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[Blyatnik]

Operators of the mysterious 'Elbrus' IMC in Niger, 2016.
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With the consolidation of modern alliance blocs around the world, it is up to many countries to influence their non-direct adversaries and execute operations with contracted "Independent Military Contractor" groups, commonly called IMC units. Some are even contracted exclusively with one party, or government, to provide their full services to that party. Notably, the United States of America and the Russian Union use these groups as proxy soldiers, often supplying them with heavy equipment and even complete units with voluntarily discharged soldiers.

One such unit is the very mysterious and often brutal 'Elbrus' IMC, which is headquartered in Petrograd and is contracted and supplied by the Russian government. They are the largest known IMC, with 26,000 employees, 7,200 of which are combat operators. It operates much like a division or a brigade of the Russian KSSO (Special Operations Forces Command) but it uses loaned or bought heavy equipment as well. The chain of command follows almost precisely the government counterpart, it uses the same rifles, machineguns, and vehicles. They even operate artillery and heavy weapons such as the TSV-1A Heavy Interchangeable Weapons System. They operate few tanks, and no aircraft, although Elbrus possesses several dozen Mi-8 helicopters and variants, and some SA-330 Puma rotary-wing aircraft as well.

TSV-1A firing a Thermobaric Rocket, one of many in it's toolbox. Others include proximity, cluster, ground-penetrating, chemical, Napalm, and the standard HE/fragmentation.​

Elbrus operates mostly in Africa and the Middle East, in the wake of the Ottoman Collapse, the Ikhwan-Iran war, and the so-called "African-Chaos" in the gargantuan former Mittelafrika colony, where they often clash with Japanese, German, and Nationalist French IMCs or supporting faction's forces. Often, Elbrus played in a defensive or counteracting role, to prevent geopolitical adversaries of Russia from obtaining their goals, rather than actually benefitting Russia directly. Elbrus' most famous use, Operation Solntsepyok, was a mass assault and seizing of TerraUnitus Corporation assets across Africa and Central Asia, securing advanced weapons research and hundreds of millions of Yen worth of equipment and liquid assets, some of which were turned over, but most kept as transferred assets and made Elbrus fabulously wealthy. The average Elbrus operator in the field makes about triple what the average Russian soldier does, although issues with the comparatively high death rate and brutality stem their numbers.

Members of Veritas, an IMC/Militia commonly contracted by the United States government, training in Arizona
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One of the other most notable, and largest IMC groups, is Veritas. While they are not as heavily equipped as Elbrus, most of their members are current or former Special Operations Forces members, and are extremely well supplied with intelligence and often use infantry portable mortars, anti-tank weapons, and grenade launchers in lieu of vehicles. This is how most IMCs operate, or at least the rich and powerful ones.

 

[Twiggierjet]

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Operators of the mysterious 'Elbrus' IMC in Niger, 2016.
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With the consolidation of modern alliance blocs around the world, it is up to many countries to influence their non-direct adversaries and execute operations with contracted "Independent Military Contractor" groups, commonly called IMC units. Some are even contracted exclusively with one party, or government, to provide their full services to that party. Notably, the United States of America and the Russian Union use these groups as proxy soldiers, often supplying them with heavy equipment and even complete units with voluntarily discharged soldiers.

One such unit is the very mysterious and often brutal 'Elbrus' IMC, which is headquartered in Petrograd and is contracted and supplied by the Russian government. They are the largest known IMC, with 26,000 employees, 7,200 of which are combat operators. It operates much like a division or a brigade of the Russian KSSO (Special Operations Forces Command) but it uses loaned or bought heavy equipment as well. The chain of command follows almost precisely the government counterpart, it uses the same rifles, machineguns, and vehicles. They even operate artillery and heavy weapons such as the TSV-1A Heavy Interchangeable Weapons System. They operate few tanks, and no aircraft, although Elbrus possesses several dozen Mi-8 helicopters and variants, and some SA-330 Puma rotary-wing aircraft as well.

