NationStates Jolt Archive

To: Jack Fergunson
Department of Defense, Arms Procurement Section
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Confirmation of order

The Portland Iron Works is delighted to see our friends from the glorious nation of Teh Ninjas return to place another order with us. We are pleased to confirm your order of:

40 Dolphin-class hydrofoil patrol vessel@1.15M=46M
60 Octopus-class multi-role patrol vessel@150M=9B
100 Ossipee-class special operations boat@50M=5B
20 Bolash SSK@415M=8.3B
20 Tiger-class railgun-armed gunboat@2b=40B
10 Perseus-class river monitor@1.175B=11.75B
10 Holland-class ASW destroyer@2.3B=23B
20 Evermore-class GP destroyer (DD) -- Flight II@1.65B=33b

With a 2.5 percent discount for repeat purchasers, the total for your order comes to $ 126.8 billion following an additional discount for ease of accounting. Work will begin immediately on the ships and we expect to have your order completed within eight NS years [8 RL days] following the completion of sea trials. Rest assured that we will endeavour to ensure that every ship meets our stringent standards and we hope they exceed your Navy's expectations.

Thank you once again for choosing the Portland Iron Works for your naval needs and we hope to hear from you again in the future!

*Gavin Newsom-class Trimaran hypercarrier added*

To: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
From: Admiral Michael Sutherland, The Armed Republic of The Silver Sky
Department of Defence, Naval Arms Procurement Division
Subject: Carrier and Cruiser Order

We have been greatly impressed by the quality of the Portland Iron Works ships after our last purchased, we would like to again purchase some fine ships from your fine company.

We would like:

3x Gavin Newsom-class Trimaran hypercarriers for $375 Billion USD
9x Endymion-class Trimaran large cruisers for $53.1 Billion USD

Sub-total: $428.1 Billion USD

We are un-sure of any discounts we have earned here at Portland Iron Works, if we have please subtract it from the sub-total. We would also like tp purchase Limited Production Rights(Same as always) to these ships, if we can please state your price and it will be included in the total.

Thank you,
Admiral Michael Sutherland
The Armed Republic of The Silver Sky

OOC: I also have a proposal for a ship for you, contact me through TG if your interested.

To: Admiral Michael Sutherland
The Armed Republic of The Silver Sky
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Confirmation of order

The Portland Iron Works is delighted to see our friends from The Silver Sky return to place another order with us. Your order of three Gavin Newsom-class Trimaran hypercarriers and nine Endymion-class large cruisers is confirmed. Since you are a repeat purchaser at our storefront, you have earned a 2.5% discount on all purchases here or at our sister companies Avalon Aerospace Corporation and Incorporated Ordnance Company. As a result, your order total comes to $417.3975 billion.

Work will begin immediately and we expect to have your order delivered to you within eight NS years [8 RL days] following the completion of sea trials. Rest assured that we will strive to complete your order as quickly and as efficiently as possible while ensuring that the ships are of the high quality our customers have come to expect from the Portland Iron Works.

We thank you for contacting us once again for your naval needs and we hope to hear from you again in the future!

To: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
From: Chief-of-Military, Manjit
Subject: Order

Hello again friends at PIW. We would like to buy 12 Gavin Newsom-class Trimaran hypercarriers. That will be a total of $1.5 trillion. We thank PIW for their service with us.

Signed,
Chief-of-Military,
Manjit

To: Chief-of-Military, Manjit
Space Union
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Confirmation of order

The Portland Iron Works is delighted to confirm this order for 12 Gavin Newsom-class Trimaran hypercarriers from our friends in Space Union. As a repeat customer, you are entitled to a discount on this order; thus, the total for this order will be $1.4625 trillion.

We estimate that the order will take us approximately nine NS years [9 RL days] following the completion of sea trials. Rest assured that we shall endeavour to complete your order as quickly and efficiently as possible while striving to ensure the high quality our customers have come to expect from the Portland Iron Works.

We thank you for once again choosing the Portland Iron Works for your naval needs and we hope to hear from you again in the future!

PIW releases 'Maidstone' river gunboat
Part of developing littoral warfare squadron

PORTLAND, Somerset (ASP) -- The Portland Iron Works may be known for having among the widest selections of super-sized capital ships in the world, but their latest release is a far cry from the superdreadnaughts plying the seas.

The new vessel, the Maidstone-class gunboat, is not designed for the so-called blue water navy. It has been built with brown water use in mind. Engineers say the Maidstone's low freeboard of only 3.9 metres makes it a poor option for travelling the seas, but its armament of four 155 mm ETC guns in two twin turrets makes it a deadly opponent for riverine combat.

"We wanted to give the and our export customers more flexibility with riverine operations," Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.), the company's managing director, said in a statement issued at the company's headquarters. "This design brings deadly firepower in a compact design that we believe will be a boon for countries who have littoral warfare needs."

The ship also comes with two 105 mm mortars for use against fortified positions and includes the Rattlesnake CIWS suite. Electronics from the [i]Segura-class minehunters in the Spanish Navy were added to allow the Maidstone to detect and snuff out mines.

Tucker said the "a significant part" of the gunboat's 1,660 tonne displacement was devoted to weapons and protection with the idea of allowing it to survive small- to medium-arms fire.

"Littoral warfare can present unpredictable threats to a force unprepared for them," Tucker said. "We wanted to create an all-around design that would allow our customers to better manage the unpredictability."

Maidstone-class river gunboat
Length: 96 m; Beam: 17 m; Draught: 3.1 m
Displacement: 1,660 tonnes full
Armament: 2 x 2 155 mm ETC guns in A & Y positions; 2 x 105 mm mortars in B & X positions; 4 x Rattlesnake CIWS
Protection: 104 mm-127 mm amorphous steel with EMP-hardened biosteel covering critical areas; double-bottomed, reinforced keel designed with glass fibre-reinforced plastic to withstand the shock of underwater explosions. Hardened crossbeams installed across bulkheads.
Propulsion: two Alsthom Paxman Valenta 6RP200E diesel engines developing 7,500 shp each. 21 knots.
Vehicles: Two Seafox expendable mine disposal vehicles
Complement: 40
Electronics: AN/SQQ-32 variable-depth sonar (VDS); Type 1007 I-band navigation radar
Countermeasures: Two lightweight decoy launchers.
Price: $125 million
Running Cost: $5 million

The Navy of Concador would like 10 Aylesburgh-class AS transports @ 2 billion$.

To: Navy of Concador
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Confirmation of order

The Portland Iron Works is pleased to confirm your order of 10 General Marsden-class AP ships at $2 billion. Work will begin immediately and we expect to have your order completed within six NS years (6 RL days).

We thank you for contacting the Portland Iron Works and we hope to hear from you again in the future!

Sorry, I meant 10 General Marsden-class AP ships--they cost the same amount. My apologies.

OOC: That's fine. I'll edit the confirmation post.

OOC: Essesntially I'm buying my entire navy from you. If you have any suggestions for additional ships please let me know, I have around 500bn to 1.5trl to use additionally.

After many years of careful comtemplation and close examination of our current military Scellia has realized that our navy is tto far out of date and far too small to actually be of any use. Thus after several years of pratically no naval spending and careful hoarding of money earmarked for the Scellian Navy we wish to purchase a fleet like no other commissoned. The preliminary list of ships we wish to purchase is as follows, the Scellian Admiralty appreciate any suggestions that the Portland Iron Works has to offer.

6 Vigilant-class
12 Capital-class
24 Resolute-class
60 Sea-class
150 Agamemnon-class
90 Commandant-class
12 Greenmanbry-class
24 Forrest-class
240 Wixted-class
300 Dolphin-class
60 Minuteman-class
240 Smith-class
60 Normandy-class
120 Ryzner-class
240 Quay-class
TOTAL:$4,508,400,000,000 or $4.5084 Trillion

The Scellian Admiralty thanks you for the services that we are confidant you will render with speed and care the bespeaks the many years of proud naval service on your parts.
The Scellian Admiralty

Sarzonia, would I be on the blacklist?

200 Gabin-class(these rearm/refit at sea right?)
In flits the designer, stage left: Nope. They are vehicle transports. Exeunt.

Which vessel is meant to exclusively rearm other ships at sea?

Well, there's the Smith-class AOE (which stands for auxiliary, oiler (fuel), ammunition [I think]) and the Flansburgh-class AOR (auxiliary, oiler (fuel), replenishment) that are replenishment vessels.

Order has been edited, Gabin-class changed to Smith-class and several ship numbers were added to.

To: Scellia
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Confirmation of order

The Portland Iron Works is estatic to receive the custom from the glorious nation of Scellia. We confirm your order for the following:

6 Vigilant-class
12 Capital-class
24 Resolute-class
60 Sea-class
150 Agamemnon-class
90 Commandant-class
12 Greenmanbry-class
24 Forrest-class
240 Wixted-class
300 Dolphin-class
60 Minuteman-class
240 Smith-class
60 Normandy-class
120 Ryzner-class
240 Quay-class

We confirm the amount of $4.5084 trillion and we estimate this order will be completed within 15 NS years (15 RL days) due to the enormous size. Rest assured that we shall endeavour to complete your order as quickly and as efficiently as possible while striving to ensure that your ships are of the high quality our customers have come to expect from the Portland Iron Works.

We thank you for your kind words and your custom and we hope you turn to the Portland Iron Works once again for your naval needs!

Sarzonia, would I be on the blacklist?OOC: Technically, no. However, my government would frown on PIW selling you anything, but PIW would likely refuse an order from you.

Our Ministry of Finance confirms that 4.5084 trillion has been wired to the Portland Iron Works. We appreciate the swift delivery and loom forward to the delivery. Since it will be an all at once delivery large crowds of spectators are expected to see the arrival of the mighty ships. The arrival date has been declared regional holiday for the west coast of Scellia, ticket will go on sale 10 years but already bids have been placed at places that think they are guarenteed tickets. All Portland Iron Works high ranking staff are invited to the Commissioning Event, tickets are in the mail.

To: Scellia
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Ceremony invitation

On behalf of the Portland Iron Works, I would like to express my appreciation for the invitation to the commissioning ceremony for your new PIW-built navy. I would be most honoured to attend and I will endeavour to ensure strong attendance from my hard working staff as well.

We hope this is the beginning of a long and prosperous relationship between our two great countries!

To:Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
From: Admiral Geoffrey Simnett,
Minister for Defence, Kingdom of Lesser Ribena
Subject: New order

Due to a recent explosion in our population and exponential growth in the industrial sector to a powerhouse economy with a $5.6 trillion GDP, this is in addition to the growth of our private arms sales to other nations which now totals $68.5 billion. To celebrate this new development in our nation, King Charles has informed me to improve our navies and to give our people something to be proud of in their heritage. Therefore I have attached details of our defence budget($485,112,267,688.80) and place an order for the following:

General Purpose Fleet (253 ships)
1 Independence-class pocket SD (BBGN)
1 Nanticoke-class heavy carrier (CVAN)
4 Forrest-class fleet carriers (CVN)
2 McVie-class light carriers (CVL)
5 Resolute-class nuclear powered battleships (BBGN)
5 Sea-class guided missile battlecruisers (BC)
10 Praeton-class heavy missile cruisers (CAGN)
15 Shield Bearer-class missile cruisers (CG)
20 Evermore-class destroyers (DDN)
25 Wixted-class frigates (FF)
30 Seminole-class corvettes (FL)
50 Piranha-class fast missile boats
25 Ossipee-class special operations boats (50 RIBs/50 CRRCs included)
20 Skipjack-class nuclear powered attack submarines (SSN)
10 Stalwart-class nuclear powered ballistic missile submarines (SSBN)
20 Insurgent-class special operations submarines
10 Lake-class mine clearance vessels
Cost: $315 billion

We would be appreciative if, as usual, the payment can be spread over the course of the production so as to lessen the negative economical effects. We thankyou for your previous services to our nation and hope that we will maintain our good relationship long into the future.

Sarzonia, since your gov condemned mine shouldn't I be on the list? :D

To: Admiral Geoffrey Simnett,
Minister for Defence, Kingdom of Lesser Ribena
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Confirmation of order

The Portland Iron Works is delighted to confirm this order from our dear neighbours in Lesser Ribena. Your order of:

General Purpose Fleet (253 ships)
1 Independence-class pocket SD (BBGN)
1 Nanticoke-class heavy carrier (CVAN)
4 Forrest-class fleet carriers (CVN)
2 McVie-class light carriers (CVL)
5 Resolute-class nuclear powered battleships (BBGN)
5 Sea-class guided missile battlecruisers (BC)
10 Praeton-class heavy missile cruisers (CAGN)
15 Shield Bearer-class missile cruisers (CG)
20 Evermore-class destroyers (DDN)
25 Wixted-class frigates (FF)
30 Seminole-class corvettes (FL)
50 Piranha-class fast missile boats
25 Ossipee-class special operations boats (50 RIBs/50 CRRCs included)
20 Skipjack-class nuclear powered attack submarines (SSN)
10 Stalwart-class nuclear powered ballistic missile submarines (SSBN)
20 Insurgent-class special operations submarines
10 Lake-class mine clearance vessels
Cost: $315 billion

Will take us an estimated 12 NS years [12 RL days] to complete due to a heavy backlog of orders. Rest assured that we will strive to deliver your ships to you as quickly and as efficiently as possible while working to maintain the high level of quality our customers have come to expect from the Portland Iron Works.

We thank you once again for your custom and hope you continue to make the Portland Iron Works your choice for your naval appropriations!

Sarzonia, since your gov condemned mine shouldn't I be on the list? :DOOC: You are now.

To: Friends in Portland Iron Works. Inc
From: Chief-of-Military, Manjit
Subject: Order Pending

Hello once again our friends in PIW. We have come to order the following:

12 Multi-Role Naval Fleet (99 ships)

That will come out to a total of $850 billion. We would also like to make an adjustment to the fleet. We would like to replace the Forrest and Swiftsure-Classes with the more capable Gavin Newsom-class Trimaran hypercarrier. We would like 1 of these per fleet. This adjustment will better serve our navies doctrine. We would also like to know what the new price will be for all 12 Multi-Role Naval Fleets. We will also pay our friends an extra $3 million for the effort of having to adjust the price for us. Thank You once again for supplying us with such fabulous vessals.

Also could you ship the carriers with the nessessary aircrafts? Thank You. We will also pay for that of course.

Another note, we have been great place to buy our military vessal. So we would like to establish diplomatic and economic ties and become possible allies with your great nation. Would that be possible to arrange?

Last thing, how much would this support fleet cost us for the multi-role naval fleet?

10 Pasteur-class hospital ships (290) (5800)
5 Curie-Class Light Medical Ships (95) (950)
25 Normandy-class combat ships (355) (17,750)
12 Gabin-class roll-on/roll-off cargo vessels (76) (1900)
12 Smith-class fuel and munitions transport vessels (528) (13,200)
10 Aylesburgh-class submarine tender (300) (6000)
10 Flansburgh-class fleet replenishment vessel (300) (6000)

Add 12 of these to my order. Thank You very much.


Signed,
Chief-of-Military,
Manjit

OOC: We can discuss it over TGs if you want to.

To: Chief-of-Military, Manjit
Space Union
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Confirmation of order

The Portland Iron Works are delighted once again to see our friends from Space Union return to place another order with us. Your order of 12 Multi-Role Naval Fleets will be adjusted to include one Gavin Newsom-class hypercarrier in lieu of the normal allottment of two Forrest-class and two Swiftsure-class carriers.

The amount it would cost to change the carrier allottment would be $110 billion per fleet, making the total for the 12 Multi-Role Naval Fleets $2.17 trillion. The cost for the 12 support fleets you have requested would be $660 billion, or $55 billion per fleet. As a result, the total order would come to $2.83 trillion.

Since we are currently under a very large backlog, we estimate that it would take us approximately 12 NS years (12 RL days) following the conclusion of sea trials to complete your order with all of our shipyards working at maximum efficiency. Rest assured that we will make every effort to ensure that your order is delivered to you as quickly and as efficiently as possible while maintaining the high level of quality you have come to expect from the Portland Iron Works.

We thank you once again for contacting the Portland Iron Works for your naval needs and we hope to hear from you again in the future!

To:Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
From:Chief-of-Military Manjit,
Department of Defense for Space Union
Subject: Payment

Thank you for adjusting the packages for us. The money will be sent to you with an extra $3 million. Thank You.

