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Welcome to Imperial Praetonian Shipyards, plc. - Praetonia's foremost defence contractor! At Imperial Praetonian Shipyards we aim to provide our customers with the cutting edge in naval technology at a fair, affordable price. As a publicly traded company, it is possible for our customers to own a slice of the business and we have no vested national interests. We have consistantly won government contracts for vessels for the Imperial Navy despite privatisation and subsequent deregulation of the arms market, and we remain the largest defence contractor in Praetonia. We currently employ over 2,127,000 people in facilities across the Praetonian Commonwealth and our closest partner state, the KLM. We have a long and proud history supplying warships to some of the most powerful and respected navies in the world, and since our inception we have been heralded as one of the world's leading providers of warships and systems.

Upon privatisation, we were granted a Royal Seal by His Majesty King Sarius I of Praetonia - an accolade that only the most successful of Praetonian companies are granted. We are immensely proud of our Royal seal and view it as a mark of our enduring competitiveness in the modern Nationstates world.

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The Royal Seal of Imperial Praetonian Shipyards, Plc.

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Product Listings

Below is a quick guide to all of our products, complete with pricing arrangements. If you have any further queries about any of our products, do not hesitate to ask.

Capital Warships (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10447047&postcount=3)
Royal Sovereign Class DN - $275 billion
Sovereign Class DN (Flight II) - $13.5 billion
Duke Class BCN - $6.0 billion
Carriers (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10447055&postcount=4)
County Class CVN - $6.25 billion
Pheasant Class CVLN - $4 billion
Cruisers (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10447058&postcount=5)
Dragoon Class CAN - $4.5 billion
Escorts (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10447066&postcount=6)
Praefele Class DDN (Flight II) - $2.0 billion
Knight Class DDN - $1.75 billion
Minister Class FFN - $750 million
Port Class FS - $375 million
Brownwater Combatants (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10447068&postcount=7)
Terror Class - $1.8 billion
Grenadier Class LC - $9 million
Submarines (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10447103&postcount=8)
Tower Class SSBN (Flight II) - $2.5 billion
Vanguard Class SSN (Flight II) - $2.6 billion
Lupus Class SSKN - $850 million
Cuirassier Class SSK - $500 million
Auxilliaries (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10678504&postcount=32)
Bay Class LHD - $1.8 billion
Lake Class AOE - $1.3 billion
Castle Class AOR - $1.6 billion


Munitions (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10447045&postcount=2)
IAD-12 'Lance' (Flight III) ASM - $2.5 million (prod rights: $2.5 billion)

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Imperial Praetonian Shipyards - Legal and Financial Policy

Imperial Praetonian Shipyards reserves the right not to make a sale to any nation which we do not believe can afford to pay for the requested products. Imperial Praetonian Shipyards recognises, however, that not all nations are able to pay for their products at once and so we are willing to offer long term payment plans lasting 5, 10 and 20 years with interest charged at 1%, 2% and 5% respectively.

As we are a profit making business, we will never offer discounts above 5%, and we will not offer discounts above 2% on package deals, as they are already discounted. Any company that claims to make a profit whilst giving a discount of 10% or more is lying.

Imperial Praetonian Shipyards owns the sole rights to all products listed below. Any attempt to reproduce, reverse engineer or sell plans to any of our equipment without prior express written permission will be considered an act of war against the Democratic Imperium of Praetonia (see: Naval Export & National Security Act, 2004). If you want help designing your own ships, feel free to TG me or add me on MSN or AIM (AIM preferable), or visit www.naval-technology.com. Do not steal designs.

Imperial Praetonian Shipyards sees "production rights" as the right to construct ships based on plans given by Imperial Praetonian Shipyards as part of the deal itself. Any attempt at resale or passing on plans to any nation without the prior express written permission of Imperial Praetonian Shipyards will be viewed as an act of war against the Democratic Imperium of Praetonia.


All prices are negotiable. If you wish to purchase production rights to any of our ship classes then please negotiate this first.

Parent Shipyards and Satellite Shipyards

The main Imperial Praetonian Shipyards' complex is located in Praefele, the second largest city in Praetonia and base of the Imperial Praetonian Home and Grand Expeditionary Fleets. This complex employs more than 1,000,000 people in the city of Praefele and the surrounding area, contributes 3.2% of the nation's GDP and supports the vast majority of the Praefelian dockland economy.

The second largest Imperial Praetonian Shipyards facility is located in Neo-Praetonia. The complex there contributes roughly 5% of the colonial economy, and employs 650,000 people. This complex has drydock capacity for the construction of three superdreadnaughts and hundreds of smaller warships.

Subsidiary shipyards are located in the KLM, employing large numbers of both local people and Praetonian engineers, specialists and managerial staff. Other facilities which produce components for Imperial Praetonian Shipyards and its subsidiaries are located throughout Praetonia, Neo-Praetonia and Segmentum Praetonialis, including a radar factory in Praeton istelf.

Munitions

IAD-12 'Lance' (Flight III) ASM

Overview

The latest in a long line of missiles that can trace their lineage to the birth of the Imperial Praetonian Shipyards company itself, the Lance Flight III is one of the most advanced anti-shipping missiles available today, capable of engaging both escorts and capital ships in groups ranging from individual missiles all the way up to swarms consisting of several thousand missiles. The missile is the lynchpin of the Imperial Praetonian Navy's missile and air anti-shipping capabilities, available in both surface-launched and air-launched variants.

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Propulsion

The surface-launch (base) variant consists of a single Imperial Aerodynamics solid rocket booster which provides the initial thrust required to lift the lift the missile clear of its VLS cell and accelerate it to supercruise velocity, and a single liquid-fuelled Imperial Aerodynamics RAMjet which powers the missile for the majority of its journey towards the target, taking advantage of a RAMjet's exceptional fuel efficiency at supersonic velocities. Once the solid rocket motor has expended all of its fuel it drops away and the RAMjet takes over automatically and maintains a steady speed at its optimal operating velocity until the terminal phase, at which point all remaining fuel is rapidly injected into the combustion chamber, sending the missile hurtling towards its target with substantially more kinetic energy.

Guidance

The 'Lance' is equipped with a wide array of means of guiding itself to its target, which are used sequentially depending upon the situation. Initially the missile is guided by a GPS location constantly updated from the launching ship (and other 'Lance' missiles, if updates from the launching ship are not available), until it enters its terminal phase. At this point, passive RADAR is used as the primary means of finding a target, alongside active RADAR if the enemy is reasonably assumed to have already detected them.

In the event of jamming, the missile will fall back on its IR imagers, which can be used to provide near-perfect passive terminal guidance. The missile's LIDAR system provides a periphery high-resolution targetting capability, allowing the missile in some instances to locate and engage key systems aboard a ship. Should the missile experience a catastrophic systems failure, it will fall back on its last updated GPS co-ordinate for the target, or its last sensor reading, whichever is more recent and reliable.

Protection

Considering the immense popularity of anti-missile systems in modern navies, a great deal of thought was given to finding ways to mitigate the potential for missiles to be lost to enemy fire before they can engage their targets. To that end, space has been allocated inside the warhead of each missile for RADAR jammers, and 'Lances' in Praetonian service are equipped with RADAR jammers in a ratio of 1 to every 9 missiles not so equipped. The power of the jamming, therefore, scales linearly with the number of missiles fired and hence the likely power of the enemy's radar systems.

In addition to electronic countermeasures, the missiles themselves are highly manoeuverable, with the RAMjets equipped with 3D thrust-vectoring for terminal manoeuvers, as well as regular control planes. 'Lance' missiles are, therefore, highly manoeuverable and capable of dodging the fire of CIWS guns and attacks by anti-missile missiles at a considerably higher rate than other missile systems. 'Lance' missiles can also use their attack profile to frustrate the efforts of enemy anti-missile defences, for example by adopting a 'lo-lo' profile to sneak in under the enemy's RADAR, drastically reducing their response time. The 'Lance's' wide array of sensors (including passive sensors) ensure that it is almost impossible to successfully spoof or jam.

The most powerful and subtle method by which the 'Lance' missile ensures it survives to engage its target is the so-called 'GroupThink' system developed by Imperial Electric to whereby 'Lance' missiles co-ordinate their attacks with each other. The system uses the combined processing power of each missile to allocate a suitable number of missiles to attack active sensors, use their jamming systems and, where possible, attack specific parts of ships such as their guns, or anti-missile systems. Missiles also share sensor information and allocate small groups to adopt a 'hi-lo' profile where the general profile is 'lol-lo' to relay information back to the rest of the group.

Warhead

Once a 'Lance' missile has successfully engaged a target, the less sophisticated brute-force warhead takes over. Capped with a heavy tungsten ballistic cap and moving at mach ~3.2, the missile will immediately transfer a great deal of kinetic energy to its target.

If this is sufficient to penetrate a ship's armour (in which case the impact itself is likely to have caused considerable damage), the delayed crush fuze will give the warhead enough time to enter the enemy ship before exploding, causing severe damage. The tungsten cap will either keep going, causing even more damage to the vessel, or be caught in the explosion and form shrapnel, again causing yet more damage.

Even if, however, the missile's kinetic energy is not sufficient to penetrate the enemy vessel's armour (as may well be the case when engaging enemy capital ships) the kinetic energy of the impact is likely to create a sizeable dent in the enemy's armour. The warhead will then continue, as normal, into this dent and explode, an event which is likely to cause moderate-severe damage to the armour of even the toughest enemy vessels, and perhaps even causing minor-moderate damage behind the armour as a result of spalling.

General Specifications

Length: 7.8m (SSM); 5.9m (A-SM);
Max. Wingspan: 1.2m (SSM); 0.9m (A-SM);
Diameter in Canister / on Pylon: 0.75m

Payload Mass: 675kg explosive charge; 250kg tungsten penetrator
Total Mass: 6,745kg (SSM); 5,120kg (A-SM)

Propulsion: 1x Imperial Aerodynamics T-500 Solid Rocket Booster (SSM); 1x Imperial Aerodynamics R-250 RAMjet (SSM, A-SM)
Supercruise Velocity: Mach 2.5 (RAMjet optimal)
Terminal Velocity: Mach 3.2
Range: 410km (hi-lo); 255km (lo-lo)

Electronics and Guidance: 1x Imperial Electric IE-102 Integrated IR / LIDAR Imager; 1x Imperial Electric MR-205 Active / Passive Phased RADAR; 1x Imperial Electric IS-545 Integrated Transceiver / GPS Receiver; 1x Imperial Electric DM-1005 Tracking / Guidance Computer

Unit Cost: $2,000,000 (manufacture); $2,500,000 (sale)
Domestic Production Rights: $2,500,000,000

Capital Warships


Royal Sovereign Class DN

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Overview

The Royal Sovereign Class is the first Praetonian superdreadnought sized vessel to be constructed for some years since the conclusion of the Centurion Class construction project. Ostensibly intended as a test-bed for the new 27.5" naval artillery piece produced by Imperial Ordnance, the weapon was accepted into Praetonian service before the first vessel was commissioned and the class is expected to take a prominent role in the Imperial Praetonian Navy's heavy-hitting super-dreadnought arsenal. Armed with sixteen 27.5"/84 ETC Naval Rifles, the vessel is a dangerous opponent for any similarly sized vessel. The ship is also very heavily armoured for its size, and can take a considerable amount of punishment.

The vessel is a good, solid gun platform able to endure heavy storms, and is capable of carrying a large amount of supplies and general stores to support other operations. Armed with strategic-length missile tubes, the vessel can deploy strategic nuclear munitions, or engage 'god-rod' carrying satellites. Supporting a heavy secondary battery - a new innovation for Praetonian capital warships - and a hefty missile battery, the vessel is capable of filling a variety of roles, from land-attack, general anti-ship combat, air- and missile-defence to its primarily intended role - combating other super-dreadnoughts in gunnery duels.


General Specifications

Dimensions: (length:) 869m; (beam:) 152m; (draught:) 30m
Complement: 10,850 Officers and Ratings
Propulsion: 4x Imperial Atomworks 250MW AGCR; 2x Imperial Oil & Gas 40MW COGAD Turbines powering four internal IPS Mk.12 Waterjets
Maximum Speed: 34kts
Cruising Speed: 30kts
Armour / Construction: Ballistic ceramics and high-tensile strength steel alloys backed by a titanium superstructure and spectra fibre spalling layer. Void spaces around engines and magazines. Advanced fire-control systems throughout vessel. Double bottomed and equipped with reinforced keel for torpedo protection.
Belt: 620mm - 1,670mm
Turrets: 2,100mm - 920mm
Barbettes: 1,400mm
Deck: 800mm + 150mm
Superstructure: 720mm - 300mm
Armament:
16x 27.5"/84 PS-ETC Naval Guns in four quad turrets (pos. A, B, Y and Z) (6,400 shells)
16x 15"/64 PS-ETC Naval Guns in eight dual turrets (10,000 shells)
36x 6"/72 PS-ETC Naval Guns in eighteen dual turrets (36,000 shells)
100x 4.25" PS-ETC DP Guns in forty-eight dual turrets (25,000 shells)
8x Testudo C(ombined)G(un)R(ocket)CIWS (48,000 shells; 48 rockets)
24x Testudo-S S(upercavitating)G(un)CIWS (96,000 shells)
40x 7.7mm caseless chainguns
Missiles
2x 14 (7x2) cell Bulldog VLS (28 missiles)
60x 64 (8x8) cell Ballista VLS (7680 missiles)
64x 32 cell Wellington AMMS (2048 missiles)
Torpedoes
16x 25" (635mm) Torpedo Tubes (400 weapons)
4x 1000mm Torpedo Tubes (100 weapons)
Aviation: 4x Helicopter or VTOL aircraft (hangar space); 10x Helicopter or VTOL aircraft (maximum stowage)
Endurance: (fuel:) 16 years' continuous; (consumables:) 18 months' standard
Displacement: 1,436,260 metric tonnes (standard) 1,710,205 (fully laden)
Electronics: ImpElec P-111 Surface-Search Radar; ImpElec P-211 Air-Search Radar; ImpElec A-111 SubSurface-Search Sonar; ImpElec A-722 Surface Countermeasure Co-ordination Radar & Systems; ImpElec A-711 SubSurface-Search Countermeasure Co-ordination Radar & Systems; ImpElec G-101 SCG Naval Fire Control Radar; ImpOrd CS-230 Surface Countermeasures Suite; ImpOrd CC-450 SubSurface Countermeasures Suite

Operating Costs: $8,000,000,000
Build Cost: $250,000,000,000
Purchase Cost: $275,000,000,000


Sovereign Class DN (Flight II)

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Overview

Designed as the heavily armed and armoured punch of a Praetonian battlefleet as well as a vessel able to operate in packs at the centre of large battlefleets including the Grand Fleet itself, the Sovereign Class is the most powerful non-superdreadnought design in Praetonian service. The vessel is fast enough to keep up with a battlefleet, and is capable of most taking and dishing out a great deal of firepower at a price affordable for widespread deployment. Recently classified a 'Dreadnought' as opposed to a 'Battleship', the Sovereign sits towards the lower end of super-capitals.

Armament

The vessel's formidable gun armament consists of sixteen 20" IS-ETC rifles mounted in four quad turrets, two to the fore and two to the aft of the ship. Each gun is equipped with an electromagnetic rifling system allowing for an overall increased muzzle velocity and therefore range which can also be used as a direct electromagnetic acceleration assist, if required. In addition to its primary gun armament, the vessel is armed with a number of smaller 6" guns in dual turrets along the ouriggers and a considerable complement of missiles via the Ballista VLS, including SSMs, SAMs, LAMs and ASROCs. The vessel is also armed with four sets of 4 torpedo tubes in armoured mounts about the ship, and the dreadnought is capable of maintaining and deploying up to four helicopters or VTOL planes for ASW or AShW work.

Protection

The Sovereign Class is the most heavily armoured non-superdreadnought in the Praetonian navy, and its thick belt, deck, turret and superstructure armour is complemented by void spaces filled by flame retardant foam, additional magazine and reactor plating and advanced fire control systems. As with all Praetonian ships, the bridge, reactors and magazines are all below decks (aside from VLS) protecting them from all by heavy plunging fire. The vessel is designed to offer protection against anything up to its own main gun calibre. In addition to passive defences, the vessel is protected by CIWS guns and, more prominently, the Wellington AMMS which is beginning the supplant gun-based systems in Praetonian service.


General Specifications

Dimensions: (length:) 412m; (beam:) 87m; (draught:) 18m
Complement: 1,634 Officers and Ratings
Propulsion: 3x Imperial Atomworks 125MW AGCR; 2x Imperial Oil & Gas 25MW COGAD Turbines powering four internal IPS Mk.12 Waterjets
Maximum Speed: 35kts
Cruising Speed: 31kts
Armour / Construction: Ballistic ceramics and high-tensile strength steel alloys backed by a titanium superstructure and spectra fibre spalling layer. Void spaces around engines and magazines. Advanced fire-control systems throughout vessel. Double bottomed and equipped with reinforced keel for torpedo protection.
Armament:
16x 20"/72 PS-ETC Naval Guns in four quad turrets (pos. A, B, Y and Z) (2,200 shells)
16x 6" PS-ETC Naval Guns in eight dual turrets (8,000 shells)
12x Testudo C(ombined)G(un)R(ocket)CIWS (72,000 shells; 72 rockets)
6x Testudo-S S(upercavitating)G(un)CIWS (24,000 shells)
12x 7.7mm caseless chainguns
Missiles
8x 64 (8x8) cell Ballista VLS (512 missiles)
24x 32 cell Wellington AMMS (768 missiles)
Torpedoes
16x 25" (635mm) Torpedo Tubes (200 weapons)
Aviation: 4x Helicopter or VTOL aircraft (hangar space); 6x Helicopter or VTOL aircraft (maximum stowage)
Endurance: (fuel:) 16 years' continuous; (consumables:) 18 months' standard
Displacement: 253,959 metric tonnes
Electronics: ImpElec P-111 Surface-Search Radar; ImpElec P-211 Air-Search Radar; ImpElec A-111 SubSurface-Search Sonar; ImpElec A-722 Surface Countermeasure Co-ordination Radar & Systems; ImpElec A-711 SubSurface-Search Countermeasure Co-ordination Radar & Systems; ImpElec G-101 SCG Naval Fire Control Radar; ImpOrd CS-230 Surface Countermeasures Suite; ImpOrd CC-450 SubSurface Countermeasures Suite

Operating Costs: $616,000,000
Build Cost: $12,320,000,000
Purchase Cost: $13,500,000,000


Duke Class BCN

Overview

In addition to heavier elements designed to operate as part of major battlegroups and deployments, the Imperial Praetonian Navy has shown considerable interest in the ideal of a "Battlecruiser" or more accurately, a "Pocket Battleship" to operate as the flagships of small, fast squadrons that can spread across the world's oceans and provide a rapid response capability almost anywhere in the world. As such, the Monarch Class is very heavily armed for a vessel intended for escort and patrol, and is also capable of carrying relatively large numbers of Naval Infantry or marines. The vessel is a sleek trimaran with powerful engines, allowing it to reach a very high maximum speed for its size and type. It is the fastest battleship in Praetonian service and one of the fastest available today.

Armament

The vessel's primary armament is it's heavy gun armament, consisting of nine 14" IS-ETC naval guns mounted in three triple turrets, two fore and one aft. The turrets are rotated by powerful electric motors and can train very quickly, and advanced mechanised loading systems allow the Monarch Class to fire a total of 45 rounds per minute with all nine of her guns brought to bear. The vessel's secondary armament consists of Ballista VLS emplacements, of which 8 are provided, all housing 48 missiles for a total of 384 missiles - SSMs, SAMs, LAMs and 'ASROC' types - carried. The vessel is also armed with six torpedo tubes mounted fore and aft for anti-submarine warfare and close range anti-surface warfare, and can carry up to four helicopters for the same purpose.

