Equipment¶
This page is a placeholder pending the equipment OOB build for the Confederated States of Ardun Territories.
Detailed equipment treatment for the Armed Forces of the Confederated States — service rifle, armour, IFVs, artillery, naval vessels, aircraft, air defence systems — will be drafted once the OOB data is generated under data/oobs/csat/ and the equipment catalog at data/equipment/csat.json is populated.
High-level description¶
Small arms¶
The Confederal Service Rifle is the standard issue across the AFCS — a domestically-designed modern rifle (specific designation TBD). The confederation operates a distinct rifle from the DPRR's AK-pattern weapon, reflecting CSAT's domestic small-arms design tradition and its peer-tier domestic production base.
Other small arms include the standard squad automatic weapon (designation TBD), a general-purpose machine gun, the standard sidearm, and the various squad-support weapons. Marines and Special Forces are equipped with selected specialised variants and additional weapons.
Armoured vehicles¶
The Confederal Army's armoured fleet is peer-tier domestically produced:
- Main battle tank: TBD (Confederal Heavy Industries; peer-tier modern MBT)
- Heavy IFV: TBD (heavy infantry fighting vehicle; the principal mechanised-infantry mount)
- Light IFV / wheeled APC: TBD (lighter wheeled platform; substantial inventory for motorised infantry and rear-area security)
- Self-propelled artillery: TBD (peer-tier 155mm and supporting systems)
- Self-propelled anti-tank: TBD
- Light reconnaissance vehicles: TBD
- Amphibious assault vehicles: TBD (Confederal Marines; specialised amphibious armour)
Artillery¶
The Confederal Army's artillery is peer-tier modern — smaller in volume than the RPA's mass artillery but qualitatively superior:
- Self-propelled tube artillery (155mm) — divisional and brigade-level
- Towed tube artillery — supporting and reserve roles
- Multiple Launch Rocket Systems (MLRS) — peer-tier domestic systems
- Heavy mortars — battalion and regimental level
- Anti-tank missile systems — peer-tier domestic ATGM
Naval vessels¶
Built by Confederal Naval Industries at the FEZ-port shipyards. The fleet operates peer-tier domestic surface combatants, diesel-electric attack submarines, the principal amphibious force in northern Sierra, and substantial coastal-defence infrastructure. See Navy.
Principal classes (designations TBD):
- Destroyers — flagship-class multi-role
- Frigates — general-purpose multi-role; bulk of the surface fleet
- Corvettes — coastal-tier multi-role
- Fast missile boats — anti-shipping platforms
- Submarines — diesel-electric attack
- LHD (Landing Helicopter Dock) — large amphibious assault ships
- LST (Landing Ship Tank) — vehicle-and-personnel landing ships
- Supporting auxiliaries — supply, hospital, intelligence-collection, mine countermeasures
Aircraft¶
Produced principally by the Confederal Aviation Industries complex (which builds domestically with FEZ-anchored foreign-partnership content):
- Multi-role fighters — peer-tier domestic; the principal AFCS fighter
- Strike / ground-attack aircraft — peer-tier domestic; the principal AFCS strike platform
- Long-range bombers / cruise-missile platforms — limited domestic production
- Maritime strike aircraft — domestic; principal anti-shipping aviation
- Maritime patrol aircraft — fixed-wing ASW and surveillance
- Helicopters — attack, transport, ASW, SAR; peer-tier domestic
- Transport aircraft — strategic and tactical domestic types
See Air Force.
Missile systems¶
The confederation produces a substantial peer-tier missile inventory domestically:
- Air-launched cruise missiles — subsonic and supersonic; air-to-ground and anti-shipping variants
- Sea-launched cruise missiles — ship and submarine-launched
- Anti-shipping missiles — sea-skimming subsonic and supersonic
- Surface-to-air missiles — long, medium, and short range
- Air-to-air missiles — beyond-visual-range and within-visual-range
- Anti-tank guided missiles — peer-tier
- Surface-to-surface tactical missiles — short and medium range
The missile inventory is one of the principal CSAT defence export categories.
Air defence systems¶
The country's air defence systems are among the most substantial in Sierra:
- Long-range SAM — peer-tier domestic; strategic air defence
- Medium-range SAM — peer-tier domestic; operational air defence
- Short-range air defence — tactical, attached to ground formations
- Man-portable air defence systems (MANPADS) — distributed to infantry
- Coastal anti-shipping batteries — shore-based anti-shipping missile systems
The air defence network is integrated through the National Air Defence Command's air-surveillance radar network and command-and-control systems.
Defence industrial base¶
| Firm | Specialty |
|---|---|
| Confederal Heavy Industries (CHI) | Main battle tanks, IFVs, military vehicles |
| Confederal Naval Industries (CNI) | Naval construction (surface and submarine); FEZ-port shipyards |
| Confederal Aviation Industries (CAI) | Military aircraft; aero-engines |
| Confederal Electronics and Missile Systems (CEMS) | Missile systems; electronics; command-and-control; FEZ-anchored |
| Confederal Munitions Authority (CMA) | Small arms, ammunition, artillery shells |
| Confederal Air Defence Industries (CADI) | Surface-to-air missile systems; radar; air defence electronics |
| Various FEZ technology partners | Specialised electronics, precision-munition components, FEZ-anchored production |
The defence industrial base is the most distinctive feature of the CSAT economy — peer-tier production across virtually all weapons categories, FEZ-anchored for foreign-currency and technology-partnership advantages, and substantial enough to support both the AFCS and a major export market.
The base has been operating at substantially elevated capacity since July 2026 — production rates approximately 140% of pre-war levels; new production lines for selected systems opened to replace combat losses; FEZ technology partnerships running at maximum sustainable rates given international restrictions.
CSAT is a net defence exporter to ESA (principally to the DPRR), to the Sur'Bari Sultanate and Sultanate of Tamzar (informal partners), and to various non-aligned states. Defence exports are the confederation's signature foreign-currency earner.
Equipment philosophy¶
Confederal equipment design philosophy is peer-tier modern combined-arms: prioritise quality at the per-unit level, accept lower production volumes than mass-equipped peer adversaries, design for integration across the combined-arms force, and lean on domestic production for political-strategic independence. The trade-off is quantitative — the AFCS operates less aggregate equipment than the RPA — but qualitative — Confederal equipment is consistently peer-tier with WDP equivalents, in contrast to the RPA's quantitatively-superior but qualitatively-inferior equipment fleet.
This philosophy aligns with the confederation's strategic posture and force structure. Modern combined arms operated by volunteer-professional cadre with selective conscript augmentation requires equipment that can be operated by competent personnel, integrated into peer-tier combined-arms operations, and produced at substantial-if-not-massive volumes.
The current war has, so far, vindicated the philosophy. The eastern-island operations succeeded because amphibious-doctrine and amphibious-equipment investment paid off. The Aegiran-Sea contest has been costly but not catastrophic because peer-tier ships and submarines and aircraft have held their own against peer-tier WDP coalition equipment. The Confederal Air Defence Command has held the principal national air-defence mission against WDP coalition strike pressure.
The principal remaining doctrinal question — and the one the current war's medium-term outcome will largely settle — is whether the peer-tier-but-quantitatively-limited model is sustainable against the aggregate WDP coalition's substantially greater combined force size.
Full equipment treatment forthcoming with the OOB build. Specific designations, model numbers, and capability details to be set by David per CSAT lore canon.