Trigunia

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Chair of People's Assembly T.P. Vasilevskaya

A SOCIALIST INTERNATIONAL

Traktorgrad, November 17, 4826: Citizen Tatatania P. Vasilevskaya, Chair of the People’s Assembly, addressed the original cell of Krasnyy Narodnyy Soyuz at the Dobrii Utra Bar in Traktorgrad where the party celebrated its first electoral victory of 31 aseats in the Central Committee back in December of 4788. Although mostly upbeat for the occasion, Comrade Vasilevskaya had some sobering remarks about the future:

Well, do want to addres a regret, as a Metzist party like our coalition partner, Krasnoye Dvizheniye, we really do want to be part of a Metzist international organization whether an organization of socialist nations or a gathering of leftist parties. There is clearly no organization of socialist nations although there are socialist nations; we are not alone. The early days of of the Krasnyy Trigunskiy Soyuz were more promising in this regard much more so than recently.

There are some socialist party organizations but none are truly serving as a place for Metzist discussion and cooperative political development. There needs to be such a place. Because there are international issues. We would really like to be able to discuss wth other socialist parties some specific ideas to see how they grapple with them.

I will mention three. First there are a number of dynastic and reactionary regimes that outright outlaw socialist parties from participation in the electoral or political process. We do not need to debate whether this is wrong but what to do about it. Economic sanctions, political ostracizing or simple ridicule of the sheer backwardness of some jumped up tinhorn dictator strutting around in oversized epaulettes all may have their place. All will work much better if we can work in concert with the socialists of all Terra.

Second, a socialist party or government may be dealing with an economy that is in fact either a mixed public and private ownership of the means of production or an entirely privately owned one. How much disruption are we really willing to cause to get to an all publicly owned economy? In our own nation, Krasnyy Narodnyy Soyuz has concluded that cellular telephone producers and suppliers are beyond our capacity to take over. The issue we wish discussed is what level of private ownership is acceptable.

There are many issues to discuss but a third with which we are very concerned is whether in seeking and reviewing alliances we should primarily be concerned with the degree of Metzist orientation or whether the trustworthiness of a particular nation is more of a factor. We do find that because of withdrawal from a number of alliances at some point in our history this is a real concern.

Krasnyy Narodnyy Soyuz at the Dobrii Utra

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Finance Minister A.F. Klenau

MORE NATIONALIZATION?

Kaiserburg University, May20, 4828: Today Citizen A. F. Klenau, Minister of Finance, attended a seminar on government financing for industrial development at Kaiserburg University where he once taught economics. When asked about Suvielievich Aircraft Company, part of the State Aircraft Corporation, developing another airplane to compete against private manufacturers, he responded:

Suvielievich has already been making the Su – 100 Superjets for regional flights of SeverAvialini and Nebo Mezhdunarodnaya (Sky International), our two commercial passenger flight consortiums, in addition to its military aircraft production for the Defense Ministry. Suvielievich is beginning production of the Su – 80 air transport craft which will be available to privately owned companies involved in air transport.

The question of whether this is a further expansion of nationalization beyond the key sectors such as defense is what appears to be real question. In point of fact, the Su – 80 was first developed for the military but SeverAvialini has expressed interest in buying some and the government simply approved the request.

Frankly comrades, we are socialists; we do not expect all the means of production to ever be owned by the sovereign people but we certainly are not averse to trying government ownership. We have noted the wheat and beet and cattle and daiiry production on our state farms has been an undeniable success.

The Su – 80 is a twin turbo prop twin boom transport aircraft. The Su-80 has three lift generating surfaces which are the primary wings, two vertical fins at the rear of the fuselage and the horizontal stabilizer. There is room for 30 passengers and a cargo ramp at the rear of the fuselage. The model Su-80GP is the most used by the military and is the model ordered by SeverAvialini. It is a combination freight and passenger model. It has a crew of two with a cruising speed of 470 kmh and a range of 1400 km with a maximum capacity load of 3300 kg.