Protection

As a Battlecruiser, the Monarch Class is provided with substantial protection against enemy gunfire of up to its own main gun calibre, featuring a heavy armoured belt, deck plating, turret and superstructure armour, as well as heavy additional protection over magazines and the reactor compartments. The vessel can shrug off most regular anti-ship missiles without sustaining major damage. In addition to passive protection, the vessel is armed with a smattering of CIWS guns, which are being phased out in favour of the Wellington AMMS system, of which the Monarch Class has several.


General Specifications

Dimensions: (length:) 250m; (beam:) 57m; (draught:) 15m
Complement: 550 Officers and Ratings
Propulsion: 2x Imperial Atomworks 125MW AGCR; 4x Imperial Oil & Gas 8.2MW COGAD Turbines powering two internal IPS Mk.12 Waterjets
Maximum Speed: 37kts
Cruising Speed: 34kts
Armour / Construction: Ballistic ceramics and high-tensile strength steel alloys backed by a titanium superstructure and spectra fibre spalling layer. Void spaces around engines and magazines. Advanced fire-control systems throughout vessel. Double bottomed and equipped with reinforced keel for torpedo protection.
Armament:
9x 14" IS-ETC Naval Guns in three triple turrets (pos. A, B and Y) (1,800 shells)
6x Testudo C(ombined)G(un)R(ocket)CIWS (36,000 shells; 36 rockets)
4x Testudo-S S(upercavitating)G(un)CIWS (16,000 shells)
2x 7.7mm caseless chainguns
Missiles
8x 48 (6x8) cell Ballista VLS (384 missiles)
8x 32 cell Wellington AMMS (256 missiles)
Torpedoes
8x 25" (635mm) Torpedo Tubes (88 weapons)
Aviation: 4x Helicopter or VTOL aircraft (hangar space); 6x Helicopter or VTOL aircraft (maximum stowage)
Endurance: (fuel:) 16 years' continuous; (consumables:) 18 months' standard
Displacement: 62,265 metric tonnes
Electronics: ImpElec P-111 Surface-Search Radar; ImpElec P-211 Air-Search Radar; ImpElec A-111 SubSurface-Search Sonar; ImpElec A-722 Surface Countermeasure Co-ordination Radar & Systems; ImpElec A-711 SubSurface-Search Countermeasure Co-ordination Radar & Systems; ImpElec G-101 SCG Naval Fire Control Radar; ImpOrd CS-230 Surface Countermeasures Suite; ImpOrd CC-450 SubSurface Countermeasures Suite

Operating Costs: $180,000,000
Build Cost: $5,750,000,000
Purchase Cost: $6,000,000,000

Carriers

County Class CVN


Overview

The workhorse of the new Praetonian carrier fleet, the County Class CVN is designed to be able to transport, safely, and launch 110 carrier planes and defend itself from enemy fire during a battle. To that end it is more heavily armoured than most carriers. Its trimaran design gives it a significant advantage in terms of deck area as well as in terms of speed and protection. The vessel is capable of keeping up with a fleet at cruising speed and can be loaded either with helicopters or with fixed-wing aircraft.

Armament

The vessel's primary armament is its planes, of which there are 110 in normal conditions and 95 when on light duties, although the carrier can accomodate up to 125 planes in emergency wartime conditions. The carrier features significant facilities for storing these planes, ammunitons and fuel as well as maintaining them, mostly below the waterline. The planes are carried up to the flight deck by four powerful lifts, allowing the carrier to launch a steady stream of planes even with none on deck, and launches its planes via a number of powerful EM rams. The vessel is equipped with arrestor wires for planes to land, as well as advanced radar direction systems to guide planes in even in zero-visibility conditions. In addition to its plane armament, the carrier is armed with two 6" guns in a single turret capable of firing across decks, although this is primarily intended to defend the vessel from littoral threats rather than engage in offensive activity.

Protection

As a capital ship, the County is well armoured like many other Praetonian vessels. It has a relatively low profile as well as strong belt, deck and superstructure armour. The deck armour is especially thick, and is constructed in blocks so that a damaged runway can be repaired and brought back into action during the course of a battle. The bridge and reactors as well as aviation fuel and munitions are stored below the waterline, safe from most enemy fire. In addition to passive protection, the vessel is defended by a number of CIWS guns and Wellington AMMS launchers.


General Specifications

Dimensions: (length:) 362m; (beam:) 72m; (draught:) 12m
Complement: 732 Officers and Ratings; 1,148 Flight Crew
Propulsion: 3x Imperial Atomworks 125MW AGCR; 2x Imperial Oil & Gas 25MW COGAD Turbines powering four internal IPS Mk.12 Waterjets
Maximum Speed: 36kts
Cruising Speed: 32kts
Armour / Construction: Ballistic ceramics and high-tensile strength steel alloys backed by a titanium superstructure and spectra fibre spalling layer. Void spaces around engines and magazines. Advanced fire-control systems throughout vessel. Double bottomed and equipped with reinforced keel for torpedo protection. Modular flight deck repair system.
Armament:
2x 6" PS-ETC Naval Guns in a single dual turret (side outrigger) (250 shells)
8x Testudo C(ombined)G(un)R(ocket)CIWS (48,000 shells; 48 rockets)
6x Testudo-S S(upercavitating)G(un)CIWS (24,000 shells)
6x 7.7mm caseless chainguns
Missiles
1x 64 (8x8) cell Ballista VLS (64 missiles)
12x 32 cell Wellington AMMS (384 missiles)
Torpedoes
[None]
Aviation: 110x Helicopter or VTOL aircraft (hangar space); 125x Helicopter or VTOL aircraft (maximum stowage)
Endurance: (fuel:) 16 years' continuous; (consumables:) 18 months' standard
Displacement: 138,078 metric tonnes
Electronics: ImpElec P-111 Surface-Search Radar; ImpElec P-211 Air-Search Radar; ImpElec A-111 SubSurface-Search Sonar; ImpElec A-722 Surface Countermeasure Co-ordination Radar & Systems; ImpElec A-711 SubSurface-Search Countermeasure Co-ordination Radar & Systems; ImpElec G-101 SCG Naval Fire Control Radar; ImpElec C-588 Aviation Control System; ImpOrd CS-230 Surface Countermeasures Suite; ImpOrd CC-450 SubSurface Countermeasures Suite

Operating Costs: $283,500,000
Build Cost: $5,670,000,000
Purchase Cost: $6,250,000,000


Pheasant Class CVLN


Overview

A requirement from the Imperial Praetonian Navy for a small carrier suitable for convoy escort coincided with a commission for a successor to the Swiftsure-class light carrier from Southeast Asia. The resulting Pheasant Class carrier is capable of deploying 42 aircraft, including CTOL fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters. The trimaran hullform provides good protection against torpedo and missile attack, whilst signficantly increasing flight deck space and speed. The carrier is ideal to form the core of a small navy, or to be deployed carrying out tasks in a low-intensity conflict, or convoy escort.

Armament and Protection

In addition to its complement of 42 aircraft (usually 36 strike aircraft / fighters and 6 helicopters), the carrier is armed with a 64-cell Ballista VLS battery, capable of carrying SAMs, SSMs, cruise missiles and missile-deployed torpedoes. In Praetonian service, this is usually given over to SAMs for air defence, although it is not unknown for some cells to be given over to light SSMs for littoral defence. For protection against missiles and other ordnance, the vessel is equipped with 6 Wellington Mk II combined gun and missile CIWS systems, for a total of twelve 45mm autocannons and 192 close-range Wellington anti-missile missiles (AMMs). The vessel is armoured against light and medium missile fire, with a 6" armour belt and a 3.5" main deck.


General Specifications

Dimensions: (length:) 251m; (beam:) 61m; (draught:) 7m
Complement: 620 Officers and Ratings; 832 Flight Crew
Propulsion: 2x Imperial Atomworks 100MW EHTR; 2x Imperial Oil & Gas 25MW COGAD Turbines powering four internal IPS Mk.12 Waterjets
Maximum Speed: 38kts
Cruising Speed: 33kts
Armour / Construction: High-tensile steel alloys backed by a titanium superstructure and spectra fibre spalling layer. Void spaces around engines and magazines. Advanced fire-control systems throughout vessel. Double bottomed and equipped with reinforced keel for torpedo protection. Modular flight deck repair system.
Armament:
6x Wellington Mk.II dual 45mm autocannon
Missiles
1x 64 (8x8) cell Ballista VLS (64 missiles)
6x 32 cell Wellington Mk.II AMMS (192 missiles)
Torpedoes
[None]
Aviation: 42x Helicopter or VTOL aircraft (hangar space); 50x Helicopter or VTOL aircraft (maximum stowage)
Endurance: (fuel:) 10 years' continuous; (consumables:) 8 months' standard
Displacement: 71,958 metric tonnes
Electronics: ImpElec P-111 Surface-Search Radar; ImpElec P-211 Air-Search Radar; ImpElec A-111 SubSurface-Search Sonar; ImpElec A-722 Surface Countermeasure Co-ordination Radar & Systems; ImpElec A-711 SubSurface-Search Countermeasure Co-ordination Radar & Systems; ImpElec G-101 SCG Naval Fire Control Radar; ImpElec C-588 Aviation Control System; ImpOrd CS-230 Surface Countermeasures Suite; ImpOrd CC-450 SubSurface Countermeasures Suite

Operating Costs: $190,000,000
Build Cost: $3,400,000,000
Purchase Cost: $4,000,000,000

Cruisers


Dragoon Class CAN

Overview

The Dragoon Class CAN is a vessel of intermediate size designed to head up small task forces and add a powerful gun and missile armament to any larger battlegroup or fleet. The vessel can act either as a capital ship in its own right or an escort equally well depending on the situation and is equipped with the requisite command and control facilities. The vessel, like other IPS-built warships, is nuclear powered enabling it to use systems with a high power requirement and maintain an extremely high cruising speed, which is amplified by its sleek, fast trimaran hullform.

Armament

The vessel's gun armament consists of six rapid-fire 11" IS-ETC naval guns mounted in dual turrets for and aft. This armament allows the vessel to engage other vessels at close to medium range, and to bombard shore targets very accurately and at a considerable distance. The guns can attain a rate of fire of 6 rounds per minute per gun, or 36 rounds per minute for the whole ship. The vessel is also equipped with torpedo tubes and helicopters for ASW, as well as five 64 cell Ballista VLS emplacements and five 32 cell Ballista VLS emplacements for a total of 480 missiles which can be brought to bear against aerial, surface and sub-surface threats.

Protection

In addition to a powerful armament, the vessel is also equipped with substantial protection from enemy gunnery and missile fire. Featuring a heavy armoured belt, as well as considerable protection over the turrets, magazines and reactor compartments, the vessel has considerable resistance to shells up to 14" in diameter. Her armour is of high-strength steel alloys backed with a spectra spalling layer mounted on a titanium frame. Void spaces filled with fire-resistant foam protect the magazines and reactors. In addition to passive protection, the vessel is equipped with six Wellington AMMS launchers, providing it with a total of 192 small Wellington anti-missile missiles. This in addition to six Testudo CIWS systems afford the vessel a considerable degree of active protection.


General Specifications

Dimensions: (length:) 234m; (beam:) 52m; (draught:) 13.5m
Complement: 468 Officers and Ratings
Propulsion: 2x Imperial Atomworks 105MW AGCR; 2x Imperial Oil & Gas 8.2MW COGAD Turbines powering two internal IPS Mk.12 Waterjets
Maximum Speed: 36kts
Cruising Speed: 34kts
Armour / Construction: Ballistic ceramics and high-tensile strength steel alloys backed by a titanium superstructure and spectra fibre spalling layer. Void spaces around engines and magazines. Advanced fire-control systems throughout vessel. Double bottomed and equipped with reinforced keel for torpedo protection.
Armament:
6x 11"/64 IS-ETC Naval Guns in two triple turrets (pos. A, B and Y) (800 shells)
6x Testudo C(ombined)G(un)R(ocket)CIWS (36,000 shells; 36 rockets)
4x Testudo-S S(upercavitating)G(un)CIWS (16,000 shells)
8x 7.7mm caseless chainguns
Missiles
8x 64 (8x8) cell Ballista VLS (512 missiles)
6x 32 cell Wellington AMMS (192 missiles)
Torpedoes
6x 25" (635mm) Torpedo Tubes (84 weapons)
Aviation: 2x Helicopter or VTOL aircraft (hangar space); 4x Helicopter or VTOL aircraft (maximum stowage)
Endurance: (fuel:) 16 years' continuous; (consumables:) 10 months' standard
Displacement: 52,265 metric tonnes
Electronics: ImpElec P-111 Surface-Search Radar; ImpElec P-211 Air-Search Radar; ImpElec A-111 SubSurface-Search Sonar; ImpElec A-722 Surface Countermeasure Co-ordination Radar & Systems; ImpElec A-711 SubSurface-Search Countermeasure Co-ordination Radar & Systems; ImpElec G-101 SCG Naval Fire Control Radar; ImpOrd CS-230 Surface Countermeasures Suite; ImpOrd CC-450 SubSurface Countermeasures Suite

Operating Costs: $150,000,000
Build Cost: $4,200,000,000
Purchase Cost: $4,500,000,000

Escorts


Praefele Class DDN (Flight II)

Overview

The Praefele Class destroyer is designed to provide a fleet with a high-quality platform that can be used to counter aerial and subsurface threats, as well as presenting a highly dangerous threat to an enemy surface fleet itself. The Praefele is designed to be able to work well in a large fleet of thousands of ships as an escort, or to fly the flag abroad on its own or in small groups of other destroyers with cruise missiles. The ship is powered by a nuclear reactor, enabling it to stay at sea for as long as its supplies will allow it, and removing all of the logistical complexities of needing to refuel large numbers of ships at sea during prolonged engagements, wars and blockades. The vessel is designed to face practically any threat in existance and aquit itself well, even in the face of whithering enemy fire.

Armament

The vessel is primarily armed with two 64 cell Ballista VLS emplacements, one for and one aft. Each loaded with a single missile, these give the vessel striking power against aerial threats through the use of SAMs, surface targets through the use of SSMs, sub-surface targets through the use of 'ASROC' style missile-launched torpedos and ground-based threats through the use of land attack missiles. The vessel generally has a helicopter that can counter a variety of threats. In addition to this powerful missile armament, the Praefele is equipped with a number of torpedo launchers which enable it to engage enemy warships at close range, as well as submarines attempting to slip past the vessel, or attack it directly. The vessel is armed also with two powerful 6" IS-ETC naval guns mounted for in a single turret, giving the vessel excellent scope for attacking land-based targets in support of ground troops.

Protection

In order to protect itself from enemy fire, the vessel is made of a strong titanium superstructure, layed with ballistic ceramics and high-quality steel over its entire structure although the armour is strongest over areas where missiles are more likely to hit. This, in addition to the trimaran structure of the vessel, give it excellent survivability and almost perfect resistance to SSMs like the Harpoon and the Exocet. In addition to passive protection, the vessel is armed with two AMMS (Anti-Missile Missile Systems) which each carry 32 modified 'Comet' missiles each and which are designed to engage and intercept enemy missile and close-in aircraft threats automatically. The vessel is finally equipped with two dual 40mm autocannon-armed CIWS mounts, which are also designed to intercept missiles and low-flying aircraft.


General Specifications

Dimensions: (length:) 184m; (beam:) 40m; (draught:) 9m
Complement: 286 Officers and Ratings
Propulsion: 1x Imperial Atomworks 105MW AGCR; 1x Imperial Oil & Gas 8.2MW CODAG Turbine powering two internal IPS Mk.12 Waterjets
Maximum Speed: 38kts
Cruising Speed: 34kts
Armour / Construction: Ballistic ceramics and high-tensile strength steel alloys backed by a titanium superstructure and spectra fibre spalling layer. Void spaces around engines and magazines. Advanced fire-control systems throughout vessel. Double bottomed and equipped with reinforced keel for torpedo protection
Armament:
2x 6" IS-ETC Naval Guns in a single turret (pos. A) (500 shells)
2x Testudo C(ombined)G(un)R(ocket)CIWS (12,000 shells; 12 rockets)
4x Testudo-S S(upercavitating)G(un)CIWS (16,000 shells)
4x 7.7mm caseless chainguns
Missiles
2x 64 (8x8) cell Ballista VLS (128 missiles)
1x 32 (4x8) cell Ballista VLS (32 missiles)
2x 32 cell Wellington AMMS (64 missiles)
Torpedoes
4x 25" (635mm) Torpedo Tubes (42 weapons)
Aviation: 1x Helicopter or VTOL aircraft (hangar space); 2x Helicopter or VTOL aircraft (maximum stowage)
Endurance: (fuel:) 16 years' continuous; (consumables:) 6 months' standard
Displacement: 17,323 metric tonnes
Electronics: ImpElec P-111 Surface-Search Radar; ImpElec P-211 Air-Search Radar; ImpElec A-111 SubSurface-Search Sonar; ImpElec A-722 Surface Countermeasure Co-ordination Radar & Systems; ImpElec A-711 SubSurface-Search Countermeasure Co-ordination Radar & Systems; ImpElec G-101 SCG Naval Fire Control Radar; ImpOrd CS-230 Surface Countermeasures Suite; ImpOrd CC-450 SubSurface Countermeasures Suite

Operating Costs: $65,000,000
Build Cost: $1,800,000,000
Purchase Cost: $2,000,000,000


Knight Class DDN

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Overview

The newest destroyer to enter Praetonian service, the Knight Class is intended to serve as a smaller alternative to the Praefele Class DDN which fills a similar role. The Knight Class has superior armour and a better placement of machinery and weapons, and is capable of deploying a similar presense on a tighter budget to any given combat zone.Effective as individual units, in packs of other Knights and as escorts for larger formations, the Knight Class is an essential component of a modern navy.The vessel is fitted with a fast breeder reactor ot maximise fuel efficiency.

General Specifications

Dimensions: (length:) 161m; (beam:) 32m; (draught:) 7m
Complement: 241 Officers and Ratings
Propulsion: 1x Imperial Atomworks 80MW ANFBR; 1x Imperial Oil & Gas 8.2MW CODAG Turbine powering two internal IPS Mk.12 Waterjets
Maximum Speed: 39kts
Cruising Speed: 35kts
Armour / Construction: Ballistic ceramics and high-tensile strength steel alloys backed by a titanium superstructure and spectra fibre spalling layer. Void spaces around engines and magazines. Advanced fire-control systems throughout vessel. Double bottomed and equipped with reinforced keel for torpedo protection
Armament:
2x 6" PS-ETC Naval Guns in a single turret (pos. A) (500 shells)
2x Testudo C(ombined)G(un)R(ocket)CIWS (12,000 shells; 12 rockets)
2x Testudo-S S(upercavitating)G(un)CIWS (8,000 shells)
4x 7.7mm caseless chainguns
Missiles
2x 64 (8x8) cell Ballista VLS (128 missiles)
6x 32 cell Wellington AMMS (192 missiles)
Torpedoes
4x 25" (635mm) Torpedo Tubes (42 weapons)
Aviation: 1x Helicopter or VTOL aircraft (hangar space); 2x Helicopter or VTOL aircraft (maximum stowage)
Endurance: (fuel:) 16 years' continuous; (consumables:) 6 months' standard
Displacement: 15,634 metric tonnes
Electronics: ImpElec P-111 Surface-Search Radar; ImpElec P-211 Air-Search Radar; ImpElec A-111 SubSurface-Search Sonar; ImpElec A-722 Surface Countermeasure Co-ordination Radar & Systems; ImpElec A-711 SubSurface-Search Countermeasure Co-ordination Radar & Systems; ImpElec G-101 SCG Naval Fire Control Radar; ImpOrd CS-230 Surface Countermeasures Suite; ImpOrd CC-450 SubSurface Countermeasures Suite

Operating Costs: $58,000,000
Build Cost: $1,500,000,000
Purchase Cost: $1,750,000,000


Minister Class FFN

Overview

Designed to act as a picket ship and general purpose escort, the Minister Class FFN is designed in two variants. Firstly, the 'N' variant, equipped with a nuclear engine to allow it to keep up with a fleet of IPS warships on the same fuel, and secondly a '-' version equipped with a COGAG turbine engine, designed for convoy escorts and other less important non-battlefleet work. The vessel is primarily oriented towards protecting itself and other ships at the expense of heavy anti-surface armaments.