Signed,
Chief-of-Military Manjit

To: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
To: Admiral Geoffrey Simnett,
Minister for Defence, Kingdom of Lesser Ribena
Subject: Support Order

A recent wargames exercise has shown us the distinct lack of support vessels present in our navy. To counteract this terrible oversight we attach the following order:

9 Science/Medical Squadron Cost: $76.5 billion
49 Quay Class vessels $34.3 billion
48 Normandy class vessels: $62.4 billion
96 Ryzner class hovercraft: $40.8 billion
96 Gabin class vessels: $28.8 billion
25 Peligro class vessels: $60 billion

TOTAL:$302.8 BILLION

We realise that you currently ahve a backlog of orders and are willing to wait a while whilst you complete this one and do not mind the delay. Funds have been wired to teh usual bank account. We thankyou in advance for what we know will be the usual great service and assistance.

{OOC: That logo looks awesome! (The one that shows your flag and then says 'proud of our ships') How did you make it?}

{OOC: That logo looks awesome! (The one that shows your flag and then says 'proud of our ships') How did you make it?}OOC: Thanks! I can't take credit for it because Scoyle made it for me. You can TG him for it. I loved it too... that's why I used it. :D

To: Admiral Geoffrey Simnett,
Minister for Defence, Kingdom of Lesser Ribena
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Confirmation of order

The Portland Iron Works is delighted to receive yet another order from our friends in Lesser Ribena. Your order:

9 Science/Medical Squadron Cost: $76.5 billion
49 Quay Class vessels $34.3 billion
48 Normandy class vessels: $62.4 billion
96 Ryzner class hovercraft: $40.8 billion
96 Gabin class vessels: $28.8 billion
25 Peligro class vessels: $60 billion

The order total of $297 billion includes a 2.5 percent discount on the individual ship classes for repeat customers and a further discount to provide for greater ease of accounting. We estimate that your order will take 14 NS years [14 RL days] to complete due to the heavy backlog. Rest assured that we shall endeavour to ensure that your order is completed as quickly and efficiently as possible.

We thank you for once again choosing the Portland Iron Works for your naval needs and we hope to hear from you again in the future!

GWS.72 Heron surface attack missile

Designed from Lyme and Martens’s experience with the GWS.52 Pelican anti-ship missile and the ALQ.220 Flamingo deceptive decoy, the GWS.72 Heron has the capacity of driving your opposition to distraction by its ability to conduct high speed diverted attacks at very low level. The Heron does so either with pre-programmed waypoints or using its very accurate hybrid navigation system (ring laser inertial navigation (INS) and global positioning systems (GPS)) and its low cassegrain radar seeker as a passive receiver to avoid enemy air defences as it proceeds towards its target. Once within striking distance, the Heron takes a radar snapshot of its target. Unlike planar array radars, cassegrain antennae, by their ability to amplify the collimation of radar returns, are more difficult to deflect or decoy using electronic countermeasures, and since the system is active only for the brief period required for target verification, it is extremely difficult to dissuade the Heron. Once the snapshot is taken, its radar seeker once more becomes a passive receiver and the missile accelerates to terminal velocity, impacting with a circular error probability (CEP) of less than two metres.

The GWS.72-b is slightly different in that it has been fitted with extending swept wings, similar to those used on the ALQ.220 Flamingo, that decrease the cruise velocity of the missile to just over supersonic speed, but which serve to extend the range by over 80 km.

Both the GWS.72-a and GWS.72-b variants possess an exceptionally capable automatic target recognition (ATR) system based on that used on the Rook DRA.1 unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) and the GWS.52 Pelican anti-ship missile, further reducing the missile’s resistance to countermeasures, as well as a secure datalink (WSW.125b Ran) – which may be exchanged for the datalink system used by your nation – permitting a man to remain constantly within the command loop.

Characteristics
Functions: 72-a: two-stage supersonic cruise anti-ship missile; 72-b: two-stage supersonic cruise surface attack missile
Launch Environment: 72A: air; 72L: land-based; 72M: shipborne; 72U: submarine
Launch Angle: vertical to fifteen degrees from the horizontal, with 360 degree initial acquisition capability, 90 degree focal plane
Dimensions: length (surface launched version): 4.77m; (missile): 4m; diameter: 0.34m (in launch capsule), 0.92m (fins deployed)
Mass: surface launched version: (launch mass) 693kg, (in launch canister) 1,000kg (1t), (missile mass) 550kg; warhead: 227kg BROACH APHE
Range: 72-a: 160 km (maximum); 72-b: 250 km+
Guidance: INS, GPS, millimetric wave cassegrain active/passive radar seeker with 90-degree off boresight targetting, capable of being updated in-flight by datalink
Propulsion: low-bypass ratio turbofan with solid rocket booster
Manoeuvrability: tail-surface controlled, thrust vector control; >12 g
Ceiling: 20 km; attack altitude 10-5 m and lower (depending on sea states)
Speed: 1.08 Mach (supercruise), 1.5 Mach (terminal)
Cost: $1.4 million

Background Working closely with the Incorporated Sarzonian Navy, the Portland Iron Works is in the process of developing several ships to specialise in littoral warfare operations and effectively provide support for army and other combat units. One of the considerations for the ISN was to create a littoral warfare submarine that would allow devastating land attack capabilities similar to those from a standard SSBN or SSGN but without bringing the large boats into a littoral warfare situation. The result of this was the Bulldog-class littoral surface attack submarine.

Armament Armed with the new land attack variant of the Heron missile developed by Lyme and Martens Defence Industries, the Bulldog can bring the destruction of longer-range land attack missiles into shallower waters where countermeasures are expected to be less present. The Heron is also equipped to make it more difficult for countermeasures to throw it off its target.

Bulldog-class littoral surface attack submarine
Length: 56 m; Beam: 6.6 m; Draught: 5.7 m
Displacement: 920 tonnes
Armament: 2 x 4 Mk 41 VLS
Protection: Double-hulled (outer hull made of titanium, vanadium and aluminum; inner hull made of amorphous steel with a layer of absorbant foam separating the hulls). Outer hull coated with anaechoic tiles to reduce noise emissions.
Propulsion: 2 x MTu 16v 396 diesel engine, 4.12 MW. HDW/Siemens AIP (Air Independent Propulsion) system, 150 kW.
Speed: Eight knots surfaced; 12 knots submerged.
Electronics: Radar: Kelvin Hughes Type 1007 I-band navigation radar; Sonar: STN Atlas Elektronics DBQS-40 sonar suite; STN Atlas elektronic MOA 3070 mine detection sonar; Periscopes: Zander Optronic Hunter 12 Search and Hunter 13 Attack Periscope; Advanced Command and Weapons Control System (ACWCS).
Decoys: TAu 2000 torpedo countermeasures system.
Complement: 10
Price: $150 million.

Background Littoral warfare planners from the Sarzonian Department of Defence realised that their current holdings for littoral warfare operations were inadequate to address the military's needs to support ground troops with naval fire in brown water combat. Evaluators turned to a long ago concept boat, the Sikorsky Aircraft-designed assault support patrol boat, to design a next generation version and the result is the Stills-class assault support patrol boat.

Armament The armament layout has been upgraded somewhat with a corresponding increase in length for the boat. Instead of 50 feet, the Stills measures 18 metres, or just under 60 feet. The 105 mm howitzer is still present on the Stills from the Vietnam-era creation, but a 40 mm grenade launcher and 30 mm autocannon have been added to give the Stills a more potent armament. Two .50 cal machine guns can be added if necessary.

Protection The original Sikorsky-built boat made use of a unique protection scheme called bar armour which explodes projectiles against bars set away from the hull to protect the inner hull itself, and a similar scheme finds its way to the new version. In addition, the Momentum Transfer Armour (MTA) scheme found in the IPO-145 Hoplite II MBT in service in the Imperial Praetonian Army has been adopted. This layer fires a metal projectile at an incoming projectile and is primarily effective against KE attacks. The main hull is built of amorphous steel, which is three times stronger than steel, and has been reinforced with biosteel in critical areas.

Propulsion Like its predecessor, the Stills has been designed with speed in mind, and its two diesel-electric hybrid engines feeding two waterjets propel the Stills at speeds of up to 50 knots. One small gas turbine engine allows for quieter running and emergency propulsion in the event the diesel-electric system breaks down, but is most effective when the Stills travels at 10 knots or less.

Stills-class assault support patrol boat
Length: 18 m; Beam: 5 m; Draught: 1.2 m
Displacement: 30 metric tonnes
Armament: 1 x 105 mm howitzer fore; 1 x 40 mm grenade launcher; 1 x 30 mm autocannon; 2 x 12.7 mm machine guns can be added if necessary.
Protection: 76 mm-110 mm amorphous steel with biosteel installed over critical areas. Bar armour and MTA provide additional protection against enemy projectiles.
Propulsion: 2 x diesel-electric hybrid engines; two internalised waterjets. 50 knots (short-range sprint).
Electronics: Millimetric wave radar; LADAR/LIDAR integrated package; passive/active radar/sonar. Mine detection packages similar to Lake-class minesweepers.
Complement: Six.
Price: $25 million

*Littoral warfare squadron added to Naval Packages*

*Price of the Heron reduced!*

To: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
From: Fleet Admiral Michael Sutherland
Department of Defence, Naval Department
RE: Possible Joint Project

The Armed Republic of The Silver Sky has over and over seen the quality of the ships that PIW has produced. With the recently ended rash of Super Dreadnoughts being made and sent into active service The Silver Sky thinks that we are unpowered in this section of a naval Battlefield, because of this we would like to enlist your help in this monumental undertaking.

If you are interest please respond through classified means (TGs) and we will send you the basic stats(And I mean really basic) of our SD.

Thank you,
Fleet Admiral Michael Sutherland
The Armed Republic of The Silver Sky

To: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
From: Chief-of-Military Manjit,
Technocratic Republic of Space Union
Subject: Order for Coast Guard

Hello friends. We would like to file an order for the following:

40x Coastal Patrol Squadrons

That will come out to a total of $150 billion. We hope that you can fullfill our order. Also we would like to know if the Littoral Warfare Squadron would be capable of also conducting coast guard work. Thank You once again friends.

Signed,
Chief-of-Military Manjit

The Dominion of the Transylvania will order for the Transylvanian Navy:

20 Tiger-class railgun-armed gunboats = $ 40,000,000,000
100 Octopus-class multi-role patrol vessels = $ 15,000,000,000
10 Steadfast-class SSBN/SSGNs = $ 30,000,000,000

Total = $ 85,000,000,000

*****MONEY WIRED*****

~Crown Prince Calvin Saint Clair, the Sea Marshall of the Transylvanian Navy

We would like the following:

x4 General Purpose Fleets=1.260 trillion
We would like to have any ships replaced if you currently are selling a superior ship than the one listed.

x50 Navarre SSN=75 billion
x45 Skipjack SSN=85.5 billion
x20 Steadfast SSGN=60 billion
x10 Steadfast SSBN=30 billion

Total=1,510,5000

Funds wired once confirmation of order is complete.

[OOC: Sorry about the delay everyone. For the purposes of IC, consider the dates to have begun the day you sent the message.]

To: Chief-of-Military Manjit,
Technocratic Republic of Space Union
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Confirmation of order

The Portland Iron Works is pleased to confirm this order from our friends in Space Union for 40 Coastal Patrol Squadrons. After discount for frequent purchasers, the total of $150 billion is reduced to $146.25 billion. We estimate that your order will be completed in eight NS years (8 RL days).

To answer your question regarding the Littoral Warfare Squadrons, they are designed to serve both offensive and defensive roles in the littoral environment, which usually refers to rivers and other shallow water locations. As such, they are not designed for coast guard-style duties. However, the Perseus could add some devastating firepower to a coastal defence platform.

We thank you for once again choosing the Portland Iron Works for your naval needs and we hope to hear from you again in the future!

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To: Crown Prince Calvin Saint Clair
Sea Marshall, Transylvanian Navy
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Confirmation of order

The Portland Iron Works is pleased to see the return of The Transylvania to our store for another order. We are happy to confirm your order for:

20 Tiger-class railgun-armed gunboats = $ 40,000,000,000
100 Octopus-class multi-role patrol vessels = $ 15,000,000,000
10 Steadfast-class SSBN/SSGNs = $ 30,000,000,000

For a total of $85 billion. We estimate that this order will be completed within eight NS years (8 RL days), following the completion of sea trials. Rest assured that we shall endeavour to complete your order as quickly and as efficiently as possible while ensuring that our ships are of the high quality our customers have come to expect from us.

We thank you once again for your custom. We realise you have a choice for naval procurements and we are glad you have chosen the Portland Iron Works for your naval needs.

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To: Yelm
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Confirmation of order

The Portland Iron Works is delighted to confirm this large order for the following:

4 General Purpose Fleets = $1.260 trillion
50 Navarre-class SSN = $75 billion
45 Skipjack-class SSN = $85.5 billion
20 Steadfast-class SSGN = $60 billion
10 Steadfast-class SSBN = $30 billion

Total = $1,510,500,000,000

We estimate that this order will take us approximately 12 NS years to complete due to a large backlog of current orders. Rest assured that we will work to complete your order as quickly and efficiently as possible whilst striving to maintain the high level of quality our export customers have come to expect from the Portland Iron Works.

We thank you for choosing the Portland Iron Works for your naval needs and we hope to hear from you again in the future!

OOC: Hey Sarz, mind getting on AIM?

To: Crown Prince Calvin Saint Clair
Sea Marshall, Transylvanian Navy
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Confirmation of order

The Portland Iron Works is pleased to see the return of The Transylvania to our store for another order. We are happy to confirm your order for:

20 Tiger-class railgun-armed gunboats = $ 40,000,000,000
100 Octopus-class multi-role patrol vessels = $ 15,000,000,000
10 Steadfast-class SSBN/SSGNs = $ 30,000,000,000

For a total of $85 billion. We estimate that this order will be completed within eight NS years (8 RL days), following the completion of sea trials. Rest assured that we shall endeavour to complete your order as quickly and as efficiently as possible while ensuring that our ships are of the high quality our customers have come to expect from us.

We thank you once again for your custom. We realise you have a choice for naval procurements and we are glad you have chosen the Portland Iron Works for your naval needs.

To: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
From: Crown Prince Calvin Saint Clair
Sea Marshall, Transylvanian Navy
Subject: (RE) Confirmation of order

Thank you for taking our order. My Father, the God-Emperor Count JWolf, loves the ships that we have got from y’all early. Those ships are the backbone of the Transylvanian Navy. We will be building up are navel assets in next couple of years. We will be focusing on more submarines. So, we will order from you to fill the submarine order later.

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To: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
From: Fleet Admiral Michael Sutherland
Department of Defence, Naval Department
RE: Huge order of Naval Forces


The Silver Sky Republican Navy is under going a massive refit and standardization effort, we have chosen the ISN standard of weapons as our standard in our Navy, thus we see the need to phase out all of our other ships with PIW products, we would like to order

16x Atlantic-class Trimaran large battleships (BBLN) for $640 Billion USD
16x Capital-class Trimaran guided missile battleships (BBGN) for $152 Billion USD
5x Gavin Newsom-class Trimaran hypercarriers (HCVN) for $625 Billion USD
16x Victory-class Trimaran fleet carriers (CVN) for $480 Billion USD
32x Agamemnon-class arsenal ships (ASN) for $99.2 Billion USD
48x Endymion-class Trimaran large cruisers (CLN) for $283.2 Billion USD
48x Commandant-class Trimaran guided missile cruiser (CAG) for $96 Billion USD
192x Evermore-class GP destroyers (DD) for $316.8 Billion USD
192x Wingate-class Trimaran AA frigates (AAFG) for $374.4 Billion USD
192x McDonough-class ASW frigates (ASWF) for $164.16 Billion USD
64x Steadfast-class SSBN/SSGN for $192 Billion USD
160x Navarre-class SSN for $240 Billion USD

Sub-Total cost for 981 ships= $3,662.76 Trillion USD ($3,662,760,000,000)
After 2.5% Discount (Please tell us if we qualify for bigger discounts) = $3,571,191,000,000

We know this is a huge order with a even bigger price tag, we would like to be able to produce 1/4 of these (245) ships in our own ship yards to help speed the construction and delivery process, we would also like to be able to pay for these fine ships at a $400,000,000,000 Billion USD rate for 9 years.