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TSV-1A firing a Thermobaric Rocket, one of many in it's toolbox. Others include proximity, cluster, ground-penetrating, chemical, Napalm, and the standard HE/fragmentation.​

Elbrus operates mostly in Africa and the Middle East, in the wake of the Ottoman Collapse, the Ikhwan-Iran war, and the so-called "African-Chaos" in the gargantuan former Mittelafrika colony, where they often clash with Japanese, German, and Nationalist French IMCs or supporting faction's forces. Often, Elbrus played in a defensive or counteracting role, to prevent geopolitical adversaries of Russia from obtaining their goals, rather than actually benefitting Russia directly. Elbrus' most famous use, Operation Solntsepyok, was a mass assault and seizing of TerraUnitus Corporation assets across Africa and Central Asia, securing advanced weapons research and hundreds of millions of Yen worth of equipment and liquid assets, some of which were turned over, but most kept as transferred assets and made Elbrus fabulously wealthy. The average Elbrus operator in the field makes about triple what the average Russian soldier does, although issues with the comparatively high death rate and brutality stem their numbers.

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Members of Veritas, an IMC/Militia commonly contracted by the United States government, training in Arizona
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One of the other most notable, and largest IMC groups, is Veritas. While they are not as heavily equipped as Elbrus, most of their members are current or former Special Operations Forces members, and are extremely well supplied with intelligence and often use infantry portable mortars, anti-tank weapons, and grenade launchers in lieu of vehicles. This is how most IMCs operate, or at least the rich and powerful ones.

I am interested more in this scenario. Who won out in Russia and the US during the events of the game?

 

[Kol]

Air marshal ( Kūgun-gensui ) Hirokuni Muta the first commander in chief of the imperial Japanese Air Force 1949-1967
with the passing of the "Matsumoto amendments" and the creation of the Defense Ministry under Seiichi Omura. The reorganize of the Armed Forces of the empire of Japan was especially felt with the creation of the of a separate Air Force branch. Hirokuni Muta him self was personally appointed by Seiichi Omura and was given the rank of Kūgun-gensui or Air marshal. As air Marshal he personally lead the push to modernize the newly formed air force with a special focus on jet aircraft. His downfall came in the late 60s when he was implicated in the cause of the Korean Strait crisis of the 1950s in particular of his failure to stop subordinate officers from initiating the crisis. He was a noted hawk on Korea and Russia ,he also had strong sympathies towards the accord.

 

[Kol]

Burmese army officer

 

[theman822]

French students in the streets of Paris denounce the continued presence of German troops throughout the country, 1968. Protesters also denounced the ruling Bourbon dynasty, which was restored following what was seen as a massively rigged referendum in '47, and the harshness of German de-Syndicalization efforts which effectively destroyed French democracy, syndicalist or not. The protests were outright supported by the French government-in-exile in the US, and countries like Russia and the Danubian Federation were sympathetic, which Kaiser Louis Ferdinand denounced as "pure proof of Moscow and Vienna's meddling in French affairs." Similar protests occured in countries under German influence like Hungary, North Italy and Greece.

 

[Kol]

Kim Koo giving a rousing speech while standing in front of a slogan that says “Up with an independent great Korea”. The Korean provisional government or KPG officially known as the provisional government of the republic of Korea. had a odd relationship with the newly independent Indian governments in the north, well they had support in china ranging from warlords to the KMT and federalists as well as Indo Chinese independence movement internationally it was supported by anti-Japanese germans and Third international however in India it was divided between those who consider supporting The Korean provisional government as a anti-colonial duty and those who considered Japanese support to be more important. with the INC Bing split between those on the left Who were supportive of the KPG and those on the right who we’re not and considered Korea to be unimportant to the anti-colonial cause. The tensions came to ahead one a Korean revolutionary assassinated the Japanese Ambassador to free India

 

[Deleted member 82792]

The Island of Lundy, Union of Britain. During the British Revolution, it was home to the short-lived Kingdom of Lundy.

