-Celibrae- wrote:Within the Army there are two elements:
The Army Ground Force, which include both the Regular Force, which constitutes three active mechanised divisions and a light role division in two corps, and the Territorial Force, which constitutes a further two reserve corps. It also includes the Army Helicopter Corps as an administrative element.
This isn't anything special. Basically every armed force with a modern combined arms aspect has the division of labor among itself and has commands who attend academies to learn their given role.
The Army Flying Corps on the other hand acts as frontline aviation, using strike fighters for interdiction and CAS, but with little doctrinal focus on air defence, primarily because their aircraft aren't particularly modern.
This is fine basically since it's what Army Aviation/Front Aviation does.
Further, within the Navy, there are five elements:
The Combined Fleet, which controls all ships. Also a few battalions of marines for security and possibly light infantry/special purposes.
The Fleet Air Arm, which operates carrier-borne aircraft.
The Coastal Air Arm, which operates maritime patrol and strike aircraft.
Fighter Command, which handles territorial air defence.
Bomber Command, which handles deep penetration bombing.
This is fine basically, but again, essentially any (major/middle) Navy has this or something similar. It's just a bunch of different names and positions for them.
I'm not sure about what to do with land-based nuclear weapons, though. With air-launched nuclear bombs and cruise missiles, and SLBMs, it'd seem quite redundant to add a land-based strategic element: Just allocate tactical nukes to corps, maybe? Plus, I'm not sure whether to cross-attach Fighter Command and Bomber Command or give Bomber Command dedicated escort squadrons.
If you have missiles, Strategic Rocket Command, or give them to your Airforce.
Give bombs and ALCMs to command of respective Maritime and Airforce units.
The Soviet command structure was very centralized, and these forces were unique to the USSRs air doctrine. There were variations of the Armys troops, like Fronter troops who defended the interior of the USSR and guarded key installations. These were sometimes folded into the KGB guards but we're actually troops of the Army, and this is really the only true notable deviation from what a euro-centric military mindset might be farmiliar with in the Armys normal organization.
Basically all of the differences in the Soviet structure and their 4 gorillion branches came from in the Airforces and that had a combination of reasons.