We hope you confirm this huge order as the majority of our ability to protect ourselves comes from our naval forces, so this order is a huge part of our national security.

Thank you,
[Signed]
President Jason Garner
Admiral Michael Sutherland
The Armed Republic of The Silver Sky

To: leet Admiral Michael Sutherland
Department of Defence, Naval Department
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Confirmation of order

The Portland Iron Works is delighted to confirm this massive order from our friends in The Silver Sky. Your order for the following:

16x Atlantic-class Trimaran large battleships (BBLN) for $640 Billion USD
16x Capital-class Trimaran guided missile battleships (BBGN) for $152 Billion USD
5x Gavin Newsom-class Trimaran hypercarriers (HCVN) for $625 Billion USD
16x Victory-class Trimaran fleet carriers (CVN) for $480 Billion USD
32x Agamemnon-class arsenal ships (ASN) for $99.2 Billion USD
48x Endymion-class Trimaran large cruisers (CLN) for $283.2 Billion USD
48x Commandant-class Trimaran guided missile cruiser (CAG) for $96 Billion USD
192x Evermore-class GP destroyers (DD) for $316.8 Billion USD
192x Wingate-class Trimaran AA frigates (AAFG) for $374.4 Billion USD
192x McDonough-class ASW frigates (ASWF) for $164.16 Billion USD
64x Steadfast-class SSBN/SSGN for $192 Billion USD
160x Navarre-class SSN for $240 Billion USD

Will take us an estimated 10 NS years (10 RL days) to deliver to you following the completion of sea trials. Rest assured that we will endeavour to ensure that your ships are of the high quality you have come to expect from the Portland Iron Works.

We thank you for contacting the Portland Iron Works for your naval needs and we are delighted to be your official supplier of naval ships. We hope to hear from you again as you continue to strenthen your naval tradition on the high seas!

To: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
From: Chief-of-Military Manjit,
Capitalist Republic of Space Union
Subject: Order

We would like to put in a massive order for our navy at your storefronts, friends. We are currently retiring our old fleet for a newer much more powerful one. We have chosen your storefront as the best place to do this.

48 Atlantic-class Trimaran large battleship $1.92 trillion
30 Brandywine-class light command dreadnaught $1.95 trillion
30 Resolute-class nuclear powered battleships (BBGN) $112.5 billion
30 Patinkin-class fleet command vessel $255 billion
60 Endymion-class Trimaran large cruiser $354 billion
60 Sea-class guided missile battlecruisers (BC) $162 billion
90 Monitor-class Trimaran heavy cruiser $306 billion
120 Agamemnon-class arsenal ship $372 billion
150 Mahan-class xebec $255 billion
150 Holland-class ASW destroyer $345 billion
150 Wingate-class Trimaran AA frigate $292.5 billion
180 Seminole-class corvettes (FL) $67.5 billion
300 Piranha-class fast missile boats $37.5 billion
150 Ossipee-class special operations boats (50 RIBs/50 CRRCs included)
$7.5 billion
120 Steadfast-class SSBN/SSGN $360 billion
60 Stalwart-class nuclear powered ballistic missile submarines (SSBN) $144 billion
90 Minuteman-class SSK $51.75 billion
120 Insurgent-class special operations submarines $120 billion
60 Lake-class mine clearance vessels $63 billion

This along with 6 Support Fleets will come out to $7,211,765,600,000 including the 2.5% discount. The total order compromises of 1,998 ships not including support ships. As this is a mammoth order we are willing to open up 5 newly constructed shipyards in our nation to Portland Iron Works for leasing to you with conjunction with the other 3 shipyards you have located in our nation. After the completion of our order, they will be your property.

As for payment, we would like to pay you $3,605,882,800,000 per year for two years to meet your the total. Tell us the interest associated and we will add that to the yearly payment.

We hope that you will be willing to fulfill this order for us. Thank You.

Signed,
Your Friend Manjit

To: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
From: Admiral Geoffrey Simnett,
Minister for Defence, Kingdom of Lesser Ribena

After a lengthy period of stagnation our navy is again up for redevlopment and modernisation. I enclose an order for the following:

3 General Purpose Fleet (253 ships) $299.25 bn ea.

This is inclsuive of our 5% regional discount. For a total of: $897.75 billion, this has been wired to the usual account.

We thankyou for your usual good service.

We would like the following:

x30 General Marsden-class AP=3.2 Billion
x120 Smith-class fuel and munitions transport vessel (AOE)=36 Billion
x20 Aylesburgh-class AS=4 Billion
x65 Lake-class MCDV=6.825 Billion
x25 Normandy-class heavy combat transport ship=32.5 Billion
x80 Ryzner-class heavy transport hovercraft=34 Billion

Total=116.525 Billion

Funds shall be wired to your account once our order has been verified.

To: Chief-of-Military Manjit,
Capitalist Republic of Space Union
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Confirmation of order

The Portland Iron Works is delighted to confirm this truly massive order from our friends in Space Union. Your order:

48 Atlantic-class Trimaran large battleship $1.92 trillion
30 Brandywine-class light command dreadnaught $1.95 trillion
30 Resolute-class nuclear powered battleships (BBGN) $112.5 billion
30 Patinkin-class fleet command vessel $255 billion
60 Endymion-class Trimaran large cruiser $354 billion
60 Sea-class guided missile battlecruisers (BC) $162 billion
90 Monitor-class Trimaran heavy cruiser $306 billion
120 Agamemnon-class arsenal ship $372 billion
150 Mahan-class xebec $255 billion
150 Holland-class ASW destroyer $345 billion
150 Wingate-class Trimaran AA frigate $292.5 billion
180 Seminole-class corvettes (FL) $67.5 billion
300 Piranha-class fast missile boats $37.5 billion
150 Ossipee-class special operations boats (50 RIBs/50 CRRCs included)
$7.5 billion
120 Steadfast-class SSBN/SSGN $360 billion
60 Stalwart-class nuclear powered ballistic missile submarines (SSBN) $144 billion
90 Minuteman-class SSK $51.75 billion
120 Insurgent-class special operations submarines $120 billion
60 Lake-class mine clearance vessels $63 billion
And 6 Support Fleets totals $7,211,765,600,000 as you mentioned.

We would be most willing to accept your proposed payment schedule and we do not require any interest payments. We also are more than delighted to accept your offer to build five additional shipyards in Space Union to allow us to reduce the burden on our current shipyards. We estimate that with the five additional shipyards and all of our current yards operating at full capacity, we would be able to complete this order within 12 NS years (12 RL days).

We thank you once again for your custom and for choosing the Portland Iron Works for your naval needs!

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To: Admiral Geoffrey Simnett,
Minister for Defence, Kingdom of Lesser Ribena
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Confirmation of order

The Portland Iron Works is delighted to see our friends and regional neighbours from Lesser Ribena return to our storefront. We would like to point out that we normally do not apply discounts on naval packages since the packages themselves are already discounted, but we are willing to make an exception in this case as you are an outstanding customer of Sarzonian military manufacturers.

As such, your order for three General Purpose Fleets is gladly confirmed at the price of $897.75 billion. We estimate that it will take us approximately 12 NS years (12 RL days) to complete this order due to a very large current order. We hope the ships serve your navy well and we thank you for once again choosing the Portland Iron Works for your naval needs!

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To: Yelm
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Confirmation of order

The Portland Iron Works is pleased to confirm this order once again from our friends in Yelm. Your order:

x30 General Marsden-class AP=3.2 Billion
x120 Smith-class fuel and munitions transport vessel (AOE)=36 Billion
x20 Aylesburgh-class AS=4 Billion
x65 Lake-class MCDV=6.825 Billion
x25 Normandy-class heavy combat transport ship=32.5 Billion
x80 Ryzner-class heavy transport hovercraft=34 Billion
Total=116.525 Billion

Will be delivered to you within 10 NS years (10 RL days) due to a backlog of orders. Rest assured that we shall work as quickly and efficiently as possible to ensure that your order is completed to the high standards of quality you have come to expect from the Portland Iron Works. We thank you once again for choosing us for your naval needs and we hope to hear from you again in the future!

To: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
From: Chief-of-Military Manjit,
Capitalist Republic of Space Union
Subject: Payment Delivered

We thank you once again for fulfilling our naval needs. Our first payment has been delivered to your account. We anxiously await for these ships to enter our navy. Thank You.

Signed,
Chief-of-Military Manjit

To: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
To: Admiral Geoffrey Simnett,
Minister for Defence, Kingdom of Lesser Ribena
Subject: Order

We apologiese for the mistake that appears to have appeared on our order due to an administration and clerical error. Needless to say the clerks and civil servents of the procurement departement responsible have been severely reprimanded and the mistake will not happen again. We thankyou for your offer to foot the bill resulting from this error and for the good service that we know we will recieve from your fine company.

Neptune-Class Trimaran Super Dreadnaught

History:
The inspiration for the Neptune-Class Super Dreadnaught began with the creation of both Credonia’s Credonia Class Super Dreadnought and Space Union’s Courageous-Class Super Dreadnaught and the possibility of them being exported to potentially hostile nations and the host of other SD’s built by PIW and exported to other nations. Up until then The Silver Sky Republican Navy had purchased Super Dreadnaughts from IPS or PIW, but these vessels were either lacking in power or everyone other nation and their grandma had one. After months of deliberation the decision was made that The Silver Sky Navy would design and produce their own Super Dreadnaught, and with the help of PIW we have produced what is before you today.

Armament:
Even before the Neptune-Class Super Dreadnaught had even begun design the decision was made to arm her with a main armament of at least 15x 25” guns. The mounting of 25” main guns on a SD was breaking the tradition of the usual main armament of either 27” or 30” guns, and although when you compare the guns the 25 incher seems to lack in stopping power gun for gun, the decrease in weight and increase in ROF was a great trade off, so while a Doujin-class or a ship like it is just about to fire, a Neptune-class would have already launched it’s 25” guns and be preparing another salvo. While this amount of guns (15) was good enough for awhile, with the arrival of the Northumberland Class Pocket-Superdreadnaught on the scene this amount was increased to 24 guns in 6 turrets. These guns are believed to have a broadside weight pound-per-pound greater then the Doujin-Class Super Dreadnaught. The Navy also made the decision to add 8x 8” railguns in four double turrets. The secondary armament consists of 24x 6” guns in 12 dual turrets, 12x 3” guns in single turrets along the out riggers.

The main missile armament consists of 12 x 96 cell Mk 136 VLS and 18 Hornet Medium ranged SAM launchers. The CIWS is comprised of 36x 'Rattlesnake' CIWS which consist of a 35mm ‘Rattlesnake’ chain gun, ‘Yellow Jacket’ Mini-SAM and decoys.

The Primary ASW armament is comprised of 6 x 650mm Torpedo tubes and 2x 324mm Torpedo tubes, an Anti-Torpedo CIWS is made up of 35mm Super-Cav rapid fire cannons and decoys to destroy/disable or confuse incoming enemy torpedoes.

Armor:
The Silver Sky Navy had decided early on that the Neptune-Class must be greatly armored if it were to survive in today’s world of huge Anti-Ship missiles and 30inch guns. The main armor scheme consist of a layer of Inconel metal plates (Purchased from Space Union), and layers of Advanced armour composite (titanium, vanadium, amorphous steel, aluminum, and ballistic ceramics.); further protection is provided by double-bottomed, reinforced keel, void spaces and a titanium honeycomb frame. Composite rods, KERI foam installed in void spaces, and ceramic kinetic reducing plates for further protection against KE attacks. With an average armor thickness of 1839.25mm and much greater in some areas the Neptune-class shrugs of anything below a 25 inch gun like a tank would shrug off small arms fire. This specific armor scheme was created in response to The Macabees’ Argentine-Class Galleon.

Other:
The Neptune-class Super Dreadnaught incorporates many stealth and countermeasure devices. Most of the stealth devices on the ship are relatively low tech, these include the elimination of any and all 90 Degree surfaces from the ship, this includes railings, stairs, hatches, and the conning tower, another measure is that all vertical/horizontal cylinder shapes have been removed including the gun barrel which is made up of a diamond shape, all radar/lidar/laser domes have been angled, and even the age old anchor ties have been reshaped. More high tech devices include LIDAR absorbing materials, and RADAR absorbing paint. Also included is a layer of Space Union’s Quiet Sound solution to the entire ship, this helps lower sound by up to 15-20 Decibels. Countermeasures include, Flares to confuse incoming IR-Seeking missiles; Electronic Jamming Optics System (EJOS); Chaff launchers to confuse incoming Active-Radar Seeking missiles; Active Directional and Un-Directional Radar Jamming System (ADUDRS): for use against Radar-seeking missiles and fighters, with limited capabilities against small surface ships; Laser Defense System (LDS): Consists of 6 Dome Laser emitters which target and destroy small missiles using lasers and can be used to disable laser guided weapons; 2 (1 bow and stern) Shortstop and Warlock Electronic Protection System (EPS): Disables most any incoming device with an electronically controlled fuse with an 85% success rate.

Another device to help lengthen the battle-life of a Neptune-class SD is that each ‘Rattlesnake’ CIWS gun and ‘Yellow Jacket’ Mini-SAM launcher has its own RADAR and LIDAR emitter/receiver for totally independent targeting, this allows for the engaging of over 36 targets and tracking of over 50,000 targets. Another feature is that each gun turret aboard the Neptune can be used for engaging an enemy missile threat, from the big 25” guns to the small 3” guns, they can all fire Fin-Stabilized MetalStorm Canisters or huge shotgun like rounds (25” shotgun anyone?). This feature allows the Neptune-Class Super Dreadnaught to engage many more threats then other Super Dreadnaughts.

Specifications:[/SIZE]
Length: 992 m; Beam: 231 m; Draught: 26.9 m
Displacement: 2.96 million tons full load
Armament: 6 x 4 635mm (25”) ETC Guns in A, B, C, X, Y, Z positions
8 x 203mm (8”) naval railguns in 4 dual turrets port and starboard
24 x 6” ETC guns in 12 dual turrets (6 each port and starboard)
12 x 3” Anti-air/fast ship guns in single mounts (6 each port and starboard on out riggers)
36 x 'Rattlesnake' CIWS (18 each port and starboard [Includes ‘Yellow Jacket’ mini-SAM, and decoys])
16x Anti-torpedo CIWS (anti-torpedo super-cav 35mm cannon and countermeasures)
2 x 324 mm torpedo tubes for SarzTorp light torpedoes
6 x 650 mm torpedo tube for Bayonet Super heavy torpedo
12 x 96 cell Mk 136 VLS (Enough to hold 1152 'Scourge' anti-ship missiles, or many more smaller missiles)
18 x Hornet Medium Ranged SAM launchers (9 each port and starboard)
Protection: Inconel metal plates, Advanced armour composite (titanium, vanadium, amorphous steel, aluminum, and ballistic ceramics); double-bottomed, reinforced keel, void spaces and a titanium honeycomb frame. Composite rods, KERI foam installed in void spaces, and ceramic kinetic reducing plates for further protection against KE attacks.
Engine Compartment: 1,867mm
Hull, Deck, and Hatches: 1,604mm
Magazine and Turret: 1,786mm
Glue Structures(Section that connects all the hulls): 2,100mm
Aircraft: Capable of carrying and launching 144 aircraft on two full flight decks along the outriggers. Also carries 45 medium helicopters for ASW patrols.
Complement: 11,500 naval; 4,150 aircrew; 1,500 Naval infantry, ability to carry and unload 20 LCAC, 40 Tanks, 80 IFVs and 8,000 Combat Troops.
Propulsion: 12x Pebblebed nuclear reactors with 14 propulsors and eight internalized waterjets. Compulsators provide power from central power system to turrets. Extensive thermal insulation surrounds each reactor to reduce noise emissions and infrared signature. 31.2 knots maximum 29.4 knots maximum cruise.
Electronics: AN/SLY-2 (V) Advanced Integrated Electronics Warfare System
AN/SPY-4 MFR and AN/SPN-23 navigational radars
AN/SQR-6 (B) passive towed array and AN/SQS-57 dual-mode mounted digital sonar array
A/P Mounted Sonar: AN/SQS-57 active/passive, preformed beam, digital sonar providing panoramic echo ranging and panoramic (DIMUS) passive surveillance.
Countermeasures: AN/SLQ-25 Nixie
Flares to confuse incoming IR-Seeking missiles
Electronic Jamming Optics System (EJOS)
Chaff launchers to confuse incoming Active-Radar Seeking missiles
Active Directional Radar Jamming System (ADRS): for use against Radar-seeking missiles and fighters, with limited capabilities against small surface ships; Max range:100km Effective range: 25km
Laser Defense System (LDS): Consists of 6 Dome Laser emitters which target and destroy small missiles using lasers and can be used to disable laser guided weapons.
Shortstop and Warlock Electronic Protection System (EPS): Disables any incoming device with an electronically controlled fuse with an 85% success rate. It is also used to disable incoming torpedoes and mines with a 65% success rate. Effective range: 1500m
Price: $280 billion

To: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
From: Colonel Oliver O'Hara, Ollish National Police

We would like to oreder 500 Dolphin Vlass Hydrofoil Patrol Boats for use by our River Patrol Section.

