Welcome! Remember to apply with:

1. Your (chroma) name - Or username if you don't have one

2. Your place of residence (in chroma)

3. What is your preferred role in the air force?

Check out the PAF's wings to see what positions are available! If you want an aircraft type not listed here, feel free to ask for it anyway and I'll probably find a way to fit it in.

Hello! Today, we have three lovely new promotions for you all!

• First of all, /u/ben456111 is promoted to the rank of Air Marshal, since he basically was one already in all but rank. We don't have a division for you to command yet but I'm sure we'll think of something.

• Secondly, /u/a_flock_of_goats is promoted to the rank of Air Commodore, after 39 Battles with the PAF. Congratulations! Foggy now relieves /u/Eliminioa as commander of the PERIWEST zone.

• And, finally, /u/knightshade17 receives a somewhat-overdue promotion to Group Commander of the 6th Wing's 6th Fighter Group.

#PS:

While you're all here, since no-one seems to remember that the PAF has an entirely different ranking system to the army:

Commissioned Ranks

Non-Commissioned Ranks

NOW BLOODY WELL WRITE YER LORE PROPERLY.

Those tables are in The Wiki if you need 'em for lore purposes.

Hello! Just a quick promotion update today:

• First off, /u/ProphetofPain is now the commander of our latest space station, the ODP Bäntersvaeg.

• And next up, /u/the_masked_redditor recieves a slightly overdue promotion to wing commander of the 3rd Combat Wing, succeeding the newly-retired /u/redis213, after fighting excellently in 12 battles serving with the 5th Recon Group. Congratulations, Masked!

Well, that was fun, wasn't it.

Welcome! Remember to apply with:

1. Your (chroma) name - Or username if you don't have one

2. Your place of residence (in chroma)

3. What is your preferred role in the air force?

Check out the PAF's wings to see what positions are available! If you want an aircraft type not listed here, feel free to ask for it anyway and I'll probably find a way to fit it in.

Following the Neutral Campaign the PAF has gained support from the air forces of the newly-allied territories of the archipelago. As a result, the Eighth [Allied Combat] Wing has been created, combining the air forces of the RPCK, Emerald Heights and Tallian Allied Islands with a newly-created PAF force deployed in Dutchman's Grounds. These will be deployed at four new PAF Forces:

• Fort Polder in Dutchman's Grounds

• Fort Kozapolje in RPCK

• Fort Hope in Emerald Heights

• Fort Topaz in Tallian Allied Islands

These bases will be under command of a new division provisionally named CENTCOM - though this may change in future.

And now we come to promotions. Only a few this time around, though since Prime's notifications are offline that's understandable. Moving on:

• First promotion [of sorts] is for /u/a_flock_of_goats, who is now in command of the helicarrier-type-thingy RPA Vigilance

• Next, /u/the_masked_redditor gains a well-earned promotion after 4 battles to Group Commander of the 5th Recon Group

• Finally, Air Commodore /u/ben456111 receives a distinction for continued service with the PAF after all this time.

Congratulations, everyone! If Periwinkle Prime continues to be dead I might end up using PMs to pester PAF members in battling.

A brief explanation of PAF base systems because I was bored and wanted to make a lore-based thingy.

#Forward Arming Refuelling Point

The smallest of PAF bases, FARPS are usually temporary positions erected close to the battlefield for the operation of helicopters and VSTOL fixed-wing aircraft. With a suitably wide road nearby, these can also operate larger, more conventional aircraft.

#Forward Operating Base

These larger, semi-permanent bases, usually deployed on existing airfields or employing temporary runways and structures, allow an effective base to be established quickly near the battlefield. Usually too small to allow the operation of larger bombers and transport aircraft, FOBs are nevertheless extremely useful for most combat aircraft.

#Airship Refuelling Point

A specialist base designed to allow the refuelling of airships and helicarriers. These bases contain large, subterranean hangars and reserves of various fuels needed, as well as equipment for carrying out large-scale repairs.

#Air Force Base

large scale, permanent bases which can operate all types of fixed-wing aircraft. Usually employing two runways and complex air defence nets, AFBs are an effective solution to smaller gaps in air defence and can plug the gap in place of more expensive Fortresses.

#Sector Control Station

Sector control stations take in data from all manner of AEW&C aircraft, radar stations, and even naval vessels, sector control stations know the exact situation in their airspace at any given time and are vital in planning major operations.

