A newer company responsible for the development of gunships for the imperial navy. Their most well produced gunship, the Gargoyle II serves in the imperial army as a transport gunship for the airborne infantry while the naval variant of this gunship named the Narwal is used as a long range recon and transport craft with its own hyperdrive. The company is partially state owned and they also produce expensive long range craft for rich civilians, these same vehicles are owned by tourist companies.

Focke-wulf RA (FW-RA)

Created after Araxia's entry into Ancerious, this small craft company is responsible for creating multi-role fighters and advanced interceptors. Their first interceptor, the Katzenhai (cat shark) was never used by the imperial navy, only the Katzenhai zwei was adopted and used as an advanced interceptor. Despite the lack of success in advanced fighter development, their new Tigerhai interceptor has made the OKRA interested again in advanced fighter designs.

Maschinenfabrik Ancerious-Raxia (MAR)

The main producer of logistics vehicles, they also build engines and a few other armored vehicles for the Reichswehr. Organized from smaller private companies into one larger partially state owned company producing logistics vehicles such as the MAR KAT1 and armored vehicles including the MBT Panther and Sd.Kfz. 20. They are also known for producing the Nebelwerfer 128 and Nebelwerfer 150 rocket system for the MAR KAT1 8x8 vehicles.

Spandau Arsenal (SA)

Spandau are an arms manufacturer, they are responsible for the design and development of heavy weapons such as mortars, artillery and automatic cannons. They are most well known for their KG-180 180mm smoothbore gun used on surface ships and armored vehicles. Due to their large amount of production capacity, they are often relied on to produce other small arms such as assault rifles and machine guns.

Walther Arms (WA)

Walther is a military arms manufacturer that are known for exporting their weapons to foreign nations. They design and produce most of the small arms used by the military, from pistols to heavy machine guns. Weapons such as the StG-08, StG-09, Gewehr 34 and the MG-02 are their design but due to their limited production capacity, they are sometimes forced to ask other companies to produce the weapons on their behalf.

Karth Manufacturing Arsenal (KMA)

One of the few companies in the Araxium empire that produces luxury arms, they are also sometimes called upon by the military to produce special rifles designed to be able to handle the special ammunition used by the Edelweiss family. Namely, 12.7x51mm enchanted magical rounds. Due to their extremely specific design and limited production numbers, these are essentially luxury arms made for the military, expensive and very well finished of extremely high quality. Their weapons are well known for being accurate, reliable and open to heavy customisation. The best known examples of their weapons are the Gewehr 500Z5 and the StG-65Z3, both of which are used exclusively by the Edelweiss sisters, Nyx and Wilhelmina Serhild von Edelweiss.

[Updated: 2nd October 2017]

Motorized infantry are the backbone of any Araxian ground army, armed and equipped to deal with all sorts of military missions for front line combat. And while not specifically trained as panzergrenadiers they are more than capable of operating alongside armored formations.

Motorized infantry platoon
The smallest unit organisation that operates independently with orders, while this does not mean they cannot operate without orders they are still independent and can act without orders if the situation needs them to do so. Their mode of transport is wheeled vehicles such as the MAR KAT1c 6x6, two of these vehicles are needed for one platoon to carry and transport the troops and their equipment around the battlefield.

Each platoon consists of 24-25 men organised into two rifle teams, one support weapon team, one engineer team and one armored vehicle. As part of the main infantry force, 21 men are present in the rifle teams, support weapon and engineer team. The remaining 3-4 men are a part of an armored force attached to the motorized infantry. Each rifle team consists of seven men armed in the following way; one machine gun, one semi-automatic shotgun, five assault rifles. The support weapon team of three men is usually armed with an anti-vehicle weapon such as an ATGM launcher or railgun/coilgun while other times they are armed with a mortar. While the engineer team of four men is armed with demolition charges, shotguns, carbines and flamethrowers.

Together these men make up one motorized infantry platoon. One leader from the two rifle teams is chosen as a platoon leader and will direct the support weapon team and machine gunners to fire at what targets. Engineers are mostly equipped based on what the situation needed.

Motorized infantry company
Exactly similar to the motorized infantry platoon, motorized infantry companies are made up of three platoons. The most senior of the three platoon leaders will be assigned as the company commander.

