Report on the state of the Soviet Union for the ten day period between the 16th and the 25th of November 1940,
Army:
Officers: 76.782 + / 86.460 needed / 88,806 %
Active Leaders: 242 / 105 more available
Army Leadership:
New Maj. General Kolomiyets SK2 has taken command of the recently formed 96. GSD (Mtnx2), Far Eastern Theatre guarding the Tartar Straight. See update on Vladivostok fortifications and the far east.
Air Force:
100 of the latest model of La-5 long range fighters (Ftr) have been delivered to the VVS, they will form 78. IAD, and serve as escorts to the 200 Yak-4 bombers of I. BAK.
Aeroplane Numbers (Wings/
Planes):
Interceptors: 21 /
2.100
Multi-Role Fighters: 3 /
300
Close Air Support: 4 /
400
Carrier Air Groups: 6 /
600
Single Engined: 34 / 3.400
Tactical Bomber: 4 /
400
Total Bombers: 8 / 800
Transport Planes: 2 /
200
Total VVS: 34 / 3.400
Total Navy: 6 / 600
Total Airplanes: 40 / 4.000
Active Leaders: 14 /
16 Reserve
The production lines continue churning out La-5's, the next 100 will form 104. IAD-PVO, and will be assigned to escort the brand new III. ShAK, for which the Il-2's will then have been delivered.
Navy:
No changes in the Navy for the last 10 days
Politics / International:
Germany has declared Limited War on Greece.
Greece joined the Allies
Bulgaria and Italy joined the war against Greece, and the Allies.
Yugoslavia has granted Germany military access.
The Soviet Union has enacted embargoes on Germany, Italy, and Bulgaria. (Slovakia and Ethiopia have no ports nor land borders with the SU, we couldn't trade with them if we wanted to)
There has been no response, military or otherwise from any of these nations.
The Norwegian Front
Norway (Surrender Progress /
NU): 0,00 /
85,1
Germany (Surrender Progress /
NU): 0,0 /
85,1
Things are frozen in place here, I feel like it's been forever since anyone did anything here in Norway...
British North Africa Front
United Kingdom (Surrender Progress /
NU): 0,0 /
77,7
Italy (Surrender Progress /
NU):
0,00 / 79,5 Tobruch back in Italian hands.
The Italians have reached and retaken Tobruch. They have reached the Egyptian Border by taking Ridotta Campuzzo. Further south, they haven't retaken Bi't at Tarfawi, yet, and on the coast they still have Bardia to retake. It seems a matter of days before the Italians step onto British-Egyptian soil once again.
French North Africa Front
France is a Government in exile.
Italy (Surrender Progress /
NU): 0,00 /
79,5
Along the coast, the Italians haven't moved, it's not clear why. They have, however, moved west away from the coast, consolidating their supply lines in the process. They have reached Constantine, and Setif. They are now 250km from Alger, with their supply lines and flanks firmly secured. The only reasons we can think of for the slight slowdown is that that they sent away some units, etiher to fight the British, or to send into Greece.
East Africa & Ethiopia Front
Ethiopia (Surrender Progress /
NU): 0,00 /
75,9
France is a Government in exile.
United Kingdom (Surrender Progress /
NU): 0,0 /
77,7
Italy (Surrender Progress /
NU): 0,00 /
79,5
Ethiopians have taken the Desert province of Buna from British Kenya. This will probably stop the British advance into Italian Somalia. So not much is happening here...
The Greek Front
Greece (Surrender Progress /
NU): 0,00 /
87,3
Bulgaria (Surrender Progress /
NU): 0,00 /
71,8
Italy (Surrender Progress /
NU): 0,00 /
79,5
Greece made some small inroads into Albania and Southern Bulgaria, all of this has been reversed. Additionally, Bulgaria has taken over the Mountains of Tasos, effectively shortening the front, which could help Greece, which now has 3 provinces bordering Bulgaria instead of 4. The Italians have made no inroads. The terrain, fortifications, and the narrowness of both fronts should favour the Greek defenders heavily. Of course, the Greek army could always run out of men, morale, organisation, or all three. Especially if the Luftwaffe's Bombers, and the Wehrmacht's Panzers start pushing. And to top it all off, Greek National Unity is very high, meaning that to force a surrender, the Axis has to take not only Salonica and Athens on the mainland, but also Irakleio on the Island of Crete.
Industry:
Infrastructure was improved in 25 provinces.
25 more improvement projects have begun.
6 new sets of 5 Anti-Aircraft Batteries with tracking lights have been placed in Kaunas, Brzesc Litewski, Krasne, Lwow, Rezekne and Maloryta. Covering Fortifications, Cities and Air Bases that didn't have any ground-based bombing deterrents.
Production continues on another 6 sets.
Working Industrial Capacity / a
vailable capacity: 238 /
321
IC Usage: ( Allocated IC /
Need )
Upgrades: 47,79 / 74,41
Reinforcement: 1,40 / 1,39
Supplies: 7,05 / 40,91 (This boost in supply need is due to the embargoes on our main foreign sources of Supplies, for now there are no real issues yet, but soon we will need to find new suppliers, or ramp up domestic production to keep our troops fed with as little interruptions as possible.)
Production: 235,87 / 235,87
Consumer Goods: 28,89 / 28,89
Stockpiles:
Energy: Maximum tonnes =
Metal: 89.511 tonnes +
Rares: 30.585 tonnes +
Crude: Maximum barrels =
Supplies: 25.134 tonnes +
Fuel: Maximum barrels +
Money: 1.920 -
Intelligence:
Spy numbers, spies in (active / added /
lost /
caught by us)
France (Covert Operations / Counterespionage): 5 / 0 /
0 /
0
{ Germany (/): 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 }
{ Japan (/): 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 }
{ UK (/): 0 / 0 / 0 / 0 }
Other: 0 / 0 /
0 /
0
Total: 5 / 0 /
0 /
0
Reserves: 11
Spy training leadership expenditure: 0,25
We have so far recruited 14 like-minded Covert Operatives in our French sleeper cell.
Research:
Industrial Engineers have found a way to increase the efficiency of our domestic Supply Production (Level 6).
Now a couple of Gunnery specialists have started working on improvements to both the positioning of fixed Heavy AA Batteries, as on the Guns (Level 2) themselves.
VVS Researchers, together with colleagues at Yakovlev have completed their modified Yak-4 Design with Basic Medium Fuel Tanks, increasing their operational range to 475km, the same as that of our La-5 long range fighters.
The VVS researchers, having realised that the Yak-4 platform didn't offer much more possibilities for increasing it's range or bomb load, have now started work on an entirely new type of Aeroplane. They have started designing a Basic Strategic Bomber.
No changes to LS distribution
Statistics:
National Unity: 83,043 (+0,01)
Neutrality: 0,00 =
Dissent: 0,00 =
Manpower:
Available: 2.037.000 Men
To reinforce(need): 2.530 Men
To mobilise(need): See above
Monthly gain: 48.200 Men (1 fully mobilised Infx3, AT Division every 7 days)
No changes in Party Popularity for the last 10 days
Party Organisation:
- Communist Party: 72,72 (+0,16)
- Trotskyite: 10,70 (-0,1)
- Bukharinite: 5,80 (-0,1)
- Octobrist: 6,30 (-0,1)
- Trudoviks: 3,10 (-0,1)
- Social-Revolutionary: 0,00 =
- Kadets: 0,00 =
- Tsarists: 0,20 (-0,1)
- NTS: 0,70 (-0,1)
- POA: 0,00 =
This Information is accurate on the morning of the 25th of November 1940, I hope it serves you well in fine-tuning your possible suggestions.
'Odin'