Russian Maritime Forces

###### *From: Russia*

The **Russian Maritime Force** (Russian: Военно-морской Войска, *Voyenno-morskoi Boyska, "Military Maritime Force"*) or simply the RMF is the naval arm of the Russian Armed Forces, known colloquially as the **Red Fleet**, the Russian Navy has existed in various forms since it’s inception in 1696. The present iteration of the Russian Navy was formed on (O.S.) 7 Dekabris' 1636 (36A.C.) as a part of the St. Constantine Reformation which was specifically to serve as a security force in Russian waters and for service in the event of a conflict with opposing powers. But the Russian Navy's primary purpose in peacetime are the protection of state borders, provide support for land forces and the defeat of enemy military units, Cryptids and other species of monsters alike.

The RMF was divided into four major fleets: the \_, \_, \_, and Altay Fleet, in addition to the Akanamet Naval Base, which was commanded separately. It also had a smaller force, the \_, which operated in the \_. The Soviet Navy included Naval Aviation, Naval Infantry, and the Coastal Artillery.

Following the immediate plan for rapid modernization after the formation of the new Russian nation state in the New World the recovery of long lost industrial capabilities from the preceding Soviet Union had enabled a sort of ‘renaissance’ of the navy due to the increase of available shipbuilding capability allowing Russia to begin “developing the capacity to modernize”. Though slow and demanded the outsourcing of foreign nations drydocks the Russian Maritime Force has become one of the most powerful navies in the world, having a focus on constructing light units (destroyers, destroyer escorts, corvettes and patrol vessels), as well on refurbishing of old Soviet-era warships which all remains in reserve status stored in hidden facilities located around Russia.

# Season 0: "Brown Brown Waters"

### The Riverine Gunboat, Chatskrodaika (Avgust 1626 — Yanvar 1632)

The concept of a formal naval force formed from the remnants of the Soviet Union, which old world navy ships was almost destroyed in their entirety during the Cataclysm. But political infighting between splinter governments formed in Uuotovio prevented the Nova Nadezhayan government to form any significant maritime presence in Russia. During the Kem Troubles period, the only navy of significance belonged to Sovutskaya Mira, which were building the first ever warship in the world, the Chatskrodaika (Rossi: Чацкродайка) which was laid down in (O.S.) Avgust 1626 (26A.C.), after which National Police Forces stormed it's drydock and had the remains of the ship transferred to Nova Nadezhaya on 15 April after the fall of Sovutskaya Mira. Only half of Chatskrodaika and her 2A18 122mm D-30 howitzer installed and the entire superstructure missing but was pressed into service in the NPF irregardless.

Renamed to Kachilov (Rossi: Качилов), work on the ship was much delayed by the lack of adequate steel and provision of any technical literatures (which was presumed to have been destroyed during the drydock attacks) to enable the completion of the ship, which was now being carried out in the Nadezhayan port. The ship briefly took part in the Zhetikol Offensive where it provided artillery bombardment against The People's Commonwealth troops to soften their defences for the National Police Force. She was heavily damaging after being caught in a current and her diesel-electric generator failing to start-up on Yanvar 1632 and was grounded in the Vakhohodnoye valley river trying to catch up with NPF forces during Operation: Mountain Snatcher. At the end of the Kem Troubles Kachilov's wreck was rediscovered some 100 kilometers from her original resting place where the ship was broken up sometime between (O.S.) 1654.

Much of the lessons found in the usage of ships and the strong strategic potential of watercraft became much apparent to the Soviet Constituent Body. The rationale from supporters argued that a navy would protect shipping, defend the coast, and make it easier to seek out and reconnect with foreign countries. Detractors have countered that the need for a naval force would be too resource intensive and could not be a worthwhile investment when Russia was in an age of rebuilding, a state of affairs which would by this time already have been straining the fragile economies and limited materiel which was believed to be capable of singlehandedly setting back the rebuilding efforts from the governments of Uuotovio.

### Origins in the St. Constantine Reformation (7 Dekabris' 1636 — 7 Dekabris' 1709)

By the time of the St. Constantine Reforms the new Russian state had allowed the Russian Armed Forces to expand their military capabilities without the setbacks of civil war the Kem Troubles had made for the country. Much of the Russian sailors in the newly formed Russian Riverine Flotilla were selected from former NPF infantry, due to the Russians roots in land-based history, experience in expanding to a professional navy force in it's early stages and was dependent on surviving Soviet era documents and officers from the Soviet Red Navy for guidance. The first iteration of the Russian Riverine Flotilla started off with 200 sailors, 20 officers and uncounted land-based personnel on (O.S.) 7 Dekabris' 1636 (7 December 36A.C.) which were stationed in Tulukitsa to serve as security forces for Russia's growing sailing community, using conversions of sailing yachts and fishing boats as their flotilla's ships. By this time the mass numbers of Soviet era warships that still survived would have been allowed to decay to unserviceability or completely dissappeared. The more effective ships were built in 1655.

