Defence Procurement Agency (Isselmere-Nieland)
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| Headquarters | Daurmont, UKIN |
| Commander-in-Chief | King Henry V |
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| 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% |
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| Budget | $28.228 billion USD (est. 2007) |
| Percent of GDP | 6.11% |
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| Domestic suppliers | Isselmere-Nieland Defence Industries |
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The Defence Procurement Agency (DPA) is a department within the Isselmere-Nielander Ministry of Defence responsible for the examination, acquisition, adoption, and inspection of goods and services for that nation's Defence Forces.
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History
In 1954, the DPA replaced the various ordnance and matériel bureaux operated by the various armed services, specifically those of the Army and Navy. For the most part, it has maintained the traditions of its predecessors, much to the consternation of civilian authorities, but certain improvements — such as the establishment of the Uniform Electronic Devices Index — have proven immensely successful.
Organisation
The DPA is administered by a minister of State, a senior member of government ranking beneath a minister.
The DPA is organised into four directorates-general (DG), each headed by a director-general:
- Directorate-General for Aviation
- Directorate-General for Land Systems
- Directorate-General for Naval Systems
- Directorate-General for Space Systems
Guided Systems Index
The Guided Systems Index (GSI) was introduced in 1957 to cover most forms of guided devices, other than uncrewed vehicles, as well as their launchers. Extended range guided munitions (ERGM) for heavy artillery pieces are not usually included within the GSI, but instead are listed under INO numbers.
GSI numbers comprise of a three or four letter prefix — GDS for guided/autonomous decoy system, GWS for guided weapon system, and GWLS for guided weapon launcher system — followed by the model number in Arabic numerals. After the model number comes the launch environment indicator, which usually provides the first letter indicator for the UKINDF's Services Pilotless Vehicles Index (SPVI) number. Next comes the mark number in Arabic numerals. This might be followed by a modification indicator, a minuscule letter.
- e.g. GWS.41M2b
Broken down, the example above describes Guided Weapon System number 41, Surface ship, Mark 2, 2nd modification. According to the SPVI, this same device is classified as MUM.41B2 for Surface ship version, Underwater attack missile, Model 41, Version B, Modification 2.[1]
New GSI numbers are usually given to systems that are significant different from their predecessors. Mark numbers indicate slight modifications to the existing system, which is corollary to the version indicator in the SPVI. Unfortunately, sometimes what the DPA justly considers a modification the UKINDF rightly considers a version. Case in point:
- GWS.65Aa Kite infrared-guided air-to-air missile (GSI) = AIM.65A (SPVI)
To reduce this confusion, GSI modification indicators typically correlate with the SPVI version indicators.
1-20
- GWS.1 Bloodhound surface-to-air missile (SAM)
- GWS.2 Sea Cat naval SAM
- GWS.3 Sidewinder air-to-air missile (AAM)
- GWS.4 Sparrow AAM and Sea Sparrow SAM
- GWS.5 Tartar naval SAM
- GWS.6 SS.12 and AS.12 anti-tank guided missile (ATGM)
- GWS.7 Mark 37 heavyweight torpedo (HWT)
- GWS.8 Hawk SAM
- GWS.9 Mark 46 lightweight torpedo (LWT)
- GWS.10 TOW ATGM, formerly for the Polaris A3 submarine launched ballistic missile (SLBM)[2]
- GWS.11 Standard (RIM-66) naval SAM
- GWS.12 Shrike anti-radiation missile (ARM)
- GWS.13 Paveway laser-guided bomb (LGB) sets
- GWS.14 Javelin portable air defence system (PADS)
- GWS.15 Skyflash AAM
- GWS.16 Ikara anti-submarine missile (ASuM)
- GWS.17 Exocet anti-ship missile (AShM)
- GWS.18 Penguin AShM
- GWS.19 Maverick air-to-surface missile (ASM)
- GWS.20 HARM ARM
21-40
- GWS.21 Sea Wolf naval SAM
- GWS.22 Hellfire ATGM
- GWS.23 Air Defence Anti-Tank System (ADATS)
- GWS.24 Stinger PADS
- GWS.25 Harpoon AShM
- GWS.26 ALARM
- GWS.27 Sea Skua AShM
- GWS.28 Trident D5 SLBM
- GWS.29 Spearfish HWT
- GWS.30 RAM naval SAM
- GWS.31 MICA AAM
- GWS.32 MU90 Impact LWT
- GWS.33 Aster-15 SAM
- GWS.34 Aster-30 SAM
- GWS.35 Tomahawk
- GWS.36 JDAM GPS-guided bomb sets
- GWS.37 VL-MICA SAM
- GWS.38 JSOW
- GWS.39 Yakhont 3 AShM
- GWS.40 Brimstone ATGM
41-60
- GWS.41 Loon ASuM
- GWS.42 EAW-67 AAM[3]
- GWS.43 EAW-78 AAM[3]
- GWS.44 Kiwi 105mm gun-launched ADATS
- GWS.45 Kiwi 120mm gun-launched ADATS
- GWS.46 Kiwi 140mm gun-launched ADATS
- GWS.47 Robin small diameter bomb (SDB)