Total cost = $575,000,000 money wired upon confirmation of order

[OOC: Sorry for the delay. You can consider the time to begin as of one hour after you placed the order.]

To: Colonel Oliver O'Hara,
Ollish National Police
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Confirmation of order

The Portland Iron Works is pleased to confirm this order from our allies in Ollieland. Your order of 500 Dolphin-class patrol boats will be ready in six NS years [6 RL days]. We would like to point out that the price for 500 Dolphin-class patrol boats is $1.1875 billion after your 5% discount for being a Woodstock Pact member nation. If this price is acceptable to you, please let us know.

We thank you for contacting the Portland Iron Works for your naval needs and we hope to hear from you again in the future!

To: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
From: Colonel Oliver O'Hara, Ollish National Police

It would seem that both our accounts departments are off today! The correct price should be, I believe, $12.5 billion, being $11.875 billion after discount.

To: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
From: Admiral Geoffrey Simnett,
Minister for Defence, Kingdom of Lesser Ribena

25 Peligro class assault vessels $60 billion
100 Aylesburgh-class AS $20 billion
100 General Marsden-class AP $20 billion
100 Flansburgh-class AOR $22.5 billion
100 Smith-class fuel and munitions transport vessel (AOE) $30 billion
100 McIntosh-class Very Large Cargo Carrier $30 billion
100 Hatchett-class Ultra Large Container Ship $35 billion

For a total of: $217.5 billion

less 5%= $206.25 billion

plus

20 Littoral Warfare Squadron
Cost: $80 billion

$286.25 billion, which has been wired to the usual account.

I know that I can expect the usual immpecable service from your company and eagerly await my new purchases.

Further to our previous order please add:

1 Independence-class pocket Super Dreadnaught

cost (inc disc) = $337.25 billion,

this has been wired to the usual account in addition to the previous funds.

OOC: don't worry about it Sarz, I can live with a few delays! RL is more important than NS anyway.

To: Colonel Oliver O'Hara, Ollish National Police
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Accounting error(s)

It seems you indeed are correct that both accounting departments were off! We are very sorry about our accounting mistake and we thank you for bringing it to our attention.

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[OOC: I'm very sorry for the long delay! Please consider this confirmed as of one hour after you placed the order. In fact, please consider the order already delivered!]

To: Admiral Geoffrey Simnett,
Minister for Defence, Kingdom of Lesser Ribena
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Confirmation of order

The Portland Iron Works is pleased to confirm this order from our friends and regional neighbours in Lesser Ribena. Your order:

1 Independence-class pocket Super Dreadnaught
25 Peligro class assault vessels $60 billion
100 Aylesburgh-class AS $20 billion
100 General Marsden-class AP $20 billion
100 Flansburgh-class AOR $22.5 billion
100 Smith-class fuel and munitions transport vessel (AOE) $30 billion
100 McIntosh-class Very Large Cargo Carrier $30 billion
100 Hatchett-class Ultra Large Container Ship $35 billion
20 Littoral Warfare Squadron

Is confirmed for a total of $623.5 billion, including applicable discounts. Work will begin immediately and we anticipate delivery of your products within 10 NS years [10 RL days], following the completion of sea trials.

We thank you for once again choosing the Portland Iron Works for your nautical needs and we hope to hear from you once again in the future!

OOC: strange, my reply appeared befor eyour post, wierd...

OOC: Yeah, Jolt's been going through some problems with post order. I'm not sure if they've been fixed or when they will be or have been fixed.

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*Oceania-class large escort added*

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*Estado-class Trimaran battleship added*

*Shield-Bearer-class cruiser retired*
*Resolute-class guided missile battleship retired*
*Capital-class Trimaran battleship retired*

Transmission From Baron Erik Strinnler
Greetings. The Military Kingdom of Yelm has been seeking a naval shipyard to fullfil it's needs. Due to our previous experience with your own company we have chosen Portland Iron Works. The War Delegation wishes a custom built vessel, which can carry many missiles varying from large ship to ship missiles, long range ship to air missiles, and short range ship to air missiles. The priority of this ship is to act as an anti-aircraft/anti-missile vessel, therefore it should carry no sort of cannon, if possible, and have perphaps one CWIS. For anti-submarine warfare two torpedo tubes should be sufficient. Please let us know if this order is possible.

To: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
From: Admiral Geoffrey Simnett,
Minister for Defence, Kingdom of Lesser Ribena

Once more the Lesser Ribenan military finds itself in need of a number of quality vessels from your great company. We are particularly interested in the new designs which have so recently been released.

Therefore the following order is requested for delivery to our antions dockyards:

20 Oceania-class large escorts
60 Estado-class battleships

For a total of (INC 5% DISC): $602.5 Billion

This has been wired to the usual account. I know that I can expect the usual immpecable service from your company and eagerly await my new purchases.

To: Baron Erik Strinnler
Military Kingdom of Yelm
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Custom ship design

The Portland Iron Works thanks you for the confidence you show in us by asking us to create a custom design for a guided-missile firing warship. Such a vessel does not fit Sarzonian naval doctrine; however, we are willing to consider the construction of such a warship as a one-off design and maintain the blueprints on file in the event you or another export customer is interested in purchasing the ship.

We thank you for your continued interest in the Portland Iron Works and we hope to work with you again in the future!

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To: Admiral Geoffrey Simnett,
Minister for Defence, Kingdom of Lesser Ribena
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Confirmation of order

The Portland Iron Works is delighted to see our friends from Lesser Ribena return to place yet another order with us. We are also pleased that you have chosen our two newest designs and have begun construction on the 20 Oceania-class large escorts and the 60 Estado-class battleships in the amount of $602.5 billion, including your five percent discount as an Atlantian Oceania region nation.

Work will begin immediately and with the recent expansion of our employment ranks and the activation of retired shipyards, we anticipate completing construction of your order within 12 NS years [12 RL days]. We hope these ships meet the expectations you and our other export customers have for our designs and we thank you once again for contacting us for your naval needs!

The government of Kordo would like to order the following:
(10) Perseus-class river monitor
(10) Octopus-class multi-role patrol vessel
(40) Lake-class MCDV

Total comes to $23.2 Billion

To: Government of Kordo
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Confirmation of order

The Portland Iron Works is pleased to confirm this order from the nation of Kordo for:

10 Perseus-class river monitor
10 Octopus-class multi-role patrol vessel
40 Lake-class MCDV

As you indicated, the price for the ships you have ordered comes to $23.2 billion including the 40 Lake-class mine clearance vessels. We anticipate your order being delivered within eight NS years [8 RL days] following the conclusion of sea trials. We hope these ships meet or exceed your navy's expectations and we hope to see you return to the Portland Iron Works in the future!

*bump*

OOC: Hey Sarz, I'm working on creating a mega coporation, want to join in, your military industries will be bought out by my and space union's(and many other's) mega corp., you'll still function normally, it's just that you get free trade with us, get stocks, get increased ship yard and factory numbers, get cheaper resources.

What do you say, contact me here: http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=439706

OOC: Portland Iron Works is not up for sale to anyone.

OOC: Portland Iron Works is not up for sale to anyone.
OOC: Thought so, but you'd still retain ownership, you'd just say you're a part of our company, and your CEO would be on a board of CEOs within the company.

OOC: Thought so, but you'd still retain ownership, you'd just say you're a part of our company, and your CEO would be on a board of CEOs within the company.OOC: Sarzonia's version of the Federal Trade Commission would never approve of such a deal where the company that is single-handedly responsible for such a large percentage of Sarzonia's GDP is owned by an international conglomerate.

Thanks, but no thanks.

OOC: Sarzonia's version of the Federal Trade Commission would never approve of such a deal where the company that is single-handedly responsible for such a large percentage of Sarzonia's GDP is owned by an international conglomerate.

Thanks, but no thanks.
OOC: Oh, ok, but how about free trade of materials?

OOC: Short of a buyout, what do you have in mind?

Please TG me your response so we don't clutter this thread.

To: Portland Iron Works
From: Admiral Hughes, Jagadian Grand Fleet

Greetings, the Jagadian Grand Fleet has bought from Portland before and thus far we are pleased with the ships we've bought from you. Due to the high quality of your ships, and the reasonable prices we have decided to buy from you again, if you are still willing to sell to us.

Here is our purchases:

4 Greenmanbry-class Trimaran Battle Carrier
Cost: 260,000,000,000

8 Atlantic-class Trimaran large Battleship
Cost: 16,000,000,000

2 Freedom-Class Trimaran Pocket Super Dreadnaught- Export Verison
Cost: 250,000,000,000

6 Commandant-class Trimaran guided missile crusier (CAG)
Cost: 12,000,000,000

10 Johnston-class AA Destroyer
Cost: 12,500,000,000

16 McDonough-class ASW Frigate
Cost: 13,680,000,000

10 Pasteur-class Hospital Ships
Cost: 10,250,000,000

TOTAL: 574,430,000,000

If you desire to see proof about how we can pay for such equipment. Please take a look: http://nseconomy.thirdgeek.com/nseconomy.php?nation=Jagada

As you can see we have a 2 trillion dollar government waste that is going no where. So we've decided to construct two more fleets.

We await your reponse.

To: Admiral Hughes
Jagadian Grand Fleet
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Confirmation of order

The Portland Iron Works is very pleased to see the return of our friends from Jagada. We are happy to confirm your order for the following:

4 Greenmanbry-class Trimaran Battle Carrier Cost: 260,000,000,000
8 Atlantic-class Trimaran large Battleship Cost: 16,000,000,000
2 Freedom-class Trimaran Pocket Super Dreadnaught Cost: 250,000,000,000
6 Commandant-class Trimaran guided missile crusier (CAG) Cost: 12,000,000,000
10 Johnston-class AA Destroyer Cost: 12,500,000,000
16 McDonough-class ASW Frigate Cost: 13,680,000,000
10 Pasteur-class Hospital Ships Cost: 10,250,000,000

For the grand total of $574,430,000,000. We expect the ships to be available to you within six NS years (6 RL days) following the completion of sea trials. We hope these ships continue to meet and exceed the standards your navy has for vessels in her employ.

We thank you once again for contacting the Portland Iron Works for your naval needs and we hope to hear from you again in the future!

*Black List updated*

Upon inspecting your inventory on Naval Vessels, our Ministry of Defense specifically Grand Admiral Castro has lobbied to buy a few much needed ships from Portland Iron Works. The Admiral and his advisors have requisition the necessary funds to purchase the following ships, as they want newer more powerful ships leading our Navy into battle. The ships we want are as follow:

Two (2) Vigilante-Class Trimaran Command Ships $710 Billions
Two (2) Neptune-Class Trimaran SuperDreadoughts $560 Billions
Two (2) Independence-Class Trimaran Pocket SuperDreadoughts $420 Billions

For a grand total of $1.690 Trillion USD, which shall be wired upon confirmation of order, we know this is a large order but we assure you we have more than enough to cover these expenses. Also most likely next fiscal year we shall return to acquire more of your advance naval vessels.

Hyst Naval Aquisitions External Memo:

It has been realized that it has been some time since any additions were made to Hyst navy. The President himsleft would like to extend his personal gratitude in the fine quality of shipwrights that Portland Iron Works has to offer. Recent large buget overflos have facilitated the allocation of resources towards the aquision of additional naval units.

4 constelation-class dreadnaughts,
8 Neptune-class dreadnaughts

Hyst would also like to inquire about aquiring the 2.5% frequent buyer discount

The payment will be half upon comformation and half upon delivery

Rear Admiral Marous
Head of Naval Aquisitions

To: Governments of Pheanix and Hyst
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Order receipt

The Portland Iron Works is grateful to be given the favour of your consideration for construction of naval ships for your respective military forces. However, due to a current state of war, we must suspend all sales to foreign customers until such time as the threat posed by the nation of Pantera has passed.

We apologise for any inconvience this measure may cause your governments, but we must do all we can to ensure our national sovereignty.

To Portland Iron Works
From The Holy Republic of Samotopia
Subject Order

The Holy Republic of Samotopia would like to buy:

1 Multi-Role Naval Fleet (99 ships)
3 General Purpose Fleet (759 ships)

The Total cost equals 1.030 Trillion Dollars.
We Thank you for your time.

To: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
From: Admiral Ben Cordell, Chief of Naval Operations, the Democratic Imperium of Halberdgardia
Re: Order

With the war between Automagfreek and Praetonia rapidly exploding in scale and intensity, we thought it prudent that our President have all the safehouse opportunities possible available to him, "just in case." As such, we feel that your Diplomacy-class executive yacht, and particularly your Chieftain-class executive submarine, fit the bill. Therefore, we would like to purchase the following:

1 Diplomacy-class executive yacht (with retractable twin 15" gun mount, at additional cost)

1 Chieftain-class executive submarine (if at all possible, we hope that your engineers could do whatever possible to maximize the stealth characteristics of the sub; we will, of course, pay extra for the additional work)

As we have requested some additional modifications on top of the base models for both these vessels, we will refrain from naming a price until you quantify it. The necessary funds will be wired upon confirmation. We thank you for accommodating us in this time of strife.

Respectfully,
Admiral Ben Cordell
Chief of Naval Operations
The Democratic Imperium of Halberdgardia

To: PIW export customers
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Suspension of foreign sales

Due to a current state of war and the need to marshall resources toward domestic military endeavours, the Portland Iron Works is suspending all sales to foreign customers until such time as the state of war between Sarzonia and Pantera no longer exists.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause our export customers. We hope to serve you again in the near future.

To: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
From: Admiral Ben Cordell, Chief of Naval Operations, the Democratic Imperium of Halberdgardia
Re: Suspension of foreign sales

We regret the inconvienence, but understand your reasons for such a move. We assure you that our business will be forthcoming once again as soon as hostilities have died down.

Respectfully,
Admiral Ben Cordell
Chief of Naval Operations
The Democratic Imperium of Halberdgardia

To: Major General David Wade (ISA-Ret.)
Managing Director, Incorporated Ordnance Company
From: Admiral Ben Cordell, Chief of Naval Operations, the Democratic Imperium of Halberdgardia
Re: A Deal

We understand that all Sarzonian arms companies have suspended sales of weaponry to foreign customers pending the resolution of the conflict with Pantera. However, we have a pressing need for certain PIW vessels, as we are gearing up for war against the Gholgoth supporters of Doomingsland and Freudotopia. Therefore, we would like to broker a deal with PIW for unlimited (or limited-run, if you prefer instead) production rights for certain vessels that we require. PIW gets its money, and you need not trouble your own industrial base with construction. The vehicles we would like to acquire production rights to are:

Diplomacy-class executive yacht (with retractable twin 15" gun mount, at additional cost)
Chieftain-class executive submarine (if at all possible, we hope that your engineers could do whatever possible to maximize the stealth characteristics of the sub; we will, of course, pay extra for the additional work)

We are willing to agree to any NDA or non-resale policies you may have regarding our manufacture of these vehicles. We hope you find this arrangement satisfactory.

Respectfully,
Admiral Ben Cordell
Chief of Naval Operations
The Democratic Imperium of Halberdgardia

OOC: Sorry no time for a long post

IC:

We wish to make sure it is ok to extend our domestic production rights to allow use to enlarge our navy by quite a bit, we're doubling the size of our fleets, and adding 2 new fleet, this is almost over 1,000 new naval vessels and 500-600 new supply vessels, this will take almost 30-50 years to accomplish, we also wish to buy domestic production rights to the:

Antietam-class BBGN (Upwards of 40)
Oceania-class large escort vessel (Upwards of 80)
Valiant-class Trimaran super carrier (Upwards of 40)

Please name your prices.