The first dedicated warships to be built in the Russian Riverine Flotilla (RRF) was ordered by the Russian government in 1655 for use in conducting operations against pirates and officially establish a permanent standing navy, the Russian Riverine Flotilla would have built 3 ships of the Opyt-class where they served as coastal defence ships. In the late-1600s, as the industrialisation of Russia proceeded, plans of expanding the Russian Riverine Flotilla into a blue water navy. By this time the RRF has set up it's foundations to transition, the first Naval Academy in Russia was built in Vidlitsa in 1658, and the RRF included plans to construct twelve warships. Additional developments included the introduction of heavy gun and armour factories in the allowed the Russians to build more powerful warships. In the early 1700s, under the leadership of Chief Naval Commander Yumalin Beremets, the RRF developed into a regional naval power, though naval construction was much slower than it's initial level during the 1660s.

### Beremets Period (1700s — 1730s)

While under Beremets, the Russian Riverine Flotilla would be renamed to the Russian Navy during the early (O.S.) 1700s (100s A.C.). The navy produced fewer ships but their doctrine would've shifted towards an emphasis on long-range operations and artillery guns. Modernisation efforts led by Beremets encompassed higher and higher educational, technical and doctrinal standards for personnel and commissioned officers. Training would also involve the use of semi-combined arms warfare adapted from old Soviet era military strategies involving surface / coastal defence ships into land / coastal operations allowed the Russian Navy's capabilities to grow tenfold, growing to 20 surface ships, allowing the Russian Navy to extend naval operations in the \_ Sea. Beremets' influence in shifting the Russian Navy to a green water navy has become so significant that historians have dubbed this period after him, even after his death in 1723 from petomoric mesothelioma the effects of his efforts to improve the Russian Navy would've carried on with successor Chief Naval Commanders Simoyan Gurevich who continued his legacy.

Building a Russian fleet did not become a national priority, as the need of navy ships in Europa was not as pressing in comparison to the advent of Russia expanding towards the east to the Kirov Mountains. The Russians also begun reaching out to other countries by this time, allowing the influx of competing navies and innovators, this meant that by the 1730s, budget for the Russian Navy would've been slashed 11.3%, marking the end of the Beremets period.

Following the end of the Beremets' period, the composition of the Russian Navy's fleet included:

* 2 battleships
* 4 armoured cruisers
* 2 sloops-of-war
* 2 schooners
* 10 gunboats

Included in the total in the Russian Navy of the Beremets' period are some four sail plan ships (Vsevolod-class sloops and other sail ships of various types.), some sixteen modern steam-powered warships were also built for the Russian Navy. Many of the vessels on the slips in Sankt Svritsy and Tulukitsa were cancelled and broken up (mainly due to budgetary restraints), but the Russian Navy also recieved small crafts from the Neuhebern (old name for Lebensbraum) as well as some improved rifled guns in exchange for allowing client states (Neuhebern and Gasqueuogó) to gain access to Russian drydocks and their heavy industry equipments.

In strategic planning laid by Russian naval strategists, the use of navy ships had little importance and recieved little attention in a time where supporting the land forces of the Russian Armed Force became a more apparent affair. Compounded with the lack of a need to compete with other navies in the growing European community. The Russian Navy still had the mission of confronting potential enemy navy forces, and the need for large surface vessels to carry powerful large-bore guns during the (O.S.) 1730s and the following decades of service. By this time the first modern battleships were first deployed, the Koskovolo-class were capable of operating at longer ranges and carried new powerful 2 yale (420 milimeters) guns; they were designed to operate for fleet defencee, primarily within range of friendly naval facilities.

### Beginning of the 1st Great Cryptid War (1 Sventyabr 1742 — 1 Yanvar 1800)

In the (O.S.) 1740s, as the industrialisation of Russia procceeded, the Russian Navy continued to stagnate as plans to continue the expansion of the Russian Red Army as one of the most powerful in the world. With approval from the AVRN (Rossi: Агентство военной разведки национальной безопасности, Agentstvo voyennoy razvedki natsional'noy bezopasnosti, "National Security Military Intelligence Agency") the Russian Navy's inventory begun to turn obsolete, thus plans to construct twelve modern warships; the first two being the Alekah-class light cruisers beginning 4 Noyabyr 1742, laid down in Mustovoy Bor, Kopanskoye Prefecture.

## Equipment

###### *Main Article: Equipment of the Russian Maritime Force*

The Russian Maritime Force has approximately 1,000+ ships in active service, with approximately 100 more either in the planning or under construction, this includes ships owned and leased by the RMF. Russian Maritime Force are not denoted by any prefix but instead uses hull numbers and a crew-served name prior to their commissioning.