- GWS.48 Starling ASM
- GWS.49 Meteor beyond visual range AAM (BVRAAM)
- GWS.50 Pigeon ARM
- GWS.51 Icarus ATGM
- GWS.52 Pelican AShM
- GWLS.53 naval gun-missile complex: 2 × 8-cell VL-MICA with Goalkeeper CIWS[4]
- GWLS.54 naval gun-missile complex: 2 × 11-cell RAM launchers with Goalkeeper CIWS[5]
- GWS.55 Kakapo 155mm extended range guided munition (ERGM)
- GWS.56 Kakapo 203mm ERGM
- GWS.57 Erne SAM
- GWS.58 Hurricane ASM and surface-to-surface missile (SSM)
- GWS.59 Vertical-launch Guided Bombardment Rocket (VGBR)
- GWS.60 Eel ASuM
61-80
- GWS.61 Scourge long-range AShM[6]
- GWS.62 Yellow Jacket short-range SAM[4]
- GWS.63 Barracuda 324mm LWT
- GWS.64 Mako 533mm HWT
- GWS.65 Kite AAM or SAM
- GWS.66 Lark PADS or short-range AAM
- GWS.67 Lanneret theatre air defence missile
- GWLS.68 naval gun-missile complex[7]
- GWLS.68M: 2 × 8-cell GWLS.65 VLS with Goalkeeper CIWS
- GWLS.68M2: 2 × 8-cell GWLS.65 VLS with L72A3 (MCA.72) 35mm autocannon
- GWS.69 Orca ASuM
- GWS.70 Petrel AShM
- GWS.71 Fulmar AShM
- GWS.72 Heron AShM
- GWS.73 Ptarmigan ARM
- GWS.74 Kestrel BVRAAM
- GWS.75 Goshawk long-range AAM (LRAAM)
- GWS.76 Grand Kestrel naval SAM
- GWS.77 Emu ATGM
- GWS.78 Roc kinetic energy missile (KEM)/ATGM
- GWS.79 Beluga 650mm HWT
- GWS.80 Ostrich ATGM
81-100
- GWS.81 Weasel ATGM
- GWS.82 Triton ASAT, ICBM, satellite launcher (SAT-L), SLBM
- GWS.83 Archer AShM, ASM, SSM, SLCM
- GWS.84 Peregrine anti-platform missile
- GWS.85 Vulture ADATS
- GWS.86 dual-mode laser- and GPS/INS-guided bomb sets
- GWS.87 Physeter 1000mm HWT
- GWS.88 Dragonfly SAM[4]
- GWS.89 Sailfish ASuM
- GWS.90 Shikra ASM
- GWS.91 Angler ASuM
- GWS.92 Erne ER extended-range SAM
- GWS.93 Erne anti-ballistic missile (ABM)
- GDS.94 Flamingo miniature air-launched decoy (MALD)[8]
- GDS.95 Firefly supersonic MALD[9]
- GDS.96 Pufferfish underwater autonomous decoy
- GWS.97 Ahab[10]
- GWLS.98 naval gun-missile complex
- GWLS.98M: 2 × 8-cell GWLS.76M with 57mm autocannon[11]
- GDS.99 Kelpie surface ship decoy
- GDS.100 Macaw air-launched decoy
101-120
- GWS.101 Seiche HWT carrier (4 × GWS.64 Mako)
- GWS.102 Vidofnir ASAT, AShM, ICBM, SAT-L, SLBM
- GWLS.103 naval gun-missile complex
- GWLS.103M: 2 × 35 mm L72A2 + 2 × 4-cell GWS.85 Vulture
Logistics and Ordnance numbers
Logistics and Ordnance numbers, often termed Isselmere-Nieland Ordnance numbers (INO numbers) are provided for small arms, crew-served weapons, artillery pieces, and ground vehicles, the last category being divided into support and fighting vehicles. The numbers for these items usually begin with L for Land Service despite being used — often in a much-modified condition — by several services at once, sometimes not including the Army. Across the five categories, there may be several items with the same basic L number, in which case the full designation for an item in question is typically used in records and reports.
Certain naval artillery pieces have designation numbers beginning with M, indicating a device that was either solely or primarily developed for naval use. Where an M number for an artillery piece exists, there is no corresponding L number, and vice versa.
Munitions, including small arms ammunition and ordnance (shells, unitary rounds, artillery and other light rockets), are designated by LM for Land Munitions or in certain instances by MM for Marine (Naval) Munitions. Propellant charges are indicated by INP.
Certain weapons possess a designation beginning with three letters similar to the UKINDF-USDS format, such as the ACA.41 30mm autocannon. Such a designation is not entirely accurate. The proper full form would in fact be the L41A1, 30mm cannon, Automatic, Aircraft, usually shortened to simply L41A1, with "-A1" indicating an alteration to the basic L41 design.
Rockets
Rockets as components of guided weapons possess their own designation system. All such designations begin with the letter R. Next is the device type designator:
- (number) = Stage, indicates the stage of a rocket that forms part of its main body.
- B = Booster, a rocket that attaches to the main body of the device or otherwise not part of the whole.
- E = Engine, followed by the fuel-compound designator.
- M = Motor, usually used for the stage of a one- or two-stage rocket conveying the payload to the objective.
- P = Payload, a rocket attached to the payload, primarily for manoeuvring, slow burn, or a short boost.
The Stage, Booster, Motor, and Payload designators are followed by a general fuel designator, which is typically L for liquid propellant (kerosene, etc.) or S for solid rocket propellant. After the general fuel designator comes the complete system's DPA number:
- e.g., R1S.97, for the first stage of the GWS.97 Ahab anti-ship missile.
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