The Howlton Special Forces (Howt Föderation Spezialkräfte / Сили спеціального призначення Федерації), or colloquially known as the Professional Royal Forces of Howlton, Royal Howlton Forces or RHF, is a special branch of the Howt Army, designed to protect the four Federal Districts of Howlton, namely Kyiv, Berlin, Zagreb and the capital city Howlton City. It is not to be confused with Howlton Army.
Howlton City, Kyiv, Zagreb and Berlin had been integral cities to Howlton’s past, historically being capital cities at one point in the history of Howlton. They are also cities of cultural and lingual centres which formed the identity of the Howt People’s, having been created from the combination of the Eastern Slavs, Northern Germanics and Southern Romances as one.
The forces are made up of a relatively smaller manpower size. Despite being relatively small amongst other Howlton Army subsidiaries, it is the most powerful military group in the world, at 4.6 million active duty personnel, with 4800 tanks, 3500 aircrafts and 6000 non-nuclear warheads.
History
The RHF was formed in October 1954 with the sole purpose of defending Howlton City at all costs after the independence of Howlton. Initially, the military group only had a strength of 50000 highly trained soldiers which were either veterans of Arc War 3 or the Flufflesian Civil War, which quickly expanded to 1 million by 1960 by foreign militants, from Murkatinnya and Veliona namely. This number stagnated due to the fact that Howlton desperately needed to catch up on defence for the rest of the country, as the tensions began to rise in the world between the two increasingly rivalling blocs, the United Pact and the International Alliance.
By 1980, the RHF was made up entirely of Howt troops.
Arc War 4
During the initial stages of Arc War 4, the RHF was largely dormant, with the Howlton Army severely underestimating the scale of what was to be the Barkand Invasion of Howlton (1991). However, the RHF raised its military count to 1.5 million, and sent 80000 troops to help South Mewland which was being invaded by North Mewland.
In 1991, Barkand invaded Howlton with over 5 million troops. By the fall of 1992, Bark forces were about to cross the Golden River, the last line of Howlton Military defence before Howlton City. The Barkand crossing of the South Golden River sparked the mobilisation of nearly all of the RHF and its inner city defences, which ultimately turned the battle against Barkand and started the downfall of the United Pact.
Aftermath and future developments
The RHF after Arc War 4 soon expanded to encompass Berlin, Zagreb and Kyiv, as those three cities saw some of the biggest destruction in history, as well as them being politically and culturally significant. The permanent active troop count was also increased from 1 million to 1.25 million each city. The country also developed and installed the most advanced weaponry throughout the cities, to be used in times of war, such as missiles, as well as anti-missile interceptors. Every year on victory day, these weapons were to be tested by being launched into space, and then spontaneously intercepted by the cities’ own missile interceptors. The missile debris would then burn in the atmosphere. Its mission since 1997 has expanded from full defence of Federal Districts to military and humanitarian aid across the globe.
The Royal House of Howlton has made claims that it will designate Tokyo as a federal district within the next upcoming years, which will also expand the RHF’s operations there.**