NationStates Jolt Archive

Lost Hills, your order has been confirmed.

Blackhelm Confederacy, as part of the Kraven Corporation coalition, your request has been refused.

Lost Hills Department of Defense
Office of Procurement

Lost Hills is interested in purchasing the following as soon as our previous order has been completed:

200x Bullfinch-class FFH
200x Furtive-class FFH with MONARC gun
150x Wallace-class DDG (GP)
120x County-class DDG (AD)
120x City-class DDG (AS)
60x Alderdom-class CLGN
90x Morrígan-class CGN
50x Regent-class CAGN
50x Princess-class CBGN
60x Consort-class CBGN
15x Ocean-class BBGN
20x Bastion-class BBGN
10x King Henry V-class BBGN
15x Treaty-class BBGN
20x Peel-class CVBN
6x Union-class heavy aircraft carrier
10x Chancellor-class CVBN
6x Cernunnos-class command battleship (BCN)
60x Bloch-class SSN
60x Forthar-class SSN
60x Pechtas-class SSGN

For a total of $4285.25 billion to be spread over the course of delivery. We understand this is a significant undertaking and would like an estimate on the time needed to complete it. Thank you.

Lost Hills, apologies for the delay in replying. Your order has been approved and should be completed within about 8 NS years/RL days from receiving your order. Again, my apologies for the delay.

Kingdom of the Bautizan Islands (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?p=13328684)
Ministry of Defense

The Ministry of Defense of the Kingdom of the Bautizan Islands is considering the possibility of placing an order with the Royal Shipyards of Isselmere-Nieland. Before placing this order however we wish to inquire as to the price of the Morrigan class CGN; your storefront lists the price as $1.8 million, but the more detailed information section of your arms catalog lists the price as $1.6 million.

We would appreciate clarification on this matter.

Sincerely,
Sir Patrick Joyner III (KCVO)
Minister of Defense

To: Sir Patrick Joyner III, KCVO, Minister of Defense, Kingdom of the Bautizan Islands
From: Neville Colwan, Director-General, Royal Shipyards, UKIN
Subject: Re: Pricing of Morrígan-class CGN

Your Excellency,

My humblest apologies for the delay in replying as well as the confusion regarding the cost of the Morrígan class nuclear powered cruiser. The proper cost of the vessel is $1.8 billion, rather than the $1.6 billion previously recorded. Once more, I apologise for the confusion.

Sincerely yours,

Neville Colwan
Director General
Royal Shipyards
UKIN

Kingdom of the Bautizan Islands (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?p=13328684)
Ministry of Defense

The Ministry of Defense of the Kingdom of the Bautizan Islands would like to place an order for the following units with the Royal Shipyards of Isselmere-Nieland:

12 Chancellor class CVBN
22 Hornby class CVLN
12 King Henry V class BBGN
25 Castle class CAG(N) (nuclear-powered variant)
24 Morrigan class CGN
80 Wallace class DDG
30 County class DDG(AD)
20 City class DDG(AS)
186 Bullfinch class FFH
44 River class K
68 Forthar class SSN
18 Stortbek class SSI
6 Siren class AGI
6 Lem class AFSN
35 Flansburgh class AOR
25 Guiness class AOEN
17 Aylesburgh class AS
10 Lord class LHD
5 Quay class LHR
10 Ungforth class LPD
15 Valley class LSD
42 Lake class MCDV
44 Geri class PG
6 Breakwater MCDA
12 Nanuk class AGB
50 Gull class ATF
150 Shorebird class YTB

By the calculations of the Ministry of Defense, the total of this order is $1,306,652,200,000.00, payable immediately upon confirmation of this order. On a further note (not connected to this order) I would also like to inquire separately as to the development status of the Bailie class destroyer tender referenced in your storefront.

Sincerely,
Sir Patrick Joyner III (KCVO)
Minister of Defense

To the Kingdom of the Bautizan Islands, my sincere apologies for the delay in replying and for the brevity of this response. Your order has been confirmed as of one NS hour from its sending/being received. With respect to the Bailie-class destroyer tender, the proposed class has been placed on hold pending revisions to the existing classes of replenishment vessels that may make the Bailie class redundant. My apologies to the exceeding delay in producing those changes as well as any statement with regard to the Bailie and other proposed classes.

Sincerely yours,
UKIN

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The United Socialist States of Yanitaria would like to purchase the following:

Consort Class (x24)
Regent Class (x16)
Bullfinch Class (x72)
General Marsden Class (x8)
Gabin Class (x8)
Hobbes Class (x8)
Aylesburgh (x8)
Guinness Class (x24)
Smith Class (x24)
Lem Class (x24)
Nanuk Class (x16)
Gull Class (x72)
Shorebird Class (x72)

For the total of $474.432 Billion USD.

We are also currently perusing your selection of submarines and landing craft, and will most likely place another order in one year.

EDIT: We would also like to know if the torpedo tubes on all relevant vessels can be modified to the 762mm Yanitarian standard. We will pay extra for this. We would also be willing to pay extra if we could have our order filled quickly.

(OOC: I forgot the subs such, and need to go back to look them over).

Trivalvian Department of National Defense
Purchases Division

The Trivalvian Armed Forces wishes to submit the following request to RSIN:

Purchase Request:
4 Court-class CVGN - $3,750,000,000.00/unit - $15,000,000,000.00
8 Wallace-class DDG - $1,100,000,000.00/unit - $8,800,000,000.00
6 Haenulf-class SSJ - $428,000,000.00/unit - $2,568,000,000.00
2 Lord-class LHD - $1,000,000,000.00/unit - $2,000,000,000.00
3 Lem-class AFSN - $1,000,000,000.00/unit - $3,000,000,000.00
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Total Order: $31,368,000,000.00

We will also seek to make an identical purchase as stated above in five (5) NS years.

