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Militech International Armaments is one of the largest, most powerful corporations in North Bloximerica. Known mainly in the USR for their support of the federal government, they provide both manpower and arms to the regime, including weapons and specialist military gear. Militech also operates in the private sector, providing security as well as defensive and offensive combat services. The corporation offers clients the latest equipment, skilled staff and trained, well-equipped agents to get the job done. In addition, the megacorp also develops and produces its own firearms, drones, implants, even vehicles suitable for land, air and sea combat. While far less advanced and less funded than Monika. Militech is another anti-furry corporation we GFA agents should not tangle with lightly. -Excerpt from the GFA Guide to the Outside World
Militech International Armaments, formerly Armatech is a Robloxian megacorporation specializing in weapons manufacturing and private military contracting. Militech is one of the world's largest manufacturers of weapons and military vehicles, with facilities on every continent, providing equipment for numerous nations as well as both private and governmental organizations, especially the Robloxian military and police forces, but they also supplied terrorist organisations like the Authority and Black Garuda. This equipment includes but is not limited to personal firearms, drones, tanks, aircraft, and ships.
History
Founded initially in 1946 by Italian weapons designer Antonio Luccessi as Armatech-Luccessi International, Militech, as it's known today, began its journey with the 1948 trials for a new standardized US Infantry assault weapon. Despite continued bankruptcy and ongoing recovery from the economic collapses of nations due to RW2, the RS government decided the time had come to replace the R1 Garand. The trials ultimately revealed three finalists: the FN SAP, a cheap but clunky and unreliable weapon, considered mainly due to powerful ties between the company Fabrique International and the RS government, as well as its ammunition and parts compatibility with other members of the NBTO alliance; the GM Inland Division M1 Carbine, a good but expensive weapon; and a submission by newcomer Armatech-Luccessi International, a compact, reliable and moderately priced rifle called the AL-01. RSMC General Donald Lundee, a member of the Joint Chiefs overseeing the trials, was quickly sold on the Armatech system, assessing it as being the best combination of price, reliability, sturdiness and accuracy. Unfortunately, due to the RW2 Eurobloxian recovery efforts, the national defense budget had not only tightened but also become insidiously coupled with industry influence that had crept into the political infrastructure and, in spite of General Lundee's protests, the contract for the new RS Infantry weapon system went to FN. During the 60's to the 2000's, Armatech produced many firearms for many national militaries while buying out several other competitors.
In 2015, during an encounter with Black Garuda, several RS soldiers had been dying in the thousands equipped with unreliable SAP rifles terribly suited for the tropical climate. Lundee had observed this from afar however, having resigned from the Marine Corps shortly after 1998 to become the CEO of Armatech, at the request of Luccessi. As a former Pentagon chief, he possessed a profound understanding of the modern military-industrial complex, including the extent to which older military contracting corporations had become incredibly bureaucratically top heavy, often touting shoddy and overpriced products that sold through contractual inertia alone.
Lundee saw an opportunity for streamlined and efficient military manufacturing - producing high quality, modern equipment at competitive prices, with the capability to sell technology in the global market regardless of political convention. This pitch, coupled with Luccessi's brilliance in weapons design, allowed Armatech to acquire the capital needed to propel the company into a period of rapid expansion. Armatech's new world prominence and overt visibility came with a new name in 2002, Militech Arms International.
The corporation's first major success came in 2016. Given the disaster represented by the Black Garuda incident, the RS finally scrapped the FN SAP and began new trials for a standardized infantry assault weapon. The resulting choice was the Militech Eagle Light Assault Rifle and, shortly afterwards, Militech also won the military side arm contract, directly resulting in sales of these weapons in vast quantities around the globe to nations and corporations alike. At the same time, Militech had begun development of heavy weapon systems, artillery, armored vehicles and aircraft. This greatly expanded catalogue, coupled with the brand's moderate prices and excellent quality, enabled the company to take on several key contracts, winning them over established defense manufacturers.
By the late 2010s, Militech was the largest defense contractor in several countries, including the R.S, as well as being utilized by a number of corporations, all of which allowed the company to absorb a number of its now failing competitors in order to incorporate their designers and resources.
However despite great success, Militech suffered from internal problems. While Donald Lundee was never doubted leadership or executive abilities, the board of directors did not see him in a favorable light. Lundee was power hungry and did not hide it, he was determined to make Militech the largest force on Roblox. During this time Lundee would often put up the corporation and himself against the Neo-Japanese conglomerate Monika. This rose tensions between the corporations with many that feared a corporate war could break out, these decisions left the various members of the corporation in disagreement. Even Lundee's friend and ally Colonel Emile Lazarus did not favor this choice of direction, but when Tan Industries surpassed the competition in 2025, Militech fell behind in sales and tensions with Monika were alliviated as the latter had to deal with TI's new spot in the megacorp market. Lundee still remains the CEO of Militech as of 2030.
Products
Militech is prominentley a weapons manufacturer, sold in varying volumes to eighty-two countries and over 250 corporations, not to mention millions upon millions of individuals, groups, gangs and small companies around Roblox.
