Equipment

The LDF's equipment is a mix of late-Continental-Wars-era systems and modern modernisation tranches. The country has a substantial domestic small-arms-manufacturing capability — leveraging the strong gun-culture industrial base — that gives the LDF independence in the rifle, pistol, and squad-weapon categories. Heavier systems (main battle tanks, IFVs, modern aircraft, naval combatants) are imported principally from Volnia, Aegira, Choktovakia, and (selectively) Arcadia and Gorlund.

This page is a top-level summary; the detailed equipment inventory for the LDF — service rifles, mechanized vehicles, naval combatants, aircraft, and supporting equipment — is being built out alongside the broader Europa equipment database under data/equipment/livonia/.

Land force standard inventory

Category	Standard item	Notes
Service rifle	Domestic 5.56mm modular rifle	The principal product of the Livonian small-arms industry; in standard issue across the LDF and the LTDF
Service pistol	Domestic 9mm pistol	Locally-manufactured; widely exported
Squad automatic weapon	Domestic 5.56mm/7.62mm SAW	Locally-manufactured
Medium machine gun	7.62mm GPMG	Mixed sourcing
Heavy machine gun	12.7mm pattern	Vehicle and crew-served
Sniper rifle	Domestic 7.62mm/.338 precision rifle	Locally-manufactured; the Livonian sniper rifle is an established export item
Anti-tank rocket	Locally-produced shoulder-fired rocket	Squad-level anti-armour; substantial inventory
Recoilless rifle	MAAWS	Standard recoilless weapon
Anti-tank guided missile	Volnian and Choktovakian sourced ATGM	Platoon-level anti-armour; substantial inventory across all formations including the LTDF
Mortar	60mm, 81mm, 120mm	Standard mortar inventory
Field artillery	155mm towed and self-propelled	Volnian and Choktovakian sourced
Rocket artillery	Multi-barrel rocket launchers	Northern Command priority

Mechanized force

Category	Standard item	Notes
Main battle tank	Modernised Volnian-pattern MBT	Small fleet, concentrated in Northern Command 1st Mechanized Brigade
Infantry fighting vehicle	Modernising mixed fleet	Modernisation programme ongoing; supplemental funding from the Continuation War budget
Armoured personnel carrier	Mixed late-Continental-Wars-era fleet with modern additions	Standard motorised infantry transport
Reconnaissance vehicle	Wheeled armoured car	Reconnaissance battalions
Self-propelled artillery	Volnian-pattern SP gun	Brigade artillery
Engineer vehicles	Standard combat-engineer pattern	Including the substantial Halenveld forest-operations engineer assets
Light tactical vehicles	Mixed; substantial locally-produced fleet	Motorised infantry mobility

Naval inventory

See the Navy page for the surface-fleet inventory. Summary:

Class	Type	Source	Number
Valdris-class	Light frigate	Aegiran-design, locally-assembled at Akmaron	4
Halenveld-class	Patrol corvette	Volnian-design, locally-modernised	6
Akmaron-class	Coastal patrol vessel	Locally-built (Akmaron)	~16
Forest-class	Inshore patrol vessel	Locally-built	~22
Korven-class	Minehunter	Aegiran-built	4
Liberation-class	Auxiliary/training	Locally-built	4

Air inventory

See the Air Force page for full details. Summary:

Type	Source	Number
Modern multi-role fighter	Aegiran-sourced	~20
Legacy multi-role fighter	Volnian-sourced; late-Continental-Wars-era	~20
Ground-attack aircraft	Mature platforms	~12
Medium transport aircraft	Aegiran and Arcadian sources	~16
Maritime patrol aircraft	Aegiran-sourced	~10
Reconnaissance aircraft (manned + UAV)	Mixed	~6
Attack helicopters	Modern; Aegiran-sourced	~14
Armed reconnaissance helicopters	Mixed sources	~12
Medium utility helicopters	Mixed sources	~22
Light utility helicopters	Mixed sources	~14
Search and rescue helicopters	Aegiran-sourced	~10