<signed>
Admiral Everett,
Commander, Trivalvian Armed Forces - Navy

My apologies to you both for the brevity of these replies.

Yanitaria, your order has been approved. With respect to installing 762mm tubes instead of the existing 585/533mm or 650mm tubes on the submarines, it would require extensive modifications (including lengthening the torpedo magazine and loading sections to accommodate the larger weapons) such that the resulting submarines would be an entirely new design. My apologies for any inconvenience this might cause.

Trivalvia, your order has been approved.

As part of an extenstion of our naval forces program the Constitutional State of SaintB would like to purchase the following:

15 Siren Class AGI - 5.625 Billion USDs

18 Haenulf Class Patrol Subs - 7.56 Billion USDs

25 Bloch Class Attack Subs - 15.3 Billion USDs

15 Forther Class Attack Subs - 24.75 Billion USDs

Total: 53.235 Billion USDs

It is likely that we will make further purchases.

SaintB, apologies for the brevity of this reply. Your order has been approved.

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By the Tuhran Bel;

The Centralized Mountain States of Snefaldia submits the following purchase order:

2 Royal Holly-class CVBNs -15.7 billion
1 Admiral-class CCN - 3 Billion
5 Wallace-class DDGs- 5.5 billion
2 Port-class SSGs -3.8 billion

Aircraft, to be supplied with the CVBNs-
100 2M Spectre single-seaters - 500 million


Total Cost:28 billion, 500 million

If amenable, payments will be made for the duration of the construction period, with final payments upon completion and delivery. An initial cost would be paid amounting to 8 billion, with additional payments forthcoming. If this is not amenable, please relay concerns to the Ministry of War and better arrangements will be made.

By the Motions,

András Horânyi
First Minister of War

OOC: I'm pretty sure I did the math right, if not I'm profoundly sorry. not my strongest point, the numbers.

OOC: Warning: massive order coming form me in the near future... Expected size will be around... 10-12K ships... I just need to get my fleet org figured.

Snefaldia, I apologise for the brevity of this response. Your order has been approved and payable over the course of production and sea trials (ca. 5-7 NS years, the latter period for the carriers; in other words, 8 billion initial payment is perfectly acceptable). Love the symbol and heading for your Ministry of War, by the way.

Hi, Illior, that sounds good and the yards will be waiting. I'm doing a bit of reorganising of my naval orbat myself ... All the best.

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By the Motions;

The initial payment of 8 billion USD (22.228 billion œ) has been wired to the appropriate account. The professional reputation of your firm has not diminished of late, and we are very happy to do business with the shipyards.

By the Motions;

András Horânyi
First Minister of War

ooc: why thank you! Couldn't find the "untranslated" one at first, so here you go! Pleasure working with you.

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To: Neville Colwan, Director-General, Royal Shipyards
From: Sir Patrick Joyner III, KCVO, Minister of Defense, Kingdom of the Bautizan Islands
Subject: Purchase of Naval Vessels / Private Contract

The Kingdom of the Bautizan Islands, entirely satisfied to date with the vessels that were purchased (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=13334626&postcount=506) some time ago from the Royal Shipyards of Isselmere-Nieland, would like to proceed with a second order to expand its naval forces in light of the possibility of increasing commitments overseas. Therefore we would like to purchase the following units from your arms catalog:

3 Coastal Defense Batteries ($2,739,600,000)
5 Hobbes class hospital ships ($14,100,000,000)
5 General Marsden class personnel transports ($2,000,000,000)
4 Sea Lion class patrol command boats ($1,100,000,000)

For a total of $19,939,600,000, payable immediately upon confirmation of this order. In addition the Ministry is also interested in commissioning the Royal Shipyards of Isselmere-Nieland to produce a private design for the Royal Bautizan Navy's Maritime Sealift Command. Would the shipyards be interested in such a contract?

Sincerely Yours,
Sir Patrick Joyner III, KCVO
Minister of Defense, Kingdom of the Bautizan Islands

From the desk of Peter Boothby, international trade advisor to the House of Boothby.

To whom it may concern,
The House of Boothby has founded a new corporate enterprise, Coastal and Maritime Securities (CMS). We hope to offer private shipping firms and governments services that include onboard and escort security teams for there international shipping vessels and routes.

I am writing to inquire as to what vessel or vessels you could supply CMS. Our needs are as follows;
1.) Vessel should require minimal numbers to operate (preferably 5 or fewer crew men).
2.) Vessel should be capable of transoceanic voyage.
3.) Vessel should have a maximum occupancy over 10 or more.
4.) Vessel should be supplied with or capable of being fitted with mounted weaponry.
5.) Maximum speed should exceed at-least 30 knots in optimum conditions.

Please respond if you feel your fleet has the vessel or vessels necessary to fill these requirements. We look forwards to hearing from you.

Regards,
Peter Boothby

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After much review of all the Royal Shipyards of Isselmere-Nieland has to offer, the Orwellian Meritocracy is interested in purchasing your wares. We are currently revamping our navy, and wish to commission the Royal Shipyards to provide us with all of our battleships, cruisers, and escort ships. We require ships for support of 8 carrier groups, and are willing to pay an extra 100 billion USD bonus as well as the cost of the necessary ships. We thank you for your time, and hope to hear from you soon.

Respectfully yours,
William White
Minister of Defense

Apologies to all for the brevity of this reply.

To Snefaldia, the untranslated version of your Ministry of War's insignia is equally, nay more amazing.

To the Kingdom of Bautizan Islands, your order has been approved. The Royal Shipyards would be interested in producing a vessel for your navy's Maritime Sealift Command, as well.