Su -80GP by Suvielievich aircraft Company

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MiG 29KR NAVAL AIR MAINSTAY

National Defense Command Center, July 11, 4831: The MiG 29KR is produced by Trigunian Aircraft Company, part of the State Aircraft Corporation. It is a naval variant of the MiG 29, a twin engine aircraft originally developed for air superiority. The MiG 29KR has a stronger undercarriage and a reinforced tail section with an arrestor hook as well as folding wings, a multi function radar, a cockpit with monochrome display, To protect the engine from foreign objects, the engine inlets have retractable gills and leading edge extension auxiliary intake louvres. It can do aerial refuel and refuel other MiG 29 KR’s. It is smaller than the SU-33 so more of them can be on deck than the predecessor they are replacing.

The MiG 29 KR has one 30 mm auto cannon in its port wing root, laser guided electro optical bombs, air to air honing missiles, anti ship and anti radar missiles, and air to ground guided missiles. air to air honing missiles, anti ship and anti radar missiles, and air to ground guided missiles. To enhance survivability, it has low observable technology, advanced electronic warfare capabilities, standoff weapons, electronic counter measures and reduced ballistic vulnerability.

It has two after burning turbofan engines, maximum speed of 2200 km per hour and cruising speed of 1500 km per hour. Its range is 1500 km at high altitude and 700 km at low altitude for a combat range of 850 km. It has a service ceiling of 17,500 meters and a rate of climb of 330 meters per second.

Currently the Navy has 87 MiG 29KR’s in service. 44 are in the 907th Air Wing on the Rodshyadam as part of the South Ocean Fleet stationed at the Port of Zvropol while 5 are in the 19th Air Wing at the Zvropol Naval Air Base. 33 are in the 11th Air Wing on the Petrovgrad as part of the White Ocean Fleet stationed at the Port of Aleksandrovsk while 5 are in the 15th Air Wing at the Alexandrovsk Naval Air Base.

Defense Minister H.A. Tereshshchenko today announced 15 more are being purchased from Trigunian Aircraft Company. 5 of the newly ordered MiG 29KR will be stationed at the Serenogorsk Naval Air Base serving the Serenogorsk Naval Base where submarine refitting, repairs and servicing is the specialty. Five will be assigned to the Rodshyadam Naval Facility Air Base and 5 to the Naval Air Base servicing the Naval Ship Yard at Petrograd which is the primary operating facility of the State Shipbuilding Corporation.



OOC: Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikoyan_MiG-29K

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Ka - 27 PS

ASW WING IN KAISERBBURG

National Defense Command Center, June 22, 4832: The Defense Ministry and the General Staff of the Armed Forces have today approved three recommendations of the Navy Chief of Staff .

First, the three naval infantry brigades constituting the 5th Guards Division will be assigned as follows. The 2nd Guards Naval Infantry Brigade will be posted to the Rodshyadam Naval Facility. The 102nd Guards Brigade is assigned to the Petrograd Naval Base and Shipyard and the 97th Guards Brigade will be stationed at the Serenogorsk Naval Base and Submarine Shipyard.

Second, six more Ka – 27 PS search and rescue helicopters sill be purchased from Kamenev Helicopter Company, part of the State Aircraft Corporation. Two will be assigned to each of the Petrograd Naval Base and Shipyard, the Rodshyadam Naval Facility and the Serenogorsk Naval Base and Submarine Shipyard.

Third, the five Tu – 142 MZ in the 15th Air Wing at the Aleksandovsk Naval Base and the five Tu – 142 MZ in the 19th Air Wing at the Zvropol Naval Base will be transferred to the 16th Air Wing at Kaiserburg Naval Base which will become the headquarters for ant submarine operations.

The 10 Tu-142MZ bombers were built by the Tumirorich Aircraft Company, a division of the government conglomerate, State aircraft Corporation. The Tu-142 was developed by the Tumirorich Design Bureau from a Tu-95 bomber by stretching the fuselage to accommodate antisubmarine warfare, avionics, reconnaissance and communications equipment. The Tu-142MZ has improvements over the TU-142 prototypes in the form of reinforced undercarriage, greater weaponry, increased payload, and greater range.

The Naval Staff is still looking at two major questions; whether to consolidate the Green Sea Flotilla and the Anantonese Fleet and whether to mothball the Rodshyadam and replace it with two Yegorovich class carriers.


Tu - 142 MZ

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Chair of People's Assembly Vasilevskaya

A NEW COALITION?

