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− | #{{note|Chief}}{{note label|Chief|1|a}} The CDS is assumed to be the seniormost rank in the Defence Forces for the purposes of command and ceremonial precedence. | + | #{{note|Chief}}{{note label|Chief|1|a}} The CDS is assumed to be the seniormost rank in the Defence Forces for the purposes of command and ceremonial precedence. The DGP is entitled to precede the CDS by right of ministerial precedence of the Interior Ministry within the [[Council of Ministers (Isselmere-Nieland)|Chancery]]. |
#{{note|Heads}}{{note label|Heads|2|a}}{{note label|Heads|2|b}}{{note label|Heads|2|c}} These ranks are granted to one serving individual within that service. The respective Chiefs of Staff are considered the seniormost officers in the service and are themselves subject to the will of the Crown. Persons with those ranks are granted life peerages with the rank of baron. | #{{note|Heads}}{{note label|Heads|2|a}}{{note label|Heads|2|b}}{{note label|Heads|2|c}} These ranks are granted to one serving individual within that service. The respective Chiefs of Staff are considered the seniormost officers in the service and are themselves subject to the will of the Crown. Persons with those ranks are granted life peerages with the rank of baron. | ||
#{{note|Honorific}}{{note label|Honorific|3|a}}{{note label|Honorific|3|b}}{{note label|Honorific|3|c}} These ranks were wartime ranks granted to one individual within each service held only for the duration of that person's service. The rank may be rescinded by the state for dishonourable behaviour. | #{{note|Honorific}}{{note label|Honorific|3|a}}{{note label|Honorific|3|b}}{{note label|Honorific|3|c}} These ranks were wartime ranks granted to one individual within each service held only for the duration of that person's service. The rank may be rescinded by the state for dishonourable behaviour. |
Revision as of 22:55, 20 January 2007
The United Kingdom of Isselmere-Nieland Defence Forces (UKINDF) are the armed forces of Isselmere-Nieland. Since the Deactivation Act of 2006, the UKINDF are an all-volunteer organisation with over 58 million personnel in active service, consisting of approximately 2.21 per cent of the labour force or 0.845% of the total population. The UKINDF comprise the following branches of service:
- the Royal Isselmere-Nieland Navy (RINN), which includes the Royal Isselmere-Nieland Marines (RINM), the Fleet Air Arm (FAA), the (Navy) Strategic Defence Force (SDF), and the Coastal Defence Force (CDF);
- the Isselmere-Nielander Army (INA); and,
- the Royal Isselmere-Nieland Aerospace Force (RINAF).
The Minister of Defence and the Minister of State for the Defence Forces administer the UKINDF, with secretaries of State supervising the respective services. Overarching control of the UKIN-DF flows from the Defence Council of the External Affairs Section of the Council of State, chaired by the Sovereign and the Prime Minister.
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UKINDF Rank Structure
Ranks according to modified RL NATO rank structure, with warrant officers officially considered part of "Other Ranks" rather than as a separate stratum.
Note on insignia: For enlisted personnel, chevrons are point down, with rank on upper arm, forearm on dress uniforms if warrant officer (upper arm on duty uniforms). Officer ranks in Navy and Air Force on lower sleeves in dress or garrison uniforms, on epaulettes on duty uniforms. If body armour is worn, rank is on chest. Naval officer bands and bars are surmounted by loop inscribed with an initial or symbol denoting branch of service. Air force officer bands and bars are surmounted by a stylised tern with the symbol of branch of service within its claws.