To the House of Boothby, at present the Royal Shipyards does not produce any vessels with the specifications you have indicated.

To Faxanavia, I must respectfully decline your request as it is contrary to the vested (IC) interests of Isselmere-Nieland.

Apologies to all for the brevity of this reply.

To Snefaldia, the untranslated version of your Ministry of War's insignia is equally, nay more amazing.

To the Kingdom of Bautizan Islands, your order has been approved. The Royal Shipyards would be interested in producing a vessel for your navy's Maritime Sealift Command, as well.

To the House of Boothby, at present the Royal Shipyards does not produce any vessels with the specifications you have indicated.

To Faxanavia, I must respectfully decline your request as it is contrary to the vested (IC) interests of Isselmere-Nieland.


We understand and thank you for your time anyway.

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CLASSIFIED//NO FOREIGN RELEASE

To: Neville Colwan, Director-General, Royal Shipyards
From: Sir Patrick Joyner III, KCVO, Minister of Defense, Kingdom of the Bautizan Islands
Subject: Private Contract

To the Kingdom of Bautizan Islands, your order has been approved. The Royal Shipyards would be interested in producing a vessel for your navy's Maritime Sealift Command, as well.

There appears to have been a clerical error within the Ministry in regards to our earlier proposal of a private contract with the Royal Shipyards of Isselmere-Nieland. (It appears that some erroneous calculations were done at a lower level regarding square footage in cargo space aboard the Gabin class vehicle transport, which led to the private design proposal.) With this error resolved the Kingdom of the Bautizan Islands would like to purchase 40 Gabin vehicle transports from the Royal Shipyards of Isselmere-Nieland, modified to accommodate helicopter pads without support facilities for emergency use.

Separately we are also interested in acquiring domestic production rights for the modified ships for a production run of approximately 50 vessels, to be built at Bautizan shipyards. The Kingdom would also be willing to pay extra in order to modify the domestically-produced vessels to carry Bautizan-designed defensive systems and electronics in place of the Isselmere-Nieland ones specified on the current design.

I look forward to further discussion on this matter.

Sincerely Yours,
Sir Patrick Joyner III, KCVO
Minister of Defense, Kingdom of the Bautizan Islands

SIC:

From:Liviu Librescu, President of The Principality,
To: Neville Colwan, Director-General, Royal Shipyards,
Subject: Ship Acquisition, Further cooperation,

It is with great pleasure that the Principality announces another payment in account of the acquisition arranged between our respective governments. We hope that further acquisitions are to be made and we would like to reaffirm our desire to acquire the following ships, or the productions rights pertaining to them , once they become available:

16 Arsenal Ship
400 Ballie Class (AD)
16 Sedna Class (AGBN)

Respectfully yours,
Liviu Librescu

Apologies for the brevity of these replies.

To the Kingdom of the Bautizan Islands, the Royal Shipyards no longer issues domestic production rights (DPRs) for its designs. If, however, you wish to establish a satellite yard in your nation for local production, that could be arranged. As for equipping the ships with Bautizan designed weapons and systems, that would not be an issue.

To the Principality of Damirez, there is not presently an arsenal ship in the Royal Shipyards catalogue, but one can be designed for service (it will take perhaps a RL week for the initial design), and at present, both the Sedna-class AGBN and Bailie-class AD designs are on hold. My apologies.

Should either of you have any questions, please feel free to TG me.

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By the Motions;

It is with great happiness that I turn again to the fine services of the Royal Shipyards. Your previous service was exemplary, and it is with pride that the ships of your yards lead the fleets of the Snefaldian navy.

On this occasion, however, I am (quite unfortunately) not placing an order for ships or weapons. We would like to establish satellite yards of the Royal Shipyards in Snefaldia proper, specifically in the port city of Taxilha and in the Fuschal Islands in the Bay of Fuschal.

Taxilha, as the largest city in Snefaldia and the commercial hub of the nation, would serve as an excellent location for a shipyard as it is already a deep-water port with a sizeable workforce. The island of Obom in the Bay of Fuschal is also in suitably deep waters, and the proximity to the Isla Breda Naval Anchorage of the Snefaldian NAvy would ensure safety and the ability for more sensitive projects to be complete away from prying eyes.

The Centralized Mountain States would be honored to be connected with such a prestigious institution as the Royal Shipyards. Please direct you response and further communication to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Sargedain, Snefaldia.

By the Motions,

András Horanânyi
First Minister of War

From: Neville Colwan, Director-General, Royal Shipyards, UKIN
To: Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Centralized Mountain States of Snefaldia
CC: András Horanânyi, First Minister of War, Central Mountain States of Snefaldia
Subject: Satellite yards

Honoured Excellencies:

It is a great pleasure to once more receive a communication from the glorious nation of Snefaldia. Your request to establish satellite shipyards in Taxilha and the Fuschal Islands has been approved. Provisionally, the yards will be designated Taxilha Shipyard (RS) and Obom-Fuschal Shipyard (RS), respectively, and will operate under the umbrella corporation Royal Shipyards (Snefaldia). Should you have any concern regarding the nomenclature of these entities, which may be readily altered to conform to your wishes, or any other queries, please contact me.

Sincerely yours,

Neville Colwan
Director-General
Royal Shipyards
Grimsby Downs, Anguist, UKIN

From: FutureEngland Military Procurement Department

We would like to purchase the following items:

5 x Europa-class BBCN - $1.875 Trillion USD

Thank you for the business

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From: Honored Arsaþæ Ren Dirh, First Minister of Foreign Affairs

To: Mr. Neville Colwan Director-General, Royal Shipyards, UKIN

Mr. Colwan,

Your letter has been recieved most happily by my government, and the Tuhran Bel is glad to have the good name of the Royal Shipyards attached to Snefaldia's commercial and labour interests. I am personally pleased at your decision to begin business in the Centralized Mountain States, as is Minister Horânyi.

