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The Red Navy of the Socialist Kingdom of Kopparbergs is building a Blue-water navy

Until today the Red Navy of the Socialist Kingdom of Kopparbergs has been a powerful Green-water navy, which means they're lacking capacities to launch attacks and operations overseas. The existing vessels are a mix of corvettes, patrol boats and diesel-electric submarines, mostly Kilo class and Gotland class.

But that will change now, as Werner Moltov (General Secretary of Kopparbergs' Socialist Party – KSP) and his ruling government has decided that Kopparbergs must increase the capacity of the Red Navy dramatically. Here's an excerpt from Moltov's speech to the nation earlier today:

"As one of the founding members, and also one of the Permanent Security Council members, of GUSN we must be able to assist our fellow allied nations, should they need it. Our Red Navy is very powerful but it lacks the ability to defend another nation overseas, as well as participating in a GUSN sanctioned campaign. We're limited to airlift troops, and that's not effective enough. Today the government of Kopparbergs' has voted to increase the taxes for persons with high incomes to finance this increase of the defense budget.

The first step to a Blue-water navy will be made any day now, as we're in discussions with The Northern Baltic about buying a used aircraft carrier from them."

The Grand Republic of Adamta feels that a nation should be able to defend itself. We feel that communism must be stopped. We are not as hard on socialists, we feel it is not a great form of government, but not as bad as communism. As long as your navy remains for good uses then we have no problem.

Signed,
Chief of Foreign Affairs,
Jeff Goldblom

The former Northern Baltic Carrier The Revolution has been bought by the Red Navy of Kopparbergs, and it will arrive at the navy base in Nykoping tomorrow.

The new name of the Kuznetsov Carrier will be The Avaricious Englishman.

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The Grand Republic of Adamta feels that a nation should be able to defend itself. We feel that communism must be stopped. We are not as hard on socialists, we feel it is not a great form of government, but not as bad as communism. As long as your navy remains for good uses then we have no problem.

Signed,
Chief of Foreign Affairs,
Jeff Goldblom
We politely thanks you for letting us having a navy (while we at the same time writes down the nation of Adamta in the file of Nations likely to be hostile to the GUSN), but we must tell you that we wouldn't have cancelled these plans if you would have stated otherwise.

Åke Stålhandske
Secretary of Foreign Affairs
The Socialist Kingdom of Kopparbergs

We would also like to remind The Socialist Kingdom of Kopparbergs that the carrier they have purchased from us has reactors instead of relying on oil, therefore the range of the ship is greatly increased. However, we will provide reactor speacialists, free of charge, if The Socialist Kingdom of Kopparbergs requests it.

Signed,
John Felton
Head of the Lead Council for Foriegn Relations
Established Party Member
Full Party Loyalty

To: Department of the Navy, Kopparberg
From: Mr. White, foreign affairs officer

Our nation has taken notice of your actions and would like to extend a helping hand. Our government makes a trade of distributing military equipment, for a price.

Your navy and other forces will require a great deal of equipment as time goes on. We recommend you employ our factories and your pocketbooks to facilitate the buildup.

You will find that we service a number of nations, one of which being the Northern Baltic itself, with whom you have made contact. There is a good probability that we originally produced that very carrier. Please inspect our most recent catalogue; a link to the Pudite Military Surplus Distribution Division is provided below.

Good day,
Mr. White.

The United Socialist States of Wagdog's Red Banner Navy wishes to congratulate our fraternal allies in Kopparbergs on their step up to oceanic power. The interests of progressive freedom everywhere are that much safer for it, and we stand ready to cooperate as your new fleet requires of us.
Sincerely,
Grand Admiral Teran Suthonang
Chief of Naval Operations, Wagdoggie Red Banner Navy

As per the Jolt Ordinances of 20XX, the fax machines of the world screamed to life, distributing yet another diplomatic transmission from yet another national leader. The double signature and flowing writing that could have only come from a quill pen served to validate the source: Prime Minister Atal Amner.

Salutations, fellow members of the International Community!
The nation of No Endorse strongly warns against the proliferation of any sort of weaponry to nations of socialist leanings. Communism and Socialism exist as blights upon this planet, and it is only through their elimination that society may proceed to the next great advancement.