Ground-based air defence

Category	Item	Notes
Medium-range SAM	Modern system	Northern Highlands belt; integrated with Chartanian sensors
Point defence SAM	Multiple systems	Valdris, Sarmen, Korven mining infrastructure
Coastal SAM	Anti-ship/anti-air dual capability	Akmaron, Sarmen, Lanven
Air-defence radar	Modern network	Integrated with Navy sensors
MANPADS	Standard issue	Infantry units across the LDF and the LTDF

LTDF equipment

The LTDF maintains a separate but substantial weapons-and-equipment stockpile. See the LTDF page for organisation. Summary of equipment categories:

Category	Notes
Service rifles	Modern Livonian-manufactured 5.56mm rifles; substantial standing stockpile, with significant proportion stored in private homes by registered reservists
Squad weapons	SAW, light machine guns, anti-tank rocket launchers, ATGM in selected concentrations
Anti-tank weapons	Substantial inventory; the LTDF holds the country's principal anti-armour stockpile by total count
MANPADS	Substantial inventory; Halenveld and Northern Highlands districts particularly well-equipped
Communications	Modern encrypted radio sets in significant numbers
Vehicles	Civilian vehicles in the registered LTDF reserve pool; selected LTDF-owned utility vehicles
Medical, civil-protection, engineering	District-level standing inventory

The LTDF stockpile is larger in total small-arms count than the active-LDF stockpile.

Standardisation and procurement

The LDF's procurement principles reflect the country's small size, its SNAM neutrality, and its strategic exposure:

• Major-platform sourcing across multiple bloc suppliers — Volnia, Aegira, Choktovakia, and selectively Arcadia and Gorlund. The deliberate diversification prevents single-supplier dependence and keeps SNAM neutrality credible
• Avoidance of ESA platforms — the LDF does not operate ESA equipment, both for political reasons and because the principal CSAT adversary uses ESA-pattern systems
• Strong domestic small-arms capacity — the Livonian small-arms industry produces rifles, pistols, SAW, sniper rifles, and selected squad weapons that supply the LDF and the LTDF and are a substantial export item
• Domestic shipyards — the Akmaron yards produce small naval combatants and the Aegiran-design Valdris-class light frigates under license
• Standardisation with Chartania in radios, signals, IFF, fuels, and certain ammunition types — a practical consequence of the Defence Understanding
• International Detachment equipment funded as a separate line, kept to higher modernisation standards than the line force

Equipment modernisation priorities (2026–)

The General Staff's published priorities through the late 2020s, in priority order:

1. Northern Command mechanized brigades — full IFV and APC modernisation (the principal CSAT-frontier requirement)
2. Air-defence network modernisation (medium-range SAM and radar) — accelerated by the Continuation War supplemental
3. Naval modernisation: additional Valdris-class frigates and Halenveld-class corvettes
4. Air Force multi-role fighter modernisation completion
5. LTDF stockpile expansion — additional rifles, ATGM, and MANPADS to support the Reserve roll growth
6. Halenveld engineer and mobility modernisation
7. Attack-helicopter fleet expansion

The Continuation War has compressed some of these timelines. The Northern Command mechanized modernisation, the air-defence expansion, and the LTDF stockpile expansion have been accelerated. The naval modernisation and the fighter modernisation are on schedule.

Notes

• The Livonian small-arms industry is a strategic asset and a foreign-currency earner: Livonian rifles, pistols, and squad weapons are widely exported across SNAM and increasingly in WDP markets. The federal government regulates exports tightly under the Federal Arms Export Act.
• The country is not a major heavy-systems exporter. Heavy export is limited to the Akmaron shipyards' small commercial and naval craft to MTF partners and selected SNAM customers.
• Detailed LDF unit organisation, equipment counts per unit, and OOB stat blocks for the Fireteam rulebook context are pending. The Livonian Defence Forces are not the canonical OPFOR or BLUFOR for any current Fireteam scenario, though they are a plausible BLUFOR for future SNAM-vs-CSAT scenario kits.