-Admiral Sutherland
The Armed Republic of The Silver Sky

To; Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN ret)
Managing Director
Portland Iron Works

From; Oliver Ganz
Minister For Defence Procurements
The Colony of Ollieland

Greetings allies and friends. Due to the current hostilities in the international community we have found it necassary to again expand our fleet, and as we have no domestic shipbuilding facilities we would wish to place this order with you;

19 x Wixteds - $9,975,000,000
19 x Seminoles - $7,125,000,000
22 x Jonstones - $27,500,000,000
22 x McDonoughs - $18,810,000,000
11 x Evermores - $18,150,000,000

TOTAL - $81,560,000,000

Money wired on confirmation of order.

From: Heart and Healing Organization
To: Sarzonia Headquarters

Subject: Hospital Ship

Good evening,

we of the Heart and Healing, are the premier Charity operating in Arkanaland. We provide many of the Health Services to the poor here in the C.C.E. controlled territories. We are a coop of Doctors, Surgeons and other Medical Professionals, who take time out of their lives to devote to non-profit service. Thanks to some very large donations from various Corporations here in Arkanaland, we can finally afford the costs of going international.

To aid in this endeavour, we wish to purchase two Pasteur-Class Hospital Ships, which will be Christined, "Redemption" and "Will of Strength."

After this purchase, let it be known that if your Nation is in any war or environmental catastrophe, great or small, Our organization will be there, with these ships, to help your Civilian and Military injured in any way possible.

The total is 2.5 billion, which will be wired from our treasury department to yours, at the conformation of this order. We thank you, may the Gods bless you.

Micheal Hamilton,
Ph.d, founder of Heart and Health org.

OOC: Sorry for the delays everyone, but the Panteran war thread (http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=440102) had been in an extended limbo for a while and I'd suspended sales to foreign purchasers (http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9595699&postcount=341) for the sake of war production. Since that war seems to be slowing down, I'll go ahead and accept all orders and have them confirmed ICly as of one RL hour after they were placed. But it's possible that I may have to once again severely limit foreign sales.

Background: In an effort to address the unique threats presented by crawler mines placed on the ocean bottom and other assorted submerged threats, the Portland Iron Works set about to design a submarine to deal directly with the threats posed by such defences. Among the design specifications: A submarine armed with so-called underwater CIWS and including minehunting and sweeping technologies. The result of this planning and research is the Argonaut class countermeasures submarine.

Armament: To ensure the Argonaut is optimised for its defensive role in protecting surface and submerged threats, it has been designed with eight 35 mm supercavitating guns broadside to serve as a last-ditch defence against torpedoes. In addition, a new counter torpedo, designed to deploy upon detection of an enemy surface or submerged warship's firing of a torpedo, has been developed. This new 240 mm torpedo, the Epee, has been designed with a majority of its weight being made up of propulsion and guidance software, including GPS and targetting softwares with a small warhead to take out torpedoes. It is not designed to serve as an effective weapon against a surface or submerged warship, particularly with the emphasis on armour in many of today's warships, but it can serve as an anti-torpedo torpedo similar to AAA defenses. To serve as defence against larger torpedoes and against smaller escort vessels, the Argonaut also is armed with six 324 mm torpedo tubes.

Electronics: The Argonaut's hallmark is as a countermeasures submarine, and as a result, this is where the design sets itself apart from other submersibles. To counter assorted mines that threaten Sarzonian or allied threats, the Argonaut features the SLQ-53 mine countermeasures deep sweep system, AN/SQQ-32 minehunting sonar, and an AN/SLQ-48 mine neutralisation system. Similar to the old Osprey-class minehunters, the Argonaut uses a remotely controlled underwater vehicle to neutralise mines. Instead of some of the weapons outlay normally utilised by a patrol submarine, the Argonaut also includes two remotely controlled crab-shaped drones to detonate crawler mines before they can damage the fleet's vessels.

Protection: With the Argonaut's role as an escort and countermeasures submarine rather than a front line warship, emphasis has been placed on maximum stealth to allow the Argonaut to be a virtually "silent partner" for any fleet that employs it. To facilitate this stealth, the Argonaut has been covered with anaechoic tiles to reduce noise emissions and noise returned by active sonar. As a Sarzonian design, secondary emphasis has also been placed on survivability; thus, the Argonaut employs a double hull with an outer hull made of amorphous steel, a substance three times stronger than normal steel and non magnetic. The inner hull is made of a composite of titanium, vanadium and aluminum. The two hulls are separated by absorbant foam.

Propulsion: Great debate has centerd on whether to give the Argonaut a pressurised water reactor to allow it to remain submerged for several weeks at a time or a diesel electric engine to reduce noise and infared signatures emitted from a nuclear reactor. Ultimately, the PIW decided the initial run of the Argonaut would be powered by a Magnetohydrodynamic drive to ensure maximum stealth qualities. The drive, commonly referred to as a caterpillar drive, is virtually silent, making the Argonaut very difficult to detect with modern sensor systems.

Argonaut-class escort/countermeasures submarine
Length: 91 m; Beam: 11 m; Height: 12 m
Displacement: 3,100 tonnes full
Armament: 4 x 324 mm TT; 8 x 35 mm supercavitating guns (underwater CIWS); armament also includes 240 mm Epee anti-torpedo torpedoes.
Complement: 50
Propulsion: One Magnetohydrodynamic drive (3,500 shp), one 400 hp auxiliary prop motor. Speed: 12 knots surfaced; 15 knots submerged.
Electronics: SLQ-53 mine countermeasures deep sweep system, AN/SQQ-32 minehunting sonar, AN/SLQ-48 mine neutralisation system.
Countermeasures: AN/SLQ-25A Nixie; AN/SLR-24 Towed Array Subsystem Torpedo Countermeasures System
Cost: $750 million
Running Cost: $25 million per annum.

[OOC: I take that to mean orders can be placed again?]

After several years and numerous evaluations not to mention a remarkably sucessful refit on our one existing Archon class vessel we would like to order three more vessels to be paid for in increments of 66 Billion Dollars USD for 10 years, would this be acceptable?

Though we are aware that we also have the plans for the Archon, our ports are currently quite busy producing smaller vessels and our primary deep water port is quite occupied with our Epion Project, leaving any hope of acquiring these vessels in a timely manner dashed agaianst the rocks as it would seem...

We thank you kindly for your time, and hope the stars may guide you safely.

Sincerely,
William Defaux
Lord Admiral of the ADRM

[OOC: Yep, we're back in business. At least for now.]

To: William Defaux
Lord Admiral of the ADRM
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Confirmation of order

The Portland Iron Works is pleased to confirm this order from our friends in Mekugi for three Archon-class superdreadnoughts and we are more than happy to accept your offer of a ten year payment plan whereby you pay $66 billion per year over the course of ten years. Work will begin immediately and we expect to have your ships delivered to you within eight NS years [8 RL days] following the completion of sea trials. We hope these ships serve your nation well and we thank you for contacting the Portland Iron Works for your naval needs!

We in Manhattan Prime have recently been looking to expand out navy, and where better to look than our Sarzonian friends?

We are especially interested in your Mahan, being both a capable flagship and not too large to stretch our modest naval budget. With very little coastline to defend the Manhattanite Navy is mainly defensive in outlook and so a small force that can perform the job of a larger force is perfect for us.

We also wish to purchase a small group of destroyers, who will be co-ordinated by the Mahan for anti-smuggling and coastal defense mission.

1x Mahan Class - $1.7 Billion
5x Holland Class - $2.3 Billion x 5 = $11.5 Billion

Total: $13.2 Billion, to be wired on confirmation

Fleet Admiral David Ross
Manhattan Secretary of Defense

To: Fleet Admiral David Ross
Manhattan Secretary of Defense
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Confirmation of order

The Portland Iron Works is pleased to confirm this order from our friends and fellow Woodstock Pact allies from Manhattan Prime for one Mahan-class xebec and five Holland-class destroyers. The order total of $12.54 billion will include a five percent discount for Woodstock Pact members and work will begin immediately. We expect to have your ships delivered within three NS years [3 RL days], following the completion of sea trials.

We hope these ships serve your nation well in their intended role and we hope you return to the Portland Iron Works or its affiliated companies for all your military needs!

To: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
From: Admiral Daniel Wilson, chief procurement officer, Axinon Navy

As you may or may not know, Axinon has recently become far more active in international affairs. Unfortunately, more international action necessitates a larger military. As Axinon is an island nation, we have started the Battlefleet Project to try and modernize the Axinon navy. The Battlefleet Project t is well underway but we (the higher-ups in Axinon's naval and military establishment) have realized:

A.) The third battlefleet can not be built as planned. Unforseen issues have left the 3rd Battlefleet without a viable flagship. After looking at options from ADC, your shipyards and other shipyards, we have determined that one Brandywine-class light command dreadnaught would suit our needs very well.

B.) A successful navy needs good subs. As ADC has no viable sub program, we have decided to buy subs for the battlefleet project at the same time.

C.) We decided it would probably be a good idea to have a battlefleet of tested and true ships. As your nation and shipyard both have long histories of superb ships, we would be interested in buying a General Purpose Fleet to serve as our "4th battlefleet" from you.

List of purchases:
1 x Brandywine-class light command dreadnaught (65 billion USD)
40 x Skipjack-class nuclear powered attack submarines (SSN) (76 billion USD)
20 x Stalwart-class nuclear powered ballistic missile submarines (SSBN) (48 billion USD)
1 x General Purpose Fleet (315 billion USD)

Price:
(65+76+48)*.975 + 315
499,275,000,000 USD

We will pay you in even installments over the time it takes the ships to be built
((totalprice/number of years) per year)

Respectfully,
Admiral Daniel Wilson

Al Muslimeen New Network

The Khailfah Government is please to state that the Portland Iron Works company will be opening a new branch of its shipyards at the KLM port of Mersin, Icel sub province of KLM Turkey. This will being new weath and jobs for the local people of that region.

OOC: Confirmed. IC message to follow tomorrow.

OOC- look for me to make more purchases in the future


IC:

TO: Portland Iron Works
FROM: Mike Johnson, NA
RE: Purchase

The Military republic of willink has faced a problem in its past of poor deployment of its small cruiser force, which are neither well kept or up to date. At thus the Navy wishes to purchase 6 Mark II Alliance-class supercruiser, for training, wartime deployment, and Overall public apeal. Thank you for your time.

Mike Johnson, naval administrator

To: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works


Admiral Tucker,

As part of the much needed overhaul of the Imperial Autocracy’s naval forces I have been authorised to contact your esteemed establishment in regards to making certain purchases to supplement our current strength. Our navy is predominantly made up of smaller vessels such as destroyers and frigates and the High Command is interested in purchasing some much heavier equipment.


1 x Patinkin-class fleet command vessel
$8.5 billion

2 x Estado-class battleships
$11 billion

And to make a nice round total,

10 x Octopus-class multi-role patrol vessels
$1.5 billion

Total
$21 billion

We are confident that your checks into the Imperial Autocracy’s finances will confirm that we are capable of meeting this price.

General Karl Baxter
Hypocrian High Command

PIW inks deal for shipyard space

PORTLAND (ASP) -- The Portland Iron Works reached an agreement Wednesday with the Khailfah Government in Ottoman Khaif to construct a naval shipyard in Mercin in the Turkish sub province of Icel. The agreement ensures the creation of over 1,000 new jobs for citizens in the area and provides PIW with additional shipbuilding facilities.

"We're excited about the expansion of our international profile," said Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.), the company's managing director. "With the sponsorship arrangement we have secured for the 25th World Cup, we believe these moves should benefit the Portland Iron Works greatly."

The company's agreement (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9816059&postcount=13) with World Cup organisers allows PIW to advertise in World Cup stadia in exchange for the construction of new venues and maintenance of current facilities. Tucker said the company would take on the new responsibilities "in a heartbeat," saying "you've got to give something to get something.

"We've studied all the implications of the move, including the prospects of exploring avenues we aren't normally known for," she said. "This dovetails nicely with our aim to become a more widely-known brand in the international community for naval designs and possibly other ventures."

Tucker would not comment on rumours that PIW is considering acquiring the Incorporated Ordnance Company or Avalon Aerospace Corporation, referring questions to the company's public affairs officer, who had no comment.

"This isn't a day for us to discuss other ventures we're considering," Tucker said. "This is a day to celebrate two agreements we've worked very diligently to attain."

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To: Admiral Daniel Wilson
Chief procurement officer, Axinon Navy
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Confirmation of Order

The Portland Iron Works is delighted to confirm this order from the great nation of Axinon for the following:

(1) Brandywine-class light command dreadnought ($65 billion)
(40) Skipjack-class nuclear powered attack submarines ($76 billion)
(20) Stalwart-class nuclear powered ballistic missile submarines ($48 billion)
(1) General Purpose Fleet ($315 billion)

Your total comes to $504 billion USD. Work will begin immediately on your purchases and we expect to deliver your ships within six NS years [6 RL days], following the completion of sea trials. That would make the price $84 billion per annum over the course of six years.

We hope these ships serve your navy well and we thank you for choosing the Portland Iron Works for your naval needs!

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To: Mike Johnson
Naval Administrator, Willink
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Confirmation of Order

The Portland Iron Works is pleased to confirm this order from the glorious country of Willink. Your order of six Alliance Mark II supercruisers will be completed and delivered to you within four NS years [4 RL days] following the completion of sea trials. Your order total comes to $16.2 billion. Work will begin immediately on your ships and we will strive to ensure that they meet or exceed your Navy's expectations.

We thank you for choosing the Portland Iron Works for your naval needs and we hope you consider us again for your naval custom!

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To: General Karl Baxter
Hypocrian High Command
From: From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Confirmation of Order

The Portland Iron Works is delighted to confirm this order from our regional neighbours in Hypocria for (1) Patinkin-class fleet command vessel, (2) Estado-class trimaran battleships, and 10 Octopus-class multi-role patrol vessels. With your five percent discount as a fellow nation of Atlantian Oceania, your order total comes to $19.95 billion.

Work will begin immediately on your ships and we expect to have them delivered within five NS years [5 RL days] following sea trials. We hope these ships serve your nation well and we wish the Hyppos great success on the pitch in World Cup XXV!

To: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
From: Admiral Daniel Wilson
Chief procurement officer, Axinon Navy

In accordance to our battlefleet project, we would like to purchase, in addition to our prior purchase
Another 20 Skipjack-class nuclear powered attack submarines ($38 billion)
10 Stalwart-class nuclear powered ballistic missile submarines ($24 billion)
and 1 Greenmanbry-class Trimaran battle carrier (to be the flagship of our Home Defense Fleet, $65 Billion). With the 2.5 percent discount, that amounts to 123.825 billion USD.

We would also like to request that these subs be given priority over the other ships, as we have very little in the way of capable submarines.

Respectfully,
Daniel Wilson

To: Admiral Daniel Wilson
Chief procurement officer, Axinon Navy
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Confirmation of Order

The Portland Iron Works is pleased to see the return of the Axinon Navy to place another order. We are happy to confirm your order for the following:

20 Skipjack-class nuclear powered attack submarines ($38 billion)
10 Stalwart-class nuclear powered ballistic missile submarines ($24 billion)
1 Greenmanbry-class Trimaran battle carrier ($65 billion)

The total for your order comes to $123.825 billion including your 2.5 percent discount for repeat purchasers. Pursuant to your request to complete the submarines at higher priority, we are willing to move the submarines ahead in the production queue and complete them first. We anticipate your submarines will be completed within four NS years [4 RL days] and the Greenmanbry-class battle carrier will be complete within seven NS years [7 RL days] following the completion of sea trials.

We hope these ships serve your navy well and we thank you for contacting the Portland Iron Works for your naval needs!

bump

To Portland Iron Works
From The Holy Republic of Samotopia
Subject Order

The Holy Republic of Samotopia would like to buy:

1 Multi-Role Naval Fleet (99 ships)
3 General Purpose Fleet (759 ships)

The Total cost equals 1.030 Trillion Dollars.
We Thank you for your time.