As per Snefaldian law, I am required to inform you of the various labour and incorporation laws of the country, the details which are enclosed. The creation of a Royal Shipyards- Snefaldia entity fulfills the incorporation requirement.

The Bel has, however, given me a request regarding the titles of the future shipyards- though your suggestions are infinitely acceptable, my superiors have a more... lofty view of what the names should be, and have provided me with these alternates- for the Taxilhan yards, they have proposed "Port City Shipyards (RS)", from the English translation of the word Taxilha, and for the yards in the bay they have provided me with Obom Fleet Yards. They are, however, open to further suggestions. I am sure I do not need to explain to you the peculiarities of high government officials.

If there are any further questions, I would be happy to answer. The relevant business documents and forms can be found with the Ministry of Commerce and Ministry of the Treasury, addresses enclosed. Thank you very much for your attention, Snefaldia looks forward to your involvement here.

By the Motions;

Ren Dirh
First Minister of Foreign Affairs

Apologies for the brevity of these replies.

Snefaldia, first off, I adore the colour insignia. Secondly, the names for the shipyards will be those you have specified, Port City Shipyards (RS) in Taxilha and Obom Fleet Yards in the Bay of Fuschal. Apologies for the delay in replying.

FutureEngland, your order for five Europa-class super Dreadnoughts awaits a background check, which should be completed within 24 RL hours. My apologies for the delay, but the Royal Shipyards does not regularly sell vessels to nations with limited civil and/or political rights for IC reasons.

Sincerest apologies for the ridiculously extended delays; general nonsense keeps getting in the way ...

Damirez, if you are still interested in the arsenal ship, I should be able to provide a basic stat block by Friday, and will pass it before the Draftroom people.

FutureEngland, I regret that I will have to reject your order.

And I'm revisiting the Coalport design again -- it should be up within a couple of weeks.

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Official Communiqué

Greetings!

As the Akimonad Defence Forces' needs for a larger operational force increase, we find ourselves in need of larger and more capable ships, specifically carriers.

To this end, we have reviewed your products as well as many others, and we have decided to purchase from you.

We would like to acquire three (3) Union-class CVBNs for a total cost of $192 billion.

Thank you,
-signed-
Admiral Tyler C. Keynes,
Director, Office of Procurement

[OOC: Bumped with permission.]

Diplomatic Transmission

Following a performance assessment of our current naval capabilities, the Peacekeepers reached the conclusion that new military vessels are to be brought into service as to ease the current logistical and operational demands and allow for greater power projection on our part.

Therefore we would like to acquire the following ships at this moment for our fleets:

300 x Chancellor-class CVBN $5820 billion
600 x Alderdom-class CLGN $2052 billion
1200 x Síanach-class DDGN $2304 billion
600 x Nowotny-class SSN $1464 billion
600 x Lem-class fast combat stores ship (AFSN) $600 billion

Totals:

3300 ships
$12240 billion

Payment for the above ships will be done in five yearly instalments with further interest in purchasing your products.

Naval Commander, Acquisition Responsible, Anduil Svegrad.

Apologies for the extended delay, and for the brevity of this response.

Akimonad and Aleos, your respective orders have been approved. The orders have been in process as of 1 NS hour from their reception. Timeline for completion will be listed as soon as time permits. Again, apologies for the delay(s). Thank you for your orders, and best wishes on the high seas.

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Official Diplomatic Communiqué
The Imperial Republic of New Pictavia
ENCRYPTION: Secure Channel
TO: The Royal Shipyards of Isselmere-Nieland
SUBJECT: Procurement of Imperial Fleet
DATE: 12 APRIL MMVIII

MESSAGE: The time has come to replace the ageing Hybalt fleet that has so vigilantly safeguarded Pictish waters for years. Thus, the Imperial Republic wishes to award The Royal Shipyards of Isselmere-Nieland the contract to construct an entirely new fleet for deployment in the defence of the realm.

ORDER:

[12] x Union-class CVBN [64,000,000,000] USD = [768,000,000,000]
[60] x Síanach-class DDGN [1,920,000,000] USD = [138,240,000,000]
[24] x Nowotny-class SSN [2,440,000,000] USD = [58,560,000,000]
[12] x Chamberlain-class SSBN [6,120,000,000] USD = [73,440,000,000]
[4] x Marquess-class LHCN [66,000,000,000] USD = [264,000,000,000]
[24] x Ungforth-class LPD [600,000,000] USD = [14,400,000,000]
[6] x Admiral-class CCN [3,000,000,000] USD = [18,000,000,000]
[72] x Guinness-class AOEN [1,480,000,000] USD = [106,560,000,000]

TOTAL= [1,441,200,000,000] USD (Wired upon confirmation of order)

Regards,
[SIGNED]
Lord Praetor Aidan Ría of the Imperial Armed Forces, Imperial Parliamentarian,
Councillor of Imperial Defence.

OOC:

Techinical quesition about the 610mm guns on both the King Henry and Kingdom class BB's. What is the maximum effective range of these guns? I have scoured over the data contained here and can't find it. I have purchased several units in the past, and I need this information for my specifications sheet.


Thanks in advance,


Hawdawg

Apologies for the delay in replying.

Nova Pictavia, your order has been approved and has been in process as of 1 NS hour from its reception.

Hawdawg, I do not have that information at hand at the moment, but will respond to inquiry ASAP. Apologies for the continued delay.

