Neue Belkatsche Reichsmarine

If you've contacted us, it's for one of 2 things:

1) You're a UN/Allied Surrender Committee here to enforce the Treaty of Lumen by forcing us to surrender our ships.  If this is the case, I'll have to shoot you right now.

2) You are a man/woman of honor, who knows the pain we endured, the humiliation that followed out undeserved defeat, after they already razed our cities to the ground, plundered our resources and ruined our nation's ability to even defend itself properly.  You seek to restore justice to this world, and for that, I welcome you to the Neu Belkatsche Reichsmarine (New Belkan Imperial Navy to those of you who don't know Belkan; don't worry, you'll learn, particularly if you know Osean as Osean was originally a dialect of Belkan).

Oh, how rude of me, allow me to introduce myself, I am Grossadmiral Johann Starke (Grand Admiral to non-Belkans, the Osean equivalent being Admiral of the Navy); granted, this was a rank I gave to myself, my last official rank being Lower Rear Admiral of the Belkan Bundesmarine. My new rank is indicative of my new position of authority: I lead a force of thousands of men and women that were no longer allowed to serve our country due to limitations on the Armed Forces due to the Treaty of Lumen, limiting each branch of our military to no more than 100,000 members, disbanding the Air Force, banning us from the use of submarines and limiting our naval tonnage. No longer welcome as we competed for jobs with civilians, we resolved that we would not be turned into victims, and so we broke into a mothball yard in South Belka (don't tell me it's North Osea; call it that and I'll kill you) and stole some old, mostly barely-seaworthy vessels and made our way to Leasath, which sympathized with our cause and provided  us a home where we can prepare for the day when we will take back Belka's glory, once and for all.

As of now, are force is limited in size, but I will give you a brief summary of the ships in our possession. Most of them are second-hand vessels but some were built in Belka proper. Most of our ships are also aged relivs and thus require overhaul before being listed as combat-worthy.

Fast Boats
(None,Yet)

Corvettes
(None, Yet)

Frigates
(None, Yet)

Gespenst-Class Stealth Destroyer
The Gespenst-Class is the most modern vessel in the fleet. A prototype developed in 1995, the Gespenst (Ghost) is virtually undetectable on surface-scanning radar and is difficult to track via submarine-mounted sonar. The whole point of this vessel is anti-submarine warfare, escorting larger vessels, acting as a radar picket and ambushing the enemy at night, taking full advantage of its stealth. This ship was to be handed over to the Osean Navy as per the Treaty of Lumen, but a good friend of mine in the crew staged a mutiny against the Osean officers in command of the vessel and sailed it to Leasath to link up with us. I personally made a point of sending the officers back to Osea...in pieces, perhaps as a symbolic gesture over what they did to Belka.

Examples of this class include:
 * Gespenst

Cruisers
(Non, yet, but a few are under restoration)

Anfang-Class Battlecruiser
The Anfang-Class Battlecruisers were originally not Belkan at all. They were the Erusian Battlecruisers Terrance and Havance, named after two apparently-famous Erusian naval officers that served with our ally in the Osean Continental War (1935-1947). Whilst mostly outdated, as they are Battlecruisers, which by their very nature are rendered obsolete by Fast Battleships, they have nevertheless proven useful due to the way they are deployed. Unlike my predecessors I resist the temptation of using Battlecruisers as ships of the line and instead use them to raid commerce and to cause confusion in the enemy fleets by attacking them from a different side from the main fleet.

Examples of this class include:
 * Anfang
 * Cresence

Waldreich-Class Heavy Battleship
This vessel is easily the oldest ship in the fleet, originally being an Osean Dreadnought built in 1917 as one of two projects, one for a "Maximum Battleship", and the other as an "All-or-Nothing Battleship", the latter becoming Osea's Pennsylvania-Class, whilst the former was canceled when it was nearly completed, and never given a proper name. The ship was sold for scrap in 1919, but the scrappers found that it would be more profitable if they instead sold the ship to somebody else instead of scrapping it, and found their customer in Leasath (Belka would've purchased the ship but at the time we were in the middle of fighting a Civil War and there was no money to spare on capital ships, with ammunition, small arms, early tanks and aircraft taking up most of the budget at the time). The vessel was modernized in 1941, but mostly sat in disrepair from 1954 onwards; when we arrived in Leasath, the ship was a rusting hulk, which Leasath gladly gave to us since they didn't want it themselves. Needless to say, we've repaired the vessel, and it now stands as the most powerful Battleship in the fleet, if not the world.