As such, any and all nations who proliferate any sort of advanced naval weaponry to the nation of Kopparbergs will come under intense scrutiny, and may even find themselves under sanctions. It is only through unity that the International Community can rid itself of such ideals and install a new sense of nature into the world.
Atal Amner
Atal Amner

ooc: crappy post yeah, mostly just beatin the old war drum.

To: John Felton, The Northern Baltic

We were not aware of the reactors, we thought it was conventionally powered. This is very good news to us, and we would appreciate if you could send a team of reactor experts to us, just to help us getting started with the propulsion system of HMS The Avaricious Englishman.

Åke Stålhandske
Secretary of Foreign Affairs
The Socialist Kingdom of Kopparbergs

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To: Mr. White, foreign affairs officer

Although we already made the necessary contacts for our Navy-upgrade, we thank you for your offers. We're going to consider your equipment next time we're about to buy naval equipment.

Åke Stålhandske
Secretary of Foreign Affairs
The Socialist Kingdom of Kopparbergs

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To: Grand Admiral Teran Suthonang, Chief of Naval Operations, Wagdoggie Red Banner Navy

We thank you for your kind words, and we're really looking forward to engage together with your Red Banner Navy somewhere!

General Carl Hamilton
Secretary of Defense
The Socialist Kingdom of Kopparbergs

A new submarine flotilla is under development in a classified Navy base somewhere on the east coast of Kopparbergs. The delivered submarines so far are six Oscar-II class (project 949) and four Typhoon class (project 941). It's not decided yet if the submarines should be organized as a stand-alone submarine flotilla, or if they're going to be included in the forthcoming carrier battle groups.

In addition to the new 949 and 941 submarines, there are also the current inventory of Gotland class and Kilo class submarines.

Since we have been slowly phasing out some of our older military equipment we are willing to provide you with some of our surpluse free of charge as long as it gets a good home

we can provide you with: -
70 F/A-18's For your Carrier
32 Sea Harriers
4 x Type 42 Sheffield Class Destroyers
2 x Broadsword Class Frigates
2 Los Angeles Class Attack Submarines
4 x Modernized Vangaurd Class Battleships.

We thank you very much for giving this to us! Although we're building up our Red Army/Navy/Air Force with equipment from the East Block, we will of course take this older equipment of yours. It will give our Red Navy a very large boost. Thank you, Animarnia!

Signed,
General Carl Hamilton
Secretary of Defense
The Socialist Kingdom of Kopparbergs

Somewhere in the Admiralty's War Room, somebody notified another person that a communist nation, Kopparbergs is developing a blue water navy. After five minutes discussion and consultation with the ASCN, they decide to run this through the operations planning computer, with some basic terrain, to see what would be needed to defeat this force. The results are printed off and stored in a file somewhere in the War Room, perhaps for later use.

Public announcement from the Red Navy of the Socialist Kingdom of Kopparbergs

Today the first carrier battlegroup is completed, with the latest delivery of the Kara Class cruisers (Project 1134B). The flagship of the battlegroup is the Kuznetsov carrier HMS The Avaricious Englishman (former Northern Baltic Carrier The Revolution).

This was the first giant step towards making our Red Navy much more powerful on the international scene. The development will continue, and at the moment ten carrier battlegroups are planned (with different configurations).

Shortly HMS The Avaricious Englishman and its battlegroup will begin exercises in the waters outside Kopparbergs, to make sure they work well together.

Admiral Oscar von Sydow
Chairman of the Naval Command
The Socialist Kingdom of Kopparbergs

Attachment 1.A, specification of one Kuznetsov Carrier Battlegroup
1 Admiral Kuznetsov Class Aircraft carrier
2 Kirov Class Battlecruiser
2 Krivak Class
2 Udaloy II Class
2 Kara Class
3 Sovremenny Class
2 Typhoon (941) Class Submarines (Ballistic, torpedo, missiles)
2 Oscar-II (949) Class Submarines (Cruise-missile, attack sub)
An unspecified amount of support ships