Hawdawg, for a basic 24"/610 mm AP shell (3842 kg), with a muzzle velocity of about 850 m/s (assuming conventional as opposed to ETC ignition), I get a range of about 45.3 km, but an extended range projectile could at the least triple or possibly quadruple that range. Mind, it's been a while since I've done the original calculations and I seem to have misplaced my original results.

Hawdawg, for a basic 24"/610 mm AP shell (3842 kg), with a muzzle velocity of about 850 m/s (assuming conventional as opposed to ETC ignition), I get a range of about 45.3 km, but an extended range projectile could at the least triple or possibly quadruple that range. Mind, it's been a while since I've done the original calculations and I seem to have misplaced my original results.

Thanks for the information, I have it tucked away in a safe place.


-Hawdawg

The Imperial Navy of the Ryou Black Islands would like to by 4 Jimnam-class BBAN's for $ 848 billion

Money to be wired on Confirmation.

Greal is interested in buying the following:

10 Union-class heavy aircraft carriers for 640 billion dollars
40 Hornby-class CVLNs for 80 billion dollars
10 House-class CVBNs for 125 billion dollars
1 Europa-class BBCN for 375 billion dollars
20 Coronation-class BBGNs for 320 billion dollars
20 Charter-class BBGNs for 180 billion dollars
60 Sea-class CBGNs for 192 billion dollars
100 Province-class CGs for 140 billion dollars
300 County-class DDG (AD)s for 300 billion dollars

Total cost: 2.352 trillion dollars

Money will be wired upon confirmation

Greetings,

Vandaheim is looking to update it's submarine forces. We require:

48 Chamberlain SSGN = 293.76 Billion
144 Chamberlain SSBN = 881.28 Billion
288 Tichy SSN = 537.1776 Billion
432 Nowotny SSN = 1,054.08 Billion
5,000 Canary DMNC.1 = 10 Billion
3,100 Squid LIM-2.2 = 12.4 Billion

Total 2.7886976 Trillion Dollars

Payment to be made in equal annual distributions over the course of the delivery schedule.

Thank you,

Cal Penderson

Director
Vandaheim Defense Material Command

OOC: would it be possible to make nuclear versions of the Province and Duchy class cruisers?

Apologies for the lateness and brevity of this reply.

The Ryou Black Islands, Greal, and Vandaheim, your orders have been confirmed.

Vandaheim, it would be possible to build nuclear versions of the Province and Duchy classes, but the cost for each would be substantially greater than the present cost (i.e., about 25-40% more; I haven't done the precise pricing as of yet) and would require more crew to maintain the reactor systems.

Thank you all for your orders, and again, apologies for the lateness of this reply.

Money Wired.

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Mr Neville Colwan,
Director-General, Royal Shipyards
The United Kingdom of Isselmere-Nieland

Dear Mr Colwan,

I am writing to you in my position as Secretary-General of the Independent Red Crystal Organisation to express my organisation's interest in acquiring a single Hobbes-class hospital ship with certain modifications, described below. In order that we might make adequate financial provision, I would very much like to have a final price to put before prospective donors and the financial directors.

The addition of one of these vessels will represent a doubling of our current hospital ship capacity and shall be a significant boost to both our long-term prevention and general healthcare program and our disaster relief efforts; I am therefore very eager to move this procurement along and shall take a personal interest in its negotiation.

Yours sincerely,

Dr Alexander Robinson



Requested Modifications
To minimise costs and in recognition of our neutral status, the IRCO does not require AAW or countermeasure weapons, or the related electronics suites, although we would request a suitably secure communications suite.

If spare capacity can be made available through the conversion of the marine accommodation, we would be grateful if this could be made into additional storage capacity for assorted medical and dry supplies.

Independent Red Crystal Organisation, first, my apologies for the brevity of this reply. Second, it would certainly be possible to make such modifications, which would reduce the unit price of the vessel to $2.16 billion.

The money shall be wired upon delivery.

*Money Wired*

Greetings,

We've long heard of the reputation of the Royal Shipyards of Isselmere-Nieland, they having served effectively in the navies of many allies and friends of ours for quite some years by now. Seeing the desire of our nation's navy to move to a new-generation technical standard, now that the more-urgent refit of our various land forces is substantially done, I've been authorized to place the following order as part of the refit programme; split into the relevant categories for ease of tabulation and reference below. Naturally, this order will require multiple payments; we believe four annual sums of $5.19385 Trillion NSD would suffice if it should be agreeable to the RSIN.

Capital Ships ($4,142.4 Billion NSD)

150 x Chancellor CVBN ($19.4 Billon NSD per...) = $2,910 Billion NSD (Lead ships for 150 Carrier Strike Groups/CVSGs, divided among ten Strike Fleets)
200 x Court CVGN ($3.75 Billion NSD per...) = $750 Billion NSD (Air defense carriers for 150 CVSGs and 50 CCSGs, divided among the ten Strike Fleets)
50 x Consort CBGN ($9.648 Billion NSD per...) = $482.4 Billion NSD (Lead Ships for 50 Cruiser Strike Groups/CCSGs, divided among the ten Strike Fleets)

Escort Ships ($9,345 Billion NSD)

1750 x Alderdom CLGN ($3.42 Billion NSD per...) = $5,985 Billion NSD (One five-ship Cruiser Squadron per Strike Group in each of ten Strike Fleets, aka 100 per Strike Fleet; and ten squadrons in two Cruiser Flotillas per each of fifteen District Fleets, i.e. 50 per District Fleet)
1750 x Sianach DDGN ($1.92 Billion NSD per...) = $3,360 Billion NSD (Divided as above, one five-ship Destroyer Squadron per Strike Group in each Strike Fleet; ten squadrons in two Flotillas per District Fleet)

Support Ships ($868 Billion NSD)

350 x Lem AFSN ($1 Billion NSD per...) = $350 Billion NSD (One per Strike Group in each Strike Fleet, ten in two Stores Squadrons per District Fleet)
350 x Guiness AOEN ($1.48 Billion NSD per...) = $518 Billion NSD (As above, one per Strike Group in each Strike Fleet; ten in two Replenishment Squadrons per District Fleet...)