Code | Ministerial Ranks | ||||
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Minister of Defence | Minister of the Interior | ||||
Minister of State for the Armed Forces | Minister of State for Public Safety | ||||
Code | RINN | RINM | INA | RINAF | RING |
First Lord of the Admiralty | Secretary of State for the Army | Secretary of State for the Aerospace Force | Inspector-General | ||
Code | Chiefs of Staff | ||||
(n/a) | Chief of Defence Staff (CDS)[1] | Director-General of Police[1] | |||
(n/a) | First Sea Lord[2] | Chief of General Staff[2] | Chief of Air Staff[2] | ||
(n/a) | (n/a) | Fourth Sea Lord[2] | |||
Code | Flag Ranks | ||||
OF-10B | Grand Admiral of the Navy[3] | Grand Marshal of the Army[3] | Marshal of the RINAF[3] | Chief Constable | |
OF-10A | Admiral of the Fleet[4] | Captain-General[3] | Field Marshal[4] | Air Grand Marshal[4] | Deputy Chief Constable |
OF-9B | Admiral | Colonel-General | Air Chief Marshal | Commissioner | |
OF-9A | Lieutenant-Admiral | General | Air Marshal | Deputy Commissioner | |
OF-8 | Vice Admiral | Lieutenant-General | Air Lieutenant Marshal | Assistant Commissioner | |
OF-7 | Rear Admiral | Major-General | Air Vice Marshal | Commander | |
OF-6 | Commodore | Brigadier | Air Commodore | Deputy Commander | |
Code | Senior Officers | ||||
OF-5 | Captain | Colonel | Group Captain | Chief Superintendent | |
OF-4 | Commander | Lieutenant-Colonel | Wing Commander | Deputy Chief Superintendent | |
OF-3 | Lieutenant-Commander | Major | Squadron Leader | Superintendent | |
Code | Junior Officers | ||||
OF-2 | Lieutenant | Captain | Flight Lieutenant | Chief Inspector | |
OF-1B | Sub-Lieutenant | Lieutenant | Flying Officer | Inspector | |
OF-1A | Acting Sub-Lieutenant | Second Lieutenant | Pilot Officer | Sub-Inspector | |
Code | Officer Candidates | ||||
OF-D | Midshipman | (n/a) | Officer Cadet | ||
SO | Officer Cadet | ||||
Code | Warrant Officers | ||||
OR-10B | Chief Warrant Officer of His Majesty's Defence Forces[5] | His Majesty's Sergeant Major of Police | |||
OR-10A | Chief Petty Officer of the Navy[6] | (n/a) | Sergeant-Major of the Army[6] | Chief Warrant Officer of the Aerospace Force[6] | |
OR-9D | Fleet Chief Petty Officer | Sergeant-Major of Marines[6] | Command Sergeant-Major | Command Chief Warrant Officer | Sergeant-Major of the Realm |
OR-9C | Squadron Chief Petty Officer | Sergeant-Major of Higher Formation | Chief Warrant Officer of Higher Formation | Provincial Sergeant-Major | |
OR-9B | Division Chief Petty Officer | Base Sergeant Major | Base Chief Warrant Officer | Regional Sergeant-Major | |
OR-9A | Chief Petty Officer | Chief Warrant Officer | |||
OR-8 | Master Petty Officer | Master Warrant Officer | District Sergeant-Major | ||
OR-7 | Petty Officer 1st class | Warrant Officer | Sergeant-Major of Police | ||
Code | Non-commissioned Officers | ||||
OR-6B | Petty Officer 2nd class | Master Sergeant | Flight Sergeant | Staff Sergeant | |
OR-6A | Petty Officer 3rd class | Staff Sergeant | Technical Sergeant | ||
OR-5B | Master Seaman | Sergeant | Sergeant | ||
OR-5A | Senior Leading Seaman | Master Corporal | Senior Technician | ||
OR-4 | Leading Seaman | Corporal | Technician | Corporal | |
Code | Enlisted Personnel | ||||
OR-3 | Able Seaman | Lance Corporal | Junior Technician | Lance Corporal | |
OR-2C | Ordinary Seaman 1st class | Private 1st class | Airman 1st class | Senior Constable | |
OR-2B | Ordinary Seaman 2nd class | Private 2nd class | Airman 2nd class | Constable 1st class | |
OR-2A | Apprentice Seaman | Private 3rd class | Airman Apprentice | Constable 2nd class | |
OR-1 | Seaman Recruit | Private Recruit | Airman Recruit | Recruit |
Rank equivalencies and explanations
Several ranks within the UKINDF have different names dependent upon the branch of service or duties performed. There are a plethora of titles based on the generic rank structure for the junior ratings (e.g. Leading Artificer) in the Royal Isselmere-Nieland Navy. Indeed, there are so many titles that they, in sum, exceed the scope of the present document.
