First of all we need to start with the basics before we invest in any advanced capabilities.
Since this sepertist move is very provocative to the sweeds we need to increase the basic capability of gotlands armed forces, since the threat of sweedish intervention is high in the early stages.
First things first get in touch with the isrealis and the chinese, given the attitude of the sweeds, russians and EU to the situation i would not count on the Finns, Norwegans or US to do any arms deals or send any personell to gotland. The Isrealies and Chinese have illustrated in the past that they will do business with just about anyone as long as they are legitimate.
With 18000 odd males of military age, we do have something to work with. The full time regiment (i'll just call it a battalion, regiments dont make much sence to me, too many meanings and it gets confusing), can keep in place in its current form. However including reserves 2 battalions is no were near enough to repell an invasion. 10 million land mines may indeed funnell the attackers into pre prepared kill zones, but 6 light infantry companies are not going to be able to hold jack s*it with 800km of coast to defend.
Ask the chinese to do a deal on large ammounts of small arms, support weapons and ammunition, they should have more than enough in storage and be able to do a rock bottom price on a bulk order like this one, especially as most of this kit will be up for replacement soon. The list should look something like this:
20 000 AK47's as the basic infantry rifle (or AK 74 preferably, but we'll take what we can get). There may be better rifles out there but there is nothing that compares to the AK series in terms of reliability, ease of use and (the big one) value for money, this aint the marine corps after all. for about $2 000 000EU.
4000 RPK's Squad/Section/fire-team support weapon. Same benifits as the AK47. for about $800 000EU
3~5 million rounds of 7.62mm ammunition $300 000EU i'm guessing on that one. with an option for annother 3~5 million if need be.
1500 RPK GPMG should cost about $600 000EU
1000 Draganov SVD sniper rifles $100 000EU
1000 RPG 7, basic support weapon and should be issued to at least every platoon, with 30 000 rounds of ammo, $500 000EU
General Kit Cammies, webbing, entrenching tools, radio's ect ect ect for at least 10 000 personell, (cammies for 20 000) probably worth $1 000 000EU.
200 81mm mortars with 200 000 rounds of ammo for about $500 000EU
200 AGS 30 or QLZ 87 Automatic 30mm grenade launcher with 400 000 rounds of ammo for about $300 000EU
500 QW2 MANPADS for about $1 000 000EU
All this sould cost about $7 000 000EU. Note that the cost are just guestimation and $10~15 000 000EU should be allowed for this, then again $4 000 000 could do it.
The goal for these aquisitions is to equip a much larger force structure composed of national service reservists. But first a training and logistical structure needs to be implemented to train this force and supply it when deployed. The force structure should be as follows:
- Brigade Command changed to Army HQ group, with HQ staff and signals company
- 3 Brigade HQ who report to Army HQ: 1st brigade, 2nd brigade & 3rd Brigade each with Staff Signals and medical companies.
- 2nd & 3rd brigades are composed of 3 reserve Battalions each plus the HQ group and an artillary battalion. 1st brigade is composed of 3 half active, half reserve battalions and is the high readyness brigade, with one infantry company in each battalion being fully active and all the officers being fully active, and an artillary battalion. This brigade has an Engineering battalion, and is motorized.
- Each Battalion is composed of battalion HQ, 1x Signals company, 3x infantry companies, 1x Fire support company, 1x recon platoon equiped with land rovers. Aeach Infantry company consists of 3 platoons and company HQ. The fire support company is equiped with 6x 80mm mortars, 6x AGS30, 6x PKM and 4x QW2. Each Artillary battalion comsists of 3 batteries, 6x 122mm light guns each
- Each infantry company consists of 3 platoons, each with an RPG 7, or 3 of them depending on the mission. Each company also has 4 battlefield snipers and 2 artillary observers. Each platoon consists of a Leutennant, 3 sections/squads with 2 fireteams each based arround an RPK (6 per platoon) and 3 riflemen.
The full time element of the Gotland army was (i'm assuming) originally a battalion in the sweedish army, so the personell standards should be quite high. This could be used as a professional core to start a training programe. If additional personell and expertise are needed, there are plenty ex Royal Marine sargent majors floating around the high end private security industry. 100KM2 of remote area of gotland should be aquired by the government and a training facility should be established. It should accomadate 500~1000 cadets. Given the professional base this facility could be up and running fairly quickley. Once it is personell can be trained constantly, with all recruites undergoing a 28 day initial cource, then going on to infantry/signals/artillary school ext. Battalions could be trained at a time (aproximatly 1000 men with all the bits and pieces) 60 days training rotations, with officers attending a seperate staff collage with 60 days additional training at a staff collage. a Seperate sniper school could be inplace with 30 cadets attending at a time, with a total sniper strength of 2~300. Within 14 months all 7 extra battalions would have been through basic training and undergoing additional training every month-two weeks.
Now for larger stuff.
60x 122mm light howitzer, Type 60 with 50~100 000 rounds. These all go out to the brigades.
25x 152mm Type 66 towed guns. These are placed in 3 batteries to be under the command of the artillary division which reports to the Army HQ. 4 used for training.
4~6x HQ7 SAM batteries (if they will sell it) if not then the HQ2.
12 x HY4 Sadsack SSM batteries all under artillary command.
will finish later its way too late...