#PAF Fortress

Combining the roles of both AFB and SCS bases, PAF Forts are the largest installation employed by the Periwinkle Air Force. These bases can operate up to two entire wings at a time and even include defences against ground assault, a concept proven in battle by the successful defence of Fort Skyblue during the Second War, in which, despite being overrun by Orangered forces and losing the ability to launch aircraft, the fortress held out until it could be reached by Periwinkle forces and secured. PAF groups are based permanently at PAF Fortresses, to be temporarily deployed at lower-tier bases when needed.

#Promotions

• With 8 battles under his belt, /u/a_flock_of_goats becomes wing commander of the 5th Wing, relieving /u/Eliminioa of having to hold three ranks at once.

• Similarly, /u/ProphetofPain has also been promoted to wing commander of the 1st Wing following 7 battles!

• And finally, despite the fact that he is in the navy, Starr's just too loveable not to get a promotion. He's now the commander of the 4th Escort Group.

#Distinctions

• /u/the_masked_redditor gains a distinction after 3 battles of good service with the PAF.

• After showing great promise in just two battles and countless EB tests, /u/PadawanJuriste gains a well-earned distinction already.

• Having joined the PAF relatively recently, /u/sismit has been putting in plenty of effort in recent battles, and has definitely earned himself a distinction.

Before we do the medals, here are some announcements!

We're introducing the new rank of Air Commodore! Basically, an Air Commodore is responsible for air superiority in a certain control zone. The zones we have so far are PERIWEST - the western continent of Chroma, PERIEAST - the eastern continent, and PERICOM - the central islands. Anyway, we have selected our Air Commodores*:

• /u/ben456111 is now Air Commodore of PERIEAST (which is technically a promotion I suppose)

• /u/Eliminioa is now Air Commodore of PERIWEST

• /u/TheZippy49 is now Air Commodore of PERICOM

Note: At the moment Air Commodores can hold other ranks but we're probably going to try and limit this when we have more suitable candidates. At the moment, however, as Air Commodore, Wing Commander and Air Marshal, Zippy is the only member of the PAF to hold three ranks ^oh ^god ^we ^need ^more ^people ^^at ^^least ^^we're ^^got ^^more ^^than ^^ORADF

Ahem. Also, /u/yourmindin3D kinda became our Chief Administrative Officer without it being announced. Well done!

And now, plebbo promotions!

• /u/a_flock_of_goats has been in three battles so far, which means that I am proud to announce his promotion to Group commander of the 5^th Electronic Warfare Group!

• With two battles under his belt, /u/OneSidedPolygon has earned a distinction. Yay!

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Welcome, and remember to apply with

1. Your name

2. Your place of residence (in chroma)

3. Are you an Orangered?

4. Are you an alt? (fake account for you rookies)

5. What is your preferred role in the air force?

Check out the PAF's wings to see what positions are available

At the request of the Republic of Bezold's Governor, /u/cdos93 [I mean, he's the governor, but he's also dead. In lore. Not irl. This is confusing. You're confusing. Go away.], the Republic of Bezold's air units have now been incorporated into the PAF in the form of the 6th [Combat] Wing.

The 6th Wing uses aircraft built and used exclusively by the Republic of Bezold's forces, many of which are still yet to be revealed. A complete album of 6th wing aircraft types can be found here*.

Designed to support infantry and naval forces, the 6th Wing is a ground-attack oriented wing, using unorthodox designs and tactics in order to disorient enemy forces on the ground. Working in conjunction with AA-focused units, the 6th Wing will make a valuable part of the PAF in the combat of years to come.

Organisational structure of the 6th Wing

^*yes. ^One ^of ^them ^is ^Lego. ^Blame ^Doss ^and ^imagine ^it ^smoother. ^for ^me.

First of all, congratulations to /u/Ben456111 for becoming the new wing commander of the 1st Combat Wing! We also made him a bot mod because we were sad and lonely and wanted someone to talk to in our modmail.

On a related note /u/redis213 has transferred to command of the 3rd Combat Wing and /u/luuklilo has become a PAF Hobo who, despite insisting he is still a wing commander, has disowned his wing and is unlikely to accept another one unless it is made up of billions and billions of Gripens. So yeah. ^^luv ^^u ^^luuki

And a big welcome to /u/JJJheimer_schmidt, who has joined the PAF's experimental division along with his bloomin' great Helicarrier, the RPA* Fairy Godmother! As well as being a pretty sweet helicarrier, The Godmother will test various things to do with flying planes off another flying things and various cool explodey things :D

^*Royal ^Periwinkle ^Airship

edit: I'm pretty sure Ben is a robot anyway but I can't let it slip out

#1st [Combat] Wing

• Air superiority / Ground attack wing

• conducts the majority of CAS operations

#2nd [Combat] Wing

• heavy bombing / interdiction wing

• significant air-superiority capability

#3rd [Combat] Wing

• Multi-role wing, focused mainly on ground-attack fighters.

