Army of the Southern Cross - Military Vehicles
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Ground-based vehicles are used primarily for personal, troop, and cargo transport in the Army of the Southern Cross. There are a few armored combat vehicles but the majority of the frontline heavy military action is the realm of the Veritech Hovertank and the various ASC Battloids, with more traditional armored vehicles relegated to support roles.
While the heavy armored vehicles are still wheeled (or tracked), most of the personal and cargo ground transports in the ASC are hover vehicles capable of travel over a variety of terrain. Hover technology is fast becoming commonplace in the UEG, with more affluent citizens in the larger population citizens owning personal hover cars. A few older wheeled jeeps and trucks are still in use at most ASC bases as well.
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The naval forces are the numerically and technologically weakest of all the military groups of the Army of the Southern Cross. The UEG Navy consists of what remains of the old UWG Navy, which suffered heavy losses in the First Robotech War and during the chaos of the Reconstruction. The majority of the naval vessels still in service are the same ones that saw action during the Global Civil War as parts of the American, British, and Japanese fleets. The fleet consists of 4 aircraft carriers, 11 cruisers, and 15 destroyers. The submarine fleet is in better shape, consisting of 36 attack submarines (all ballistic missile subs were decommissioned after the Global Civil War). The surface fleet is mainly concentrated around Scandinavia, North and Central America, and Japan for defense purposes while the submarine fleet operates globally on intelligence missions and to interdict pirate fleets and protect merchant shipping. The ASC also inherited the RDF's fleet of advanced warships, consisting of the Prometheus class (CVS) semi-submersible attack aircraft carrier and the Daedalus class (SLV) semi-submersible assault landing vessel. These advanced ships operate around the globe on defense, patrol and support operations. There are four remaining Prometheus class vessels: the CVS Atlas, CVS Demeter, CVS Hyperion, and CVS Vulcan; and four Daedalus class vessels: the SLV Argo, SLV Perseus, SLV Theseus, and the SLV Ulysses in service. The UEG Navy is entirely under the purview of the Army of the Southern Cross Sea Squad, part of the Department of Surface Operations. | |||||
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| There are two general categories of spacecraft in use by the Army of the Southern Cross. The first are the space shuttles, small to medium size transport and combat vessels that form the bulk of the space fleet that operates around the Earth-Moon system (and more distant Mars). The second class of spacecraft are the larger capital ships, space equivalents of the great naval vessels. Additionally there are two types of space fighters in use, the transatmospheric Corsair III described above and two models of mecha, the Veritech Logan Fighter the newer Veritech AGAC Fighter/Helicopter, both of which are space-worthy. |
Space shuttles are generally used for transporting mecha, personnel or cargo within the Earth-Moon system. The more heavily armed ones occasionally perform patrol duty as well.
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Capital ships make up the Southern Cross Space Fleet. The fleet itself is not very large, as many of the Earth's capital ships left with the Robotech Expeditionary Force, but there are still a handful of Frigates, Destroyers, Crusiers and even two Carriers in service in the Space Fleet.
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