Rodshyadam, August 15, 4832: Citizen T.P. Vasilevskaya, Chair of the People's Assembly, responded to questions on whether there would be a new coalition in the wake of the last election as follows:

I was soundly defeated by Supreme Chair Markov Pavlovich. Krasnyy Narodnyy Soyuz lost heavily in the voting for representation in the Central Committee. Those of us serving in the Krasnyy Trigunskiy Soyuz coalition cabinet will continue to do so unless and until Comrade Markov Pavlovich forms a new cabinet which is entirely a decision for the Supreme Chair and Krasnoye Dvisheniye.

When asked whether a coalition might include the National Kadets, she answered:

Again this isc entirely a choice for the Supreme Chair and Krasnoye Dvisheniye to make. They could form a cabinet without Krasnyy Narodnyy Soyuz or the National Kadets or could do it with one or both of us. Krasnyy Narodnyy Soyuz has no objection to a cabinet including the Kadets or to being in a cabinet with them. This is entirely the option of the ruling party and we will be supporting the decision it makes.

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Minister of Finance A.F. Klenau

BUDGET AND TAX CHANGES

Kaiserburg University, May 20, 4833: Today Citizen A. F. Klenau, Minister of Finance, attended a seminar on military industry development at Kaiserburg University where he once taught economics. When asked about the tax and budget bills just introduced in the Central Committee of the People’s Assembly, he responded:

There were four primary objectives in the two bills. First, we wanted to reduce income taxation a little at the very bottom of the scale. This we did

Second, the government wished to expand the military budget a little because of expenditures on the Naval Air Arm which has been the primary focus of the Defense Ministry of late.

Third, the government added some to the Food and Agriculture budget for covering the cost of the state farm program which is successful and expanding.

Fourth, although the surplus which has been in place for some years will be reduced or eliminated, we do not want to operate at a deficit and so some tax increases were included as well as expenditure reductions. On paper, what we have proposed will work; but should it pass the Central Committee, we will have to very quickly determine if our estimates were on target or whether other measures will be necessary.

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Education and Culture Minister C.L. Shaposhnikhov

SOCIALIST INTERNATIONAL PUSH

Koszalin State Mining University, June15, 4833: Citizen Constantin Lavrentievich Shaposhnikhov, Minister of Education and Culture, today chaired a meeting of educational institution certification executives to discuss complaints from schools unhappy with their evaluations. During the meeting he was asked what part of the Krasnyy Trigunskiy Soyuz coalition government agenda he thought was making the least progress. Comrade Shaposhnikhov responded:

Simply put, the most disappointing part of the agenda is the lack of progress toward a socialist or Metzist international. Markov Pavlovich called for it, we have favored it but progress has been slim.

When we first organized the prospects were good but all seem to have turned to dust.

Nonetheless, we are making an effort again and some of our contacts have made us more hopeful than in a long time.

It really would be a fine thing to discuss and refine our mutual objectives and compare how we think we have accomplished what we have and see how others have gotten where they are. We could all learn from each other.

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Science and Technology Minister A.A. Zhdanov

GOVERNMENT ADDRESSES RAW SEWAGE

Spask, August 17, 4834: After a meeting in Spask of members of the field staff of the inter agency Task Force on Cholera, Citizen A.A. Zhdanov, Minister of Science and Technology, reported on the task force findings:

The cabinet of the coalition KrasnyyTrigunskiyy Soyuz became concerned by statistical increases in reported cholera, E. coli and Hepatitis A cases in northern rural areas of the Federal Socialist Republics of Zarvosopol, Vrosnok and Lesnos including fishing villages in northern Vrosnok. Investigation by the Cholera Task Force indicated pathogens in raw sewage had caused the increases in all three afflictions.

In some instances the residential and business sanitation facilities were so poorly constructed as to leave raw sewage essentially where people were living and working. In other instances septic tanks failed or were not serviced once filled. Back up into buildings followed. Sanitation experts found that overflow of treatment facilities or collection points can lead to similar problems but had not done so in the areas under investigation.