Armament

The vessel is armed with a medium 6" IS-ETC naval cannon and two single 30mm ETC naval autocannon which provide the vessel with a powerful surface punch against nearby targets such as pirate ships, raiders and merchant vessels. Primarily, however, the vessel is armed with a single 64 cell Ballista VLS emplacement designed to house primarily SAMs and 'ASROC' style weapons, although it can just as easily mount SSMs and land attack weapons. In addition to this, the vessel is equipped with a helicopter for ASW and limited ASuW and torpedo tubes for ASW and close range ASuW.

Protection

The vessel is protected primarily by a heavy layer of spectra fibre which provides immunity to small arms fire and machineguns and strong resistance to light cannon. In addition to this armour / anti-spalling layer, the vessel's steel alloy structure also affords substantial protection against light anti-shipping missiles and notable resistance against heavier weapons. The vessel is also equipped with two Wellington AMMS mounts for active defence of itself and nearby ships, as well as a Testudo CGRCIWS for close-in defence against enemy fire.


General Specifications

Dimensions: (length:) 121m; (beam:) 15m; (draught:) 5.4m
Complement: 112 Officers and Ratings
Propulsion: ('N' Variant:) 1x Imperial Atomworks 45MW AGCR; 1x Imperial Oil & Gas 4.4MW COGAD Turbine powering a single internal IPS Mk.12 Waterjet; ('-' Variant:) 2x Imperial Oil & Gas 18.6MW COGAG Turbines powering a single internal IPS Mk.12 Waterjet
Maximum Speed: ('N' Variant:) 37kts; ('-' Variant:) 32kts
Cruising Speed: ('N' Variant:) 34kts; ('-' Variant:) 21kts
Armour / Construction: High-tensile strength steel alloys backed by a spectra fibre spalling layer. Void spaces around engines and magazines. Advanced fire-control systems throughout vessel. Double bottomed and equipped with reinforced keel for torpedo protection.
Armament:
1x 6" IS-ETC Naval Gun in a single turret (pos. A) (200 shells)
1x Testudo C(ombined)G(un)R(ocket)CIWS (6,000 shells; 6 rockets)
2x Testudo-S S(upercavitating)G(un)CIWS (8,000 shells)
2x 7.7mm caseless chainguns
Missiles
1x 64 (8x8) cell Ballista VLS (64 missiles)
1x 32 cell Wellington AMMS (32 missiles)
Torpedoes
2x 25" (635mm) Torpedo Tubes (36 weapons)
Aviation: 1x Helicopter or VTOL aircraft (hangar space); 2x Helicopter or VTOL aircraft (maximum stowage)
Endurance: ('N' Variant fuel:) 16 years' continuous; ('-' Variant fuel:) 5,700nm at 21kts; (consumables:) 5 months' standard
Displacement: 5,945 metric tonnes
Electronics: ImpElec P-111 Surface-Search Radar; ImpElec P-211 Air-Search Radar; ImpElec A-111 SubSurface-Search Sonar; ImpElec A-722 Surface Countermeasure Co-ordination Radar & Systems; ImpElec A-711 SubSurface-Search Countermeasure Co-ordination Radar & Systems; ImpElec G-101 SCG Naval Fire Control Radar; ImpOrd CS-230 Surface Countermeasures Suite; ImpOrd CC-450 SubSurface Countermeasures Suite

Operating Costs: $25,000,000
Build Cost: $700,000,000
Purchase Cost: $750,000,000


Port Class FS

Overview

The Port Class Corvette is primarily intended to guard ports and waterways against unauthorised civilian traffic and piracy. To that end it has a conventional yet powerful COGAG turbine engine driving a waterjet for high manoeuverability. The vessel can run rings around almost any civilian vessel and is therefore highly suited to its coast-guard role. In wartime, the vessel can also be used in littoral warfare against an enemy fleet or invasion force. The vessel is also designed to be able to carry a complement of 32 marines as standard and 64 at a pinch in order to board other vessels.

Armament

The vessel is primarily armed with the a 4.5" naval cannon, which can attain a rate of fire of up to 30rpm, although it is usually fired at a lower rate or in bursts to conserve ammunition. This weapon was chosen over an ETC as it is designed to engage lightly or unarmoured targets and disable rather than destroy then. The gun is relatively long ranged and extremely powerful against merchant vessels. In addition to this, the vessel is armed with an 8 cell Ballista VLS mounted on a slant in the forecastle. This is capable of firing SAMs, SSMs, 'ASROC' style weapons and land attack missiles, although primarily it is loaded with SSMs. The vessel is also equipped with two torpedo tubes which can be used against submarines and surface vessels and a a flat flight deck to which a helicopter can be lashed.

Protection

The Port Class is armoured with spectra fibre which makes the vessel practically immune to small arms, and highly resistant to RPGs and other such hand-held weapons which may be used against the vessel by pirates and other civilian vessels. The ship's steel alloy frame adds to its resistance against fire, and is therefore somewhat resistant even against light SSMs and other such weapons primarily designed to be used against surface ships.


General Specifications

Dimensions: (length:) 82m; (beam:) 10m; (draught:) 5m
Complement: 86 Officers and Ratings
Propulsion: 1x Imperial Oil & Gas 30MW COGAG Turbines powering a single internal IPS Mk.12 Waterjet
Maximum Speed: 35kts
Cruising Speed: 22kts
Armour / Construction: High-tensile strength steel alloys backed by a spectra fibre spalling layer. Void spaces around engines and magazines. Advanced fire-control systems throughout vessel.
Armament:
1x 4.5" ETC Naval Gun in a single turret (pos. A) (200 shells)
4x 7.7mm caseless chainguns
Missiles
1x 8 (2x4) cell Ballista VLS (8 missiles)
Torpedoes
2x 25" (635mm) Torpedo Tubes (36 weapons)
Aviation: 1x Helicopter or VTOL aircraft (maximum stowage)
Endurance: 3,200nm at 22kts; (consumables:) 1 month's standard
Displacement: 3,235 metric tonnes
Electronics: ImpElec P-111 Surface-Search Radar; ImpElec A-111 SubSurface-Search Sonar; ImpElec A-722 Surface Countermeasure Co-ordination Radar & Systems; ImpElec G-101 SCG Naval Fire Control Radar; ImpOrd CS-230 Surface Countermeasures Suite

Operating Costs: $12,000,000
Build Cost: $350,000,000
Purchase Cost: $375,000,000

Brownwater Combatants


Terror Class HMN

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Overview

Commissioned by the War Office to provide a powerful defensive presence on Praetonian rivers, the Terror Class Heavy Monitor is one of the most powerful craft ever to be deployed in the riverine theatre. Powerfully armed and armoured, the vessel is not only capable of engaging and destroying anything likely to be encountered on the rivers, but also effectively denying a huge radius of land to an enemy ground army using its 15" guns. The most powerful self-propelled artillery any land army is likely to have at its disposal, the Terror Class is a mighty asset on the defensive or offensive near waterways.

Armament

The primary armament of the vessel are her 15" ETC guns which are arranged four for, two aft in three dual turrets. The weapons are capable of delivering a deadly blow to any target on land or sea out to a theoretical maximum of 100km, although for the sake of accuracy targets are usually engaged at a maximum of around 50km. Her primary gun armament is backed by 14 high-velocity 140mm ETC guns capable of knocking out any armoured vehicle and bombarding other targets at a considerable distance, ensuring that an intact Terror Class vessel cannot be outclassed even at very close range. In addition to large calibre armament, the vessel is also equipped with crew-served 7.7mm chainguns to counter a direct infantry assault on the vessel.

Protection

Sitting low in the water, the monitor has built-in protection from its design. In addition to this, it is heavily armoured to protect itself from enemy fire especially over the gun turrets and decks, to prevent plunging fire. Magazines and reactors are protected by void spaces filled with fire-retardant foam. With a nuclear reactor, the vessel does not need to put into port for months at a time, which provides a great deal of protection against attempts to cut off supplies on narrow waterways. The vessel is also equipped with CIWS and AMS active protection systems which are retractable to protect them from general fire from land-based threats.


General Specifications

Dimensions: (length:) 180m; (beam:) 29m; (draught:) 5m
Complement: 174 Officers and Ratings
Propulsion: 1x Imperial Atomworks 105MW AGCR; 1x Imperial Oil & Gas 8.2MW CODAG Turbine powering two internal IPS Mk.12 Waterjets
Maximum Speed: 30kts
Cruising Speed: 27kts
Armour / Construction: Ballistic ceramics and high-tensile strength steel alloys backed by a titanium superstructure and spectra fibre spalling layer. Void spaces around engines and magazines. Advanced fire-control systems throughout vessel. Double bottomed and equipped with reinforced keel for torpedo protection
Armament:
6x 15" IS-ETC Naval Guns in three turrets (pos. A, B and Y) (1200 shells)
4x Testudo C(ombined)G(un)R(ocket)CIWS (24,000 shells; 24 rockets)
12x 7.7mm caseless chainguns
Missiles
1x 32 (4x8) cell Ballista VLS (32 missiles)
4x 32 cell Wellington AMMS (128 missiles)
Endurance: (fuel:) 16 years' continuous; (consumables:) 4 months' standard
Displacement: 15,218 metric tonnes
Electronics: ImpElec P-111 Surface-Search Radar; ImpElec P-211 Air-Search Radar; ImpElec A-722 Surface Countermeasure Co-ordination Radar & Systems; ImpElec G-101 SCG Naval Fire Control Radar; ImpOrd CS-230 Surface Countermeasures Suite

Operating Costs: $50,000,000
Build Cost: $1,700,000,000
Purchase Cost: $1,800,000,000


Grenadier Class LC

Overview

Designed to provide a powerful brown-water punch in support of ground troops, the Grenadier Class boat is armed with a powerful 105mm mortar for a long range punch, combined with a turreted 20mm cannon and 7.7mm chaingun to shread nearby infantry and light vehicles. The vessel can further be equipped with MANPADS or ATGMs for which cells are provided. The vessel is armoured with thick kevlar ensuring it is safe from small arms, and slat armour provides enhanced protection from ATGMs and RPGs, as well as limited protection against HEAT rounds. The vessel can easily deny large areas of coast to enemy troops whilst also providing long-range support for friendly forces.


General Specifications

Dimensions: (length:) 18m; (beam:) 4m; (draught:) 1.5m
Complement: 21 Officers and Ratings
Propulsion: 1x Imperial Oil & Gas 1MW COGAG Turbine powering a single internal IPS Mk.10 Waterjet
Maximum Speed: 31kts
Cruising Speed: 18kts
Armour / Construction: Thick spectra fibre outer layer backed by an aluminium alloy superstructure. Advanced fire-control system. Ceramic/spectra gunshields and turrets
Armament:
1x 105mm IS-ETC Naval Mortar in a single turret (pos. Y) (220 shells)
1x 20mm IS-ETC Naval Gun in a single turret (pos. A) (750 shells)
1x 7.7mm IS-ETC chaingun coaxially mounted (pos. A) (4,500 rounds)
2x 12.5mm caseless machineguns mounted on rails
Missiles
2x 4 (2x2) cell MANPADS/ATGM launchers (8 + 12 missiles)
Endurance: (fuel:) 700 miles; (consumables:) 7 days' standard
Displacement: 92 metric tonnes
Electronics: ImpElec P-211 Air-Search Radar; ImpElec A-722 Surface Countermeasure Co-ordination Radar & Systems; ImpElec G-161 IR / night vision scanner; ImpOrd CS-230 Surface Countermeasures Suite

Operating Costs: $200,000
Build Cost: $8,000,000
Purchase Cost: $9,000,000

Submarines


Tower Class SSBN (Flight II)

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Overview

The Tower Class SSBN Flight II Variant builds upon the strength of the existing design and adds new and improved stealth and payload features, allowing the vessel to continue its long and distinguished career as the bearer of the ultimate lines of defence of several nations, including Praetonia. The vessel is designed to be able to avoid detection at any costs and remain fast enough to make an escape if detected. The submarine has a reinforced bow for icebreaking, and it is designed to be able to sit under ice-sheaths and then surface to fire its missiles without incurring damage to the sub. The new Tower Class should definately continue its predecessor's long and successful but thankfully unneeded service run.

Armament

The vessel's primary armament is its payload of 32 SLBMs which are carried in 32 large Bulldog VLS emplacements which extend to most of the depths of the vessel. Each of these emplacements is capable of carrying a single SLBM sized missile, or 4 seperate Ballista-lengthed missiles. In addition to its primary armament, the submarine is equipped with a tactical armament designed to allow it to fight its way out of a difficult situation. A 16 cell Ballista VLS is mounted for of the tower for launching SSMs and SAMs. Four 25" torpedo tubes are mounted in the nose and two in the stern for engaging other submarines or incoming torpedos from any angle. These are also capable of launching missiles, although this is generally not necessary.

Protection

The primary mode of protection for the sub is its lack of detectability. Its powerful triple hulled form is constructed of reinforced amorphous steel and titanium, giving it an almost non-existant magnetic signature and on top of that an extremely deep crush depth, allowing it to dive beneath the ability of enemy sonar to detect it. In addition to this powerful armour and advanced stealth, the vessel is equipped with a series of retractable super-cavitating cannon which are designed to engage incoming weapons before they can strike the hull and damage the vessel itself. These can also engage enemy vessels at close range, although this is somewhat unlikely to happen.


General Specifications

Dimensions: (length:) 178m; (beam:) 22m; (draught:) 16m
Complement: 152 Officers and Ratings
Propulsion: 2x Imperial Atomworks 85MW AGCR; 2x Imperial Oil & Gas 12.6MW COGAD Turbines powering two internal IPS Mk.12 Waterjets or a single MHD
Maximum Speed: 34kts (surfaced); 43kts (submerged); 26kts (MHD)
Cruising Speed: 30kts (surfaced); 38kts (submerged); 21kts (MHD)
Crush Depth: 1,250m (standard); 1,700m (critical)
Armour / Construction: Triple hulled amorphorous steel & titanium. Anechoic tiling.
Armament:
4x Testudo-S S(upercavitating)G(un)CIWS (16,000 shells)
1x 7.7mm caseless chaingun
Missiles
1x 32 (16x2) cell Bulldog VLS (32 missiles)
1x 16 (4x4) cell Ballista VLS (16 missiles)
Torpedoes
6x 25" (635mm) Torpedo Tubes (42 weapons)
Endurance: (fuel:) 16 years' continuous; (consumables:) 24 months' standard
Displacement: 22,934 metric tonnes
Electronics: ImpElec P-111 Surface-Search Radar; ImpElec A-111 SubSurface-Search Sonar; ImpElec A-711 SubSurface-Search Countermeasure Co-ordination Radar & Systems; ImpElec G-101 SCG Naval Fire Control Radar; ImpElec O-912 Digital Periscope Suite; ImpOrd CC-450 SubSurface Countermeasures Suite

Operating Costs: $80,000,000
Build Cost: $2,350,000,000
Purchase Cost: $2,500,000,000


Vanguard Class SSN (Flight II)

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Overview

The Flight II Vanguard Class SSN is a significant upgrade on an already powerful design capable of providing an extremely powerful general purpose punch. The vessel is propelled by an extremely quiet waterjet connected to a nuclear reactor. The reactor allows the vessels to remain at sea for extremely long periods without refuel. A Combined Gas And Diesel turbine is also provided as a backup powersource in the event that the nuclear plant is taken offline or has to be shut down.

Armament

The vessel is equipped with large calibre torpedo tubes capable of firing torpedos powerful enough to damage even the largest of vessels, as well as deploying mines and Unmanned Submersible Vehicles (USVs). The torpedo tubes are primarily intended to be used in the anti-submarine role. The second main armament of the Vanguard is a large 64 cell VLS system running down the length of the submarine which provides the vessel's primary anti-shipping and cruise missile armament. These allow the vessel to strike the enemy navy from beyond the range of quick response, and also to launch cruise missiles. All weapons launched from the VLS tubes can be fired beneath the surface, allowing the vessel to avoid direct detection whilst firing ordnance and then quickly leave the scene.

Protection

The vessel is constructed from amorphorous steel, which is both a very strong material and excellent for submarine construction, being completely non-magnetic. The vessel's strong double-hull allows it to reach previously untouchable depths, providing it with a significant advantage when evading enemy detection and enemy anti-submarine fire. The vessel is also equipped with two CIWS units for protection against missile threats whilst surfaced and is equipped with a powerful electronics suite, including radar, IR and visual sensors digitally linked to the submarine and mounted on a periscope which can feed information to both the crew and weapons systems without the submarine having to surface.


General Specifications

Dimensions: (length:) 142m; (beam:) 14m; (draught:) 13m
Complement: 124 Officers and Ratings
Propulsion: 2x Imperial Atomworks 85MW AGCR; 1x Imperial Oil & Gas 5.1MW CODAG Turbine all powering a single IPS Mk.12 Waterjet
Maximum Speed: 36kts (surfaced); 41kts (submerged); 24kts (MHD)
Cruising Speed: 31kts (surfaced); 37kts (submerged); 20kts (MHD)
Crush Depth: 1,100m (standard); 1,600m (critical)
Armour / Construction: Triple hulled amorphorous steel & titanium. Anechoic tiling.
Armament:
2x Testudo-S S(upercavitating)G(un)CIWS (8,000 shells)
Missiles
1x 64 (4x16) cell Ballista VLS (64 missiles)
Torpedoes
4x 25" (635mm) Torpedo Tubes (42 weapons)
Endurance: (fuel:) 16 years' continuous; (consumables:) 8 months' standard
Displacement: 16,720 metric tonnes
Electronics: ImpElec P-111 Surface-Search Radar; ImpElec P-211 Air-Search Radar; ImpElec A-111 SubSurface-Search Sonar; ImpElec A-711 SubSurface-Search Countermeasure Co-ordination Radar & Systems; ImpElec G-101 SCG Naval Fire Control Radar; ImpElec O-912 Digital Periscope Suite; ImpOrd CC-450 SubSurface Countermeasures Suite

Operating Costs: $85,000,000
Build Cost: $2,300,000,000
Purchase Cost: $2,600,000,000


Lupus Class SSKN

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Overview

With the disadvantages of diesel-powered patrol submarines in mind, the Incorporated Sarzonian and Imperial Praetonia Navies have been searching for ways to mitigate the need to bring their SSKs to snorkel depth, putting these otherwise difficult-to-detect boats in vulnerable positions where they can be attacked by surface threats they are designed to eliminate. Engineers from the Imperial Praetonian Shipyards contacted their counterparts at the Portland Iron Works and both companies realised they had similar thoughts with respect to the creation of a nuclear powered patrol submarine to give both navies patrol boats that could remain submerged for months at a time while providing them effective anti-ship capacity. After comparing designs and discovering the similarites in design requirements, the two companies commissioned yet another in their long tradition of joint projects, the Lobo/Lupus class SSKN, named for the Spanish and Latin words for wolf respectively.

