No, not the GALACTIC Empire XD
Needed to print a reference of the weapons that they usually had in battle, so, copypaste x3 Altough in 1989 the 1000 Days War* still didn`t finished, in the G4 times the weapons used by the Empire are basically same. Easy to use, rarely fails, cheap to produce, available in crushing numbers. Why to change them?

Dilshad was an ELITE soldier of the Albornoz Empire, that explains several about Dora`s likes and skills in the G4 time

In my novels, the Empire is a southern and eastern neighboor of the Rupian Federation. Have literally MILLENIUMS of experience as warriors, They fought each other during almost 400 years but when finally they made an unificated country formed the biggest army of the planet, and probably the most decided one. The Meganins was unnable to stop them during the 1000 days war even using tactical nuclear bombs, and the Rupians used an inmense number of high explosive rockets, tactical missiles, flamethrowers, snipers, and every long range weapon available to mantain them so far as possible during the shorts border combats at the begun of the 1000 days war before unite against the Meganian thread

Rupians and Imperials are very different in their thinking but very usually they are in peace and with good relationships, precisely by having different objectives. The Rupian Federation always tended to expand and to use lot of tech in combat. The Empire is focused in the protection and defense of their borders and country, and despises the long range combat or the extended use of technology for the war. But attack them, or even worse, their villages or cities, and they will follow you until hell to cut your head no matter how much time it takes

The historic enemy of the Albornoz Empire is the Kingdom of Falc. No even them knows how many battles they have during the last 900 years

What the Rupian Federation likes about Imperial Troops:

- Their Ferocity at combat
- Their impressive hability to built bridges, roads and all that the logistics requires, no matter how difficult the terrain is
- Their "honorable behavior". respecting specially to the enemy valiant soldiers and the medics during the battles
- Their unquestionable loyalty

What the Rupian Federation doesn`t likes about Imperial Troops:

- Their lack of variety of equipment for battle and weapons ( this doesn`t includes the elite troops of the empire ) : basically AK-47, SVD Dragunov, RPG-7, Vz 61 skorpion, Gsh-18 or Cz 52 pistols. And OF COURSE a Scimitar.
- Their lack of fear against situations that MUST end in a tactical retreat. Imperial soldiers very usually preffers to die before retreat, causing lot of casualities
- The rupians preffers soldiers very well trained taht make a good use of their bullets. One shoot, one dead. The Imperials doesn`t care about the ammo spent, they carry several ammo and really doesn`t care much about aim carefully. The collective fire is usually enough effective to eliminate targets even at medium distances
- The rupians consider the Imperials too naive about "honor in combat", making them able to be fooled and "betrailed" by "dirty tricks" as use personnel with civilian or paramedics costumes to attack them by surprise



*Biggest War ever in my universe, involving even Nuclear Tactical Weapons in the first 3 weeks. Megania (Avians basically) vs EVERYBODY AROUND, specially The Kingdom of Falc, The Albornoz Empire and then by that time very small and weak Rupian Federation