Within the Royal Isselmere-Nieland Marines and the Isselmere-Nielander Army, there are likewise differences in rank-titles within each branch of service. These latter are presented above. Please note that in the Marines, a first and second class Private is referred to as "Marine".
Qualification insignia
Pilot’s Wings
Navigator/Weapon Systems Officer Wings
Paratrooper’s Wings
Submariner’s Badge
Uniform Systems Designation Scheme
E refers to electronics, G to guns (20mm and up), M to guided weapon systems and remotely piloted vehicles, O to ordnance (bombs, charges, fuses, shells, etc.), and R to rockets (i.e., ground-to-space vehicles).
System prefix
Precedes the First Letter, followed by a slash.
Environment (O)
- A = Air (O)
- C = Captive training (M)
- D = Inert training round (M/O/R)
- L = Artillery (O)
- M = Missile or rocket (O)
Designator | Installation (E/G), Launch environment (M), System designator (O/R) | Type (E/G/O), Primary mission (M/R) | Main purpose (E), Firing mechanism (G), Vehicle type (M/R), Fuse Type or Guidance (O)[7] |
A | Crewed aircraft or UAV (E); Air (G/M) | Invisible light (IR, UV, etc.; E) | Auxiliary assembly (E); Automatic (G) |
B | Aerospace combined (E/G/M) | Radiological detection, identification, and computation (E); Bomb (O) | Bombing (E); Bomb (M)[8]; Bathythermographic or bathymetric (O); Booster (R) |
C | Cryptographic (E)[9] | Electronic wave and/or signal carrier (E); Cannon (20mm-76mm; G); Transport (M/R) | Communications (E); Chemical (O) |
D | Pilotless aerial vehicle (Drone, missile, rocket; E) | Display (E); Dual purpose (76mm-155mm; G); Decoy (M); Submunitions dispenser (O) | Direction finding, reconnaissance, and/or surveillance (E); Inert (O) |
E | Fixed ground (E/G/M) | Computers and processors (E); Electronic countermeasures/electronic support measures (ECM/ESM; M) | Ejection and/or release (E)[10]; Electro-optical (O) |
F | Mobile ground (E/G/M) | Wire or fibre optics (E); Fuse (O) | Launcher (E)[11]; Countermeasure flare (O) |
G | General purpose (E/G/M) | Heavy artillery (155mm-up; G); Ground attack (M); Guidance unit (O) | Fire control or searchlight direction (E) |
H | Runway launched (M) or silo stored (G/M) | Interphone or public address (E) | Recording and/or reproducing (E) |
I | Instrumentation (E) | Aerospace intercept (M) | Informatics (E) |
J | General utility (E/G); Multiple (M) | Electromechanical (E) | Directed energy (Laser, etc.) (G/O) |
K | Amphibious (E)[12] | Telemetering (E) | Component (E) |
L | Countermeasures (E/O); Launch detection and surveillance (M) | Management, maintenance or test (E); Launcher (O) | |
M | Surface watercraft (E/G/M) | Armament (E); Munition (O) | Guided ordnance or remotely piloted vehicle (M) |
N | Combined watercraft (Surface and sub-surface; E/G/M) | Sound in air (E); Navigation (M) | Navigation aid (E); Inertial monitoring unit or global positioning satellite system (O) |
O | Ordnance (O) | Manual (G) | |
P | Pack or individual portable (E/M) | Laser (E); Flare (O) | Piloting aid or automatic flight (E); Propellant charge (O) |
Q | Underwater acoustics (E) | Special or combination (E); Multispectral countermeasure (O) | |
R | Rocket (R) | Radar and/or radio (E) | Receiving or passive detection (E); Rocket (M); Radar proximity (O) |
S | Space or aerospace (E/G/M) | Special (Magnetic, etc.) or multiple type (E); Space support (R) | Search (Detection, range and bearing; E); Satellite (M/R); Stabilisation units (Conical fin assemblies, etc.; O) |
T | Ground transportable (E/G/M) | (Wire) telephone, telegraph, or teletype (E) | Transmission (E); Torpedo (M) |