Armament

With different armament schemes, from Sarzonia's 1,000 mm Broadsword ultralarge torpedo through Praetonia's standard 635 mm torpedo in mind, engineers chose to create a semi-modular construction that would allow either the use of two 1,000 mm torpedo tubes to carry Broadsword torpedoes or four 635 mm torpedo tubes for the Praetonian variant. If the Lupus is equipped with Broadsword torpedoes, it can carry 12 of these for use against very heavy surface targets or submerged threats. If rigged for the 635 mm Praetonian torpedo, the Lupus can carry up to 20, while it can carry 18 of the 650 mm Bayonet torpedo in Sarzonian service. If the Lupus is equipped with 533 mm SarzTorps, it can carry up to 24.

Protection

While submarines are not generally equipped to survive torpedo attacks from other submarines, modern submarines have been equipped with double- or treble-hulls to promote greater survivability against likely threats. Considering the mission profile of the Lobo/Lupus, a treble hulled construction was ruled out for being prohibitively expensive. In its place is the construction of two separate hulls, an outer hull made of hardened amorphous steel, which is both non-magnetic and up to three times stronger than standard steel roughly two inches thick, while the inner hull is made of a tough composite armour of titanium/vanadium/aluminum roughly 1 1/2 inches thick. The two hulls are separated by absorbant foam. The outer hull is coated with anaechoic tiles to reduce noise emissions and make the Lupus even harder to detect.

General Specifications


Dimensions: (length:) 68m; (beam:) 9.8m; (draught:) 9.2m
Complement: 50 Officers and Ratings
Propulsion: 1x Imperial Atomworks 30MW PBMR; 1x Imperial Oil & Gas 7.5MW COGAG Turbine all powering a single IPS Mk.12 Waterjet
Maximum Speed: 20kts (surfaced); 29kts (submerged)
Cruising Speed: 16kts (surfaced); 24kts (submerged)
Crush Depth: 350m (standard); 410m (critical)
Armour / Construction: Double-hulled construction (outer hull made of amorphous steel 5.08 cm thick; inner hull made of titanium/vanadium/aluminum composite armour 3.81 cm thick) separated by absorbant foam. Outer hull coated with anaechoic tiles to inhibit noise emissions.
Armament:
Torpedoes
2 x 1,000 mm TT or 4 x 635 mm TT; 12 'Broadsword' extra large torpedoes or 24 635mm 'Spearfish' standard torpedoes
Endurance: (fuel:) 12 years' continuous; (consumables:) 3 months' standard
Displacement: 3,670 metric tonnes
Electronics: ImpElec P-111 Surface-Search Radar; ImpElec P-211 Air-Search Radar; ImpElec A-111 SubSurface-Search Sonar; ImpElec A-711 SubSurface-Search Countermeasure Co-ordination Radar & Systems; ImpElec O-912 Digital Periscope Suite; ImpOrd CC-450 SubSurface Countermeasures Suite

Operating Costs: $40,000,000
Build Cost: $750,000,000
Purchase Cost: $850,000,000


Cuirassier Class SSK

Overview

In addition to a powerful fleet of SSNs necessary for long range patrols, offensive operations, escorting fleets and carrying out cruise missile attacks on foreign powers, the Admiralty decided that a fleet of modern conventionally powered submarines able to run off battery power for a period of time would be a useful asset for the Imperial Navy. To that end, the Cuirassier Class was commissioned to Admiralty Specification 7.803 and is expected to prove useful in littoral and shallow water combat, as well as for silently deploying small teams of marines abroad.

Armament

The vessel is primarily equipped with eight heavy 25" torpedo tubes mounted forward. These provide a powerful anti-surface and anti-submarine punch and, in combination with the near undetectability on passive sonar of the Cuirassier Class, present a significant threat to any surface or sub-surface enemy. The tubes are capable of dispensing torpedos, missiles, mines and other stores. In addition to its torpedo armament, the Cuirassier Class is armed with an 8 cell Ballista VLS launcher in the tower, which can be equipped with sub-launched Javelin (Flight II) SAMs for destroying aerial threats, but these can also be loaded with SSMs and land attack missiles.

Protection

Although it is impossible to truely 'armour' a submarine, the Cuirassier is nonetheless extremely well protected. Anechoic tiles cover its outer hull, greatly reducing noise emissions which are already extremely low. The submarine can also, unlike a nuclear submarine, shut down its engines and run solely off of battery power, reducing its noise emissions to practically nothing. The vessel is double hulled, with both hulls constructed from amorphous steel - a non-magnetic and very strong material - resulting in an impressive crush depth.


General Specifications

Dimensions: (length:) 70m; (beam:) 7.5m; (draught:) 8m
Complement: 52 Officers and Ratings
Propulsion: 2x Imperial Oil & Gas 6.2MW COGAG Turbines; 1x Imperial Oil & Gas 1MW AIP Fuel Cell all powering a single IPS Mk.12 Waterjet
Maximum Speed: 22kts (surfaced); 27kts (submerged); 8kts (fuel cells)
Cruising Speed: 17kts (surfaced); 21kts (submerged); 6kts (fuel cells)
Crush Depth: 750m (standard); 900m (critical)
Armour / Construction: Double hulled amorphorous steel. Anechoic tiling.
Armament:
Missiles
1x 8 (2x4) cell Ballista VLS (8 missiles)
Torpedoes
8x 25" (635mm) Torpedo Tubes (36 weapons)
Endurance: (fuel:) 8,000nm @ 12kts; (fuel cells:) 1,500nm @ 6kts; (consumables:) 8 months' standard
Displacement: 3,245 metric tonnes
Electronics: ImpElec P-111 Surface-Search Radar; ImpElec P-211 Air-Search Radar; ImpElec A-111 SubSurface-Search Sonar; ImpElec A-711 SubSurface-Search Countermeasure Co-ordination Radar & Systems; ImpElec G-101 SCG Naval Fire Control Radar; ImpElec O-912 Digital Periscope Suite; ImpOrd CC-450 SubSurface Countermeasures Suite

Operating Costs: $15,000,000
Build Cost: $450,000,000
Purchase Cost: $500,000,000

Wow. Anyway, i'll work on that QAE Systems dealy a bit later.

OOC: YAY! Ah last it's back - I need to revamp my fleet.

Due to the number of islands around Krendakov, it has been decided that it would be much cheaper and more efficiant to use a naval patrol in order to defend the area than an airial patrol. To this end the government of Krendakov has decided that it requires a capable CODAG ship to fulfill a patrol role in the Krendian Navy. We would like to purchase one-hundread (100) of Imperial Praetonian Shipyards' (IPS') Minister Class FF- (CODAG variant). We will wire the required money (US$75,000,000,000) to you as soon as our order is confirmed.

Primary Sales Invoice - Imperial Praetonian Shipyards

_____________________________
To: Whom it may concern, Krendakov
From: Sir Fortuanus Gallius, MP, Director-General of Imperial Praetonian Shipyards

Dear Sir,

Thankyou for expressing interest in the Minister Class FF. Your order for 100 (one hundred) examples of the craft with conventional propulsion has been confirmed, and construction of the first vessels shall begin shortly. In total, the entire order should be completed within 8 years, with vessels being delivered at a rate of around 14 per year. I hope that this means with your satisfaction, that the vessels in question serve your navy well and that you consider buying Praetonian in future for your defence-related needs.

TO: Director-General, Imperial Land Defence Systems
FROM: Paul David Nettleton, Minister of Defense, United Sovereign Nations of Southeast Asia
SUBJECT: Purchase and Testing

Greetings,

The Southeast Asian Army has been looking forward to replacing our aging sniper rifles, designed in the United States of America. After reading the article detailing the L-77 Sniper Rifle's features and structure, it seems to be impressive - but we have to see it for ourselves first. So on the behalf of my nation, I request for ten units of the L-77 Sniper Rifle. The cost of 55,000 USD shall be wired upon the confirmation of the order.

Yours Truly,
His Excellency,
Minister of Defense
United Sovereign Nations of Southeast Asia
Paul David Nettleton

The vessel's primary armament is it's heavy gun armament, consisting of nine 14" IS-ETC naval guns mounted in three triple turrets, one fore and one aft.
So wait... one fore + one aft = three turrets? Just noticed this.

Otherwise, looks good. I'll probably come back to purchase something after I finish my current war, because it's becoming really obvious that I need a navy. Yeah, never would have thought of that, would you? ;)

So basically, kind of a [tag].

To: Sir Fortuanus Gallius, MP, Director-General of Imperial Praetonian Shipyards
From: Admiral Ben Cordell, Chief of Naval Operations, the Democratic Imperium of Halberdgardia
Re: Purchase

We are most pleased to see the successful revitalization of Imperial Praetonian Shipyards; this bodes well for our navy. As you might have predicted, we are here for the purpose of providing our navy -- currently comprised of mainly aging, but still capable, third-generation IPS vessels -- with a much-needed update. As such, we wish to order the following:

Upgrade of one hundred fifty Praefele-class destroyers to Flight II specifications, as well as the purchase of an additional three hundred fifty Praefele-class Flight II destroyers ($700,000,000,000)
Upgrade of one hundred Tower-class SSBNs to Flight II specifications, as well as the purchase of an additional two hundred Tower-class Flight II SSBNs ($500,000,000,000)
Upgrade of one hundred Vanguard-class SSNs to Flight II specifications, as well as the purchase of an additional two hundred Vanguard-class Flight II SSNs ($520,000,000,000)
Three hundred Cuiraisser-class SSKs ($150,000,000,000)
One hundred Sovereign-class dreadnaughts ($1,350,000,000,000)
Two hundred fifty Duke-class battlecruisers ($1,500,000,000,000)
Five hundred Dragoon-class cruisers ($2,250,000,000,000)
Five hundred Minister-class frigates ($375,000,000,000)
The sub-total for the purchased vessels (not including the upgrades, the cost of which we leave for you to determine) comes out to $7,345,000,000,000.* Payment will be wired upon confirmation of our order, with the payment for the upgrades to the specified vessels to follow upon the determination of costs for such an endeavor.

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

To: Sir Fortuanus Gallius, MP, Director-General of Imperial Praetonian Shipyards
From: Derek Reisner, Chief Executive Officer, Consolidated Arms, Inc.
Re: An Inquiry

Greetings to our friends at Imperial Praetonian Shipyards! The engineering mastery of the shipwrighters at IPS is highly revered and respected here at Consolidated Arms, and I am grateful to be communicating with the head of one of the world's most powerful defense corporations.

I am writing to you to inquire about the legal matters surrounding the Halberdgardian government's ownership of the third-generation IPS vessels that currently make up much of its Navy. You see, as there has been much talk over what to do with these vessels after the recently-purchased vessels replace them, I am interested in acquiring some of these vessels for the purpose of research. Up until now, Consolidated Arms has solely released aircraft, but what with our acquisition of naval shipbuilding facilities and small-arms factories, we are planning on diversifying our product range. We plan on beginning our first naval projects soon, and so I wished to inquire as to the possibility of Consolidated Arms acquiring some of the IPS vessels currently maintained by the Halberdgardian Navy for the purpose of developing our own naval vessels. As I recognize and respect that IPS is the legal owner of the designs, and could prosecute Consolidated Arms for any unauthorized research it conducted with these vessels, I thought it prudent to contact your office before undertaking any such endeavor. Of course, I am sure the Halberdgardian Navy will be able to find another use for the vessels in question should we be unable to perform said research.

I thank you for your time, and hope to hear back from you soon.

Respectfully,
Derek Reisner
Chief Executive Officer
Consolidated Arms, Inc.

[OOC: * I recognize that my purchase is a significant portion of my defense budget, but I haven't bought anything in ages, and since I assume it's not taking trillions upon trillions (or, at least, my entire defense budget) to maintain my armed forces, I figured I'd have a surplus of some kind to make up for this. Though if I recall correctly, Prae, you never were much of a stickler for those kinds of things anyways. :p]

[OOC: Czardas - That's a typo. I'll fix it. Thanks for the compliment btw.]

Primary Sales Invoice - Imperial Praetonian Shipyards

_____________________________
To: Paul David Nettleton, Minister of Defense, United Sovereign Nations of Southeast Asia
From: Sir Fortuanus Gallius, MP, Director-General of Imperial Praetonian Shipyards

Dear Sir,

I am pleased to see your interest in our L-77 Service Sniper, a very new and high-quality product. The ten examples you request will be shipped at no charge to be used as you see fit. I hope that, upon testing, they prove satisfactory and that you choose to place a further purchase for the L-77, either in semi-automatic or bolt-action form. All Royal Ordnance testing data on the rifle shall also be transferred.

Primary Sales Invoice - Imperial Praetonian Shipyards

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To: Admiral Ben Cordell, Chief of Naval Operations, the Democratic Imperium of Halberdgardia
From: Sir Fortuanus Gallius, MP, Director-General of Imperial Praetonian Shipyards

Dear Sir,

The Company wishes to express its happiness that your nation, a long-standing customer of our products, has chosen to return and place a new order which will most certainly have our yards busy for several years. Your order is acceptable, and has been cleared. The first steel shall be cut shortly, and I estimate that the entire order shall be completed within the next 15 years, with vessels delivered as they are completed in large quanities before that date.

With regards to your request to use IPS vessels for research; this would be acceptable. However, assurances would have to be made that the result of your research offered up for sale would not be a copy of the vessels or any of their systems, nor a direct derivative of those vessels. We are more than happy to aid you with general design, but specific designs and all of their component systems remain our property and we would only relinquish our claim to them for an appropriate price. I hope that this is understandable and that the vessels are nonetheless helpful for research purposes.

[OOC: Yeah I dont really care about the budget thing. Nations IRL never buy things with a single year's budget anyway, and a massive purchase like this would almost certainly be done on built-up surplus or debt, or both. So long as I the person placing the order is a good RPer I let it pass.]

Erm Prae, isn't the company that manufactures the sniper rifle I purchased supposed to be seperate from IPS?

[OOC: Yeah. I might edit that. Dont have time right now.]

Missiles


Smasher / Aquila ATGM

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Background: The Aquila ATGM arose from a joint project between the then Imperial Praetonian Ordnance and the Sarzonian Incorporated Ordnance Company to develop a man-portable missile capable of destroying any MBT or IFV likely to be found. This resulted in two variants of this powerful top-attack weapon - the Sarzonian Smasher, which is beam-riding and the Praetonian Aquila, which is guided by a passive IR sensor. Chosen so that it could not be easily detected and neutralised using passive sensors, the latter is on sale here.

The missile has been designed to penetrate current armoured designs employing Explosive Reactive Armour (ERA), hardened point targets, and targets and infantry units in the open. The weapon's IR sensor allows the missile to be guided passively to the target day or night in almost any weather conditions. Should the missile lose sensor contact with the target (eg. if the sensors are destroyed) then the missile will be able to continue on its course to hit where the target was last sighted. As it does not require the low speed of a wire-guided missile, the Aquila is able to close with and engage a target very quickly.

The unit is well-known for its small dimensions and light weight and its ease in disassembling. Those along with its modular design allow it to be deployed on light vehicles and 'battle taxis', as well as by infantry and on MBTs. Due to its high-resolution passive sensor, the Aquila is largely immune to jamming and is unlikely to be fooled by flares which do not look like tanks or vehicles. The tandem hollow-change warhead is designed to engage enemy targets from several angles of approach. Its HE warhead with thermobaric effect can provide devastation to any fortified unit, missile launcher, or destroy soft targets with near impunity.

Launcher weight: 12 kg
Thermal sight weight: 6 kg
Missile weight: 20kg
Warhead types: tandem hollow-charge, HE
Firing range: ~6km
Missile calibre: 152 mm
Missile length: 1,200 mm
Warhead weight: 10kg
RHA armour penetration 1,200mm+
Attack modes: Top attack (tanks), direct fire (fortified positions)
Operating temperature range: -20 degrees Celcius to +60 degrees Celcius.
Price: $80,000

OOC: IC clarification for Regus tanks required. (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10407616&postcount=141)

[OOC: Approved.

PS. Buy it from me next time ;) (joke).]

Small Arms


L-63 Assault Rifle

History

Following the development of new assault rifles by other nations using intermediary cartridges, the decision was made to produce a new Praetonian rifle with a new Imperial Ordnance round to use with it. The rifle is of the bullpup configuration, like all previous Praetonian assault rifles, and is designed to be able to operate at a longer range than assualt rifles such as the M16 and G36.

Ammunition

As well as a new rifle, a new round was needed to go with it. The new round had to be both light and small but also able to impart a large amount of energy to its target, and so a heavy caseless 6.3mm tungsten round, weighing 8.2 grammes, was developed with a suitably large 35mm charge behind it. The ammunition is believed to have an effective range of 750m when fired from the L63, assuming the operator is able to aim accurately at that distance.

The 6.3 x 35mm Imperial Ordnance round, as it is now known, is capable of penetrating most body armour carried by troops, especially at short range, and with practical certainty with burst fire. The round is also sufficiently powerful to penetrate several sheets of regular glass and thin steel whilst retaining the ability to inflict a lethal wound at the end of it.

A version of the 6.3mm round made of 'blended metal' is also in production, but this bullet has been limitted so far to special operations sections due to concerns about its penetrative capailities in a general combat scenario.

Weapon Layout

The L63 is arranged in a bullpup format, with the 40-round magazine or 80-round drum located to the rear of the weapon, with the pistol grip just behind the forward hand grip. The weapon is 800mm long, of which 550mm is barrel. The long barrel imparts considerable speed and accuracy to the bullet, whilst the bullpup format keeps the gun suitably compact.

The weapon is constructed primarily of aluminium alloys and light composite materials, and weighs 4.25kg fully loaded with a scope attached to one of its two detachable rails. The primary such rail is mounted above the gun, and is usually used for mounting a scope, and the secondary rail is mounted below the grip and is used for mounting a 40mm grenade launcher, torch, Etc. A 12" sword or 5" knife bayonet may be attached to the muzzle guard.

The L63 can fire single shot, burst or full automatic. The ammunition is fired electronically in order to allow the 3-round burst a RoF of 2,200 rounds / minute (or the whole burst fired in 0.08 seconds). The full automatic mode is limitted to 650 rounds / minute in order to avoid wasted ammunition, although it could theoretically go higher. Both rails carry a wire from the gun into suitably equipped accessories, allowing an underslung grenade launcher to be fired electronically from the same trigger as the KE weapon, and to feed information from the forward mounted laser rangefinder to the scope.

In order to save power, the gun has a recoil energy-reclamation outer barrel which recharges the battery (with a shelf life of 15 years) as the weapon is fired. Since the recoil of the rifle greatly exceeds the small current required to ignite the primer in a round, in theory the battery can last indefiantely without recharge. However, if energy-consuming accessories such as torches, the laser rangefinder and scope, Etc. are left on for long peroids it may be necessay to recharge the battery manually. In an emergency, rounds may be expended in order to recharge the battery, and a manual charging system exists in case the battery completely runs out of power and is incapable of firing another round.

Integrated General Scope (IGS)

Based on the British SUSAT, the L63 is equipped with a scope as standard - usually 4x magnification, although both 2x and 6x are available. The IGS, like the SUSAT, is carries a tritium illuminator for night fighting. Unlike the SUSAT, the IGS has an electronic overlay (which is not required for the operation of the scope) linked in to the weapon's laser rangefinder which displays the range of whatever the weapon is pointed at, giving the user vital information for adjusting his aim, as well as allowing him to report exact positions of enemy troops and vehicles.

The scope is highly durable and constructed mainly of aluminium. Lense caps are provided to protect the lenses, and the electronic overlay view (as well as the rangefinder) can be turned off most of the time in order to conserve electricity. Ironsights are also available for the rifle, but are not generally used in Praetonian service.

