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The Zantali Armed Forces is the combined military of The Filipino guy of Zantalio, which serves to defend and serve Zantalio in times of war, with approximately 1.5 active personnel and 2.5 million reserves.

History:
Zantalio’s first recorded engagement in a battle was when a group of tribes attacked the city of Mount Valshem in 167 BC, which then fell under occupation by the tribes. Soon enough, warriors then fought in the Zantali Wars, lasting from 167 BC to 152 BC, with a Zantali victory. Starting from then on, a military was built from then on, which turned Zantalio into a military dictatorship. In 24 AD, a peasant’s revolt overthrew the dictatorship. At the time, Zantalio was at it’s largest extent, stretching from Crimea to Mongolia. From then on, for around 850 years, a military was non-existent, and other than internal conflict, no warriors fought in any war. But then, in 897 AD, a war happened with a Hun invasion. The military was reinstated, and fought for 12 years, until a Zantali victory in 909 AD. No war was fought again for around another 300 years, and the military was almost non-existent by the time the war came. This time, Islamic warriors attacked from Persia. For a year, from 1247 to 1248, we fought, but we failed this time. For around 200 years combined, we were under Islamic rule, turning us into a partly Islamic state that we somewhat are influenced by today. Then, the Mongols came, then when the Mongols were destroyed, the Islamic rulers set up the government once more. Then, a new military was mustered up in 1419, which liberated us from the Islamic rulers. This was a new era in Zantali warfare, with the use of firearms starting from them. In the 1500’s, Russians tried to invade us, but they failed. In 1605, we started invading Persia, but failed to do it because of what is now modern-day Afghanistan. We also tried invading Xinjiang in 1617, but we went into a draw. No military conflict came until 1748, when Russia invaded us again, this time they succeeded and we became a puppet until 1905, when after a revolution which weakened the Russian state, we were able to escape the oppression. But the Russians tried invading after, which created the third Russo-Zantali War, which we won in 1907. It wasn’t flowers for long, because the Soviets invaded in 1924, turning us into a Russian puppet again. In 1990, when the Soviet Union was collapsing, we reinstated our independence and our monarchy, which finally reinstated our military too. Today, we have fought in small wars and joined the EEA, WAAN, and EDL.
Weapons:
The first weapon found by archaeologists was the Zantali-Valshem Sword, found in 1976 and estimated to be smithed on 189 BC, less than 30 years before the Zantali Tribal Wars. Starting in 1419, we used guns, starting with a model based on an Indian matchlock.

From then on, we used flintlocks like this: a German one traded from Russia and reverse engineered.

Starting from then on, weapons were provided by Russia due to the occupation, and our oldest ones that are still used today were released in 1891. This was relatively unused, since it was only used for internal conflict and not used for external war.

Sometimes weapons were confiscated and used for wars like the Crimean War and the Russo-Japanese War.
After the Soviets came along, they gave us an important asset that Zantalio still uses today: the AK-47.

Then, when the USSR collapsed, we had hundreds of nuclear warheads stockpiled in underground areas. We, as international law stated, gave it to Russia. However, we kept some blueprints of it and are developing nuclear weapons one more time. We also bought F-16s and M-16s from the US too. Nowadays, we have released the I-43 NATO Kawveka gun, the standard gun for Zantalio as effective January 31, 2024.

We have chemicals used in chemical warfare, like sarin gas, and have tested biological warfare, which is usually never used for fear of global pandemic. Missiles have also been tested, with 190 successful launches.

On February 6, 2014, our first nuclear weapon after the fall of the USSR was tested, and 10 other nuclear weapons were being completed at the same time.

With Soviet tanks, that means that we have 300 tanks that we still use today. These tanks are gradually being put out of service due to their low quality and are being replaced with the American M1 Abrams. Adding the 200 M1 Abrams tanks, 59 British Challengers, and 3,000 native RE-1s, 3559 tanks are used.

Boats are not really needed, due to the fact the only sea we border is the Caspian Sea, so we only use patrol boats. We have ships, however, at military bases of our allies, like The AbelLandia, X Country, Waffland, and The Rhine and Danube. This adds up to 80 boats/ships in the navy.

Zantalio’s Air Force has the F-16 fighter jet in its arsenal, along with some Su-57s making it very powerful in the air. These Zantali Planes are modified with more modern features along with more stealth. SR-71s have been modified with modern technology and used for surveillance even though it has been discontinued for more than 30 years!

In space, we have deployed the X2 (times two), a rocket torpedo used to destroy targets from low earth orbit (LEO) to either satellites or military targets, along with lasers that can accurately point at targets both in space and earth (doesn’t always work).

Finally, in the virtual battlefield, we have Unit 32, a cyberwarfare unit that can hack major targets on the web like enemy communications and intel, making it a crucial military unit. And with Unit 32, there is corresponding propaganda bot, known as Yeptzhekya, (ip-check-tya), that can release thousands of posts that can
1) make a separate account using an email that
— is from the same URL
— with random names
2) make a repetitive message spread through every site as possible, even in email spam.

Antimatter has been created and can be used to fight by hitting it with iron atoms and using it to make a ‘nuke’.

Rocket count:
~100,000 rockets
Ammo count:
~10,000,000
Nuke count
around 15
Manpower and Units:
Conscription is put in use, and since males 19 and up (who’s not a single child) have to be in the active military for 18 months, our active military size is 1.5 million personnel. People who are no longer needed to serve in the active military are encouraged to join the reserves, which amounts to 2.5 million troops, or paramilitary, which amount to 5.7 million paramilitary troops.

Whenever we need it, we can call upon every man 19+ to fight.