The SIŁA Factory, alternately referred to as the SIŁA Arms Factory, is a military installation located in the semi-abandoned region of Nadbór, Livonia.
The SIŁA Arms Factory was once renowned for producing some of the world's finest sporting and hunting rifles.[1]
Much of SIŁA's workforce came from Nadbór and as such, both the city and SIŁA and were partially excluded from the region's slowly expanding military training area in the early 1990s.[2] However, it was shut down in 1995 due to structural issues with its foundation.[3]
In late 2035, the Livonian government reached an agreement with its NATO allies to have the "Electron" joint military exercises be hosted in the region on a biennial basis.[4] SIŁA was subsequently reactivated (to an extent) and is now designated as the SIŁA Factory Training Area.[5]
Facilities[]
Tactical operations centre[]
The TOC is located in the factory's courtyard. The senior officer in charge, usually a Major or a Colonel, directs all training operations from this improvised control centre.[6]
A supply container houses vital communications equipment and electronics. It uses a metal roof propped on sticks to provide shelter against Livonia's rainstorms.[7]
Additionally, an L-shaped wall of H-barrier blocks protect the TOC's occupants in the rare event that stray pieces of shrapnel somehow get dispersed close by.
Electronic warfare training area[]
The old office building next to the main factory structures is used as a training course for practicing Electronic Warfare (EW) tactics and usage of handheld jammer devices.
Drone control station[]
During active training exercises, the former guardhouse at the main entrance is utilised as a control station for UGVs and UAVs deployed on the field.[8]
A secondary outpost at grid 074-026, designated as Point Dakota, is specifically set up for controlling larger UCAVs.[9] An autonomous laser designator turret is often used to guide the drones into dropping their payloads onto specific targets via laser spots or GPS/INS.[10][11]
Trivia[]
SPIN-OFF: The following information stems from a spin-off expansion or third party Creator DLC and is considered to be non-canon in the main Armaverse timeline.
SPOILER ALERT
NOTE: This section contains spoilers from ArmA 3: Contact's 'First Contact' campaign.
In the non-canonical First Contact campaign, SIŁA's structural issues were revealed to have been caused by the presence of an alien rootcap which had been buried beneath the factory grounds for several centuries.[12]
↑ARMA 3:Contact 2019 [Video Game], Bohemia Interactive a.s., Livonia, "The abandoned SIŁA Factory was once renowned for producing one of the world's finest sport and hunting rifles."
↑ARMA 3:Contact 2019 [Video Game], Bohemia Interactive a.s., Livonia, "Nadbór was excluded from the military training area, as it was originally the home for many workers at the SIŁA arms factory."
↑ARMA 3:Contact 2019 [Video Game], Bohemia Interactive a.s., Livonia, First Contact, "The Siła Factory closed down and relocated in 1995, due to structural instability."
↑ARMA 3:Contact 2019 [Video Game], Bohemia Interactive a.s., Livonia, "The Nadbór Region became an army training area in the 1990s. Since 2035, it has grown extensively to accommodate biennial military exercises, held between NATO member states."
↑ARMA 3:Contact 2019 [Video Game], Bohemia Interactive a.s., First Contact, False Negative, \a3\missions_f_contact\data\img\intro1\intro1_training1_co.paa, "SIŁA Factory Training Area, LIVONIA EXERCISE ELECTRON"
↑ARMA 3:Contact 2019 [Video Game], Bohemia Interactive a.s., First Contact, False Negative, "HOMEWOOD: Further to my last... Transfers. If we haven't had the pleasure, see me at the TOC. Out. KINGSLY: You catch that, Rudwell? Report in. Tactical Operations Center. That's the green container, with an asshole outside."
↑ARMA 3:Contact 2019 [Video Game], Bohemia Interactive a.s., First Contact, False Negative, "KINGSLY: Specialist Rudwell. Lieutenant Kingsly. You got a minute? I need a sanity check up at Point Dakota. Over. RUDWELL: Er, yeah, affirmative. North or South Dakota, sir? KINGSLY: You mean there's more than one? Look, once you're done dicking around on that roof over there with Stype, I'd like an assist. Out."
↑ARMA 3:Contact 2019 [Video Game], Bohemia Interactive a.s., First Contact, False Negative, "KINGSLY: Rudwell. Nicely timed. I gotta verify some numbers for the live fire, and - well. All I'm getting's a false negative. RUDWELL: Maybe a dud designator? KINGSLY: Could be - but only the GPS is out."
↑ARMA 3:Contact 2019 [Video Game], Bohemia Interactive a.s., First Contact, Another Earth, "Close Encounters, "But, they also wanted my scientific assessment of an object, spotted in a sinkhole that collapsed after the accident occurred. It was the rootcap of a much larger subterranean structure - the tip of something that has been growing for millions of years."
NOTE: Abandoned settlements that fall within the region's military exclusion zone are deliberately not shown. Please refer to this article for a dedicated list of those settlements.