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An L63 painted in Praetonian Field Khaki (light)

Specifications - General

Length (body): 800mm
Length (barrel): 550mm
Ammunition: 6.3 x 35mm Imperial Ordnance (caseless)
Ammunition Capacity: 40 + 1 rounds standard
Range: 750m (effective); 1600m (round becomes spent)
Weight: 4.25kg
Rate of Fire: Semi-automatic; 3 round burst (2,200 rpm); full-auto (650 rpm)
Muzzle Velocity: 972m/s
Accessories: 2x detachable rails for use with a variety of accessories; bayonet lug; recoil energy reclamation system

Production Cost: $2,100 / unit
Purchase Cost: $2,500 / unit

Specifications - Carbine

Length (body): 500mm
Length (barrel): 250mm
Ammunition: 6.3 x 35mm Imperial Ordnance (caseless)
Ammunition Capacity: 30 + 1 rounds standard
Range: 320m (effective); 1600m (round becomes spent)
Weight: 2.8kg
Rate of Fire: Semi-automatic; 3 round burst (2,200 rpm); full-auto (650 rpm)
Muzzle Velocity: 872m/s
Accessories: 1x detachable rail for use with a variety of accessories; bayonet lug; recoil energy reclamation system

Production Cost: $1,800 / unit
Purchase Cost: $2,200 / unit

Specifications - Squad Automatic Weapon / Marksman Rifle

Length (body): 920mm
Length (barrel): 670mm
Ammunition: 6.3 x 35mm Imperial Ordnance (caseless)
Ammunition Capacity: 120 + 1 rounds standard
Range: 910m (effective); 1600m (round becomes spent)
Weight: 5.8kg
Rate of Fire: Semi-automatic; 3 round burst (2,200 rpm); full-auto (650 rpm)
Muzzle Velocity: 1,025m/s
Accessories: 1x detachable rail for use with a variety of accessories; recoil energy reclamation system

Production Cost: $2,200 / unit
Purchase Cost: $2,600 / unit

Production Rights Cost: $500,000,000

L-77 Sniper Rifle

History

Noting that despite the now common-place L63 rifle being a match for those of foreign armies likely to be faced in wartime, the IPA still lacked an advanced sniper rifle, the Ministry of Defence commissioned a private company, Royal Ballistics Ltd., to design an advanced sniper rifle to be used in Praetonian service which would be manufactured by the far superior factory facilities of Imperial Ordnance. The contract was finalised for the rifle and associated ammunition, and the weapon entered production six months later.

Ammunition

Although a 7.7mm round currently used in Praetonian LMGs and battlerifles was available 'off the shelf', the decision was taken to develop a new round with a heavier charge that would be able to carry a projectile over a longer range and still penetrate body armour at the end of it. The round developed is the 7.7 x 45mm Imperial Ordnance Sniper round. The round, like all current Praetonian small arms ammunition, is caseless and is estimated to have an equivalent charge when fired from an L77 of a 7.7 x 68mm cased round. Although some armies dismiss the round as unreliable, when stored in good conditions in sturdy magazines, it has proved more than reliable enough for general service and the additional ammunition capacity has proved a boon.

The bullet itself utilises tungsten carbine extensively in its manufacture, making the round highly accurate and also powerful over range. Available in both an armour-piercing and a non-armour-piercing variant, the round can be utilised effectively in a variety of different situations and environments. The armour-piercing variant is capable of defeating any infantry body armour that is reasonably expected to be encountered and can pass through several unarmoured targets as well as thin metal planes, thin masonry, plasterboard walls and unarmoured and lightly armoured vehicles at medium range.

Construction and Layout

Arranged in a bullpup configuration, the L77 has a very long barrel (782mm) for its size (1,150mm) which imparts considerable veolicty and accuracy to each round fired whilst keeping the gun the same size as a regular ~7.7mm calibre rifle. The barrel itself is freefloating and machined from high-quality steel with octagonal rifling. The barrel itself is free-floating to allow for even greater accuracy. The rifle mounts two rails, one on top of the receiver and a second in front of the handgrip, on which a scope, lightweight bipod, carrying handle and torch are usually mounted. Numerous other accessories can also be mounted, including silencers, underslung grenade launchers and even a bayonet lug and bayonet, although the latter two are rarely used.

The rifle is fed from a magazine to the rear of the pistol grip generally from 20 round box magazines of 7.7mm caseless ammuniton, although occassionally 5, 10 or even 30 round boxes are used. As it fires caseless ammunition, the most common rifle to be manufacured is semi-automatic as there is no need to worry about ejecting cases at inappropriate moments. A bolt-action variant is, however, available, although it is not expected to be as widely used. The hammer and pin are made from a light-weight alloy, improving overall accuracy.

Light-weight materials are used as far as possible in the construction of the rifle, but care was taken not to make the rifle so light that recoil would become a more pronounced problem. Also to counter recoil, a muzzle break is often fitted to rifle, although this may be unscrewed as the sniper desires. The rifle butt, which is built into the gun, is backed by a recoil-reducing butt-pad which compresses, effectively spreading out the recoil over a much longer time period rather than exerting the force directly onto the firer's shoulder all at once. The rifle holds a powerful lithium-ion battery capable of running all of the rifle's electronics (including scope but excluding attached torch) for some days continuously.

Integrated General Scope - Sniper (IGS-S)

Based on the IGS system used with the L63 bullpup assault rifle, the Integrated General Scope -Sniper is practically the same basic design but longer, more powerful and manufactured to a higher standard with better quality lenses and lighter, stronger aluminium. Like its predecessor, the IGS-S includes an overlayed range-mapping system which displays the distance to the target at the centre of the scope as relayed from the laser rangefinder fitted into the gun, allowing for far greater first-shot accuracy with none of the disadvantages in reliability that a fully digital scope brings. The scope's electronic systems draw power from the rifle itself and requires none of its electronic systems for normal operation.The IGS-S is available in 5x and 10x variants.

Like its base variant, the IGS-S uses a SUSAT-style tritium dot to provide night-time illumination indepentant of an external power source. The sight is also equipped with a night-vision facility which may be activated or deactivated at will, which is also powered from a battery within the rifle. This improvement is now also being extended to the original IGS. The scope is highly durable and constructed mainly of aluminium. Removable rubber lense caps are fitted to protect the lenses from damage, which are themselves tinted to prevent unwanted flashes of light giving away the sniper's position to a watchful enemy. Ironsights are also fitted to the rifle, although these are generally left unused in favour of the scope.

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An L77 painted in Praetonian Field Grey (dark)

Specifications

Length (body): 1,150mm
Length (barrel): 782mm
Ammunition: 7.7 x 45mm Imperial Ordnance Sniper (caseless)
Ammunition Capacity: 10 or 20 round box
Range: 1,100m (effective); 2,500m (round becomes spent)
Weight: 5.85kg
Rate of Fire: Semi-automatic
Muzzle Velocity: 1,283m/s
Accessories: 2x detachable rails for use with a variety of accessories; bayonet lug

Production Cost: $4,200 / unit
Purchase Cost: $5,500 / unit

Production Rights Cost: $800,000,000

[Credits: Masspwnage for his valuable help with the pic (http://s13.invisionfree.com/LineartInc/index.php?showtopic=770).]

A Mesage From His Holiness Zhicha Tamahi Head of the Order of Defence, Knight of the Order of the Dragon

Greetings, Sir Fortuanus Gallius. I am sending this message to order a number of Naval vessels for the new Yobbite navy. We have heard great things of your business and hope to be pleasantly surprised by the quality the items we wish to order.

We would like to purchase:

70 Praefele Class DDNs
70 Minister Class FFNs

Coming to a total of: $192,500,000,133

We thank you for, and greatly appreciate, your cooperation. We strongly await more business with you and your company.

Yours sincerely,
Zhicha Tamahi

OOC: Prae, does FFN stand for 'nuclear-powered frigate'?

OOC: well...

OOC: well...

[OOC: Yes, it does. Not really that hard to work out, tbh.]

[OOC: Yes, it does. As Questers said it's not awfully difficult to work that out, but in future I'd appreciate it if you TGed me stuff like that.]

Primary Sales Invoice - Imperial Praetonian Shipyards

_____________________________
To: His Holiness Zhicha Tamahi, Head of the Order of Defence, Knight of the Order of the Dragon
From: Sir Fortuanus Gallius, MP, Director-General of Imperial Praetonian Shipyards

Dear Sir,

On behalf of the Company, I wish to state my great appreciation of your new custom, and I am happy to inform you that your order is acceptable. Construction has already begun on the ships in question, and they shall be sent to your nation under skeleton crews once payment has been received. I hope that you find our products to be of the highest quality, that they serve your navy well in combat and than you consider us again in future for further naval requirements.

OOC: Roger that, Praetonia.

TO: Sir Fortuanus Gallius, MP, Director-General of Imperial Praetonian Shipyards
FROM: Paul David Nettleton, Minister of Defense, United Sovereign Nations of Southeast Asia
SUBJECT: Purchase

Dear Sir Fortuanus,

The Southeast Asian Navy has been looking for a successor to the venerable Nimitz-class Aircraft Carrier, and it seems that the County-class CVN makes the fit. We shall take ten units of the County-class CVN for testing purposes in our little competition we will be holding.

The cost of 135,000,000,000 shall be wired upon the confirmation of the order. Should the County emerge triumphant, we shall return to make a more substantial purchase.

Yours Truly,
His Excellency,
Minister of Defense
United Sovereign Nations of Southeast Asia
Paul David Nettleton

[OOC: Praetonia, in the write-up of the County-class CVN, you made a mistake - you confused the County with the Sovereign.]

*bump*

[OOC: Many apologies for being so slow. I dont know what it is about this thread, but it doesn't seem to show up on subscriptions too well. I only noticed your posts because I was going to bump the thread...]

Primary Sales Invoice - Imperial Praetonian Shipyards

_____________________________
To: Paul David Nettleton, Minister of Defense, United Sovereign Nations of Southeast Asia
From: Sir Fortuanus Gallius, MP, Director-General of Imperial Praetonian Shipyards

Dear Sir,

I, the company and its investors thank you for your order of ten County Class CVNs, and I am happy to be able to inform you that during the delay between this message and your original order, all ten units have been completed. I hope that they meet with your satisfaction and look forward to more orders for the County Class as well as other Praetonian products.

Fleet Auxilliaries


Bay Class Amphibious Assault Vessel

Overview

Any effective naval force requires the ability to insert troops into a foreign nation and the Fort Class is Imperial Praetonian Shipyards' answer to that question. Each vessel is capable of carrying two full battalions at standard load, including supplies, all of their equipment and vehicles. The vessels are heavily armoured and capable of defending themselves against missile and aerial attack in order to protect their passengers. They are, however, intended to be heavily escorted by true combatants.


General Specifications

Dimensions: (length:) 292m; (beam:) 38m; (draught:) 11m
Complement: 312 Officers and Ratings; 1,932 marines
Propulsion: 1x Imperial Atomworks 105MW AGCR; 4x Imperial Oil & Gas 8.2MW COGAD Turbines powering two internal IPS Mk.12 Waterjets
Maximum Speed: 32kts
Cruising Speed: 29kts
Armour / Construction: Ballistic ceramics and high-tensile strength steel alloys backed by an aluminium alloy superstructure and spectra fibre spalling layer. Void spaces around engines and magazines. Advanced fire-control systems throughout vessel.
Armament:
4x 35mm IS-ETC Naval small-calibre cannon in individual mounts (8,000 shells)
2x 7.7mm caseless chainguns
Missiles
1x 64 (8x8) cell Ballista VLS (64 missiles)
4x 32 cell Wellington AMMS (128 missiles)
Aviation: 2x Helicopters (hangar space)
Endurance: (fuel:) 16 years' continuous; (consumables:) 6 months' standard
Displacement: 51,083 metric tonnes
Electronics: ImpElec P-111 Surface-Search Radar; ImpElec P-211 Air-Search Radar; ImpElec A-111 SubSurface-Search Sonar; ImpElec A-722 Surface Countermeasure Co-ordination Radar & Systems; ImpElec A-711 SubSurface-Search Countermeasure Co-ordination Radar & Systems; ImpElec G-101 SCG Naval Fire Control Radar; ImpOrd CS-230 Surface Countermeasures Suite; ImpOrd CC-450 SubSurface Countermeasures Suite

Operating Costs: $120,000,000
Build Cost: $1,750,000,000
Purchase Cost: $1,800,000,000


Lake Class Tanker

Overview

Designed to fill the vital role of refueling vessels underway, the Lake Class was designed with both the Imperial navy and the export market in mind, and as such is equipped to carry either conventional fuels and refuel vessels by pipe as well as being able to carry nuclear fuels and refuel nuclear powered vessels underway. The ship can carry enough fuel for several vessels, or to support a single vessel for long periods (extremely long in the case of nuclear powered vessels). The vessel can protect itself by means of its helicopter, missile systems and light naval cannon, and is reasonably well armoured against potential threats to its safety.


General Specifications

Dimensions: (length:) 275m; (beam:) 34m; (draught:) 9m
Complement: 83 Officers and Ratings
Propulsion: 1x Imperial Atomworks 80MW AGCR; 2x Imperial Oil & Gas 8.2MW COGAD Turbines powering two internal IPS Mk.12 Waterjets
Maximum Speed: 30kts
Cruising Speed: 26kts
Armour / Construction: Ballistic ceramics and high-tensile strength steel alloys backed by an aluminium alloy superstructure and spectra fibre spalling layer. Void spaces around engines and magazines. Advanced fire-control systems throughout vessel.
Armament:
4x 35mm IS-ETC Naval small-calibre cannon in individual mounts (8,000 shells)
8x 7.7mm caseless chainguns
Missiles
1x 32 (8x4) cell Ballista VLS (32 missiles)
2x 32 cell Wellington AMMS (64 missiles)
Aviation: 2x Helicopters (hangar space)
Endurance: (fuel:) 16 years' continuous; (consumables:) 9 months' standard
Displacement: 36,326 metric tonnes
Electronics: ImpElec P-111 Surface-Search Radar; ImpElec P-211 Air-Search Radar; ImpElec A-111 SubSurface-Search Sonar; ImpElec A-722 Surface Countermeasure Co-ordination Radar & Systems; ImpElec A-711 SubSurface-Search Countermeasure Co-ordination Radar & Systems; ImpElec G-101 SCG Naval Fire Control Radar; ImpOrd CS-230 Surface Countermeasures Suite; ImpOrd CC-450 SubSurface Countermeasures Suite

Operating Costs: $80,000,000
Build Cost: $1,150,000,000
Purchase Cost: $1,300,000,000


Castle Class AOE

Overview

The Castle Class is a multi-facetted design intended to provide a fleet with full replenishment of supplies and ammunition. The vessel is large, with dedicated spaces for the stowage of potentially hazardous munitions. The vessel is also specially equiped to transfer such weapons to another vessel, and mounts several heavy-duty cranes. The vessel is moderately well armoured and is capable of holding its own against individual or small groups of enemy vessels, as well as being able to defend itself from attack from the air. Operating as a submarine tender, the vessel can service up to eight vessels at once.


General Specifications

Dimensions: (length:) 325m; (beam:) 41m; (draught:) 12m
Complement: 121 Officers and Ratings
Propulsion: 1x Imperial Atomworks 105MW AGCR; 2x Imperial Oil & Gas 8.2MW COGAD Turbines powering two internal IPS Mk.12 Waterjets
Maximum Speed: 31kts
Cruising Speed: 27kts
Armour / Construction: Ballistic ceramics and high-tensile strength steel alloys backed by an aluminium alloy superstructure and spectra fibre spalling layer. Void spaces around engines and magazines. Advanced fire-control systems throughout vessel.
Armament:
6x 35mm IS-ETC Naval small-calibre cannon in individual mounts (8,000 shells)
8x 7.7mm caseless chainguns
Missiles
1x 64 (8x8) cell Ballista VLS (64 missiles)
4x 32 cell Wellington AMMS (128 missiles)
Aviation: 2x Helicopters (hangar space)
Endurance: (fuel:) 16 years' continuous; (consumables:) 9 months' standard
Displacement: 48,523 metric tonnes
Electronics: ImpElec P-111 Surface-Search Radar; ImpElec P-211 Air-Search Radar; ImpElec A-111 SubSurface-Search Sonar; ImpElec A-722 Surface Countermeasure Co-ordination Radar & Systems; ImpElec A-711 SubSurface-Search Countermeasure Co-ordination Radar & Systems; ImpElec G-101 SCG Naval Fire Control Radar; ImpOrd CS-230 Surface Countermeasures Suite; ImpOrd CC-450 SubSurface Countermeasures Suite

Operating Costs: $80,000,000
Build Cost: $1,450,000,000
Purchase Cost: $1,600,000,000

[OOC: Praetonia, do you give out production rights that are limited to a certain amount of units for a run or an unlimited amount?]

*bump*

[OOC: Praetonia, do you give out production rights that are limited to a certain amount of units for a run or an unlimited amount?]
[OOC: Anything can be negotiated, but obviously unlimited rights will be significantly more expensive, if they are granted at all.]

Bump.

The Incorperation would like to purchase 6 Grenadier Class LC and 2 Terror Class HMN's for a total of $5,454,000,000 USD. Money to be wired upon confirmation. Thank You!
Frank Hillian, Division of Defense Procurment, Department of Defense

_____________________________
To: Frank Hillian, Division of Defense Procurment, Department of Defense
From: Sir Fortuanus Gallius, MP, Director-General of Imperial Praetonian Shipyards

Dear Sir,

I thank you for placing an order with Imperial Praetonian Shipyards and am happy to confirm that your order of:

- 6x Grenadier Class LC
- 2x Terror Class HMN

has been received and construction has begun. The construction of these vessels should take approximately two years. The undiscounted total is $5,454,000,000 however, as a token of goodwil, I am extending to you a 2% discount, meaning the true total shall be $5,340,000,000 (rounded down). I hope to see your custom again in future.

[bump]

OOC: Praetonia, you gonna make new threads for your other products?

We would like to purchase:

10 Tower Class SSBN (Flight II) = $2.5 billion x 10 = 25 billion
30 Vanguard Class SSN (Flight II) = $2.6 billion x 30 = 78 billion
50 Cuirassier Class SSK = $500 million x 50 = 25 billion

Total comes to 138 billion USDs. Thank you.

friendly bump.

Primary Sales Invoice - Imperial Praetonian Shipyards
_____________________________
To: Whom it may concern, Geneticon
From: Sir Fortuanus Gallius, MP, Director-General of Imperial Praetonian Shipyards

Dear Sir,

I thank you for placing an order with Imperial Praetonian Shipyards and am happy to confirm that your order of:

10x Tower Class SSBN (Flight II)
30x Vanguard Class SSN (Flight II)
50x Cuirassier Class SSK

has been received and construction has begun. The construction of these vessels should take approximately eight years. The undiscounted total is $138,000,000,000 however, as a token of goodwil noting that you are a first-time customer, I am extending to you a discount of $2,000,000,000, meaning the final total shall be $136,000,000,000. I hope to see your custom again in future.

Primary Sales Invoice - Imperial Praetonian Shipyards
_____________________________
To: Whom it may concern, Geneticon
From: Sir Fortuanus Gallius, MP, Director-General of Imperial Praetonian Shipyards

Dear Sir,

I thank you for placing an order with Imperial Praetonian Shipyards and am happy to confirm that your order of:

10x Tower Class SSBN (Flight II)
30x Vanguard Class SSN (Flight II)
50x Cuirassier Class SSK

has been received and construction has begun. The construction of these vessels should take approximately eight years. The undiscounted total is $138,000,000,000 however, as a token of goodwil noting that you are a first-time customer, I am extending to you a discount of $2,000,000,000, meaning the final total shall be $136,000,000,000. I hope to see your custom again in future.

Thank you! We graciously accept the discount! We will return in the future to purchase more.

OOC: Praetonia, you gonna make new threads for your other products?
OOC: It seems you missed this question...

