The New Afrikan Navy (NAN) is the naval branch of the New Afrikan Armed Forces, and one of the five uniformed branches of the military. It has the most modern navy in the world, due in part its old one being taken by the Northern Coalition in 2008. Thus, while the navy is smaller than most of its rivals, it is the most advanced. The navy has some 313,116 active personnel and another 409,301 in reserve. Additionally, the navy operates some 106 ships and 1,280 aircraft as of 2012. The Federal Navy's blue-water capacity was demostrated numerous times before 2008 during military excerises off the New Afrikan-Northern Coalition border near Norfolk, Virginia, a region both nations claim. Also, the navy's capacity to wage a conflict on two fronts has been proven, as New Afrika placed portions of