Examples of this class include:
 * Waldreich

Hydra-Class Fast Battleship
The Hydra-Class Fast Battleship is another foreign-built Battleship, originally being one built by the Yuktoasian nation, the People's Republic of Verusia, originally as a Batlecruiser in the late 1940s for coastal defense, but converted into a Fast Battleship later on. Like Waldreich, this ship was sold to Leasath, but unlike Waldreich was well-maintained, and it cost us quite a lot  to acquire the vessel ourselves.

Overall, we do not use this ship in the traditional sense of a Battleship; instead, we use it as an anti-aircraft platform for the fleet, or when needed, in roles similar to the Anfang-Class Battlecruiser, as whilst its armor is potent, its main battery is not as powerful as more modern vessels.

Examples of this class include:
 * Hydra

Taifun-Class Fast Battleship
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The Taifun-Class is an indigenous Belkan-made Battleship dating back to the late forties, considered a follow-up to the mostly-failed H-Series of Heavy Battleships and the somewhat more-successful Dinsmark-Class (the Dinsmark herself remains in service with Belka's post-war Navy on condition that all nuclear warheads for the ship's outdated Tomahawk Mk.I cruise missiles be handed over to the Allies). This ship was actually quite successful, but three of them were sunk by the Osean Navy (now the Osean Maritime Self-Defense Force) in the Belkan War, with only one remaining, critically damaged. Most of her weapons were beyond rapir, the serviceable ones being cannabalized to bring the Waldreich up to operational status. That being said, this vessel is currently being partially rebuilt, either to serve as it once did or to serve in a role similar to the Hydra, or perhaps even something completely different.

Examples of this class include:
 * Taifun

Leviathan-Class Supercarrier
The Leviathan is overall the largest vessel in the fleet, but of course, this is no surprise as at one point, Leviathan was a Battleship, the largest one in the world in-fact, with the intent of being an analogue to the Yamato-Class. Later on, she was converted into a large Aircraft Carrier for the Erusian Navy, then sold to Belka in 1981 and given extensive upgrades.

As this vessel is our only carrier, she is used sparingly, and when she's used, only with a heavy escort.

Examples of this class include:
 * Leviathan

UA-1A-Class Attack Submarine
The Angriffunterseeboot (Attack Submarine in layman's terms), type 1-Anton is the oldest submarine class to serve in the Belkan Bundesmarine at the time of the Belkan War. Essentially, the UA-1A is an upgraded Type IXC U-Boat from the 1940s, equipped with a better deck gun, advanced targetting systems for surface-mounted weapons, minelayers and an additional pair of torpedo tubes for armament. Non-armament upgrades include new, more fuel-efficient diesels and improved batteries and air scrubbers, allowing the UA-1A to run submerged for nearly a week. at a time, far superior to the mere hours the original model could spend. The last upgrade to the class is an extension of the rear of the sail, which besides providing additional balance is capable of storing a single short-ranged SLBM for a surprise attack on ground installations.

As most of Belka's submarines werefforcibly decommissioned, the UA-1A is now a very rare sight indeed, but our fleet possesses one such vessel ourselves, commanded by who was once the best submarine commander in the entire Bundesmarine.

Examples of this class include:
 * UA-1A-100

Albatros-Class Hospital Ship
The Albatros-Class Hospital Ship was formerly an aircraft carrier back in the 1940s, then was converted into a passenger liner, and finally was mothballed; however, we commandeered the stricken vessel and converted it into a hospital ship as per the St.Ark Conventions' guidelines. Unfortunately, as we are considered terrorists by some, this ship has been fired on before. That being said, I refuse to violate the Conventions by giving the ship defensive armament, as sinking the Albatros would be an international faux paux for the perpatrator, possibly leading to a war we can use to restore Belka's might.

Examples of this class include:
 * Albatros