*bump*

OOC: Praetonia, you gonna make new threads for your other products?
???

<Bump for Knight Class>

Prae, are you going to sell production rights for your SD?

I doubt it. I'm not entirely sure why one would want to buy production rights for a super dreadnought when they're generally a pain to build anyway.

Hyst Exterrnal memo:

The nation of hyst, in order to upgrade and modernize the naval forces of Hyst. Towards such ends the aquisition of the following vessels are necessary:

[675] Jupiter Class ASW Frigate - 1.25bil
[275] Vulture Class Trimaran Arsenal Ship [REFIT] - 3.25bil
[125] Vanguard Class SSN - 2.5 bil

total purchace: 2,050,000,000,000 USD

The Confederate States of Spizania requires Fifty Terror Class HMNs to strengthen the brownwater fleet in these uncertain times, the required payment of ninety billion Universal Standard Dollars has been wired

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Order Confirmation Invoice

1)
i) The sale of vessels to Hyst has been approved.
ii) The sale of 675 Minister Class FFN, 275 Vulture Class Trimaran Arsenal Ships and 125 Vanguard Class (Flight II) SSNs has been approved.
iii) The commencement of construction has been authorised.

[OOC: Hyst, all of those vessels have been repalced with newer models on the new thread, although I can still sell them to you if you'd like. If you want the new ones instead then tell me, and I'll edit your order accordingly.]

2)
i) The sale of vessels to Spizania has been approved.
ii) The sale of 50 Terror Class HMNs has been approved.
iii) The commencement of construction has been authorised.

TO: Imperial Praetonian Shipyards
FROM: Ministry of Defence, Republic of Hochberg

The Republic of Hochberg would like to place a (somewhat small, but the first of many) order for the following:

1 x Knight Class Destroyer at $1,750,000,000
2 x Port Class Corvettes at $750,000,000 (from Law & Order budget)

Total: 2,500,000,000

Signed,
Michael Reinhardt
Secretary of State for Defence

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Order Confirmation Invoice

1)
i) The sale of vessels to Hochberg has been approved.
ii) The sale of 1 Knight Class Destroyer and 2 Port Class Corvettes has been approved.
iii) The commencement of construction has been authorised.

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To: Sir Fortuanus Gallius, MP, Director-General of Imperial Praetonian Shipyards
From: Admiral of the Southeast Asian Navy, Daniel Chan
Subject: SSKN Purchase

Dear Sir Fortuanus Gallius,

It is most an honor to be in communication with the Director-General of some of the world's best ship-building corporations - the Imperial Praetonian Shipyards. In the interests of improving relations with the Praetonian Commonwealth and noting that this is a joint Praetonian-Sarzonian project, I have come to make a purchase.

The Upper House and the Lower House of Parliament has approved of the purchase of fifty Lupus-class nuclear powered patrol submarines. The cost of 42,500,000,000 USD (Universal Standard Dollars) shall be transfered to your corporation's primary bank account upon the confirmation of the order.

These fine vessels shall probably have a long and excellent service life in the Southeast Asian Navy.

Yours Sincerely,
Office of Daniel Chan
Admiral of the Southeast Asian Navy
United Sovereign Nations of Southeast Asia

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Order Confirmation Invoice

1)
i) The sale of vessels to Southeast Asia has been approved.
ii) The sale of 50 Lupus class SSKNs has been approved.
iii) The commencement of construction has been authorised.

[OOC: No idea why, but the subscription thing doesnt seem to pick up your posts, SEA. If I wasnt coming to bump the thread anyway I probably would have missed that.]

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Hyst external memo:

In response to your message of upgrading the order, Hyst will continue with the aquiring the vulture (unless you have a comprible arsenal vessel [I saw nothing comperable/superior]), but as a replacement for the other vessels, Hyst will request to replace the order with:

[675] Minister Class FFN - .75 bil
[275] Vulture Class Trimaran Arsenal Ship [REFIT] - 3.25bil
[125] Vanguard Class SSN (Flight II) - 2.6bil

tot purchace: 1.704tril USD

<I've editted the first order, since you didn't know about the new ships when you placed it. The order can be taken as having started when you originally placed the order. Thanks.>

<bump for Lance>

OOC: Praetonia, you gonna make new threads for your other products?
OOC: Well Praetonia?

OOC: Maybe.

[OOC: Then why not do so in the near future (if you can of course!)? I'm eager for my Regus light battle tank UDPR.]

[OOC: You can buy some now if you want. Here's (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=451557) the Regus thread.]

OOC: I **found** an IC way of buying you're stuff... w00t

IC

To: Sir Fortuanus Gallius, MP, Director-General of Imperial Praetonian Shipyards
From:James Tricker, Head of Navies, Northford.

After hearing many great things about youre company, I have decided to source Praetorian Products for our "Escort-Detachment", a force of destroyers which are designed to patrol our trade routes.

While the Commonwealth of Northford has already agreed to purchase ships from the reknown PIW, we have deemed your multi-purpose ships superior in a deep-sea patrolling situation to ships from the PIW. That is not to say that we "rate" your ships better across the board, it merely says we believe to be better suited for that role. In fact, we think that PIW ships, being more specialised, are better for large fleet actions, where sinking ships is the overriding priority.

That is, however, only our view.

Anyway, on with the order. After careful review we have deemed your Praefele Class DDN to be the best ship for us. To that end, we wish to buy 15 Praefele Class DDN (Flight II)'s from your shipyards.

While this may be a (very) small order, please bear in mind this will be a regular order, as we wish to eventually have a force of (Praefele Class) Destroyer's in the order of 500 Ships.

Total for order: 30 Billion.

Funds will be wired upon confirmation of order.

Regards,

James Tricker,

Northford.

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(OOC: That little diagram isn't a sig, it's just showing you where your ships will fit into the Northfordian Navy)

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Order Confirmation Invoice

1)
i) The sale of vessels to Northford has been approved.
ii) The sale of 15 Praefele Class DDNs has been approved.
iii) The commencement of construction has been authorised.

Estimated Time to Completion: 2 NS years.

Attached Note: We're pleased to hear that your navy intends to place several regular orders for Praefele Class vessels. It is possible for you to place one large order but have ships delivered (and, indeed, paid for) in a steady, more manageable stream. Also, as a point of information, in what sense do you refer to the 'specialisation' of PIW vessels compared to IPS vessels? Your procurement policy is not being criticised, it is merely useful to us to know what specifically customers look for in vessels in order to fit future designs more closely to their needs.

Also, as a point of information, in what sense do you refer to the 'specialisation' of PIW vessels compared to IPS vessels? Your procurement policy is not being criticised, it is merely useful to us to know what specifically customers look for in vessels in order to fit future designs more closely to their needs.

OOC: I'll give you an OOC response and an IC response for that one.....
OOCly, it's because to me, you're ships seem to be very balanced ships. They all seem to have "better than average" armour, pack a decent surface punch, have a sizeable VLS compliment, and have a few torp tubes. To me, that makes each destroyer a viable multi-role ship. Different roles(AA, ASW, ASuW) within a fleet, are it seems, decided by the admiral, rather than by the nature and abilities of the ship itself. Contrasting this, are Sarzonia's ships, each of which is given a clearly defined role within a fleet(it's in the title mostly), be it ASuW, ASW or AA.

Don't take that as a critism, mind you.... It's just the way I see it, and, in a way, I actually quite like it like that. Each of your ships, to me, seems a solid platform. When I read, however, Sarz new AA destroyer, I finish with the impression that for anything other than a plane will sink the ship with nothing but a few Autocannon rounds. That's not to say it will (most likely the contrary), but thats just the impression I personally get

Anyway, for the IC response, which is more because I don't see the need to basically reliterate everything I've just said, and because I'm trying to RP "James Tricker" as a bit of an "Old-Fashioned-Bastard", who sticks to the people he loyal to. At the moment, for him that loyalty is to the PIW, as they are giving him a nice little discount. Be assured that the sentiments are only IC ones.

IC:

To: Sir Fortuanus Gallius, MP, Director-General of Imperial Praetonian Shipyards
From:James Tricker, Head of Navies, Northford.

If we want to help you Improve your service, we'll contact your market research department.

Consider the money wired.

<Bump for Royal Sovereign>

expect another order tomorrow. Did you get my tg about the trade agreements?

[OOC: Ok. I did get that TG and (thought) I sent a reply. I said that the trade thread was out of date, but that bilateral trade would be welcome.]

and I replied.. I think? did you not get it? I use firefox,and tend to get problems occasionally with it.

[OOC: I dont think so. Can you resend it?]

Yeh, no problem. I'll have to do it in the morning though, because I might have sent it as a word file, and am too tired to look for it. Sorry about it not getting through. Whenever I send it, I get something about "POSTDATA", and if don't visit the page for a while, then try do something, it flips out, and goes to my puppet nation.

Sorry about that.

[OOC: Praetonia, TG regarding this storefront.]

To: Sir Fortuanus Gallius, MP, Director-General of Imperial Praetonian Shipyards
From:James Tricker, Head of Navies, Northford.

Having recently recieved our orders, I can only give you positive feedback about your products.

To that end, I hereby authorise the allotment of funds to the amount of 90 Billion USD for the purchase 45 Praefele Class DDNs.

These will be used to bolster our escort force.

Funds will be sent of confirmation of order.

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Order Confirmation Invoice

1)
i) The sale of vessels to Northford has been approved.
ii) The sale of 45 Praefele Class DDNs has been approved.
iii) The commencement of construction has been authorised.

Estimated Time to Completion: 4 NS years.

[OOC: SEA - I haven't received one. Sorry.]

OOC: Argh....never mind. Retyped my question and sent.

**Funds wired**

I've just re-read my order... god that was poor english. Guess I should proof read my posts to make sure I dont' make stupid mistakes.

[OOC: No problem.

OOC
Conventional submarines = SS (Before SSNs) or SSK (After SSNs)
Nuclear submarines = SSN
SSKN = Headache

IC
PROHT would like to purchase a few modified Terror class HMKs.
Following modifications and reasons:
Non nuclear, PROHT defense ministry has a distaste for such things, also PROHT is a nuclear material free zone
15" ETC gun turrets left blank for PROHT 14" guns, since PROHT does not wish to have more than 6 different kinds of artilery to look after
140 mm ETC to be replaced by PROHT 5" guns for same reason
VLS area to be left blank
The ship will be fitted out with all weapons at PROHT Naval Shipyards at New Roanoke Island
PROHT will purchase said ships at reduced price since you will be building them without reactors or weaopns systems, $1.5 billion each looks reasonable

Are these modifications acceptable?
If so, PROHT will purchase 50 at a lot price of $75 billion (PROHT refitting cost estimated $15 billion)

[OOC: I have been aware of the classification system for some years now, but thankyou for your insight nonetheless.

For more information on SSKNs, see here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Tullibee_%28SSN-597%29).]

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Order Confirmation Invoice

1)
i) The sale of vessels to Northford has been approved.
ii) The sale of 45 Terror Class HMNs has been approved.
iii) The commencement of construction has been authorised, minus reactors, guns and VLS.
vi) Upon completion vessels to be toed to 'New Roanoke Island' by tug.

Estimated Time to Completion: 8 NS years.

Attached Note: Your pricing proposal is acceptable.

Did you get my tg? If not, don't worry, because I'll resend it anyway.

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How much for the production rights to the entire lot?

...I don't think that would be possible...

In which case, the following please:

1: Royal Sovereign Class DN - $275 billion
1: Sovereign Class DN (Flight II) - $13.5 billion
8: County Class CVN - $50 billion
10: Dragoon Class CAN - $45 billion
10: Praefele Class DDN (Flight II) - $2.0 billion
20: Minister Class FFN - $1500 million
2: Tower Class SSBN (Flight II) - $5 billion
10: Lupus Class SSKN - $8500 million

Funds will be wired through in five annual installments.

[OOC: Excellent. :)]

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Order Confirmation Invoice

1)
i) The sale of vessels to The blessed Chris has been approved.
ii) The sale of 1 Royal Sovereign Class DN, 1 Sovereign Class DN (Flight II), 8 County Class CVN, 10 Dragoon Class CAN, 10 Praefele Class DDN (Flight II), 20 Minister Class FFN, 2 Tower Class SSBN (Flight II) and 10 Lupus Class SSKN has been approved.
iii) The commencement of construction has been authorised.

Estimated Time to Completion: 18 NS years.

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Official Message from the Allied Union Naval Defense Force Foreign Requisition Board

Greetings, friends!

As part of our program to rennovate and restructure the Allied Union Naval Defense Force, the AUNDFFRB, after considering designs of indiginous, Questerian, Sarzonian, and Praetonian command battleships, we have chosen the venerable and mighty Royal Sovereign Class to spearhead our naval forces into the foreseeable future. In addition to these grand warships, we have also selected the Sovereign Class dreadnoughts to replace the aging Gigantor Class dreadnought, which has been operated since the very founding of the Allied Union. These orders entail Phase 1 of the AUNDF upgrade program, and it entails the following vessels.

3x Royal Sovereign Class Dreadnoughts
20x Sovereign Class Dreadnoughts

This order comes to a total of:

$945,000,000,000 USD

We look forward to hearing your response on this request.

Let Liberty Shine Her Light Upon You!

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Order Confirmation Invoice

1)
i) The sale of vessels to The Allied Union of Velkya has been approved.
ii) The sale of 3 Royal Sovereign Class DN and 20 Sovereign Class DN (Flight II), has been approved.
iii) The commencement of construction has been authorised.

Estimated Time to Completion: 15 NS years.

<bump>

<bump>

To: Sir Fortuanus Gallius, MP, Director-General of Imperial Praetonian Shipyards
From: Admiral Ben Cordell, Chief of Naval Operations, the Democratic Imperium of Halberdgardia
Re: Purchase

After some time away from the international stage, the Imperium is finally returning to a more active role in world affairs, if only slowly. As such, it would be conducive to ensure that our armed forces are not behind those of our possible foes, and we therefore wish to order the following:

Ten Royal Sovereign-class superdreadnaughts ($2,750,000,000,000)
Upgrade of one hundred Sovereign-class dreadnaughts to Flight II specifications
One hundred Lupus-class SSKNs ($85,000,000,000)
One thousand Port-class corvettes ($375,000,000,000)
One thousand Terror-class heavy monitors ($1, 800,000,000,000)
Production rights for the IAD-12 "Lance" Flight III ASM ($2,500,000,000)
The sub-total for the purchased vessels (not including the upgrades, the cost of which we leave for you to determine) comes out to $5,012,500,000,000. Payment will be wired upon confirmation of our order, with the payment for the upgrades to the specified vessels to follow upon the determination of costs for such an endeavor.

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

I do not suppose you accept payments in tons of highly refined thorium, do you? I'd certainly be willing to work out a good deal.... Considering the Holy Empire currently is completely lacking in a Navy.

TO:Imperial Praetonian Shipyards
FROM:Samuel Atkinson, Proletarian Republic of Free Tulsa SubMinister of Defense (Acquisitions)
SUBJECT:Order Request

The Proletarian Republic would like to place an order request with the Shipyards. We are beginning to phase out many of our aging ship designs - namely, over 60% of our currently operating planetside navy - and require replacements in order to keep our navy at its current strength. Therefore, we request these vessels:

- 1 Royal Sovereign Class Superdreadnought
- 12 County Class Aircraft Carriers
- 40 Dragoon Class Cruisers
- 200 Knight Class Destroyers
- 475 Minister Class Frigates
- 1200 Grenadier Class LC
- 750 Curiassier Class SSK

Total expenditure: $1,622,050,000,000

If the current amount of money available (30% of our defense budget for the past twelve years saved up) is not sufficient, an installment plan can be arranged.

[OOC: Wow, I missed all this stuff :eek: For some reason this thread only seems to be highlighted in my subscriptions very sporadically when people order stuff. Many apologies for the delay, everyone.]

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Order Confirmation Invoice

1)
i) The sale of vessels to the Democratic Imperium of Halberdgardia has been approved.
ii) The following sale has been approved:

* 10 Royal Sovereign Class superdreadnaughts
* Upgrade of one hundred Sovereign Class dreadnaughts to Flight II specifications
* 100 Lupus Class SSKNs
* 1,000 Port Class corvettes
* 1,000 Terror Class heavy monitors
* Production rights for the IAD-12 "Lance" Flight III ASM

iii) The commencement of construction has been authorised.

Estimated Time to Completion: 35 NS years.


Order Confirmation Invoice

1)
i) The sale of vessels to Free Tulsa has been approved.
ii) The following sale has been approved:

* 1 Royal Sovereign Class Superdreadnought
* 12 County Class Aircraft Carriers
* 40 Dragoon Class Cruisers
* 200 Knight Class Destroyers
* 475 Minister Class Frigates
* 1,200 Grenadier Class LC
* 750 Curiassier Class SSK

iii) The commencement of construction has been authorised.

Estimated Time to Completion: 24 NS years.


Sales Clarification Invoice - Holy Empire of Herreng

Sir,

While at this time we are not willing to subject ourselves to the ravages of market fluctuations by accepting raw materials as payment for such expensive products as ships, I am sure that it would be possible for your thorium to be sold at market rates in order to raise cash for the purchase of naval vessels. Provided your thorium production is sufficient to cover the full costs, we would be happy to allow you to pay over a number of years at very low interest rates. Attached to this document are the details of several trusted Praetonian raw materials traders generally interested in purchasing thorium should you have any troubles finding a buyer.

I look forward to seeing your custom soon.

Yours,

Sir Fortuanus Gallius, MP
Director-General of Imperial Praetonian Shiipyards

OOC: a question. Do domnestic production rights for your Lance asm mean that one can use it in one's own designs? Just wondering.(and note that I wouldn't dream of selling the missles abroad, even if the ship designs would be)

[OOC: Yes you can use the missile on your own designs (or even launch from land from the backs of trucks, or whatever), but you'd probably need to design a special VLS for it.]

(should be doable..After all I've seen larger missles being launched from VLS tubes on here..Isn't the Yakhont similarly sized?)

To: Praetonia Imperial shipyards
From:Allied Weapon Works, Naval division
We would like to aquire domnestic production rights of your Lance ASM. As usual the money, in this case 2,5b$, will be wired as soon as the order is confirmed.

[OOC: Praetonia, do you have any more detailed info on IPS subsidiary yards?]

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Order Confirmation Invoice

1)
i) The transfer of technology to the Carbandia has been approved.
ii) The following sale has been approved:

* Production rights for the IAD-12 "Lance" Flight III ASM

iii) The commencement of transfer has been authorised.

Estimated Time to Completion: Immediate

[OOC: SEA - Not immediately, but if you needed some urgently I could rustle something up.]

To:Imperial Praetonian Shipyards
From:Allied Weapon Works, naval division
The money has been wired. Looking forward to doing buisness with you again in the future.

[OOC: SEA - Not immediately, but if you needed some urgently I could rustle something up.]
[OOC: Well Prae, it's actually more or so for your own benefit ICly rather than for me. Because if you were to include more detailed information on subsidiary yards or other corporate things like partnerships, especially given the fact that IPS is now a private firm, not a state-owned business anymore, you can gain more sales and better relations with other nations and a better economy for yourself. For example, IPS might wish to take advantage of this company (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=490597) that has recently been allowed by its national government to export boats....]

[OOC: I suppose so... but I don't think Azazia would want to have his shipyards taken over.]

To: Sir Fortuanus Gallius, MP, Director-General of Imperial Praetonian Shipyards
From: James Tricker, Head of Navies, Northford.

Greetings, friend.

It has been some time since we placed our last order with the IPS. In that time, many things have happened, not least the acceptance of the Northfordian navy to use Praetonian naval equipment as a mainstay of the Northfordian Escort force.

Also, in that time, the world in which Northford exists has become much more dangerous.... as I write this, a number of corporations wish to threaten us, and the alliance in upon which the Northfordian defence policy is based.