Motorized infantry battalion
Each battalion consists of ten companies. On this level of organization the battalion is considered fully independent and is given its own support organisations. Along with the ten companies of motorized infantry, there are five other support units including one signal unit, one motorized engineer platoon, one recon company, one motorized artillery company and one logistics company.

The signal unit allows the battalion to communicate and organize itself within the battalion or to communicate with other battalions, support arms such as CAS or high command. 40 men are assigned to four signal vehicles based on the MAR KAT1t 6x6 vehicle modified for the signal corps.

The engineer platoon consisting of 40 men and four recovery/engineering vehicles are responsible for the destruction or construction of bridges and fortified positions. Their recovery vehicles are used for the recovery of most Araxian vehicles up to 70 tons, meaning that most MBTs and assault guns are able to be recovered by the engineers without using specialist vehicles.

Recon companies are the eyes of the battalion, 80 men in 20 armored cars or light tanks are used as a recon force for finding the enemy or watching their movements before an assault. Most of their vehicles are lightly armed and armored and also fast, this is because of their nature as recon units carrying out passive and forced recon. Each of their vehicles are packed full of advanced detection equipment while their crews are trained to maximize their concealment within cover in order to avoid detection by enemy forces. However this does not mean that they can remain unseen forever.

Artillery can be considered the most essential weapon for an attack and defense. The motorized artillery company is made up of four batteries each with four guns, making up to a total of 16 guns and 64 men. The artillery company is spread all through the battalion's operational sector and is only allowed to fire upon targets given to them. After the bombardment is complete the battery is forced to shift firing locations to avoid counter fire by enemy artillery or counter strikes by enemy air units. Each gun of a battery fires four shells per bombardment and can take up to two minutes for gun crews to finish aiming their guns.

The last support company is the logistics company, made up of 80 men and 20 vehicles. Their responsibility is the transportation of ammunition, fuel, weapons and minor reinforcements to the front line. While the crews are not considered front line units they are still armed with carbines for personal defense in case they encounter the enemy or if they are required to transport wounded and prisoners away from the front line. At least five vehicles of the 20 in the logistics company are used as mobile medical stations.

Unlike the motorized infantry company, one ranked officer is assigned to the battalion at the orders from high command. Should this officer fall in combat or be rendered unsuited for command, the next most senior person will assume command.

Motorized infantry regiment
Each motorized infantry regiment is made up of four motorized infantry battalions. The regiment is led by a officer assigned at the orders of high command.

Motorized infantry division
Each motorized infantry division is made up of four motorized infantry regiment. Each division is led by a division officer and can operate under the direct command of a member of the OHKA (army high command). This is the second largest formation but still mixed into an army at this level of organization.

Motorized infantry corp.
Each motorized infantry corp. is made up of four motorized infantry divisions. Each corp. is led by the corp. officer and can operate under the direct command of a member of the OHKA (army high command). This is the largest formation before being mixed into an army.

Got really bored in class today and decided to make this list of things to do.

Redesign:

ASF-262 'JagdAdler'
- fatter/thinner fuselage
- shorter fuselage (height)
- re position of intakes
- add details to fuselage
Konigsberg Class light cruiser
- shorter hull (height)
- armament rework
ASP-225 'Zerstorer'
- digital version
2nd Gen Z Class destroyer 
- addition of more armament

New Variants:

MBT-140 Lowe (done-ish?)
- add internally loaded ATGM system (emerges out of turret roof when deployed)
- add external smoke grenade launchers
MBT-R127 Panther
- add on armament (rocket launchers, not AT rockets)
- light weight version (better suited for air drop, Fallschirmjager variant)
- add on ERA bricks
- add on schurzen
- add external smoke grenade launchers
Sd.Kfz. 5
- ATGM vehicle variant
- command vehicle variant
- HFS variant (Heavy Fire Support)
Sd.Kfz. 15
- ATGM vehicle variant
- command vehicle variant

New Stuffs:

LT-88 (done)
- Turbine engine
- 88mm gun
- external ATGM launcher
- small in size

Gargoyle II
- gunship

Banshee dive bomber
- Ju87 style sirens
- RREEEEEEEEEEE (sound of the siren)
- 1000kg bomb of f*ck you

Imperial Navy Carriers
- Rogue Class Carrier
- Acclamator Class
- Danzig Class
- Graf Zeppelin Class