U | Mobile underwater (Submarine; E/G/M) | Underwater attack (G/M) | Surveillance (detecting and tracking) and fire and/or air control (E); Unit (I/O) |
V | Ground vehicle (E/G) | Visual, visible light (E) | Electrothermal chemical or electromagnetic (G) |
W | Weather (E/M); Warhead (O); Weapon support (R) | Weapon or remote control (M/O) | |
X | Scientific and/or calibration (E/M) | Identification and recognition (E); Chaff (O) | |
Y | Telecommunications (Television, facsimile, etc.; E) | ||
Z | Vehicle-to-missile/drone datalink (E) | Secure communications (E)[5] | Secure system (E)[5] |
Model number
For electronics, model number is sequential following from the first two category listings, such as AR- or MR-. For decoys, missiles, bomb guidance systems, remotely piloted vehicles (not semi-autonomous uncrewed vehicles), and torpedoes, all are listed sequentially in accordance with the Defence Procurement Agency (DPA)-assigned Guided System number. Ordnance is listed either in accordance with the weight of the device (bombs) or its diameter (shells).
Version indicator
Modification number
Suffix
- T = Training (E/O)
Further suffixes
For bombs
Listed as follows:
- B = ballute retarded
- G = general purpose (unless L is more appropriate)
- L = low drag
- P = penetrator
- R = retarded
Vehicle Designation System
Army and Royal Marine ground vehicles are typically refered to by their Logistics Number (i.e., Lxxx, such as the L21BT Kodiak main battle tank). The Vehicle Designation System is reserved for uncrewed vehicles and aircraft.
Type Prefix
D precedes all other vehicle types.
- B = Aerospace
- D = Uncrewed vehicle (UAV, UGV, UOV, USV, UUV)
- H = Rotorcraft
- L = Ground vehicle[13]
- M = Surface watercraft[13]
- N = Mixed marine (Surface-submarine, etc.)[13]
- S = Space
- U = Underwater[13]
Master Designator
May occur in strings of three letters, with the most significant role appearing first.
- A = Attack[14]
- ADS = Air defence suppression (Superseded by EF for electronic fighter)
- AEW = Airborne early warning and control
- B = Bomber
- C = Transport
- D = Director of uncrewed vehicles
- E = Electronic (Communications, countermeasures, detection, surveillance)
- F = Fighter
- G = Ground attack
- HEW = Heliborne early warning
- M = Maritime patrol
- MC = Mine clearance[13]
- NC = Nuclear reactor support[13]
- R = Reconnaissance
- S = Strike (Nuclear-capable attack aircraft or heavy attack aircraft)
- T = Trainer
- U = Utility
- W = Weather reconnaissance
References
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UKINDF logo | |
Branches of service | |
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Naval Service Royal Navy Royal Marines | |
Army | |
Aerospace Service Royal Air Force Orbital Defence Force | |
Strategic Defence Force | |
Royal Gendarmerie | |
Leadership | |
Headquarters | Daurmont, UKIN |
Commander-in-Chief | King Henry V |
Minister of Defence | |
Chief of Defence Staff | |
Personnel | |
Available for military service | 1,412,964,593 (males & females 15-49 y.o., est. 2007) |
Fit for military service | 989,075,215 (males & females 15-49 y.o., est. 2007) |
Reaching military age annually | 29,146,181 (males & females 15-49 y.o., est. 2007) |
Military age | 18 y.o. |
Total personnel | 72,644,046 |
Labour Force | 2.225% |
Expenditures | |
Budget | $28.228 billion USD (est. 2007) |
Percent of GDP | 6.11% |
Industry | |
Domestic suppliers | Isselmere-Nieland Defence Industries |
History | |
History of Isselmere-Nieland | |
Ranks and insignia |
Topics on Isselmere-Nieland | ||
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