• Has an effective air-superiority capability.

#4th [Transport] Wing

• Transport / Refuelling focus

• significant fighter escort force

#5th [Recon] Wing

• focused on electronic warfare and reconnaissance

• significant strike capability via UCAVs

#6th [Combat] Wing

• Significant airship fleet

• Ground support focus

• Aircraft employed by the 6th wing

#7th [Experimental] Wing

• Contains various PAF experimental units, including two helicarriers

• Controls Chroma's only dedicated orbital bombardment system

#8th [Allied] Wing

• A mixture of groups from the PAF and from territories of the neutral archipelago

• A mixture of fighters and bomber/ground attack groups.

Note: Diagrams shown will be updated as necessary. All aircraft have been upgraded As described here

With the introduction of many new technologies in the last wars, the Periwinkle Air Force has sometimes appeared to be somewhat behind the curve. However, top PAF Official Science Blokes predict that this won't be the case for long.

How? With the science of nanotechnology! For a while now, the PAF has been increasing funding to its R&D departments due to the freed-up wartime funds, already seeing results with the continuing overhaul of the fleet and the introduction of the most advanced set of weaponry in Chroma. However, these are seemingly tiny developments compared to the latest advancement to take place.

For the first time today, the PAF formally announced the results of a long-term testing program which has been in progress since the start of the second Chroma War. Using a sprayable, 1 mm thick coat of paint-like nano-material, popularly nicknamed "Nanopaint" among the Official Science Bloke community, F-4 target drones have been able to resist sustained Phalanx fire for up to 2 seconds without taking serious damage, far in excess of a standard unprotected model. Test aircraft with 5 mm "paint" coatings proved able to resist missile impacts, taking relatively minimal damage.

By acting as both a sacrificial armour-like coating and as a sealant, the Nanopaint can effectively "Cauterise" fuel leakages which could lead to potentially fatal aircraft explosions. As well as that, major advances in production techniques could see Nanopaint introduced fleet-wide, with the possibility of additional coatings applied to fuel tanks and pipes.

Despite all this, experts stress that the aircraft will still not be invincible - current technology results in a known drop-off point in the effectiveness of the technology, with around "3-4 missiles" being enough for guaranteed destruction, even with around 50mm - an amount which, even with 10 year's worth of production advances, will cost upwards of 17 Billion Chromanium for even a small drone- of the coating applied. Despite this, the key significance of the Nanopaint technology, combined with the increasing advancements of electronic warfare, is the PAF's far-increased ability to take on heavily-defended targets faster than anything else on the battlefield.

We leave you with an Official PAF Science Bloke Orginisation comment on the newest advance in Chroman military tech - "The future is well cool, innit"

//Officially Declassified by the Periwinkle Air and Naval Defence Administration//
[Declassification Serial: th4t5//4//PR3tt1//d4nk//m3m3r00n13]

###Air-Air Missiles [AAW]

###Air-Ground Missiles [ASM]

###Bombs/Ordinance [ASBO]

###Anti-Ship Missiles [GASM]

###Stand Off Weapons [SOW]

###AWESOMES orbital bombardment warheads [AWESOMES]

###Miscellaneous

Many Thanks to /u/JJJHeimer_Schmidt and /u/Spamman4587 among others for their help with all this wonderful chart!

If you think your chroma-based weapons company is up to the task of designing a variety of explosion-based devices, contact the /r/PAF mods!

Remember to apply with

1. Your name

2. Your place of residence (in chroma)

3. Are you an Orangered?

4. Are you an alt? (fake account for you rookies)

5. What is your preferred role in the air force?

To improve the PAF's capability of generally blowing nasty people up in a spectacular manner, the Periwinkle Air Force will be conducting a full program of upgrades on the more ageing aircraft in our fleet. Yay! Here's how we're going to do it:

• Really cool electronics or something :D

Yes, we're going to be revamping most of our older planes with brand new AESA radars, multi-function displays, Helmet displays, datalinks, cameras, and a variety of other cool stuff! As well as looking pretty blummin' awesome, it'll increase accuracy and allow all aircraft to operate the new weapons coming into service with the updates or something. As well as this, the datalink technology will allow aircraft to track, view, and even lock onto radar blips detected by aircraft and ground defence systems out of range of the plane itself. As well as that, planes using passive radar to maintain stealth will be able to keep aware of the surrounding situation and avoid danger, which is usually a pretty good thing.