Submarines ($6,420 Billion NSD)

375 x Chamberlain SSBN ($6.12 Billion NSD per...) = $2,295 Billion NSD (One five-squadron Strategic Flotilla per Strike Fleet)
375 x Chamberlain SSGN ($6.12 Billion NSD per...) = $2,295 Billion NSD (One five-squadron Tactical Flotilla per Strike Fleet)
750 Nowotny SSN ($2.44 Billion NSD per...) = $1,830 Billion NSD (Two Wolfpack Flotillas per Strike Fleet)

Order Total: 6,100 Ships; $20,775.4 Billion NSD, preferably to be paid in four (4) installments of $5,193.85 Billion NSD per annum over four (4) years.

As part of our order though, the Navy Department has instructed me to request certain modifications be made to the classes as follows prior to delivery: First, removal of the ten side 155mm ETC turrets from each of the Consort class battlecruisers, for replacement with the GWC.98 57mm autocannon/point-defense SAM complex in equal numbers and locations; and second, removal of the four single 203mm ETC turrets from the Sianach class destroyers in favor of fitting in their place four single 155mm ETC mounts of the same type as removed from the Consorts. This way, these vessels can more closely match our naval doctrine as it's currently evolving; which incidentally our internal studies indicated they were a close match for already anyway prior to the modifications being decided upon. Feel free to recycle the relevant removed mounts as you see fit, though if those mounts taken from the battlecruisers could be used in the first batches of the destroyers in this order that would of course be ideal.

Our Thanks and Respects,
-Field Marshal Eileen Millenhaus
Adjutant-Marshal to the Commander-in-Chief, Stewardess of the Revolution Christine Friedrich
Secretary of Defense, RCW Supreme Directory

Apologies for the brevity of this reply, Wagdog. Your order has been approved.

Greal wishes to purchase the following:

10 Union-Class heavy aircraft carriers = 640 billion dollars
30 Chancellor-class CVBNs = 582 billion dollars
1 Europa-class BBCN = 375 billion dollars
10 Kingdom-class BBANs = 880 billion dollars
20 Coronation-class BBGNs = 320 billion dollars
100 Sea-class CBGNs = 320 billion dollars
100 Province-class CGs = 140 billion dollars
150 City-class DDGs = 150 billion dollars
100 Forthar-class SSNs for 165 billion dollars
40 Chamberlain-class SSBNs for 244.8 billion dollars
2 Marquess-class command helicopter assault ship (LHCN)s for 132 billion dollars
50 Lord-class helicopter assault dock (LHD)s for 50 billion dollars

Total cost: 3.948.8 trillion dollars.

Money will be wired upon confirmation.

Greal, apologies for the extended delay in replying and for the brevity of this response. Unfortunately, no further Europa- or Kingdom-class ships are being built, as indicated in the introductory entry for this storefront, mostly for reasons of believability. Should this be an inconvenience, please feel free to telegram me.

The remainder of your order has been processed and ought to be ready soon.

Sincerely,
UKIN

The Great Warlord Republic of Rammsteinburg wishes to make the following purchases:

1 Coronation-class BBGN = $16 billion
24 Wallace-class DDG = $26.4 billion
25 County (Glaines)-class DDG = $25 billion
25 City (Daurmont)-class DDG = $25 billion
25 Furtive class FFH with MONARC turret = $1.625 billion

Total: $94.025 billion

Sincerely,
Fleet Admiral Krystan Gottfried Emmerich, RN
Rammsteinburg Minister of the Navy

Fleet Admiral Thomas Hagan Stuhlmann, RN
Rammsteinburg Minister of War

Eukrid E.F.J. Bach
Prime Minister of Rammsteinburg

Rammsteinburg unfortunately must cancel its order.

Esteemed Shipwrights,

We’ve been most delighted with the service of your classes in our Revolutionary Navy these past years, they having met and exceeded all our expectations quite handily. Now we seek to bolster their numbers, per a long-pending expansion plan that was approved quietly by the National People’s Congress just hours prior to my receiving word the first batch of funds had arrived for spending by my Department as mandated under law. To that effect, we wish to order the following for construction…

Capital Ships ($669.9 Billion USD)
50 x Consort CBGN ($9.648 Billion USD per…) = $482.4 Billion USD
50 x Court CVGN ($3.75 Billion USD per…) = $187.5 Billion USD
Escort Ships ($4,005 Billion USD)
750 x Alderdom CLGN ($3.42 Billion USD per…) = $2,565 Billion USD
750 x Síanach DDGN ($1.92 Billion USD per…) = $1,440 Billion USD
Support Ships ($372 Billion USD)
150 x Lem AFSN ($1 Billion USD per…) = $150 Billion USD
150 x Guiness AOEN ($1.48 Billion USD per…) = $222 Billion USD
Submarines ($2,140 Billion USD)
125 x Chamberlain SSBNs ($6.12 Billion NSD per…) = $765 Billion USD
125 x Chamberlain SSGNs ($6.12 Billion NSD per…) = $765 Billion USD
250 x Nowotny SSNs ($2.44 Billion NSD per…) = $610 Billion USD
Order Total: 2400 Ships, $7186.9 Billion USD; to be paid in two (2) installments of $3593.45 Billion USD per annum commencing upon confirmation of order and timed to coincide with approval of each annual Defense Budget involved.