To adress this threat, I am authorising the Commonwealth of Northford to allot fund to the amount of 180 Billion Universal Standard Dollars to the purchase of 90 Praefele Class Destroyers.

We await your confirmation of purchase, before we wire funds.

Regards,

Northford.

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Order Confirmation Invoice

1)
i) The sale of vessels to Northford has been approved.
ii) The following sale has been approved:

* 90 Praefele Class DDNs

iii) The commencement of construction has been authorised.

Estimated Time to Completion: 5 NS years.

Money Wired

[OOC: I suppose so... but I don't think Azazia would want to have his shipyards taken over.]
[OOC: Well, it doesn't hurt to try, and provide an article on subsidiary yards....]

[OOC: I'll write one if I have time and feel like doing it, unless there is some new urgent reason that arises.]

Commonwealth Government Statement
Invoice

To: Imperial Praetorian Shipyards Sales Department
From: Confederate Ministry for Defence - Procurement Department

Order as follows:

150 Grenadier Class LCs - $1,350,000,000
5 Terror Class HMNs - $7,200,000,000
6 Knight Class DDNs - $10,500,000,000
5 Cuirassier SSKs - $2,500,000,000
2 Lake Class Tankers - $2,600,000,000
2 Castle Class AOEs - $3,200,000,000

Total: $27,350,000,000

(OOC: Paid for by DMG International Bank Loan - Proof of Loan HERE (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=11431117&postcount=524))

Communique Hand Delivered to the Imperial Praetonian Shipyards Management

With the lack of domestically produced capital ships we find that once again we are in need of purchasing foreign designed and constructed vessels in order to maintain our fleet size as well as expand it in accordance with increases in both our budget and fleet requirements.

It is therefore with great pleasure that we wish to offer the following contract to the Imperial Praetonian Shipyards:

5x Royal Sovereign Class DN ($1,375,000,000,000 SubTotal)
52x Minister Class FFN ($39,000,000,000 SubTotal)
30x Vanguard Class SSN [Flight II] ($78,000,000,000 SubTotal)

Total: $1,492,000,000,000 [1.492 Trillion USD]

Kind Regards and Many Thanks in advance of confirmation.

-The IH Department for Naval Procurement

(ooc)Couple of questions about your missle systems
1: the ballista vls; can this fire cruise, and, or, Lance asm's?
2: the Wellington AMMS; a explanation what this is wouldn't go amiss, either..

Am considering buying one of your larger ships (the Sovereign, to be precise) to use for fleet flagship, hence the question.

[OOC: The ballista is designed for use with Praetonian weapons, and so it can fire the Lance (and any of my other missiles of that size range), but it is larger than cruise so it can fire cruise as well with modifications. I would advise buying Lance though. Cruise isn't too good in NS terms.

The Wellington AMMS is like the rolling airframe missile (RAM) system used on US and German warships. It fires small (~2m) missiles at income missiles and low-flying aircraft (or shells, theoretically).]

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Order Confirmation Invoice

1)
i) The transfer of technology to the New Confederate States has been approved.
ii) The following sale has been approved:

* 150 Grenadier Class LCs
* 5 Terror Class HMNs
* 6 Knight Class DDNs
* 5 Cuirassier SSKs
* 2 Lake Class Tankers
* 2 Castle Class AOEs

iii) The commencement of transfer has been authorised.

Estimated Time to Completion: 4 years

2)
i) The transfer of technology to Independent Hitmen has been approved.
ii) The following sale has been approved:

5 Royal Sovereign Class DN
52 Minister Class FFN
30 Vanguard Class SSN [Flight II]

iii) The commencement of transfer has been authorised.

Estimated Time to Completion: 8 years

ooc: fits my needs just about perfectly, then. :)
ic:
To:Imperial Praetonian Shipyards
From: Carbandian Naval ministry
Sirs, we would like to aquire a single example of your fine Sovereign class dreadnoughts. As usual the purchase price, in this case 13,5billion$ will be wired to your account as soon as you confirm our order.
(signed) Fleet admiral Kurgachev, Naval minister

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Order Confirmation Invoice

1)
i) The transfer of technology to Carbandia has been approved.
ii) The following sale has been approved:

* 1 Sovereign Class DN

iii) The commencement of transfer has been authorised.

Estimated Time to Completion: 4 years

To:Imperial Praetonian shipyards
From:Carbandian finance ministry
The sum of 13,5 billion$ has been wired to your account. Nice doing buisness with you, as usual.

The Government of United Federation of Military Commmand would like to enter into talks about becoming a partner of your Shipyard and get production rights to your ships too. I would like to open my nation up to your Imperial Goverment to find my nation useful. Thank you very much.

Sir,

Imperial Praetonian Shipyards is always interested in opening new shipyards in foreign countries, as well as factories manufacturing various components. However, for reasons of corporate as well as national security, it is not possible for us to make available production rights to entire ship designs. We are, of course, offering weapons production rights up for sale, but ships must be ordered on an individual basis. However, it is often cheap to order ships from IPS directly than to manufacture domestically as we are able to make considerable economies of scale on almost all components.

Thankyou for your interest, and it would be very much appreciated if IPS were allowed to open a satellite yard in your nation. However, I am afraid that the corporation will have to decline your request for production rights to ships. If there is any other way in which you wish to co-operate with IPS, please do make your offers heard.

Yours,

Customer Relations Department,
Imperial Praetonian Shipyards plc.

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OOC: This isn't just a "I want this, and I pay that" order.... I've just got back from a 2 week holiday, and plan to use this as a premise for a conflict I am to get involved in. If you feel like typing a long reply, it would be appreciated. Also, do you know what has happened to Sarz lately? He seems to check his storefront less and less, and to be frank, I'm getting a little worried my main supplier of capital ships has died :(. I can't carry on buying little escorts from you forever, can I? As for the money issue, these are the first things I've brought for about a month, so I've got plenty of cash spare.


Official

To:Imperial Praetonian shipyards
From: James Tricker, Head of Navies, Northford.

Greetings friends from abroad. You may have noticed very little activity from the Commonwealth in the past few months, and there is a simple reason for this. The Admiralty to which I report deemed it suitable to halt procurement of ships and other hardware, and enter a stage of training up service men and women, in order to ensure that there was sufficent skilled personell for the next stage of expansion.

That next stage of expansion has come to the forefront of the Northfordian Military mind, and it will start with the following purchase. You may remember some time ago, the Northfordian Navy aquired a number of escorts from you: They were used in a defensive fashion, and were the forefront of an escort force we pioneered. In the 24 months since the Escort Force's launch, they have been an undeniable aid to Commerce within the GASN, apprehending various pirates and aiding numerous convoys in storms.

To that end, the Commonwealth has Authorised me, James Tricker, to make the following purchases, and have allocated funds where required:

*50 Port Class FS
*300 Minister Class FFN, N
*100 Knight Class DDN
*50 Praefele Class DDN

The total cost for this order is 468 .75 Billion Universal Standard Dollars (USD). Funds will be drawn from the defence budget, and will be wired upon confirmation of order.

Roanoke Island, Allanean Arms facility.

The helicopter begins to descend slowly towards the roof of the immense factory. Under it, hundreds of missiles are moved off immense production lines. Even as President Alexander Kazansky steps off the aircraft, he's approached by a camera crew.

He begins to speak.

Dear Freemen of the United States of Allanea.

Today, I address you as President and Commander in Chief. You know of course, that this year, Congress entrusted me with a 23.58 trillion Defense budget, and foreign donations yielded even more money. You may ask, what we intend to do with it.

The first and main production is one hundred thousand Khan missiles, for which we have purchased production licensing from ZMI. The second is equipment, tanks, armor (manufactured on license) to equip one million additional Mechanized Infantry and support troops. The third is the purchase 200 “Tower” SSBN's and 200 “Lupus” SSKN's from the Imperial Praetonian Shipyards, to be manufactured on Roanoke Island.

Further more, we will order large stockpiles of chemical weaponry to be manufactured in factories in Rejistania. And this is not yet all.

We have purchased already 100 SUB-4 bombers from Space Union. We will purchase more. Whatever it takes, we will make our nation safe.

That is all.

May God Bless Allanea.

DEMOCRATIC SOVIET REPUBLIC OF KAHANISTAN
Kahanistan Republic Navy

The Republic Navy is interested in obtaining production rights to both variants of the IAD-12 Lance ASM (air and surface launch); would this cost two and a half or five billion USD? We would pay the five billion if we needed, funding is no object.

The larger purchase we would like to make is that of five Royal Sovereign-class super dreadnaughts. After much bickering among the Supreme Soviet over such issues as technological disparities, they have agreed to authorize the expenditure of $1.375 trillion USD for the warships.

Depending on your answer to our query regarding the Lance missile, the bill would arrive at either $1.3775 trillion or $1.38 trillion USD.

Signed,
Fleet Admiral Raghad Nazmareh,
Commander of Naval Operations,
Kahanistan Republic Navy

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Order Confirmation Invoice

1)
i) The sale of vessels to Northford has been approved.
ii) The following sale has been approved:

* 50 Port Class FS
* 300 Minister Class FFN
* 100 Knight Class DDN
* 50 Praefele Class DDN

iii) The commencement of construction has been authorised.

Estimated Time to Completion: 12 years


2)
i) The sale of vessels to Allanea has been approved.
ii) The following sale has been approved:

* 200 Tower Class SSBN
* 200 Lupus Class SSKN

iii) The commencement of construction has been authorised.

Estimated Time to Completion: 15 years


3)
i) The sale of vessels and transfer of technology to Kahanistan has been approved.
ii) The following sale has been approved:

* Production rights for the IAD-12 "Lance" Flight III ASM
* 5 Royal Sovereign Class SDNs

iii) The commencement of construction and transfer has been authorised.

Estimated Time to Completion: 10 years

Attached Note: The IAD-12 'Lance' Flight III ASM's two variants are distinguished only by the presence or absence of a first stage solid rocket booster. production rights for this booster are included in the overall package, so there is no need to purchase two sets of production rights.

(OOC: I don't think I ordered any Lupus-class SSKN's, just the SD's and missile production rights.)

[OOC: Sorry about that - copy and paste error.]

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[OOC: Prae, can you please give me a TG response? And also, are you planning to do a sequel to the joint IPS-PIW design, the Swiftsure-class trimaran light carrier?]

[OOC: I have replied to your TG. I have no specific plans to build such a ship, but if you are interested in purchasing a vessel like that then I would be happy to do so.]

[OOC: I have replied to your TG. I have no specific plans to build such a ship, but if you are interested in purchasing a vessel like that then I would be happy to do so.]
[OOC: Got your TG, responded. And anyway, frankly, I'm surprised that you use primarily medium fleet carriers (CVN) and don't have a successor to your older light fleet fleet carriers (CVLN) since the restart of this thread. Along with something to compete in the foreign market against the Sarzonian Benatar-class heavy fleet carrier (CVBN) or the Isselmere-Nielander Union-class heavy fleet carrier (CVBN), as it could do well both for the Imperial Navy and the export dept.]

**Money Wired.**Oh, and when this little affair with you know who is over, I think I might take you up on that offer you made me.

[OOC: Got your TG, responded. And anyway, frankly, I'm surprised that you use primarily medium fleet carriers (CVN) and don't have a successor to your older light fleet fleet carriers (CVLN) since the restart of this thread. Along with something to compete in the foreign market against the Sarzonian Benatar-class heavy fleet carrier (CVBN) or the Isselmere-Nielander Union-class heavy fleet carrier (CVBN), as it could do well both for the Imperial Navy and the export dept.]
[OOC: Ok. Do you actually want me to design these classes so you can buy some, or are you just commenting randomly?]

[OOC: Ok. Do you actually want me to design these classes so you can buy some, or are you just commenting randomly?]
[OOC: I wouldn't mind that if you did design something to rival the Union or a successor to the Swiftsure (or at least a flight upgrade), but I'm keeping my options open.]

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IC:

Hotdogs2 would like to ask Praetonias Imperial Shipyards as to whether they would be willing to make us a small package compromising of 50 ships and submarines as a small, naval rapid reaction force(with no amphibious assault capability). We would require it to be based around your largest Dreadnaught type ship and we would be willing to pay a large sum for your troubles.

Other than that we would like to ask what the maximum speed of said fleet would be.

Regards, Sir John Simpson, Chief Admiral of Fleet Staff

[OOC: Ok. Do you actually want me to design these classes so you can buy some, or are you just commenting randomly?]
[OOC: Gah, what the hell, I'll see what you can do, then I shall decide.]

To: Sir Fortuanus Gallius, MP, Director-General of Imperial Praetonian Shipyards, plc.
From: Paul David Nettleton, Minister of Defense, Union of Southeast Asian Nations
Subject: Praetonian rival to Union-class and Swiftsure-class successor

Dear Sir/Madam,

With the Incorporated States of Sarzonia going into a period of indefinite isolation, along with their esteemed arms contracting giant, the Portland Iron Works, we have turned toward your revered corporation for your superb services in the international shipbuilding industry.

Sometime after the Panic of 2006, the Portland Iron Works commissioned the Benatar-class nuclear-powered heavy fleet aircraft carrier in order to substitute the Royal Shipyards of Isselmere-Nieland Corporation's Union-class nuclear-powered heavy fleet aircraft carrier within the Incorporated Sarzonian Navy. Federal Parliament has ordered about five of these said heavy fleet carriers, but it was not in time for the orders to be confirmed before the sales at the Portland Iron Works were suspended indefinitely. As a result, the hulls are still there in Portland sitting in a dry-dock.

So, we come to you for this custom project request, along with another.

Also, Southeast Asia lacks something that can be sufficiently called a light fleet aircraft carrier, and also has turned to you. The Swiftsure-class was yet another project that the Imperial Praetonian Shipyards and the Portland Iron Works pooled their resources together with to form something the Imperial Praetonian Navy and the Incorporated Sarzonian Navy lacked, like in the case of the venerable Freedom-class "pocket super dreadnaught" (in our nomenclature we would dub 'pocket-SDs' as simply "Dreadnaughts") and the recent Lobo/Lupus-class nuclear-powered patrol submarine. We have yet to procure one such trimaran light fleet carrier ourselves, but we feel that it may be slightly out of date due to the constantly evolving state of the battlefield in the great and vast waters of this planet.

So, I, Paul David Nettleton, on the behalf of my nation, humbly request that the Imperial Praetonian Shipyards, plc. produce a successor to the Swiftsure-class nuclear-powered light fleet aircraft carrier, or if that is not possible, at least produce a Flight II upgrade.

I eagerly await your corporation's response.

Yours Sincerely,
His Excellency,
Paul David Nettleton
Minister of Defense
Union of Southeast Asian Nations

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Dearest partners in Praetonia,

Time has come again for the Commonwealth of Northford to order another batch of escorts from the esteemed Imperial Praetonian Shipyards. As per our usual style we will be making a small order, which will be employed in our trades escort force.

Upon confirmation of order, the Commonwealth has authorised me to release funds matching the cost of:

200 Minister Class FF, N

25 Prefele Class DD

50 Knight Class DD

25 Port Class FS.

The sum for this order is: 296.875 Universal Standard Dollars (USD)

*bump*

*procures DPR for Lance SSM*

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Order Confirmation Invoice

1)
i) The sale of vessels to Northford has been approved.
ii) The following sale has been approved:

* 25 Port Class FS
* 200 Minister Class FFN
* 50 Knight Class DDN
* 25 Praefele Class DDN

iii) The commencement of construction has been authorised.

Estimated Time to Completion: 7 years


2)
i) The transfer of technology to Questers has been approved.
ii) The following sale has been approved:

* Production rights for the IAD-12 "Lance" Flight III ASM

iii) The commencement of transfer has been authorised.

Estimated Time to Completion: [N/A]

To Imperial Praetonian Shipyards
From Admiral Nicholas Crawford, Blackford Republican Navy
On behalf of Blackwood National Armed Forces and President Thomas Stewern
Subject Purchase

Dear sirs of the Imperial Praetonian Shipyards
Seeing the increasingly hostile conditions in the world and continous threats to liberty and peace, not the least of which is the resurging threar of the Kraven Corporation, the Admiralty of Blackwood has decided to increase the surface combat and power projection capabilities of the Republican Navy. Noting the excellent reputation of the Imperial Praetonian Shipyards, and the excellent performance of the Imperial Praetonian Shipyard's vessels compared to other contemporary vessels, the Admiralty has decided to purchase

3 Royal Sovereign class super dreadnoughts
3 Duke class nuclear battlecruisers
24 Lupus class nuclear hunter-killer submarines

The grand total sum of 863 400 000 000 USD will be paid in three batches; a third upon confirmation, another third as the keels are laid down and the final third upon delivery.

Signed
Admiral Nicholas Crawford of the Republican Navy
on behalf of the Department of National Armed Forces of Blackwood

Also signed
President Thomas Stewern
Jack Crawford, Chairman Chiefs of Staff, Chief of Republican Admiralty and Minister of National Armed Forces
Harry Penningsworth, Minister of Trade, Economy and Finance
Jean Robertson, Minister of Intelligence and Foreign Affairs
Jack Harryson, Chairman of Congress
Nicholas Gruber, Treasurer of Congress

[OOC: Portland Iron Works? This is IPS.]

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Order Confirmation Invoice

1)
i) The sale of vessels to Relative Liberty has been approved.
ii) The following sale has been approved:

* 3 Royal Sovereign class super dreadnoughts
* 3 Duke class nuclear battlecruisers
* 24 Lupus class nuclear hunter-killer submarines

iii) The commencement of construction has been authorised.

Estimated Time to Completion: 8 years

Constantinalia would like to purchase 1 Royal Sovereign class superdreadnought, 2 Terror Class Heavy Monitors, and 4 Knight Class vessels. Can you do the math?

OOC: Do you possibly have a picture I could use for the Royal Sovereign SDN?

Official Message
TO: Imperial Praetonian Shipyards
FROM: The High Commander, Henry Corrol
RE: Purchase

We request the following products, shipped as quickly as possible. Money will be wired upon confirmation.

Subs-
100x Tower Class SSBN (Flight II) - $250,000,000,000
40x Vanguard Class SSN (Flight II) - $104,000,000,000
Total - $354,000,000,000
Signed, Henry Corrol
High Commander of the Zukariaan Empire

To: Sir Fortuanus Gallius, MP, Director-General of Imperial Praetonian Shipyards, plc.
From: Admiral Daniel David Chan, Commander-in-Chief of the Southeast Asian Navy, United Sovereign Nations of Southeast Asia
Subject: Pheasant-class trimaran nuclear-powered light aircraft carrier procurement

Dear Sir Fortuanus Gallius,

The Southeast Asian Federal Parliament, and Ministry of Defense, after careful reviewing and debating about procurement on the Pheasant-class trimaran nuclear-powered light aircraft carrier, has at long last approved of me making this communique to your esteemed private corporation.

And as such, on the behalf of my nation and as part of its program to modernize its armed forces, I request for ten Pheasant-class trimaran nuclear-powered light aircraft carriers. The procurement cost of 40,000,000,000 Universal Standard Dollars shall be wired to you in series of quarter price every five [OOC: NS] years.

I eagerly await your firm's response, Sir Fortuanus.

Yours Sincerely,
Admiral Daniel David Chan
Commander-in-Chief of the Southeast Asian Navy
United Sovereign Nations of Southeast Asia

Orders approved.

TO: Imperial Praetonian Shipyards Management

FROM: Lord Governor Baker of the Socialist Commonwealth of Wanderjar

Greetings,


The New Prussian Empire has undergone a reformation of its Kriegsmarine, and as such is requiring new shipping. However, we do not know which ships would be best suited for our needs. As is our doctrine, we have a particularly Submarine-heavy Navy, but are in need of good Battleships, Cruisers, and Carriers for our forces.