• New Weapons [with 100% more explodey things!]

As we all know, to blow up enemies you need a rather big bang. So, we will be building new missiles, bombs, and other big explodey things to replace the wide spectrum of different weapons currently in use. The Really cool electronics ^TM are specially designed for our planes to be able to use uniform weapons systems. Updates on the new systems to come!

• Engines and airframes

Quite a lot of our older planes are more expensive to maintain due to outdated, fuel hungry engines and early hydraulics. In order to solve this issues, we will be refitting aircraft with fly-by wire systems, faster and more efficient engines, and generally more modern, tougher parts where problems exist.

So, there you have it - stay tuned for more updates on the reformed PAF!

The PAF's new Advanced Warfare Engine with Strategic Offensive Munitions Enforcer Station (AWESOMES), has successfully fired its first guided tactical warhead. The result is seen in this footage, courtesy of the PAF Media Dept:

well, well well, let's get this all done, shall we?

##Promotions:

• /u/ben456111 will be promoted to commander of the 3rd wing's 4th helicopter group. He's all on his own here- step it up, new guys!

##Distinctions:

• /u/luuklilo

• /u/yourmindin3d

##Distinctions with Bar:

• /u/ladykiller ^^You ^^all ^^know ^^that ^^she's ^^calli ^^by ^^now ^^dontcha?
• /u/RockdaleRooster

the task is very simple: design a PAF aircraft livery using any program you like. The design needs to be on a plan view of the aircraft in question, like this. Any type of aircraft will do, but it must have the PAF roundel or flag on some part of the aircraft. You have 3 days to submit your designs!

Our last space division commander managed to put up space lasers, but we have even bigger plans for Elim! We have now started the Periwinkle Air Force Orbital Kinetic Bombardment program, and an Orbital Anti Satellite Laser system. Sign up here!

The series of battles in Vermillion Union were bravely fought, not least by our airmen who helped secure the skies over this territory.

Promotions go to:

• /u/yourmindin3d, who has been promoted to Group Commander of the 2nd Wing's 2nd Bomb Group

• /u/redis213, who has been promoted to Wing Commander of the 764.5th

Distinctions go to:

• /u/Zwoosh for effective close air support in the Vermillion Battles

• /u/RockdaleRooster for participation in the defence of Snooland

• /u/Ladykiller ^^aka ^^californicus for participating in the defence of Snooland and long range strikes against the former Great Aurantiaco

Remember to apply with

1. Your name

2. Your place of residence (in chroma)

3. Are you an Orangered?

4. Are you an alt? (fake account for you rookies)

5. What is your preferred role in the air force?

For their vital role in securing the skies over Chromehenge, PAF command has chosen several vital airmen to award with promotions and medals.

• For his role in conducting CAS and transport operations using his helicopter squadron, /u/Zwoosh has been promoted to group commander of the 764.5th Combat Wing's 5th Helicopter group.

• For his role in the extensive carpet bombing of Orangered troops, /u/Redis213 has been promoted to Group Commander of the 764.5th Wing's 3rd Bomb Group

• For her role in command of bombing over the mission, and earlier service conducting raids over Orangered heartlands, /u/Ladykiller ^acully ^calli, ^it's ^a ^long ^story has been given the command of the PAF 2nd Combat Wing

• For also contributing greatly to destruction of Orangered AA defences , /u/RockdaleRooster has been promoted to group commander of the 2nd combat wing's 1st bomb group.

New Commanders

/u/Luuklilo has been given command of the 1st combat wing, and will be announcing it's units shortly.

To allow a more even distribution of registered members between combat wings, the Combat aircraft command PAF will be undergoing a restructuring of all it's wings. The new system will consist of three types of wing:

Fighter Wings

Bomber Wings

Attack Wings

and Mixed Wings.

Each wing will consist of four groups consisting of three squadrons

As well as that, Research has been started using early airship designs found in the home of great Periwinkle pioneer, Sir Gregory Dave Maximus The Forty Second.