As in our prior order, we request the removal of the 203mm ETC gun turrets from the destroyers in favor of installing an equivalent number of 155mm ETC turrets in the pattern used on the default-configuration Consort BCGNs as DP mounts; which large cruisers we equally request be refitted as per the prior order as well, with the so-taken mounts perhaps best used for the destroyers as before also. Operational experience with this scheme has indicated the potential usefulness of reinstating the larger caliber default-gun for the destroyers at a later date, yes; but the priority of this order and adherence to present fleet logistical norms dictate that we put off any retrofit of our destroyers to the default Síanach-class standard for the time being. Hence the CNO and myself have concurred in favor of retaining our variant form as-used presently for the sake of said conveniences.

Our Humblest Thanks and Regards,
FM Eileen Millenhaus
Adjutant-Marshal to the Commander-in-Chief, Her Excellency Christine L. Friedrich Stewardess of the Revolution…
Secretary of Defense, RCW Supreme Directory
Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, RCW Department of Defense

Encrypted Message to Royal Shipyards of Isselmere-Nieland

As part of our naval expansion we wish to purchase the following.

100 Chamberlain SSBNs for 612 billion dollars
100 Chamberlain SSGNs for 612 billion dollars
200 Nowotny SSNs for 488 billion dollars
20 Hobbes-class hospital ships for 56.4 billion dollars
300 Gabin-class vehicle transports for 210 billion dollars
400 General Marsden-class personnel transports for 160 billion dollars.

Total cost: 2.1384 trillion dollars

Money will be wired automatically upon confirmation.

Apologies for the delay, Wagdog and Greal. Both orders have been approved and are in progress as of one NS hour of being sent.

Thanks.

OOC: Do you sell DPRs to your missile designs are they only available for purchase?

OOC: Yes, I do sell DPRs for missiles. Any designs in particular?

Whomever it May Concern,

The Royal Navy of the Commonwealth of Tolvan has recently completed its recent Five Year Defence Review and it exposed several weaknesses in the structure and doctrine of the His Majesty's Navy. As a result I have been autohrised to place the following order with your estemmed company.


50x Royal Holly class CVN
25x Region class CBG
90x Duchy class CAG
120x Province class CG
100x Wallace class DDG (GP) (to be known in Tolvanic Service as the Town class)
100x County class DDG (AD)
100x City class DDG (ASW)
100x Bullfinch class FFH
125x Furtive class FFH (with 76mm gun)
50x Lord class LHD
50x Valley class LSD
100x Ungforth class LPD
DPRs for the GWS.57 Erne Medium SAM and GWS.52.2 Pelican AShM


We request that all vessels equipped with the GWLS.60 be shipped without said system as we plan to replace it with our own M207 ASW mortar. We also ask that ships be shipped without AAW systems or CIWS as we plan to replace these systems with our Tolvanic produced systems. Finally, we ask that ships equipped with with the AK-130 130mm and MONARC 155mm guns be shipped without these guns as we place to replace them with our own Mk.48 127mm gun.

Given the size and cost of this order we ask that the ships be delivered in six tranches.

We will wire payment upon confirmation of our order.

Sir Chad Graves
Underminister of Defence for Procurement
Commonwealth of Tolvan

OOC: I didn't bother to compute the vast price of the order since NSTracker (http://nstracker.jfsoftware.com/index.php?nation=tolvan) says I have a Defence Budget of about US$3 trillion, that should be more than enough for this purchase if you break it into six tranches. I'll just wait a week or so before using any of these vessels in any RPs. I trust this meets with your approval.

OOC: Sorry for the delay, Tolvan. It will take a little time to figure out the resulting costs, but it will be substantially reduced from the stated unit prices; I presume you will be providing the ships with locally produced electronics for air defence as well, so that will reduce costs further. I'll be able to get back to you within 24 hours with the total cost, itemised insofar as I am able.

Brief post, but it's all I can manage at present -- I'll provide an itemised list once I'm at home.

Anyway, for the ships, the total price comes to $840,700,500,000 (paid out over six installments). As I wrote previously, this price will be reduced by a fair margin once the systems you mentioned are taken out of the equation. This price, however, presumes most of the electronics suites that equip the ships have been provided. Needless to say, the final cost to your fleet once you install your systems will likely be about $1.35 trillion.

As for the DPRs, the cost will be $2.4 billion for the GWS.57 and $2.8 billion for the GWS.52. These figures are based on the likelihood thousands of such missiles (and their related fire control systems) will be built in your country.

The total cost for the order will be $845,900,500,000. I can provide a complete itemised list if required.

(In any case, the ships are already undergoing production.)

Bump for updated costs on Tolvan's order

These figures are acceptable and within the amount we had allocated for the current Naval Expansion Plan.

We appreciate your assistance and forsee further dealings with your fine company in the future.

Sir Chad Graves
Underminister of Defence for Procurement
Commonwealth of Tolvan

The Commonwealth of Tolvan has found itself quite pleased with the its prior order and wishes to acquire the following ships:

35x Region class CBG
30x Duchy class CAG
60x Province class CG


Of course we ask that the modifications made to our last tranche of vessels be made to this one.

Defense Ministry of the Free Republic of Lamoni

To: Royal Shipyards of Isselmere-Nieland

The Free Republic is impressed with the quality of the ships built for the Delian League Fleet by the Royal Shipyards of Isselmere-Nieland, and so turn to you for the following question(s).

The Lamonian Navy currently has a gaping hole in it's inventory when it comes to ships designed for Mine Countermeasures duty. We are currently looking for suggestions from the Royal Shipyards of Isselmere-Nieland as to the specific products that we can purchase in order to fill this hole in our capabilities. We are fully willing to spread out payments in order to fill this crucial hole in our naval capabilities.