OOC: Just gonna reorder this

To: Commodore Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
From: USNSEA (United Sovereign Nations of Southeast Asia) Minister of Defense Paul David Nettleton
Subject: First Order from Southeastasia

Dear Mrs. Barbara Tucker,

Lacking our very own executive yacht and submarine, combined with the fact we hear you are only the best of the best and inspired by the former United States (sad to see they fell apart to an incompetent fool by the initials of GWB), Southeast Asia has turned to Portland Iron Works. I request one Chieftain-class executive submarine and Diplomacy-class executive yacht, on the behalf of Prime Minister Neo, and on the behalf of future generations of Prime Ministers for our nation. The cost of 4.75 billion shall be wired to you via a secure channel.

Sincerely,
His Excellency,
USNSEA Minister of Defense
Paul David Nettleton

"Hi. If possible, we will purchase two Pasteur-class hospital ships for $2.50 billion dollars. Thank you very much."

OoC: I said 'if possible' because I don't know if I can afford them. Anyway cool store, you sure know a lot about ships. Were you ever in the Navy?

To: The Holy Republic of Samotopia
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Confirmation of order

The Portland Iron Works is delighted to confirm this very large order from our friends and Woodstock Pact allies in Samotopia. Your order of three General Purpose Fleets and one Multi Role Naval Fleet is confirmed at the amount of $1.03 trillion. Work will begin immediately and we expect to have your order delivered within 10 NS years [10 RL days], following the completion of sea trials.

We hope these ships serve your navy well and we thank you for contacting the Portland Iron Works for your naval needs!

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To: Paul David Nettleton
Minister of Defense, USNSEA
From: From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Confirmation of order

The Portland Iron Works is pleased to confirm this order for one Chieftain-class executive submarine and one Diplomacy-class executive yacht. We have recently finished ships from both designs and will deliver them to you following sea trials, which we expect to conclude within 18 NS months [a day and a half RL]. We hope these vessels serve your nation well and we hope to hear from you again in the future!

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To: Nation of Lewrockwellia
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Confirmation of order

The Portland Iron Works notes that your nation has no defence budget according to this budgetary calculator (http://nseconomy.thirdgeek.com/nseconomy.php?nation=Lewrockwellia); however, considering the extensive budget in commercial matters and considering the peaceful intent of the Pasteur-class hospital ship, we are glad to confirm your order. Since we have recently completed two Pasteur-class hospital ships and they have completed their sea trials, they will be delivered to you within one NS year [1 RL day].

We hope these vessels serve your nation well and we hope to hear from you again in the future!

[OOC: Thanks for the compliments; I greatly appreciate them. Actually, I didn't serve in the Navy. I just have an avid fascination with all things naval that I've had since I was a kid. That interest probably shows up in the store. Thanks again, though!]

"Thank you, Rear Admiral Tucker. We will wire you the money pronto."

OoC: You're writing skills are really good too. You should write a book.

From: Cheif Executive Officer Butch Hart
Hostile Takeover Inc., a subsidary of We Buy It Inc.
To: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Order of Production Rights

With We Buy It Incorporated expanding into new foreign markets Hostile Takeover Incorporated, the protection force of We Buy It Inc., has been ordered to aquire new and more naval vessels to provide a protection and possibily a retaliation fleet for our large amount of Offshore Oil fields.

We would like to purchase production rights for the following items and the expected amount of them to be produced:

Atlantic-Class Trimaran Large Battleship (BAN) (~4 vessels)
Antietam-class BBGN (~4 vessels)
Victory-class Trimaran fleet carrier (CVN) (~4 vessels)
Oceania-class large escort vessel (LEV) (~8 vessels)
Endymion-class Trimaran large cruiser (CAN) (~16 vessels)
Commandant-class Trimaran guided missile cruiser (CAG) (~16 vessels)
Evermore-class GP destroyer (~32 vessels)
Johnston-class AA destroyer (~32 vessels)
Wingate-class Trimaran AA frigate (~48 vessels)
McDonough-class ASW frigate (~48 vessels)
Navarre-class SSN (~16 vessels)
Maidstone-class river gunboat (~100 vessels)
Piranha-class fast missile boat (~100 vessels)

Please respond ASAP with a price for the production rights, thank you, may your business continue to florish.

Thank you,
Butch Hart

Sarz, I assume that you've seen the movie The Island? If you did, don't you agree that the yacht was a nice boat? Because this site (http://www.wallypower.com/) was the one that loaned the yacht used in The Island.

And here is the image:
http://www.wally.com/Upload/p/piclib_06_pop.jpg

EDIT: I recommend you use the picture for the Diplomacy-class ship.

ORDER INVOICE
To: Portland Iron Naval Works, Sarzonia
From: Department of Military Purchases, Pwnica

Hello!
Pwnica's navy is in need of two powerful ships to serve as flagships in possible future naval campaigns. As such, we wish to place an order:

2x Neptune-class Trimaran Superdreadought, @ $560,000,000,000.

Total is $560 billion, which will be wired upon confirmation of our order and, if possible, an estimate as to when the construction will be complete.

Thank you.

--Raven Koren
Department of Military Purchases
Pwnica

To: Chief Executive Officer Butch Hart
Hostile Takeover Inc., a subsidary of We Buy It Inc.
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Confirmation of order/Production rights

The Portland Iron Works is pleased to note your interest in our products and we are delighted to confirm this very large order from your company. Your order:

4 Atlantic-class Trimaran large dreadnoughts ($40 billion each; $160 billion total)
4 Antietam-class battleships ($36.52 billion each; $146.08 billion total)
4 Victory-class Trimaran fleet carriers ($30 billion each; $120 billion total)
8 Oceania-class Trimaran large escorts ($15.2 billion each; $121.6 billion total)
16 Endymion-class Trimaran large cruisers ($5.9 billion each; $94.4 billion total)
16 Commandant-class Trimaran guided missile cruisers ($2 billion each; $32 billion total)
32 Evermore-class general purpose destroyers ($1.65 billion each; $52.8 billion total)
32 Johnston-class AA destroyers ($1.25 billion each; $40 billion total)
48 Wingate-class Trimaran AA frigates ($1.95 billion each; $93.6 billion total)
48 McDonough-class ASW frigates ($855 million each; $41.04 billion total)
16 Navarre-class SSNs ($1.5 billion each; $24 billion total)
100 Maidstone-class river gunboats ($125 million each; $12.5 billion total)
100 Piranha-class missile boats ($125 million each; $12.5 billion total)

For a grand total of $950.2 billion. Work will begin immediately and we expect to have your order completed within 10 NS years [10 RL days; take off two days for the delay in my IC response.] We hope these ships serve your company well in the coming years.

As for production rights, we are willing to offer our standard production rights contract with non-disclosure agreement for domestic production rights only for the amount required to construct 100 units of each class. The total for this production rights contract comes to $13.4075 trillion USD. We are willing to accept a payment arrangement for this amount.

We thank you once again for choosing the Portland Iron Works for your naval needs and we hope to hear from you again in the future!

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To: Raven Koren
Department of Military Purchases, Pwnica
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Confirmation of order

The Portland Iron Works is pleased to see our friends from Pwnica return and we are delighted to confirm your order for two Neptune-class superdreadnoughts in the amount of $560 billion for the two ships. We expect to have your order completed within eight NS years [8 RL days] following the completion of sea trials. We hope these ships serve your Navy well and we thank you for contacting the Portland Iron Works for your naval needs!

The money will be wired in even payments over 10 years, thank you.


OOC: Tired, no time for a good post.

I had two replies open and got them mixed up and type that in this thread and my order in the other, which is why I deleted it. My apologies.

Does Portland Iron Works do custom designs?

This is what we're looking for if you do customize.

The Holy Empire of Saint Fedski is in need of a fleet of ships capable of carrying an entire armoured division in as few ships as possible.
Armoured Division consists of:
400 Main Battle Tanks (Leopard 2)
120 Armoured Personnel Carriers (M113A3)
240 Fuel Tankers (XM1091)
25 PzH 2000s (Self Propelled Artillery)
20 Trucks (M923)

Personnel Totals: 5555

The goal is no more than 10 ships....preferably 5-7.

Thank you,

The Security Council of the Holy Empire of Saint Fedski
Chairman Gary Girardi, Chairman
Lord Louis Riel, Vice Chairman
Madam Robynne Hay, Minister of Defence
Sahdka Misoui, Deputy and Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs
General Maximus Obliqus, Commander in Chief Armed Forces(Army)
Admiral Ken Murphy, Deputy Commander in Chief Armed Forces (Navy)
Raymond Franks, Chief, Intelligence Bureau
Sir Braden Bass, Minister of Law and Order
Sir Harold Willens, Chief Justice

We would like to order the following vessels from the famous and always reliable PIW:

80 x Holland-class ASW destroyers in the price of 184 billion USD

and

60 x Johnston-class AA destroyer in the price of 75 billion USD.

The payment shall be wired due the hoped confirmation of this proposal.

Yours,

Warchief Tamujid, The Minister of Everything in
Heavily Armed Republic of Madnestan

Does Portland Iron Works do custom designs?

This is what we're looking for if you do customize.

The Holy Empire of Saint Fedski is in need of a fleet of ships capable of carrying an entire armoured division in as few ships as possible.
Armoured Division consists of:
400 Main Battle Tanks (Leopard 2)
120 Armoured Personnel Carriers (M113A3)
240 Fuel Tankers (XM1091)
25 PzH 2000s (Self Propelled Artillery)
20 Trucks (M923)

Personnel Totals: 5555

The goal is no more than 10 ships....preferably 5-7.

Thank you,

The Security Council of the Holy Empire of Saint Fedski
Chairman Gary Girardi, Chairman
Lord Louis Riel, Vice Chairman
Madam Robynne Hay, Minister of Defence
Sahdka Misoui, Deputy and Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs
General Maximus Obliqus, Commander in Chief Armed Forces(Army)
Admiral Ken Murphy, Deputy Commander in Chief Armed Forces (Navy)
Raymond Franks, Chief, Intelligence Bureau
Sir Braden Bass, Minister of Law and Order
Sir Harold Willens, Chief Justice[OOC: Yes, I do custom designs.]

To: Security Council
Holy Empire of Saint Fedski
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Infantry division delivery ships

The Portland Iron Works has received your request for a collection of ships that can deliver an armoured division to an enemy's shores in no more than 10 ships. We will evaluate our existing designs and we will examine the feasability of such a design and will notify you once our decision has been reached. We will notify you shortly [OOC: no later than before the Sunday night NFL game this weekend]. We thank you for considering the Portland Iron Works for your naval needs and we hope to fulfill your contract requirements.

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To: Warchief Tamujid,
Minister of Everything, Heavily Armed Republic of Madnestan
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Confirmation of order

The Portland Iron Works is pleased to confirm this order from the Heavily Armed Republic of Madnestan. Your order:

80 x Holland-class ASW destroyers ($184 billion total)
60 x Johnston-class AA destroyers ($75 billion total)

Comes to a total of $259 billion. Work will begin immediately and we expect to have your order completed within five NS years [5 RL days], following sea trials. We hope these ships serve your Navy well and we thank you for contacting the Portland Iron Works for your naval needs!

The nation of Flightopia resquests 5 Light Invasion Force packages. Total price: 42.5 Billion.

Emergency Rush Order
To: Admiral Tucker
From: Joe Clark, Deputy Prime Minister

The Republic of North St. Clair needs two Science/Medical Squadrons delievered to Torontia immediately (set sail within a matter of days) for $19 billion. Also two Nanticoke-class heavy carriers are need in the same time frame for $9 billion. We are entirely willing to pay for express delivery. The total comes to $28 billion + rush fees. Will be paid upon confirmation of delivery.

Thank you,
J. Clark, Deputy PM

OOC: Sarz, I'm interested in returning to consume a few more of your products, particular the Ardnon-class Super Dreadnaught, but could you please add the running costs, along with the other ships' running costs you didn't add?

To: Flightopia
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Confirmation of order

The Portland Iron Works is pleased to confirm your order for five Light Invasion Forces in the amount of $42.5 billion. We expect to have this order delivered to you within six NS years [6 RL days] following the completion of sea trials. We hope the ships serve your navy well and we thank you for contacting the Portland Iron Works for your maritime needs!

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To: Joe Clark, Deputy Prime Minister
North Saint Clair
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Confirmation of order

The Portland Iron Works will expedite the delivery of your order to Torontia following the humanitarian disaster attendant upon the collapse of that nation's government. We will charge $2 billion USD for the rush shipment of science and medical squadrons and two Nanticoke-class aircraft carriers completed but not employed by the Incorporated Sarzonian Navy following its reallocation of priorities. The Science and Medical Squadrons will consist of science and medical squadrons that would have been commissioned into the Sarzonian marine.

We thank you for contacting the Portland Iron Works for your maritime needs and we are more than willing to accomodate the needs of our customers.

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[OOC to Southeastasia: I usually divide the purchase price by about 30 or divide a tenth of the purchase price by three to come up with the running cost. That doesn't mean I won't be adding the running costs though.]

*Juneau-class deep sea icebreaker added*

It is in dire need that we order 15 Juneau-class oceangoing icebreakers before the coming winter inorder to ensure our two major deep water ports remain open. Though we wish we had more time to talk we must in all order request haste inorder to have the vessels (or atleast 9 of them) ready before the coming iceflow.

Price should come to 150 million USD and we have wired it in the utmost confidence that you may meet our humble, but urgent need.

Ringo Jackson
-Port Carson Dockyard and the Mekugian Republican Navy.

[OOC: The price for each Juneau is $290 million. I might have confused you a bit with the running cost. I'll clarify that to mean running cost per year.]

To: Ringo Jackson
Port Carson Dockyard and the Mekugian Republican Navy
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Confirmation of order

The Portland Iron Works is delighted that our friends in Mekugi have expressed interest in the new Juneau-class icebreaker. Since we have relatively few assets in cold water climates, we have allocated 15 of the 25 Juneaus intended for the Incorporated Sarzonian Navy to the delivery of your order. As such, they should be delivered to you within two NS years [2 RL days], following the completion of sea trials.

We would like to point out that the price for each Juneau is $290 million. The total price for 15 would amount to $4.35 billion. If you still would like to pay this price for the 15, we can deliver them to you at the time indicated previously. We thank you for contacting the Portland Iron Works for your maritime needs and we hope to hear from you again in the future!

[OOC: yeah that was my bad I was trying to scarf down a ham sandwhich at the time, that should show me for trying to multi-task, eh?]

Oh my mistake, seems sin our haste we miscalculated, the remainder will be sent immediately.

-RJ

To: Rear Admiral Tucker
From: Joe Clark, Deputy Prime Minister
Re: Confirmation of Order

The Republic of North St. Clair thanks Portland Iron Works for being able to lay the foundations of the North St. Clair Navy.

Sincerely,
J. Clark, Deputy PM

To: Rear Admiral Tucker
From: Madam Robynne Hay, Minister of Defence
Re: Custom Order

Admiral Tucker,

I would like to inquire about the status of this project.

The Holy Empire of Saint Fedski is in need of a fleet of ships capable of carrying an entire armoured division in as few ships as possible.
Armoured Division consists of:
400 Main Battle Tanks (Leopard 2)
120 Armoured Personnel Carriers (M113A3)
240 Fuel Tankers (XM1091)
25 PzH 2000s (Self Propelled Artillery)
20 Trucks (M923)

Personnel Totals: 5555

The goal is no more than 10 ships....preferably 5-7.

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9906746&postcount=756

Here Mac refered me to you to design a 1000-tonne plus nuclear powered hovercraft. I know it is possible.
The design is meant to hit a beach, deposit some troops and provide covering fire as well as provide a hammer withwhich to drive inland in hte aftermath of such a landing (using celled skirts i believe you can make a hovercraft go over trenches adn tanktraps)

To: Rear Admiral Tucker
From: Madam Robynne Hay, Minister of Defence
Re: Custom Order

Admiral Tucker,

I would like to inquire about the status of this project.[OOC: It's undergoing final development in the Lineart forum. (And now it's also getting an image render.]

Background: At the request of the Saint Fedski military, engineers at the Portland Iron Works set to the task of creating a large combat transport that can deliver an armoured division in no more than ten ships of the same model. Since the venerable Normandy-class heavy combat transport ship is not designed to carry the large number of armoured vehicles required except in much larger numbers, engineers chose to create essentially an enlarged version of the Normandy with greater emphasis placed on protection and delivery of increased combat assets. The result was the Endeavour class large combat transport ship.