Obviously as socialists we recognize the failures of capitalism reflecting the doctrines of let the buyer beware and take the money and run not to mention there is one born every minute. But comrades, it is not enough to recognize how some of our poorer citizens came to be in trouble. We have to decide how we will help. For we are going to do something about this.

First, we are going to see that all our citizens actually have sanitation facilities where they live and work. Second, wherever possible we will connect them to functioning water and sewer systems. We realize this can not be everywhere. So, third, we will see to it that septic tanks are functioning properly and serviced regularly. The Task Force will be doing inspections but frankly comrades the government will be in the plumbing and septic tank business because our citizens need it and private enterprise has failed to properly provide it. So it goes.

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5TH NAVAL GUARDS DIVISION DIVIDED

National Defense Command Center, July 17, 4836: There are six Trigunian Naval Infantry Brigades. Each has a headquarters, a mechanized naval mobile rifle battalion, a naval airborne battalion, an armored battalion, 1 self propelled gun battalion, 1 naval motorized rifle reconnaissance battalion and 1 air defense and artillery battalion as well as supports units including a field hospital, motor pool, signals and communications company.

Defense Minister H.A. Tereshshchenko has indicated each brigade would be assigned to a naval base. Comrade Tereshchenko anticipates they will be used like fleet marines as they were in 4759 in exercises in the north of Lesnos and in exercises with other nations prior to the Siocialist government taking power. These brigades are considered elite units but not really special forces.

Tereshchenko ruled out using them as publicly speculated in 4761 as troops available to keep internal order. He noted they were not used in the purge of leftists by General Kochenkov in 4757 as were the National Guard and SGB and three Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Further Citizen Tereshchenko stated that the three brigades of the 5th Guards Division would not be assigned to the same location but continue with their individual assignments.

The 2nd Guards Naval Infantry Brigade is located at the Rodshyadam Naval Facility. The 11th Naval Infantry Brigade is located at the Aleksandrovsk Naval Base which is the home port of the White Ocean Fleet. The 19th Naval Infantry Brigade is assigned to the Zvropol Naval Base which is the home port of the South Ocean Fleet.

The 97th Guards Naval Infantry Brigade is located at the Serenogorsk Naval Base and Submarine Shipyard. The 102nd Guards Naval Infantry Brigade is assigned to the Petrograd Naval Base and Shipyard which is the primary facility of the State Shipbuilding Corporation. The 810th Naval Infantry Brigade is assigned to the Kaiserburg Naval base which is the home port for the Anantonese Ocean Fleet and the Green Sea Flotilla as well as the Headquarters and Operating Facility for Anti Submarine Warfare.


Defense Minister H.A. Tereshchenko

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Ilyich Aviation Company's Il - 76

PARATROOP TRANSPORTS TRANSFERRED TO NAVAL INFANTRY

National Defense Command Center, May 17, 4838: Defense Minister H.A. Tereshshchenko announced today approval by the General Staff of the Armed Forces and the Defense Ministry of the recommendation by the Air Force and Navy Chiefs of Staff that 15 Il – 76’s of the air Force for paratroop transport be transferred to the Navy for use by the paratrooper battalions of the Naval Infantry.

The Il – 76 is a four jet heavy transport designed to function in extreme weather conditions such as those in the far north of Lesnos and Vrosnok and carry up to 50 tons using when necessary short unpaved runways. The model for airborne troops can carry 125 paratroops. The Il – 76 was designed and built by Ilyich Aviation Company, part of the government owned State Aircraft Corporation conglomerate.

The 15 Il – 76’s will be assigned to the air the base at the Rodshyadam Naval Facility where the 2nd Guards Naval Infantry Brigade is assigned. Although it is recognized that paratroopers have come to be generally used as elite mechanized or armored infantry and that there are nowhere near enough transports available to make all paratroopers airborne simultaneously, the thinking is that the naval infantry should have some actual airborne assault capacity and so enough transports should be available to train each battalion over time and make possible airborne assault possible by two of the six Naval Infantry Brigades.

The paratrooper battalion of the 2nd Guards Naval Infantry Brigade will undergo advanced paratroop training first with the Il – 76. Upon its completion, the other five paratrooper battalions will be scheduled for advanced training as well at the Rodshyadam Naval Facility Air Base


Defense Minister H.A. Tereshchenko

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