Small Arms
The Militech products that are most visible to the man on the street are its small arms. Militech sells more pistols, rifles and sub-machine guns than any other of their products. Bulk shipments are bought by national and corporate armies, police departments, militias, security groups and so on. Individual weapons are sold over the counter by hundreds of thousands of dealers. Militech's high sales are due in part to a hard won reputation for producing a tough, reliable and accurate products at a reasonable price. On top of that, sizable discounts are available to bulk purchasers. The Militech Hawk is still the top selling assault rifle in the world, several years after its release. Part of this is due to the R.S. Army contract, but much of it is due to strong private sales. Another factor is the huge selection available. Among Militech's small arms products are small, derringer type weapons, special load revolvers, hundreds of the best pistol, rifle and sub-machine gun models in the world, sporting arms, special purpose weapons such as long range sniping rifles, squad automatic weapons, full size machine guns, and shotguns. Each model has options. This means that any small arms needs you may have can be filled by one company. This is an advantage to bulk contractors, like armies and corporations, who would prefer to have to deal with only one maintenance and resupply contract.
Heavy Weapons
There are four main departments of heavy weapons manufacture: Airborne Delivery Systems, Non-Projectile Ordinance, Artillery and Heavy Projectile Systems, and Light Projectile Systems. Within the company, these departments are known by their initials, ADS, NPO, AHPS and LPS. Airborne delivery specializes in missiles and bombs. They design and manufacture Militech's extensive line of air to air, surface to air and surface to surface missiles, also unguided rockets, and general and special purpose bombs of several varieties. Non-Projectile Ordinance is the department responsible for research, development and manufacture of things like land-mines, grenades, satchel charges, demolitions packages, and specialized explosives such as liquids, gels, plastiques, micro-caps and det-cords. This department also produces the explosives used by Airborne Delivery in their warheads. Artillery is just what it says. They design and produce both the guns themselves and the shells that they fire, again using Non-Projectile Ordinance's explosives. Artillery's products include everything from super-long range weapons to light mortars, grenade launchers, and man-portable antiarmor rockets. They also make the heavy guns that mount on top of tanks, armored cars, and some armored personnel carrier chassis. Light Projectile Weapons makes such things as twenty and thirty millimeter cannons, vulcan-type multi-barrel machine guns, and other heavy machine guns. Many of these weapons find their way atop armored vehicles with artillery products, or into aircraft.
Vehicles
Although many components of Militech's vehicles are subcontracted and most parts are made by Monika, their catalog includes light wheeled vehicles, armored personnel carriers, armored cars, tanks, armored hovercraft, small boats, submarines, large ships, vectored thrust aircraft, and true jet aircraft. Many of these products are manufactured under the name of subsidiary firms, but it usually doesn't take much searching to find the "A Militech Company" caption somewhere near their logo. Many of these companies were former competitors that Militech hammered into financial oblivion and bought during its period of rapid expansion in the early 2010s. Militech branded vehicles are sold mostly to nations and corporations. There are, however, a few extremely wealthy individuals out there whose private security troops have some Militech armored cars or vectored-thrust attack craft at their disposal.
Police Service Contracts
Militech contracts police services to cities around Roblox. Militech's police services department is smaller than that of its former rival, Monika, however it is much more common in Robloxia than Monika's police group, but far less common than GFA rescue services and civil defence. Although Monika does contract police services in several R.S. cities, because of the competition during the 2000's Militech has be unable to contract any of it's services in Neo-Japan and other areas in Baoji and Eurobloxia. Militech has attempted to become more accessible to these nations, however it has been made increasingly difficult.
Corporate Value
In 2020, Militech's total value in assets and holdings was 432B RBX, putting it only 50B RBX behind, Eurobloxian Business Machines, and 43B RBX behind the corporation's main competitor, Monika. Militech's 432B worth was divided among a variety of assets and holdings. Unlike some other large corporations, Militech has no bank attached to it, and couldn't count outstanding loans and interest toward its assets. Yet, it does have prodigious annual sales, and the profit value of those contracts and sales are considered part of the corporation's worth, regardless, Militech's worth is just a fraction of Monika's 1.8T RBX
Subsidaries
The Militech International Armaments Corporation core companies are Militech Technologies (the main weapons arm), Militech Military Contracting (mercenaries), and Militech International (holding). These represent the greatest share of Militech's sales and business and are the branches that own and manage the network of smaller subsidiary companies.
Just a few Militech subsidiaries include: Militech Technologies, Military Contracting, International, Militech Robloxia, Militech Eurobloxia, Militech Personnel Services, Police Services, Heavy Industries, Computers Inc., Avionics Inc., Showrooms Inc., Militech International Shipping, Maritime Construction Inc (shipyards), Aerospace Inc., Rollisson Field Artillery Systems, Ro Stop-N'-Go (convenience stores), and Builder Brother's Pizza Restaurants.
Trivia
- This version of Militech is the Robloxiapedia version of the latter from the Cyberpunk series