Protection Similar to the ideas employed by the Normandy herself, the Endeavour brings devastating fire in a landing support platform that is incredibly survivable. Toward that end, the Endeavour is armed with two 356 mm ETC guns, the same calibre as found on the new General Dent class Trimaran command large crusiers and on several warships in the Incorporated Sarzonian Navy. Two very large mortars and six naval railguns also support the coastal bombardment role of the Endeavour. The protection scheme of the Normandy also informs the design of the Endeavour, and it is increased in strength to provide protection for the combat load.

Endeavour-class large combat transport ship (http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y83/Alidor/Ships/EndeavourClassC.png)
Length: 263 m; Beam: 47 m; Draught: 7.1 m
Displacement: 38,920 tonnes fully laden
Armament: 2 x 1 356 mm ETC guns in A & Y position; 2 x 280 mm mortars in B & X positions; 6 x 155 mm naval railguns port and starboard; 1 x ASROC launcher; 18 x 35 mm Rattlesnake CIWS.
Protection: 406 mm-508 mm advanced armour composite (titanium, vanadium, aluminum, amorphous steel, ballistic ceramics); torpedo bulge, double-bottomed, reinforced keel with void spaces built on honeycomb frame. Composite rods and ceramic plates provide additional protection against KE attacks. Ship is designed to minimize radar cross section. Survivability features added include fragmentation and nuclear blast protection and shock-hardened structure.
Propulsion: Four gas turbines; two shafts. Two diesel turbines provide auxiliary propulsion.
Speed: 18 knots.
Aircraft: Capable of carrying and launching 18 SZ-15 Dragon transport or ASW helicopters.
Complement: 420 sailors and officers; 180 air crew; up to 1,000 combat personnel.
Cargo capacity: Each can carry 50 Z-34 'Bonham' Main Battle Tanks, 15 Z-15 'Landshark' Armoured Personnel Carriers, 30 Fuel Tankers, 5 Z-38 'Panther' self-propelled artillery units; and two trucks. Can also carry up to 1,000 combat personnel. Five vehicle decks of 40,000 square feet; three cargo holds capable of carrying 50,000 cubic feet of storage.
Countermeasures: Mk 53 Nulka-similar decoy system (used as a hovering rocket to draw missiles away from the ship); two ASW and ASuW decoys; detection and jamming system providing surveillance, warning, and electronic countermeasures against missile attacks.
Sensors: Surface-search radar; three-dimensional air search radar; surface surveillance and tracking radar.
Price: $2.5 billion

[OOC: Endeavour-class drawing by Alidor.]

The Silver Sky and We Buy It Inc. would like to purchase production rights to the Endeavour-class large combat transport ship, we would also like to inquire on how much a stripped down version of the Endeavour could carry, we are in need of a large transport to us during peace operations and for civilian use.

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9906746&postcount=756

Here Mac refered me to you to design a 1000-tonne plus nuclear powered hovercraft. I know it is possible.
The design is meant to hit a beach, deposit some troops and provide covering fire as well as provide a hammer withwhich to drive inland in hte aftermath of such a landing (using celled skirts i believe you can make a hovercraft go over trenches adn tanktraps)[OOC: I'll get working on that by the end of the weekend.]

TO: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker
FROM: Leonid Nikitin, head of the defense purchasing committee of the Temporary Agenstvo Natsionalnoye Zashiti Directorate in charge of the lands of Pushkan Federation and Cottish Republic

We would like to order the following naval packages:

Multi-Role Naval fleets x2
General Purpose Fleet x1
Science Medical Squadron x4
Task Force x1

TOTAL: 545 Billion USD

Sufficient funds to be transfered upon the confirmation of the transaction.

OOC: I'll also buy some icebreakers then they arrive.

To: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
From: Admiral Ben Cordell, Chief of Staff of the Navy, the Democratic Imperium of Halberdgardia
Re: Endeavour-class Purchase

The Democratic Imperium has long been looking for a superior transport craft to supplement its Wilson-class Ro/Ro vessels. Therefore, we would like to inquire as to the possibility of purchasing domestic production rights for the Endeavour-class, with a minimum production run of two thousand five hundred vessels. We will wire the requisite price upon confirmation.

Respectfully,
Admiral Ben Cordell
Chief of Staff of the Navy
The Democratic Imperium of Halberdgardia

Consider an order placed for 20 Endeavours at 2.5 billion each. A total of 50 billion is now wired. It was a pleasure doing business with you. Expect more orders of these in the not to distant future.

OOC: Hey Saint Fedski, why don't you ask Sarzonia for production rights? After all, you requested it....

ooc: He doesn't have the capability of producing ships, no shipyards.
IC:

To: Admiral Tucker
From: Joe Clark, Deputy Prime Minister

The Republic of North St. Clair was extremely pleased with the two Nanticoke Class Heavy Carriers we purchased. They are being used to provide mass training to the reserves. However, due to comparisons with the Quickbreaker Class produced by DMG Military Industries, we feel they are similar enough in performance and aircraft capacity that we must choose to purchase the cheapest one possible. For our other naval needs, we will continue to purchase our equipment here.

OOC: Then contract them to help construct some, I'm sure he (Sarz) would not mind!
IC:
TO: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.) Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
FROM: USNSEA Minister of Defense Paul David Nettleton
SUBJECT: Super Dreadnaught

With Southeast Asia lacking it's own Super-Dreadnaughts to counter foreigners, we have once again turned to the world-class Portland Iron Works for help. We humbly request five Ardnon-class Super-Dreadnaughts. The cost shall be wired upon upon the confirmation of the order.

Sincerely,
His Excellency,
USNSEA Minister of Defense
Paul David Nettleton

OOC: Hey Saint Fedski, why don't you ask Sarzonia for production rights? After all, you requested it....[OOC: I'll reply to the orders later, but I'd really prefer that you not suggest to my customers that they request production rights on my products.

Thank you for your cooperation.]

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b88/lunarsandwich/hammer_sickle_w_rsmall.gif
The Great Ankhmeti Red Navy wishes to purchase the following ships, at a total cost of $5,910,000,000,000:

8 Archon Class Superdreanoughts

3 Independance Class Pocket Superdreadnoughts.

We of the Ankhmeti Sea Ministry humbly thank you.

To: Ankhmeti Sea Ministry
Great Ankhmeti Red Navy
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Confirmation of order

The Portland Iron Works has evaluated your nation and, while we have some concerns with some of your government's foreign policy decisions, we have decided to confirm your order for eight Archon-class superdreadnoughts and three Independence-class pocket superdreadnoughts in the amount of $5.91 trillion US. Work will begin immediately and we expect to have your order completed within 10 NS years [10 RL days] following the conclusion of sea trials.

We hope these ships serve the Great Ankhmeti Red Navy well and we thank you for considering the Portland Iron Works for your naval needs.

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To: Paul David Nettleton
USNSEA Minister of Defense
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Confirmation of order

The Portland Iron Works is pleased to confirm this order from our friends in Southeastasia for five Archon-class superdreadnoughts. Work will begin immediately and we anticipate completing construction within eight NS years [8 RL days]. The ships will be delivered to you following the conclusion of sea trials.

We hope these ships serve your navy well and we thank you for once again showing your confidence in the Portland Iron Works.

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To: Nation of Saint Fedski
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Confirmation of order

The Portland Iron Works is delighted at the response to the Endeavour-class large combat transport ships and we happily confirm your order for 50 of this class. Work will begin immediately and we expect to have your order delivered within 10 NS years [10 RL days], following the completion of sea trials.

We thank you for contacting us regarding the new design and we look forward to finding out how it performs with your military!

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To: Admiral Ben Cordell,
Naval Chief of Staff, Democratic Imperium of Halberdgardia
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Endeavour-class Purchase

The Portland Iron Works thanks the Democratic Imperium of Halberdgardia for its supreme confidence in our new Endeavour-class large combat transport vessel and for the request for domestic production rights for a minimum run of 2,500 vessels. However, we have very strong reservations about providing production rights, even solely for domestic production for one nation's navy, for such an enormous run of warship.

We would be willing to negotiate a limited run of domestic production rights for this design, but a production run of 2,500 ships, while providing $6.25 trillion into Portland Iron Works coffers could set a precedent for foreign sales that we would prefer be kept to a minimum.

Please contact my office should you wish to discuss the matter further.

[OOC: We can talk via TG or PM over at the Lineart board or if you have some messenger service, perhaps that.]

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To: Leonid Nikitin
Defense Purchasing Committee, Temporary Agenstvo Natsionalnoye Zashiti Directorate
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Confirmation of order

The Portland Iron Works is pleased to confirm your order for the following:

Multi-Role Naval fleets x2
General Purpose Fleet x1
Science Medical Squadron x4
Task Force x1

For a total of $545 billion USD. Work will begin immediately and we expect to have your order delivered within eight NS years [8 RL days], following the completion of sea trials. We hope these ships serve your navy well and we hope to hear from you again in the future.

[OOC: Actually, the icebreakers are already available. Check the first page under my auxiliaries section.]

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To: We Buy It Inc.
The Silver Sky
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Production rights request

The Portland Iron Works thanks We Buy It Inc. and The Silver Sky for its request for domestic production rights for the Endeavour-class large combat transport ships. For a limited run of 100, we would ask for the amount of $2.5 trillion US to be delivered to you at your earliest convenience. We thank you for contacting us regarding this latest design.

As for a stripped down version, the carrying capacity would depend on how much you choose to remove from its standard weapons outlay. We imagine the increases in cargo carrying capacity would be quite significant if weapons were removed from this design.

$2.5 trillion for 100 vessels!? :eek:

OOC: The cost of production would be $250 billion. You can get that price, but I'm trying like heck to get away from just giving out production rights willy nilly.

The Ankhmeti Red Naval Authority thanks you for accepting our order despite your misgivings.

To: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
From: Albert Kapkov, Purchasing committee division of the Russian Federation Ministry of Defense.


We would like to purchase 20 units of the following vessel: Juneau-class oceangoing icebreaker

Total Cost: 5800000000 USD

Payment: To be wired upon confirmation of the order

OOC: Sarzonia, check your telegrams.

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To: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
From: Imperator Samuel II, Andaras Prime

We wish to purchase a navy capable of quickly transporting a force of approximately 300,000 troops in quick invasion forces. It is imperative that this fleet can defend itself, but I wish it's primary objective to be landing ground based forces across a coastline or port. The Normandy-class heavy combat transport ship looks to be ships we want for such a task. I merely wish to know how many of those ships would be needed to transport the force I mentioned, plus many armoured units. I also wish to know from your knowledge what would be the best amount of hospital and munition ships that would best accompany such an invasion fleet to keep it supplied etc... And what would be the upkeep cost of such a force. Thankyou greatly.

bump

OOC: generally how long does it take for a reply here?

OOC: I usually try to reply within a day or so, but I've been AFK most of the time because I have family over for Thanksgiving here in the U.S.

I think I'll have more time to reply tomorrow.

To: Imperator Samuel II
Andaras Prime
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Invasion force

The Portland Iron Works thanks you for your correspondance with respect to a large invasion force possibly centred on our Normandy-class heavy combat transport ships. It would take roughly 500 Normandy-class heavy combat transport ships to deliver 300,000 soldiers to a combat theatre in addition to armoured combat units.

We would recommend at least one Pasteur-class hospital ship per 10 combatant warships. As with supply vessels, we would recommend at least one supply ship such as a Ryzner-class heavy transport hovercraft or a Smith-class fuel and munitions transport vessel per seven or eight combatants at a minimum, though we prefer more of a 1:5 ratio for our fleets.

If you are interested, we can provide you with military advisors who can provide you with greater insights into our methods for combat personnel and logistics deliveries.

[OOC: Sarz, please check your TGs; I have something regarding my Endeavour-class purchase for you.]

[OOC: Sarz, please check your TGs; I have something regarding my Endeavour-class purchase for you.]OOC: I just sent a reply TG.

To: Imperator Samuel II
Andaras Prime
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Invasion force

The Portland Iron Works thanks you for your correspondance with respect to a large invasion force possibly centred on our Normandy-class heavy combat transport ships. It would take roughly 500 Normandy-class heavy combat transport ships to deliver 300,000 soldiers to a combat theatre in addition to armoured combat units.

We would recommend at least one Pasteur-class hospital ship per 10 combatant warships. As with supply vessels, we would recommend at least one supply ship such as a Ryzner-class heavy transport hovercraft or a Smith-class fuel and munitions transport vessel per seven or eight combatants at a minimum, though we prefer more of a 1:5 ratio for our fleets.

If you are interested, we can provide you with military advisors who can provide you with greater insights into our methods for combat personnel and logistics deliveries.

To: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
From: Imperator Samuel II, Andaras Prime

Thankyou for the advice, as an official navy in my armed forces does not exist, and we have always relied on ground based force, our knowledge of naval warfare matters is not extensive, we would greatly appreciate your military advice on such matters. But for now, 500 Normandy-class Transport vessels sounds good, backed up by 100 Smith-class fuel and munitions transport vessels, and 50 Pasteur-class hospital ships, sounds good for the invasion force im looking for, this would be $742.5 Billion if I'm not mistaken, and I can afford those I'm sure. And while I understand the normandy can defend itself, I would like to know from your experience what would be a good escourt fleet to protect those number of vessels, from both air and sea attacks during a prolonged invasion and occupation stage. Also do these vessels come with weapons and fuel, or is it possible to buy them with standard weapons layouts? Thankyou greatly.

OOC: Sarzonia, check your telegrams.
Well, did you receive it Sarz? If you didn't or it was deleted because of the fifteen-telegram-limit, I'll resend it.

Well, did you receive it Sarz? If you didn't or it was deleted because of the fifteen-telegram-limit, I'll resend it.OOC: I received it, but I haven't heard from Phoenxius (sp?) yet. It's up to him to contact me since you want him to work with me on the logistics submarine. Also, I had to find the post where you were referring to the project since it's the first I'd heard of it.

Click here. (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9960226&postcount=36)

(Secret Message)
To: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
From: Admiral Ken Murphy, Commander in Chief, Commonwealth of Saint Fedski

The Commonwealth of Saint Fedski is currently in the hunt for vessels suited to the defence of our nation. We have been interested in the Johnston-Class AA Destroyer for a while now and finally had $15 billion allocated to purchasing vessels from PIW. All $15 billion will be used to purchase twelve of these ships. There is no priority on this order and we ask if some extra quality control work can be done to ensure lower maintenence costs, higher reliability and a longer service life.

On another note, the Navy of the Commonwealth of Saint Fedski would like to hire a team of Naval Advisors to check over our fleets and make appropriate recommendations for the purpose of improving the effectiveness of said fleets.

Your's truly,
Admiral Ken Murphy, Commander in Chief, Commonwealth of Saint Fedski

To: Port Iron Works
From: Admiral Haven
Subject: The Congress has given us premission to buy 50 of your Scourge Anti-ship missles
and four of your bayonet ultra torpedos, Please do not ship these with the warhead.
The money, a total of 193 million, will be wired upon confrimation

OOC: Figured I should start to work on my navy.

To: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.) Managing Director, Portland Iron Works, Sarzonia.
From: Donald Rolandson, Izistani Armed Forces Equipment Acquisition Board, PDR of Izistan.
Subject: Order.
Greetings.
The Izistani Navy has requested that the Board procure them some new equipment so they can begin their own rearmament program similer to that of the Army's. So we decided to turn to our comrades at PIW. Hence forth I wish to enquire if we could aquire the production rights for the following three items:
-The Nanticoke-class CVAN.
-The McDonough-class ASW FFG
-The GWS.41.2 Loon ASW missile.

I hope to hear back from you soon.
Sincerely yours,
Donald Rolandson.

TO: Portland Iron Works
From: MierTech
Sub: Redesign of Seaserpent cargo sub

I understand that Southeastasia has contacted you about a possible collaboration between us to redesign our Seaserpent class submarine that we designed for them. We are still waiting on which aspects they wish us to re-evaluate, but we thought it would be best to contact you now and see where we stand.

We hope this will lead to a fruitful partnership.

David Hancok
CEO of MierTech

To: David Hancok
CEO, MierTech
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Redesign of Seaserpent logistics submarine

The Portland Iron Works is interested in working with you on making modifications to the Seaserpent class logistics submarine, though we are unfamiliar with the specifications requested by Southeastasia and how the current design of the Seaserpent fails to meet their requirements. We have some ideas that we would be willing to share with you via various means of communication [OOC: If you have any IMs, please TG them to me and I'll do the same for you].