 

[Lalli]

Mikhail Tukhachevsky

During Russian Civil War he served on Red Army but when Bolsheviks were losing the war, he quickly deserted to winning side. He climbed rapidly on ranks of Russian army and was one of masterminds on reforming the army.

During Second Welktrieg he acted as one of major commanders on Eastern Front. In 1942 he tried capture Warsaw but he was defeated after bitter and disastrous battle and Tukhachevsky commited suicide.

Georgy Zhukov

Zhukov served on Red Army during Russian Civil War but he changed side when Bolsheviks were losing the war. He managed climb on ranks of Russian army. During Second Weltkrieg he firstly served on Caucasian front but later he was sent to Eastern front. There anyway Germans and other Allies pushed Russians backward and on early February some nukes were used by Germans. At this point for Zhukov it was clear that Russia was losing the war but leadership was stubborn and very willingful fight to bitter end.

Zhukov managed to convinse other military commanders that the regime must go. On February 27, 1945 he launched succesful military coup and then March 3 Russia sued peace and surrended unconditionally such ending Second Weltkrieg. After the war monarchy was restored. Zhukov served yet many years as advisor of army of new Russia.

 

[Lalli]

One of last photos of pope St. Pius XII (as pope in 1939 - 1940)

Pope Pius XII was staunch opponent of syndicalism already before him became pope. When new great war break out in 1940 the pope called whole Christiandom battle against these "pawns of Satan". On October Syndicalist Italy succesfully invaded Rome. Pius anyway decided not flee despite that many cardinals asked him to do so. The pope was praying at St. Peter's Basilica when Italian army stormed the building. There they found Pius and killed him making him first martyred pope in over 1500 years. Several cardinals anyway managed to flee to Palermo on Sicily where they elected new pope.

Assassination of pope Pius XII caused lot of enrage around. Even Commune of France was quiet worried aobut that but probably only because it knew how bad they now would look like. The late pope was canonised rapidly already in 1951.

 

[Deleted member 82792]

A flock of sheep in London, 1926. They were introduced into London's parks shortly after the Revolution to help keep the grass under control and save the local unions lower the coast in mowing.

 

[Deleted member 82792]

Benito Mussolini giving a speech in Torino, SRI. 1934

 

[Deleted member 82792]

A pin-up poster for the United States/Federalist paratroopers. C.1938

 

[Deleted member 82792]

Robot-sumo. A popular hoppy/sport for engineers in the Empire of Japan and the Pacific States of America

 

[Deleted member 82792]

Street food in Los Angeles, Pacific States of America

 

[Deleted member 82792]

The Wuppertaler Schwebebahn ("Wuppertal Suspension Railway") in Wuppertal. German Empire, 2022

 

[Deleted member 82792]

Following the British Exodus, the former Royal residence of Buckingham Palace was converted into a museum by the newly formed Syndicalist government. Today it holds the largest collection of British artefacts and items showcasing Britain before and after the Revolution.

 

[Deleted member 82792]

The Border Wall separating the Pacific States and the CSA. C.2022

 

[Blyatnik]

Object 701, also known as the M-46​

In late 1944, with the age of 76mm guns and short barreled cannons showing, a new tank was needed to push the German forces away from key Russian cities and also provide a sturdy gun platform for anti-tank duties against the ever increasing hordes of Reichspakt armor. The Object 701, submitted by the Omsk Military Metallurgical Combine and the Omskmontazh factories created an low-cost, reliable heavy tank that did not use much advanced technology, but had significant armor and firepower. A simple to make vehicle, with a one-piece cast turret, and a two-piece cast hull welded in the middle of the tank just behind the turret, proved to be a winning design. The Volgograd Artillery Plant contributed to the Design the S-30 130mm rifled cannon, with a nominal range of 4,500m and a nominal penetration, using Armor piercing ammunition; of 270mm at 1,000 meters. The tank was equipped with a gun stabilization system and a ready rack of shells was placed behind the loader, with a three-man turret, gunner, loader, commander. The driver was situated in the front of the hull, where he controlled the tank with an assisted dual-lever system to steer. The tank underwent trials in march of 1945, being accepted, with minor changes, in May. The tank was upgraded to a production standard with a new rangefinder and updated stabilizer, providing 35% stability at 35km/h, as well as a 870 horsepower engine for much better speed and torque.

