NationStates Jolt Archive

Due to recent laws inacted by the Imperial Senate the limit the budget of certain departments to no more than 2 trillion dollars per fiscal year, there has been a sudden influx of money into defense and education. Currently no major renovations of the education are expect, thus the lion's share of money is going to the military. The Imperial Navy has convinced the civilian government of the need to embark upon a naval building program that will once again make the Imperial Navy the envy of the world. The ships on order and their costs are thus:

11 Gehenna SDV - 3.3 trillion
14 Halcyon SD - 490 billion
70 Fenrir SD - 910 billion
56 Morrigan CVN - 1.232 trillion
28 Macha CVAN - 168 billion
84 Ryuho BCGN - 420 billion
336 Galician CAN - 1.848 trillion
336 Alexander I Larsen CGN - 1.680 trillion
252 Minotaur DDGN - 1.008 trillion
252 Osiris DDEN - 1.008 trillion
252 Sabre DHKN - 504 billion
18 Dreadnaught SSBN - 54 billion
120 Upholder SSN - 240 billion

1829 warship - 12.862 trillion


This program will be a crash building program, with all 1800 warship-capable building docks filled at once. The 18 SSBNs will be built at a later date and the 11 Gehenna class SDVs will be built in their own special docks. Excepting the massive Gehenna, no ship will take more than 12 years to build and at the end of that time the Imperial Navy will have 3,874 ships in its order of battle.

OOC: Very interesting, I must say - certainly a huge improvement over the previous numbers of your navy. I have about 3/2 of that, but you probably have too many SDs... :p

[Balance of capital ships to escort and logistic ships is 1:6-7. I'm sure you remember, but my navy is dedicated to destroying enemy fleets quickly and with overwhelming firepower. Key to that is the large number of line ships.]

[[b]OOC: So, it would be safe to assume that if you failed at that you're offensive naval power would collapse as a consequence of this?]

[No, I know how to raid, used hit and fade tactics, and the like. I simply choose to gear my navy less towards home defense like Omz does and more towards offensive operations.]

[No, I know how to raid, used hit and fade tactics, and the like. I simply choose to gear my navy less towards home defense like Omz does and more towards offensive operations.]
OOC: Actually, the Omzian Navy is now transitioning to an offensive force if one looks at it's recent developments, but at the same time an offensive-centric navy isn't all that bad for defence either, unless for some reason you didn't intercept the enemy armada in the open seas and instead allowed it to get close to the coast, where larger ships aren't exactly ideal.

[Hmm, I guess I haven't been paying to much attention to how your naval ORBAT has been changing. Anyway, I agree that a large striking force is effective when deployed offensively and defensively, simply because overwhelming firepower is overwhelming firepower.]