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Since Slovakia is as landlocked a country as it gets in central Europe and has few major navigable bodies of water, there is no navy to speak of (occasional river patrolling is reserved for coppers).
To get a good idea about the current structure of the armed forces, you can visit [https://web.archive.org/web/20131229231602/http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/Slovakia_Army.png this nifty overview] on [[That Other Wiki]].
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* [[Badass Bookworm]] / [[Genius Bruiser]] : The sapper units, full stop. Hey, fighting at the frontline might be the usual idea of "war", but at the end of the day, someone's got to clean up all those nasty mines or other threats left behind by extinsive fighting. Not to mention aiding reconstruction efforts in war-torn areas...
* [[Cool Car]] : [[Awesome McCoolname|The Alligator]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20130602064246/http://www.kerametal.sk/pdf/kerametal-aligator.pdf armored car], a domestic design. Good as a multi-purpose scouting vehicle. Bullet-proof, partly amphibious and can be modified with various types of turrets and other additional kit. Early versions of the vehicle had [[Flawed Prototype|less reliable engines]], so it received quite a few revisions before it went into its full production run.
* [[Cool Plane]] : An exact dozen of upgraded [[Mi G]] 29s form the country's [https://web.archive.org/web/20120722194024/http://www.1sqn.sk/index-tiger-en.htm main fighter wing] and are to remain in service until the 2020s at the latest. Their future replacements will probably be [[Swedes With Cool Planes|Swedish]] SAAB JAS 39 Gripens (which are already being used by Czechs and, to an extent, Hungarians). As for jet trainers, the role is filled with the old but reliable Aero L-39 Albatros (unsurprising, given how it originates from right next door). Sukhoi Su-25s were in service until the late 90s and Su-22s were decomissioned in the early 2000s. Some of the Su-25 Frogfoots were sold to Armenia (you can find a few photos taken shortly after their delivery, where they still have the Slovak coat of arms as their roundel).
** The Mi-24 attack helicopters are the chopper variety of the trope. Sadly, they're about to be phased out by the beginning of 2012, since their upkeep and modernization was already expensive and there were few of them left anyway. There are plans for a greater budgetary push towards the more useful [[Boring but Practical]] Mi-17s and transport planes (including the purchase of Alenia C-27J Spartans to replace the two Antonov An-26 Curls).
* [[Elites Are More Glamorous]] : The 5th Special Forces Regiment, a spec ops / counter-terrorist paratrooper unit.
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