We are willing to pay, and pay a lot, for whatever you feel is your best equipment. Tell us what you would use based on the following general description of the average Flotte (Flottilla of the Wanderjarian Kriegsmarine).


I Flotte:

Commanded by Admiral Tillesen

-1 Carrier
-5 BBs
-5 Battle Cruisers
-1 Heavy Cruiser
-5 Light Cruisers

Now this is a general description of what most of our forces look like, excluding class names, and ship names. What ships do you have, which you feel would be best suited for our needs?

As previously mentioned, we shall pay good money for whatever you recommend. We trust in your judgement.

Good day to you,

~Lord Governor Christoph Baker

To: Imperial Praetonian Shipyards
From: Asgarnian Naval Force
Subject: Purchase

Greetings. We wish to purchase the domestic production rights to both the Surface-Launched and Air-Launched versions of the IAD-12 'Lance' AShM.

We will wire $5,000,000,000.00 USD upon confirmation. Thank you.

Respectfully,

John C. Stannis
General of Combat Naval Forces

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The Aunesian Navy wishes to purchase the following:

5x Knight-Class DDN.

Total Price: $8,750,000,000

The money will be wired upon confirmation.

All confirmed.

Wanderjar: The following order is proposed based on your specification:

-1 Carrier - County Class CVN
-5 BBs - Duke Class DNs
-5 Battle Cruisers - Sovereign Class DNs
-1 Heavy Cruiser - Duke Class BCN
-5 Light Cruisers - Dragoon Class CANs

However we suggest the further purchase of Knight-class destroyers to provide an escort force.

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To: Sir Fortuanus Gallius, MP, Director-General of Imperial Praetonian Shipyards, plc.

Once again, despite the vast changes that have happened within our Nation, we are forced once again to seek the maritime expertise. Despite our recent change in constitutional status, we hope that we can continued our long and fruitful relationship with Praetonia, and to that end, we place the following order:

150 Praefele Class DDN (Flight II)
200 Minister Class FFN
50 Knight Class DDN
150 Port Class FS
75 Castle Class AOE
50 Lake Class Tanker

The Cost for this order amounts to 778.75 Billion Universal Standard Dollars, which will be wired upon confirmation of order.

Regards,

Kane Tricker, Head of Naval Aquisitions, Northford

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The Aunesian Ministry of Defence would like to purchase the following:

2x Sovereign Class DN (Flight II) at $27,000,000,000
1x County Class CVN at $6,250,000,000
3x Pheasant Class CVLN at $12,000,000,000
5x Dragoon Class CAN at $22,500,000,000
10x Knight Class DDN at $17,500,000,000
20x Minister Class FFN at $15,000,000,000
2x Tower Class SSBN (Flight II) at $5,000,000,000

At a total of: $105,250,000,000

The money will be wired upon confirmation.

Yours,

Alexander O'Brien
Secretary of State for Defence
Federation of Aunesia

To: Imperial Praetonian Shipyards
From: No Taxes Ministry of Defense

We are currently undergoing an almost total refit of our navy and we believe that most of our needs can be acquired at your shipyards. First off, we would like to purchase production rights for the IAD-12 'Lance' ASM, both variants for $5 Billion. We also wish to purchase the following vessels:

-1 Royal Sovereign Class DN, $275 Billion
-25 County Class CVNs, $156.25 Billion
-75 Dragoon Class CANs, $337.5 Billion
-120 Praefele Class DDNs, $240 Billion
-150 Minister Class FFNs, $112.5 Billion
-50 Port Class FSs, $18.75 Billion
-32 Tower Class SSBNs, $80 Billion
-58 Vanguard Class SSNs (Flight II), $150.8 billion
-76 Lupus Class SSKNs, $64.6 Billion
-23 Cuirassier Class SSK, $11.5 Billion

Total Costs: $1451.9 Billion

This is a very large order, so we realize that it will take a long time to complete. Payment will be wired upon confirmation of order.

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Imperial Ministry of Defence


TO: Imperial Praetonian Shipyards

FROM: Roma Ministry of Defence

We place our order for the following:

5x County Class CVN - $31.25 billion
4x Dragoon Class CAN - $18 billion
30x Praefele Class DDN (Flight II) - $60.0 billion
20x Bay Class LHD - $36 billion
20x Lake Class AOE - $26 billion
20x Castle Class AOR - $32 billion
20x Tower Class SSBN (Flight II) - $50 billion
20x Vanguard Class SSN (Flight II) - $52 billion
20x Lupus Class SSKN - $17 billion
20x Cuirassier Class SSK - $10 billion
100x Grenadier Class LC - $900 million
10x Knight Class DDN - $17.5 billion
10x Minister Class FFN - $7.5 billion
10x Port Class FS - $3.75 billion

GRAND TOTAL: $361,900,000,000 USD

NOTE: You may notice this exceeds our current annual defence budget of roughly 160 billion USD. Payment for our order will be given over 5 years (you will recieve 72.38 billion USD annually for the next 5 years, and we will pay extra money in service charges if you accept this offer). We will pay an extra service charge to you of 60 billion USD at the comletion of the order. You may ship the order in 1/5ths annually, or all at once. If you do ship our order all at once, we will pay an extra 20 billion upon completion. You may also propose another plan, or if you choose to reject our offer, we shall lower its quantity. We have wired the first 1/5 of our order in advance.

Good Day,
Signed,
Alexo Gordivici
Alexo Gordivici
Minister of Defence

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All orders are confirmed.

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To: Imperial Praetonian Shipyards
From: Empire of Olmedreca

Empire of Olmedreca is extensively reforming its surface fleet and would like to purchase the following:

-Production Rights of IAD-12 'Lance' (Flight III) ASM $2,500,000,000
-30 x County Class CVN $187,500,000,000
-60 x Dragoon Class CAN $270,000,000,000
-90 x Praefele Class DDN (Flight II) $180,000,000,000
-120 x Knight Class DDN 1575 $210,000,000,000
-200 x Minister Class FFN ('N' variant) $150,000,000,000

total: $1,000,000,000,000
We would like to use 10 year payment option with 2% interest, that means:
total: $1,020,000,000,000
payment each year: $102,000,000,000
First payment will be wired upon confirmation of order.

Johan Raudlinn, Minister of War

After the resounding success of the Vanguard II Class Submarine purchased from these yards sometime ago, the IHN has decided to considerably enlarge its stock of Praetonian built vessels.

To that end we seek the purchase of the following:

2x Royal Sovereign Class DN ($275billion each). Sub total: $550billion
20x County Class CVN ($6.25billion each) Subtotal: $125billion
20x Dragon Class CAN (4.5billion each) Subtotal: $90billion
100x Vanguard Class SSN (2.6billion each) Subtotal $260billion

Total: $1,025,000,000,000 ($1.025trillion)

We would prefer to pay with the worlds largest cheque, however wire transfer can be arranged.

-Regards
-The IHN Procurement Department.

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Imperial Ministry of Defence


TO: Imperial Praetonian Shipyards
FROM: Imperial Defence Ministry

We wish to place an order from your prestigous storefront. The Nuevan navy is slowly converting from Phoenix Dynamix ships to (as the Nuevan military believes) the more efficient Praetonian breed. The order reads:

10x Royal Sovereign Class DN - $2.75 Trillion USD
100x Sovereign Class DN (Flight II) - $1.35 Trillion USD
100x Duke Class BCN - $600 Billion USD
1000x County Class CVN - $6.25 Trillion USD
100x Pheasant Class CVLN - $400 Billion USD
100x Dragoon Class CAN - $450 Billion USD
100x Praefele Class DDN (Flight II) - $200 Billion USD
100x Minister Class FFN - $75 Billion USD
100x Port Class FS - $37.5 Billion USD
100x Terror Class - $180 Billion USD
1000x Grenadier Class LC - $90 Billion USD
100x Tower Class SSBN (Flight II) - $250 Billion USD
100x Vanguard Class SSN (Flight II) - $260 Billion USD
100x Lupus Class SSKN - $85 Billion USD
200x Cuirassier Class SSK - $100 Billion USD
Bay Class LHD - $1.8 Billion USD
Lake Class AOE - $1.3 Billion USD
Castle Class AOR - $1.6 Billion USD
1000x Bay Class LHD - $1.8 Trillion USD
100x Lake Class AOE - $130 Billion USD
100x Castle Class AOR - $160 Billion USD
Production Rights to IAD-12 'Lance' (Flight III) ASM - $2.5 Billion USD

GRAND TOTAL: (OOC: Please forgive me, misplaced calculator. Will find in a second. IC again now.)

*Payment is to be given over 10 years. We will gladly pay the 2% interest charge. We propose the order be shipped in tenths.*


Good Day,
Signed,
Briano Gordivici
Briano Gordivici
Imperial Minister of Defence

Navy Purchase Order
Hello. The Peoples Freedom Navy would very much life to purchase ten Royal Sovereign SD for a total of two trillion and seven hundred fifty billion USD. In addition to these mighty warships, we would also like to additionally purchase the DPR's to the 'Lance' missile, these would come to two billion and five hundred million USD. Thank you.

Singed,
Grand Admiral Rodham

HM Military Exports Board

All requests are approved.

[OOC: Can you put up the stats for the Iron Duke class supercapital? I can't find them anywhere and IC my government might be interested in acquiring a couple of them. (Still debating on that, support for Doom might alienate some politicians while others would want naval parity with them.)]

Official Free Dominion of Vetaka Diplomatic Message:

To: Imperial Praetonian Shipyards
From: VDF High Command

Subject: Naval Acquirement

The Free Dominion of Vetaka now feels we are in a position to purhcase and operate a Superdreadnought Flagship for our Naval Fleet as such the we wish to secure two:

Royal Sovereign Class DN - $275 billion

As such we have transfered $550 Billion USD into your bank accounts now thank you for your time.

VDF Supreme Commander Hornblower

Official Free Dominion of Vetaka Diplomatic Message:

The Free Dominion of Vetaka now feels we are in a position to purhcase and operate a Superdreadnought Flagship for our Naval Fleet as such the we wish to secure two:



OOC:I hope you know that we are at peace now...:fluffle:

The Shakal Empire also wishes to purchase these vessels. The Imperial Navy wishes to buy

4 Royal Soverign SD at $275 Billion Each for a grand total of 1.1 Trillion Dollars.

To: Sir Fortuanus Gallius, MP, Director-General of Imperial Praetonian Shipyards
From: Admiral Ben Cordell, Chief of Naval Operations, the Democratic Imperium of Halberdgardia
Re: Purchase

Greetings to our friends at Imperial Praetonian Shipyards. After a lengthy hiatus, our navy requires some measure of revitalization, including new capital ships. As such, we wish to order the following:

Upgrade of one hundred Sovereign-class dreadnaughts to Flight II specifications
Twenty Royal Sovereign-class superdreadnaughts

The sub-total for the purchased vessels (not including the upgrades, the cost of which we leave for you to determine) comes out to $5,500,000,000,000. Payment will be wired upon confirmation of our order, with the payment for the upgrades to the specified vessels to follow upon the determination of costs for such an endeavor.

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

To: Sir Fortuanus Gallius, MP, Director-General of Imperial Praetonian Shipyards
From: Admiral Ben Cordell, Chief of Naval Operations, the Democratic Imperium of Halberdgardia
Re: Purchase

Greetings to our friends at Imperial Praetonian Shipyards. After a lengthy hiatus, our navy requires some measure of revitalization, including new capital ships. As such, we wish to order the following:

Upgrade of one hundred Sovereign-class dreadnaughts to Flight II specifications
Twenty Royal Sovereign-class superdreadnaughts

The sub-total for the purchased vessels (not including the upgrades, the cost of which we leave for you to determine) comes out to $5,500,000,000,000. Payment will be wired upon confirmation of our order, with the payment for the upgrades to the specified vessels to follow upon the determination of costs for such an endeavor.

Respectfully,
Admiral Ben Cordell
Chief of Naval Operations
The Democratic Imperium of Halberdgardia
[OOC: * Southeast Asia pounces on Halberdgardia, and gives him a BIG hug. Welcome back. What's your AIM? Anyway, I need to make an order.]

To: Sir Fortuanus Gallius, MP, Director-General of Imperial Praetonian Shipyards, plc.
From: Paul David Nettleton, Minister of Defense, United Sovereign Nations of Southeast Asia
Subject: Pheasant-class procurement

Dear Sir Fortuanus Gallius,

As part of the modernization program, and as part of helping to relieve the roles of our more venerable aircraft carriers in service, I have returned. In order to help bring in aerial support for our larger vessels (i.e. escortation duty) in the Southeast Asian Federal-Parliamentarian Navy, I request another ten Pheasant-class nuclear-powered trimaran light aircraft carriers. As in the previous contract, the procurement cost of 40,000,000,000 Universal Standard Dollars shall be wired to you in series of quarter price every five [OOC: NS] years.

Yours Sincerely,
His Excellency,
Paul David Nettleton
Minister of Defense
United Sovereign Nations of Southeast Asia

Official Free Dominion of Vetaka Diplomatic Message:

To: Sir Fortuanus Gallius, MP, Director-General of Imperial Praetonian Shipyards
From: VDF High Command

Subject: Purchase

Greetings,

The Free Dominion of Vetaka would like to purchase the Domestic Production Rights to the IAD-12 'Lance' (Flight III) ASM as a result we are wiring the following funds of:

$2,500,000,000

Into your banks accounts. Thank You For you Time.

Jonathon Stone

Supreme Operational Commander of the Vetakan Defence Forces

To: Praetonian Imperial Shipyards
From: New Manthian Denomination of Strategy (procurement office)

Dear Sirs,

As part of our ongoing naval expansion and modernization program, New Manth would like to purchase the following craft:

2 Royal Sovereign class superdreadnoughts - 550 bn
12 Sovereign class dreadnaughts - 162 bn
240 Minister class FFNs - 180 bn
200 Knight class destroyers - 350 bn
40 Tower class SSBNs - 100 bn
100 Vanguard class SSNs - 260 bn
40 Lupus class SSKNs - 34 bn
120 Cuirassier class SSKs - 60 bn

The total comes to 1,696 bn, which we would like to pay for over the time span of five years. 16.96 bn (1% interest) will be added to cover the five-year plan, bringing the grand total to 1,712.96 bn.

We'd also like to purchase rights to the Lance ASM for 2.5 bn, which will be paid immediately.

Regards

To: IPS
From: Siriusa

We would like to make the following purchases:

40 Duke Class BCN
40 Dragoon Class CAN
80 Praefele Class DDN (Flight II)
DPRs for IAD-12 'Lance' (Flight III)

The total comes to 582.5 Billion USD. We have set aside the necessary funds which will be wired upon the confirmation of our order.

OOC: I'm not sure if these ships are out of commission, but these two just kinda died off without a reply...
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To: Imperial Praetonian Shipyards
From: Commodore Anton Dever- Smith
Naval Procurement Grand Duchy of Tarlag

I have been authorized by the Grand Duke to Request the building of Ten
Royal Sovereign Class DNs at a cost of 2.75 trillion to be paid over the next three years. My government would like conformation on this as soon as possible to begin training the crews for these vessels.

Greetings Friends.

Onec again, the Commonwealth of Northford is pleased to once again place an order with the esteemed IPS. The world is becoming a more dangerous place: Where better to look for our Defensive wares than the the IPS, where, as a repeat customer, we have come to appreciate the good service, quality and integrity you offer.

To that end, we place the following order:

400 Praefele Class DDN (Flight II)
150 Knight Class DDN
600 Minister Class FFN
100 Port Class FS
48 Terror Class
300 Grenadier Class LC

Also, the Commonwealth would like to purchase the DPR for the Lance Class ASM, along with an electronics bed, so we can launch these wonderful missiles from our own, indigenous Trucks.

The Grand Total for this order comes to 1641.6 Billion Universal Standard Dollars, and will be drawn from our Defence Budget.

This is my first order on the open market, so I am not sure how to transfer funds. If you are willing to explain this process to me our Nation would like to begin building a Coast Guard fleet.
We would like to begin with: 5-Port Class FS ships with additional amunition supplies as we have no domestic production abilities for munitions. Also we are in need of 1-Port Class ship unarmed for training purposes. If you produce helocopters we would like the ships out fitted with them for long range search and rescue missions.
We are willing to pay the 1.875B USD for the 5 armed ships. Please provide pricing for the training ship and helocpoters.

This is my first order on the open market, so I am not sure how to transfer funds. If you are willing to explain this process to me our Nation would like to begin building a Coast Guard fleet.
We would like to begin with: 5-Port Class FS ships with additional amunition supplies as we have no domestic production abilities for munitions. Also we are in need of 1-Port Class ship unarmed for training purposes. If you produce helocopters we would like the ships out fitted with them for long range search and rescue missions.

OOC: You check your defense budget on an economy calculator ( http://nsdossier.texasregion.net/main.aspx) and that is pretty much how much you can spend in places like storefronts. You don't hit a button and wire the money voilà, you have to role-play spending your money. Of course this means you can lie, but storefront owners generally can tell something's up when a nation that's less than a month old is ordering 10 superdreadnoughts.
It is also important that you keep track of what you buy and what purchases you've made. I, myself, keep a word document open detailing all of my transactions and equipment, but there are probably some who go even farther (or is it further?).
Also, most storefronts make you do your own math (add up the purchases) so it's easier for them and you.

I hope this made sense, enjoy the game.

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To: Director-General of Imperial Praetonian Shipyards
From: Imperial Thrashian Admiralty

In a desire to expand the ever growing arms of the Empire of Thrashia, a large portion of his majesty's trade surplus has been given to the Navy in order to appropriate more vessels of superior quality. As such we were directed by foreign advisers of your shipyards and as such would like to buy the following:

1 Sovereign Class DN - $13,500,000,000 x 1 = $13,500,000,000
6 County Class CVN - $6,250,000,000 x 6 = $37,500,000,000
12 Pheasant Class CVLN - $4,000,000,000 x 12 = $48,000,000,000
8 Dragoon Class CAN - $4,500,000,000 x 8 = $36,000,000,000
12 Minister Class FFN - $750,000,000 x 12 = $9,000,000,000
20 Knight Class DDN - $1,750,000,000 x 20 = $35,000,000,000
60 Port Class FS - $375,000,000 x 60 = $22,500,000,000
120 Lupus Class SSKN - $850,000,000 x 120 = $102,000,000,000
30 Vanguard Class SSN - $2,600,000,000 x 30 = $78,000,000,000
30 Tower Class SSBN - $2,500,000,000 x 30 = $75,000,000,000
300 Bay Class Amphibious Assault Vessels - $1,800,000,000 x 300 = $540,000,000,000
200 Lake Class Tankers - $1,300,000,000 x 200 = $260,000,000,000
70 Castle Class AOE - $1,600,000,000 x 70 = $112,000,000,000

Total = $1,368,500,000,000

The payment for these purchases can be either paid in packets or in a single transfer of monies from Thrashian accounts. I leave such discretion to you as Director-General. Cheers and good health.

Signed,
Grand Admiral Rudolf van Karlstein
Commander in Chief
Imperial Thrashian Navy

OOC: If you wish to confirm my ability to purchase, here is a LINK (http://nseconomy.thirdgeek.com/nseconomy.php?nation=Thrashia) to my NSEconomy page. My trade surplus is great. :-)

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Approved.

btw I stopped maintaining this a while ago, so future orders may not be approved.

Approved.

btw I stopped maintaining this a while ago, so future orders may not be approved.

Ah, gotcha. Thanks however for the approval.

How much would it cost for me to have production rights on most of the ships I bought from you previously? That way I won't have to keep bothering you for more. :)

OOC: On the off chance you check this.

That Commonwealth of Tolvan would like to procure production rights to the Lance AShM (both variants).