In June of 1946, the 108th Guards Tank division, pulled from the lines at Daugavplis and retrained on the new tank. They re-entered frontline combat on July 16th, at Okhtyrka, where the newly equipped tankers smashed a force of German Panzer V Panther tanks, and took the city with minimal losses among the 108th. Along with the T-44M and T-45 Medium tanks, the M-46 Heavy tank would be the third most produced tank of the war.

 

[Kol]

The start of the central American Civil War

a Escuela Politécnica national military academy mutineer
The defeat of the revolutionary republic of Nicaragua in Central American unification wars sent President Augusto César Sandino and his allies into exile in Mexico throughout the 40s; the national sovereignty front and associates kept a low profile. concurrently in The newly formed central American republic, The remaining socialist and leftist groups formed into the National revolutionary party however their activities are suppressed by the new government alongside liberal groups such as the union party. By the 1950s the economic situation in Central America began to deteriorate as the prices of agricultural exports such as cotton and coffee dropped. In 1957 The national revolutionary party got in contact with the national sovereignty front which has since late 40s absorbed the liberal revolution and peasant parties into itself, this led to discussion between the leaders of the National revolutionary party and the sovereignty front. in a meeting between Ramon Raudales representing National sovereignty front and Carlos Fonseca Amado representing the revolutionary party agreed for a merger of the two into a united organization

Carlos Fonseca

founding of the people's revolutionary party

At the first national Congress of the People's revolutionary party in Mexico City formally dissolved both the national sovereignty front and National revolutionary party . Both old names continue to be used as a form of cover for the new party, it was decided at the Congress that they would use the armed struggle as opposition to the Ubico dictatorship. In 1959 the People's Revolutionary party approved a "people's war"

National guard of Central America crushing the Managua uprising in the early stages of the Civil War
the Front and the popular army
with the adoption of the people's war resolution, the strategy for armed struggle was finalized with it came the formation of the Military Department to control the military aspects of the struggle its first action was to launch A series of uprisings ranging from the Managua uprising to the mutiny at Escuela Politécnica national military academy this led into a form several base areas along the border with Mexico and in the departments of Izabal and Zacapa As well as in the Sierra de las Minas verdure they also established base areas in Las Segovias. their force was initially called Milicias Populares Anti Ubico or Anti Ubico Popular Militias (MILPAU) ; it was later changed to the popular army of Central America (ejercito popular de centroamerica;EPCA) in 1961. The "2d Liberation Battalion" ambushed two companies of Central American soldiers in September 1959, the first large unit military action of the war.This was considered the beginning of the "armed struggle". The PPR created the Centroamerican liberation front(Frente de liberación centroamericano;FDLCA ) as a "united front", or political branch intended to encourage the participation of non-socialists.The group's formation was announced by Radio and its ten-point manifesto called for, "overthrow the disguised colonial regime of the imperialists and the dictatorial administration, and to form a national and democratic coalition administration."Violence between the FDLCA and government forces soon increased drastically from 180 clashes in January 1960 to 545 clashes in September.

@Brave Soldier 10-4

 

[Kurt_Steiner]

"S-34", the first prototype of the Lockheed F-5 Lightning, which began its life as a reconnoissance plane and would eventually be transformed into the P-38 Lightning, a failed heavy fighter but a superb night interceptor.