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To: Donald Rolandson,
Izistani Armed Forces Equipment Acquisition Board
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Production rights contracts

The Portland Iron Works is pleased to confirm this request for production rights to our Nanticoke-class heavy carriers, our McDonough-class ASW frigates, and the Loon ASW missiles. While the Loon is originally a Royal Shipyards of Isselmere-Nieland design and we normally request their guidance before committing to a sale of one of their indigenous designs, we believe that your status as a longtime member of the Woodstock Pact renders you in good stead to acquire the production rights.

We can offer you a domestic production rights contract for the cost of purchase of 500 units of each of the warship classes and 750 copies of the weapons design. Such rights would remain in effect for the length of time you choose to use those warship designs, up to the construction of 250 warships of each class. [OOC: Basically, you can produce as many of each ship as you want up to 250. If you want to renew, we can do so at the same cost.]

We thank you for contacting the Portland Iron Works for your naval needs and we hope to hear from you again in the future!

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To: The PeoplesFreedom
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Weapons purchase

The Portland Iron Works is pleased to confirm your order for 50 Scourge anti-ship missiles and four Bayonet heavy torpedoes [OOC: I'm getting ready to reclassify them because of my recent 1,000 mm torpedo]. The weapons will be shipped to you without warheads as you requested. We note that we do not provide nuclear warheads to all but the most trusted nations.

We thank you for your cooperation and for the technology exchange that has already taken place between our nations and we hope to conduct further business with you!

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To: Admiral Ken Murphy
Commander in Chief, Commonwealth of Saint Fedski
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Confirmation of order

The Portland Iron Works is happy to confirm this order for 12 Johnston-class AA destroyers and has scheduled the delivery of 12 of the class originally slated for the ISN to be delivered instead to the Commonwealth of Saint Fedski to your preferred port(s) of entry. We hope these ships serve your navy as well as they have served our navy in multiple engagements in our past and we thank you for once again turning to the Portland Iron Works for your naval needs!

We also would be willing to send a team of naval advisors and can send one of my liaisons with the Incorporated Sarzonian Navy to conduct a review and make recommendations for your own navy.

To: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
From: David Hancok; CEO, MierTech
Subject: Redesign of Seaserpent logistics submarine

We welcome a chance to exchange ideas. I will immediately set up a research lab here at our HQ to coordinate our efforts. Your scientists need not neccessarily join us here, as we will be able to open secure, high-speed links to you. We shall prepare the setup for when we recieve further details from Southeastasia.

OOC: I have MSN, but other than that we'll have to use a forum to process this along. I'll send you a TG now with my MSN address.

OOC: Sarz, you can see the details of Saint Fedski's navy (along with his other military branches) in his sig. And let's take this to the NS Draftroom, shall we?

OOC: I presume you mean the Seaserpent project there SEA? If so, I'll start a thread there if you haven't already.

OOC: Yep. You got that right.

OOC: Yikes, quick! I've TG'd you and Sarz with the link to the thread.

OOC: I've replied on the Draftroom thread.

To: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
From: Admiral Ken Murphy, Commander in Chief, Commonwealth of Saint Fedski
Re: Naval Advisory Team

Once the reorganization of the Navy is complete, your advisory team will be flown in and accomodated until they have finished. Everything is completely paid for by us, and providing the results, the advised additions will be purchased from PIW. Thank you for your help!. Also it has come to the attention of Vice Admiral Mike Bradley, Commander of the Commonwealth of Saint Fedski's task force in Torontia that while anti-missile protection is adequate, it must be a lot better. What do you suggest to fit the bill?

The Roman Republic wishes to buy 3 Vigilant-class command superdreadnaughts

Total: $1.005 trillion

(OCC: Is it possible that I could have production rights for the Vigilant Class SD, I want to have a fleet of 20 Vigilant Class SDs. Is that possible or is that a godmod?)

The Roman Republic wishes to buy 3 Vigilant-class command superdreadnaughts

Total: $1.005 trillion

(OCC: Is it possible that I could have production rights for the Vigilant Class SD, I want to have a fleet of 20 Vigilant Class SDs. Is that possible or is that a godmod?)[OOC: I'd have to do a background check on you before I approve a sale of the Vigilant class so I'm not ready to write a IC reply yet (basically, that means I look through your post history to see if you have a history of supporting nations Sarzonia is hostile to or if your foreign policy gives us red flags), but PIW wouldn't grant production rights to the Vigilant class to any but the closest of allies, and the allies we would grant production rights to design and build their own SDs.

I'm not saying it's a Godmode to have 20 Vigilants, but I'd be really hesitant about giving out the design to someone who'd have more Vigilants than I have SDs of any class at the moment.]

To: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works.
From:
Donald Rolandson,
Izistani Armed Forces Equipment Acquisition Board.
Subject: RE: Production rights contracts.

Excellent. The folks from the Navy were most pleased. I'm currently setting up the transaction, expect the money to arrive in a day or two due to a rather nasty build up of paperwork that took us by suprise. I look forward to dealing with you in the future.

Sincerely yours,
Donald Rolandson.

In an effort to keep the Imperial Kreynoria Navy up to date and mighty due to our Pacific location, we seek to purchase ships from Portland Iron Works, judged by a panel of military expert to be the best provider to be Portland. Therefore, the empire seeks to purchase a General Purpose Fleet, for a cost of $315 million. The money shall be wired immediately upon confirmation.

[OOC: I'd have to do a background check on you before I approve a sale of the Vigilant class so I'm not ready to write a IC reply yet (basically, that means I look through your post history to see if you have a history of supporting nations Sarzonia is hostile to or if your foreign policy gives us red flags), but PIW wouldn't grant production rights to the Vigilant class to any but the closest of allies, and the allies we would grant production rights to design and build their own SDs.

I'm not saying it's a Godmode to have 20 Vigilants, but I'd be really hesitant about giving out the design to someone who'd have more Vigilants than I have SDs of any class at the moment.]

OCC: Go right ahead and look at my history. You will find that I never attacked you or your allies or threatened them. But if I did, my apologies to you and your allies.

Your Excellency,
In order to expand the South Seas Armada, my nation has extensively examined different storefronts and has determined your's to have much of what we require for it. We thusly wish to start by purchasing 75 Julianus-class SSGN's and 75 Argonaut-class escort/countermeasures submarines, and that will come to a total of $251.25 billion. We have confirmed the first payment of $86 billion now. We will send the rest of the payments over the decade (week IRL).
Sincerely,
BG Antonio Delton, Chief of Logistics, Graham and Palmer Department of War

Valiant-class Trimaran super carrier
Dimensions:
Length: 502 m; Beam: 178 m; Draught: 18 m
Displacement: 374,000 tons light; 402,000 tons full
Aircraft: Space for 185 fighters or 140 fighter/bombers and 10 helicopters.
Complement: 13,090 including air crew
Armament: 4 x 96 cell VLS; 12 x 35 mm Millennium Gun CIWS; 8 x ‘Yellow Jacket’ mini-SAMs.
Protection: 254-305 mm advanced steel composite featuring aluminum, titanium, ballistic ceramics, and kevlar. Double bottomed hull and reinforced keel along with void spaces to provide additional protection against submerged threats. Hardened crossbeams installed across bulkheads. Additional protection over key systems provided by outriggers.
Propulsion: Eight Pebblebead nuclear reactors; four shafts; waterjet propulsion system.
Speed: 32 knots normal maximum; 36 knots short range all out sprint; 29 knots cruise
Range: Limited only by nuclear fuel and consumables. Able to carry up to nine months of supplies and stores for sea and air crews.
Countermeasures: Six towed arrays; four anti-missile and six ASW decoys. Anti-jamming measures designed to anticipate attempts to jam communications and prevent attempts. Command center allows the Valiant to serve as a fleet flagship for up to 100 ships.
Price: $75 billion
Running Costs: $3.5 billion per year

The Green Plague is interested in purchasing 2 of your Valiant Class Trimaran super carriers, $75 billion x 2 = $150,000,000,000 total. We can wire the funds upon confirmation of the order. We are looking forward to doing business with you in the future.

To: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
From: Imperator Samuel II, Andaras Prime

Thankyou for the advice, as an official navy in my armed forces does not exist, and we have always relied on ground based force, our knowledge of naval warfare matters is not extensive, we would greatly appreciate your military advice on such matters. But for now, 500 Normandy-class Transport vessels sounds good, backed up by 100 Smith-class fuel and munitions transport vessels, and 50 Pasteur-class hospital ships, sounds good for the invasion force im looking for, this would be $742.5 Billion if I'm not mistaken, and I can afford those I'm sure. And while I understand the normandy can defend itself, I would like to know from your experience what would be a good escourt fleet to protect those number of vessels, from both air and sea attacks during a prolonged invasion and occupation stage. Also do these vessels come with weapons and fuel, or is it possible to buy them with standard weapons layouts? Thankyou greatly.

To: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
From: Imperator Samuel II, Andaras Prime

Greetings once again, I understand that you may have misgivings about my nations stance in the Questers situation, and we understood you supporting your Commowealth ally in such a situation, but I beg you to understand that we acted in the interests of protecting the smaller nation Opticher from trade exploitation. But it did not come to war, and my nation hold nothing against any of Questers allies, only his actions at the time. But the situation has been resolved, Opticher asked all parties to leave his nation alone, and even before that I requested diplomatic negotiations with him over the situation. The AIC and Axis acted only to protect the smaller nation, and while you have every right to deny our order of naval vessels, we ask that you accept our most humble apologies on this matter in the hopes of unharmed business relations in these matters. We will gladly pay any fine or tax on our order, but we wish for you to consider our offer, we take that you have no approached us on the ships over that crisis as a good sign. Thankyou greatly.

Signed, Supreme Sovereign of Andaras Prime.

To: The Green Plague
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Valiant-class order

The Portland Iron Works thanks you for your interest in our products. However, our government has expressed serious reservations about your government's requests to purchase several "interesting" weapons systems, including those "frowned upon by other militaries or governments." As such, we are unable to confirm your order at present.

We would require assurances that you would not employ such weapons against civilian populations or in support of terrorist organisations before we would process this order.

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To: BG Antonio Delton
Chief of Logistics, Graham and Palmer Department of War
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Confirmation of order

The Portland Iron Works is pleased to confirm this order after performing a background check of your government. Since your government has shown a strong level of fiscal responsibility by offering a payment programme, we will accept your proposed payment plan. Work will begin immediately on yoru 25 Julianus-class SSGNs and 25 Argonaut class escort/countermeasures submarines and we expect to have your order delivered in six NS years [6 RL days], following sea trials.

We thank you for considering the Portland Iron Works and thank you for your custom.

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To: Imperial Kreynoria Navy
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: General Purpose Fleet

The Portland Iron Works thanks you for your interest in our products. We would like to point out that the cost of one General Purpose Fleet is $315 billion, rather than $315 million. Should you wish to purchase a General Purpose Fleet, please inform us if the price of $315 billion is acceptable to the Inperial Kreynorian Navy.

We look forward to your response.

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To: Roman Republic
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Vigilant-class superdreadnought

The Portland Iron Works is willing to confirm the order for three Vigilant-class superdreadnoughts; however, we must note that production rights are not available to any but our closest allies, and the allies who would have production rights currently operate indigenous designs of superdreadnoughts. Should you still wish to confirm the three Vigilant-class superdreadnoughts, construction will begin immediately and we expect to have your order completed in 10 NS years [10 RL days, taking off two days of that for the RL time delay].

We thank you for your custom and for considering the Portland Iron Works for your naval needs!

To: Roman Republic
From: Rear Admiral Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Vigilant-class superdreadnought

The Portland Iron Works is willing to confirm the order for three Vigilant-class superdreadnoughts; however, we must note that production rights are not available to any but our closest allies, and the allies who would have production rights currently operate indigenous designs of superdreadnoughts. Should you still wish to confirm the three Vigilant-class superdreadnoughts, construction will begin immediately and we expect to have your order completed in 10 NS years [10 RL days, taking off two days of that for the RL time delay].

We thank you for your custom and for considering the Portland Iron Works for your naval needs!

Thank you, the money has been wired from the World Roman Bank. You may begin production. We understand the the production rights are for you closest allies. The Fatherland too hopes that we may eventually get the production rights to the Vigilant Class SDs. In the future, we may order more ships. Thank you for you excellent service.

Confirming second payment of $86 billion.

OOC: Sarz, how many SDs is it reasonable for a nation my size to have?

OOC: Have you done my hovercraft yet?

OOC: Have you done my hovercraft yet?OOC: To be honest, I'm not sure if I can do the design and keep it in a MT framework. I might be able to design one but it would most likely be a bit beyond my normal tech range.

Sarz, how many SDs is it reasonable for a nation my size to have? That really depends on a lot of factors.

Is your nation an island nation or does it have a long coastline?
Does your nation have a strong economy (not the NSUN ranking) or is it weak?
What is your navy's number one priority? A nation's development of its navy is very different if they're building a defensive navy compared to one that is designed to project power.

I think when I was about your size, I probably had three pocket SDs in my navy (which I classify differently from SDs) and I didn't have a true SD until sometime in January of this year.

Confirming last payment.

OOC: Click here for a map of the RL Southeast Asia, from which my country is a union of those RL countries (http://image.excite.it/common/travel/southeast-asia_en.gif). My economic rating is 'Powerhouse' and Defense is my No. 1 priority. And my fleet's priority is in between both 'defensive' and 'offensive'.

Your Excellency,
My nation now would like to make another purchase from your storefront to add to the ranks of our armada. We wish to purchase 40 Monandnock-class Trimaran light cruisers for a total of $116 billion. I am confirming the first payment of $86 billion now, the rest is to be sent shortly.
Sincerely,
BG Antontio Delton, Chief of Logistics, Graham and Palmer Department of War

The Sthenislastian Military would like to place an order on the Navy Starter Pak (40 ships)
1 Forrest-class fleet carrier (CVN)
1 Nelson-class light carrier (CVL)
1 Volunteer-class nuclear powered battleship (BBN)
1 Alliance-class supercruiser (CB)
2 Randolph-class heavy cruisers (CA)
4 Ithaca-class light cruisers (CL)
5 Evermore-class destroyers (DD)
10 Wixted-class frigates (FF)
10 Seminole-class corvettes (FL)
5 Skipjack-class nuclear powered attack submarines (SSN)
Cost: $37 billion

We have chosen to purchase this package from the great nation of Sarzonia, Portland Iron Works division.
The package we have chosen, has been carefully selected to get our navy going , and to give the Sthenislastian People hope that they will be defended from invasion, we have chosen to purchase these ships from Portland Iron Works, for the workmanship, and superiority that they are known for, we hope to purchase more products from your great nation in the future.

Your Friend,
President Peter Robertson, Commander and Chief of the Sthenislastian Government

The Dominion is interested in replacing its older capital ships, and so we have come here. We wish to purchase;

6 Leander Class light command and control battleships - $210,000,000,000
4 Neptune Class Trimaran Superdreadnoughts - 1,120,000,000,000
2 Brandywine Class light command dreadnoughts - 130,000,000,000
10 Freedom Class Trimaran Pocket Superdreadnoughts - 1,250,000,000,000
75 Forrest Class Fleet Carriers - 157,500,000,000
2 Gavin Newsom Class Trimaran Hypercarrier - 250,000,000,000

TOTAL: $3,127,500,000,000

OOC: Guys, Sarzonia has a made a new version of his storefront, so he would be happy if you were to redirect your posts there.

Portland Iron Works 3.0. (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=457777)

OOC: My nation would like to know if you can build my nation up from the Keel. I would be willing to also allow you to build shipyards in my nation if you help do that. We will be willing to pay a hansom amount of money for doing that. If you would like to TG I can give you my email to you what I would like to have in my navy.

The Armed Republic has upgraded several battlegroups, and wishes to procure several battlecarriers. We have also determined that our existing fleet of Endevour-Class ships have aged beyond overhaul, and thus need to order a new set. Payment will take the form of bullion and conflict diamonds, if possible.

Pubulius Class Battlecarrier-48-$1,440,000,000,000.00
Endeavour Class Large Combat Transport Ship-396-$990,000,000,000.00
Total-$2,430,000,000,000.00