Thank you in advance.

Signed,

James Smolenz
Defense Minister
Free Republic of Lamoni

Apologies for the delay, Tolvan and Lamoni. I will be able to get back to you within about 12 hrs.

The Commonwealth of Tolvan wishes to acquire DPR to the GWS.71 Fulmar AShM in addition to its earlier order.

Tolvan, the total cost of the ships will be $128.76 billion and the DPR for the GWS.71 would be $65 million.

Lamoni, the Lake-class MCDV is the Royal Shipyards' mine countermeasures vessel, supporting two mine-hunting ROVs with side-looking high-frequency sonar arrays (Porpoise). The Squid DSM.1 can also be used to detect mines.

Apologies again for the extended delay. Work, etc.

Defense Ministry of the Free Republic of Lamoni

To: Royal Shipyards of Isselmere-Nieland

The Defense Ministry of the Free Republic of Lamoni is interested in purchasing 20 Lake-class MCDV (Mine Clearance Version), at 105 million standard dollars each; for a total purchase price of 2,100,000,000 standard dollars.

Payment will be wired upon confirmation of this order. Thank you.

Signed,

James Smolenz
Defense Minister
Free Republic of Lamoni

To: James Smolenz, Minister of Defence, Free Republic of Lamoni
From: Neville Colwan, Director-General, Royal Shipyards
Subject: Lake-class mine clearance vessel order

Dear Minister Smolenz:

Your order for 20 Lake-class mine clearance vessels has been approved. The vessels will be ready within [2 RL days].

Thank you for your interest in the Royal Shipyards.

Sincerely,

Neville Colwan

TO: Royal Shipyard of Isselmere-Nieland
FR: United Federation of Military Command, Admiralty

We at the UFMC Admiralty would like to know if we award your Company a $25 Trillion Dollar Naval Contract would you be willing to provide us with naval ships and equipment for those ships?

Apologies for the delay in replying and for the brevity of this reply. The Royal Shipyards would be honoured to provide the navy of the United Federation with the ships it would require.

To: Director-General Colewan, RSIN, and All Others Whom it May Concern
From: Chief Marshal Eileen Millenhaus, RCW DoD and JCS

Esteemed Shipwrights,

So as to avail ourselves of an advantageous lull in international tensions while we can, we’ve decided to flesh-out our present naval organization in terms of certain ship categories we’ve come to deem somewhat under-strength. Hence, the Navy Department under this office has forwarded to me the following to order; all customary modifications specified in prior orders being followed again where applicable but for one exception specified below.

250 Chancellor CVBN ($4.850 Trillion)
250 Court CVGN ($1.875 Trillion)
250 Cernunnos BCN ($2.0 Trillion, replacement of AK-130 installations with GWC.98)
250 Admiral CCN ($750 Billion)
500 Chamberlain SSBN ($3.60 Trillion)
500 Chamberlain SSGN ($3.60 Trillion)
1000 Nowotny SSN ($2.44 Trillion)
500 Virago ASN ($0.441 Trillion)
500 Robust ARSN (($0.388 Trillion)
500 Sedna AGBN (($0.410 Trillion, replacement of AK-130 installations with GWC.98)
Total: $19.9165 Trillion

We also feel now is the optimum time to address certain smaller issues. First, to partially-restore our own Síanach class destroyers’ 203mm/L65 ETC primary DP gun armament in the course of this refit; partially being the operative word since desiring only two main guns (A and Y mounts) to keep within nominal destroyer classification, the superimposed (B and X) mounts we request to be yet again altered to host an appropriate GWC.98 57mm gun/missile-complex module each, to yet further improve upon the base Síanach design’s already-formidable air defense capabilities. We're also interested in how easily the MEQ.188 Valtarn system and associated communications might be put into a modular configuration fit for installation in a Hatchet (http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?ns=1&f=6&t=7237&p=237387#p237387) class frigate, our communications with your representatives about prior ideas of ours regarding Valtarn-capability integration into the fleet by other means having sufficiently dissuaded us from our prior inclination to use the command ships as platforms even if those vessels themselves retained our interest for their original purposes anyway. What additional charges are necessary to convert our 2500 destroyers to the new gunnery configuration specified above, and to cover inquiry and/or research into our Valtarn-module proposal, may of course be charged as needed.

As well we remain interested in eventually acquiring drone capabilities for our vessels; however, unsure at the present moment which options would best fit our particular doctrines for their use, we don’t believe we can delay this order as long as would be required to include them appropriately to our needs this time. To accommodate other pending orders also, notably one placed with the Lyran Governmental Trade Department lodged prior to this (http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1112&p=327031#p322654), we wish to make the first payment be one of $3.9165 Trillion USD as to not risk exceeding our purchasing power (limit of some $12-13 Trillion at any time via this Department’s discretionary slice of the budget) overall during the course of both orders' respective pending periods; following years’ budgets however could easily accommodate two $8 Trillion or more payouts as fitting compensation to complete the order and any surcharges possibly required should the RSIN find this proposal acceptable. In any event, this department offers its’ thanks as always.

Sincerely
CM Eileen Millenhaus
Secretary of Defense, RCW Department of Defense
Chair, RCW Joint Chiefs of Staff
Personal Military Adjutant to Her Excellency, Stewardess of the Revolution Christine Friedrich

OOC: Some fluid-timing in there for the bank's sake, might not be needed but felt best to include if so.

Apologies for both the lateness and the brevity of this reply. [The order was approved as of one hour of being sent.] Your Excellency, your order has been approved and all alterations will be made as requested. Pursuant to your request viz. the Valtarn system, the terms are agreed.

Sincerely,

Neville Colwan, RSIN