Cascadian People's Ground Army

## History

The Cascadian People's Ground force was formed After the Cascadian Socialist Revolution, It had been formed from the Anarchist, Socialist, and Communist Armies which later lead to them intervening in the Russian civil war. They would Later see action in World War 2 against the United states and would Gain aid from the CSA Via Lend-lease. The Army also saw action in the Africa Sending aid and later soldiers in the first and second Congo Wars. they Still Support the Communist Afghan Government and continue to send aid to them against the Taliban and the Northern alliance. They at one point attempted to Intervene in the Korean war But due to Lack of enthusiasm and Lack of capability to transport troops over they saw minimal action in the Korean war.

## Current status

The Cascadian People's Ground forces is one of the Largest in number, But due to lack of military care they have outdated equipment. Plans have been made to modernize the equipment and have been successful thus far Making them still a dominant and strong Power over many others on the American continent. The active army force is 950,000 in Number with 7,620,000.

## Equipment

The Ground Army has a mix of domestic and imported equipment in their army. Many of these items are Soviet made or Produced in China.

The Cascadian people's army strength is 7,620,000 reserves troops, 4,300 tanks, 2,500 armored vehicles, 8,600 artillery guns, 5,500 multiple rocket launchers.

## Armor

Medium tanks:

Type 59-Amount in inventory-175

T-62-Amount in Inventory-800

Tulalip-Amount in Inventory-1,000

Main Battle Tanks:

T-72S-Amount in Inventory-Unknown

Umpqua-Amount in Inventory-1,000+

Amphibious Light tanks:

PT-76-Amount in Inventory-550

PT-85-Amount in Inventory-More than 50 tanks

Armored Personal Carriers & Infantry fighting Vehicles:

Infantry fighting Vehicles:

BMP-1-Amount in Inventory-100

Type 63-Amount in inventory-Unknown

Model 2003-Amount in Inventory-Unknown

Armored Personal Carriers:

BTR-60PB-Amount in Inventory-1,000

BTR-80A-Amount in Inventory-35

Model 2009-Amount in inventory- N/A

Model 2009 (6 x 6 version)-Amount in Inventory- N/A

BRDM-2-Amount in Inventory-Unknown

Other Vehicles:

Mercedes G class

UAZ-3151

Iveco 90.17 WM

Ural-4320

FAW MV3

Volvo FM

MAZ-7310

WS-51200 TEL

## Artillery

the Cascadian People's Army has a Massive Amount of Artillery to use for defensive and offensive purposes.

Mortars:

Mortars-Various-Amount in inventory-10,000+

Artillery Pieces:

M-1985-Amount in inventory-Unknown

M-1981-Amount in inventory-Unknown

M-1978-Amount in inventory-Unknown

180 mm gun S-23-Amount in inventory-Unknown

M-1975-Amount in inventory-Unknown

M-1974-Amount in inventory-Unknown

M-1992-Amount in inventory-Unknown

M-1991-Amount in inventory-Unknown

Model-2020-Amount in inventory-Unknown

SU-100-Amount in inventory-Unknown

Rocket Artillery:

Type 63-Amount in inventory-4,000

BM-21 "Grad"-Amount in inventory-Unknown

RM-70-Amount in inventory-Unknown

BMD-20-Amount in inventory-200

BM-24-Amount in inventory-500

M1985/M1991-Amount in inventory-200+

HN-09-Amount in inventory-10

## Weapons

RPG-2

RPG-7 (Local production with Tandem warhead)

Type 69 RPG (Chinese copy of the RPG-7)

Rainier Launcher (Locally Produced)

ATGMs:

AT-1 Snapper (Retired)

AT-2 Swatter (reserved)

AT-3 Sagger (Local production under the name Fir-1)

AT-4 Spigot (Local Production under the name Fir-2)

AT-5 Spandrel (locally produced)

AT-7 Metis

AT-9 Spiral-2

AT-14 (Locally Produced as Fir-3)

Recoiless rifles:

B-10 Recoiless rifle

B-11 Recoiless rifle

SPG-9 (Produced Locally)

Towed Anti tank Cannon:

152mm extended D-20 Derivative

SA-7 MANPADS (locally produced)

SA-14 MANPADS (locally produced)

SA-16 MANPADS (locally produced)

SA-18 MANPADS (locally produced)

FIM-92A (locally produced)

HN-5A (locally produced)

Anti Aircraft Artillery:

ZPU-4 (locally produced)

ZU-23-2

M1939

SPAAG:

ZSU-57-2

ZSU-23-4

M1984 14.5mm (locally produced)

M1985 57 mm (locally produced)

M1992 30 mm (locally produced)

M1992 37 mm (locally produced)

FN Browning M1900

Makarov pistol

TT-30 pistol

Type 70 (Locally made copy of the FN M1900 Chambered in .32 ACP)

Mountaineer Pistol (locally made copy of the CZ-75 Pistol)

Norinco NZ-75

FN Baby Browning (Issued to Spies)

CZ-82

Inglis Hi-Power

Sub-Machine Guns:

PPS-43 (Both Soviet PPS submachine guns and Chinese Type 54s)

M3 (Limited supply used for Spies.)

M56

Sterling Sub-Machine gun

PP-19 Bizon (Extremely rare. Issued to elite special operations force units.)

vz.61 (Used by special force units, and spies.)

Shotguns:

KS-23

Assault Rifles:

vz.58

Type 56 (Produced Locally)

Type 63

Norinco CQ (Limited use, issued to special force members)

M16A1 (Limited use, unlicensed locally made copies, issued to special force members.)

Type 58 (Standard Issue rifle)

Type 68 (slowly supplanted by the Type 88 or 98)

Type 88 (Slowly supplanting the Type 68 as the future standard issue rifle)

Type 11 (first bullpup design, Usage is limited)

Sniper rifles:

Dragunov SVD

PSL

M76

Light Machine Guns:

RPK

PKM

RPD

Type 11 (Indigenous design based on the Vz.52 machine gun and the Kalashnikov PK Machine gun design)

Nikonov Machine gun

DP-27

GN-2 (Indigenous gatling-type, chambered to fire 7.62x54mm rounds)

Heavy Machine Guns:

DShKM (Standard issue)

KPV

Indigenous 14.5x114mm gatling gun

Grenade Launchers:

GP-25

AGS-17

AGS-30

Non lethal:

ZM-87 (Used to illuminate 2 CSA Apache helicopters in 2003)