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Official Communique from the Volzgradien Government

To: The nations of the world
From: High General Alexei Sarlovic

This is a general invitation to all nations who wish to put forth their airship designs. After the recent war over the small island nation of Rynibar, we have noted the immense effectiveness of only a handful of heavy airships. We accept all designs into the trial so long as they are within our guidelines. The airships may be of any shape be it zeppelins or highly advanced mega planes. Once a sufficient amount of nations have put forth their airships, then the trials will begin promptly the next day.

The winning nation's airship will be immediately requested for purchase by our airforce. A larger amount will be payed if the nation provided the manufacturing rights to Volzgrad. We hope to see a high turnout for this event. On a side note, even nations that have been at war with us like Alfegos may enter. Good luck and have fun blowing up those targets!

Guidelines

Length: Larger then 100 yards but no more then 800 yards
Width: 50 to 100 yards
Armament: We are lenient, the airship must be capable of accepting a large bomb/missile load (1000 lb.)
Durability: The airship must be able to survive heavy AA fire from both land and air based weapons systems

Trials

The trials will consist of various tests and courses that the airships must accomplish. There will be trials in desert, woodland, urban, jungle, and mountain conditions. The majority of the tests will involve the airship destroying targets within a certain amount of time and how accurate the weapons are. We will also be testing the durability of the airships using various kinds of flak and later moving on to missiles.

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(OOC: Missed this... as a consiliaiton, know you are talking to the best airship designer on NS. Prevania being alongside me, him being the fount of all my knowledge, ideas (if occasionally wacky) and inspiration. So, let's have one of the best airships you could hope to find.)


To: Volzgrad Authorities

We wish to highlight your attention to the Consul Class Aerocruiser, manufactured within Prevania and Alfegos by both Alfegos Aeronautics and a Prevanian consortium of companies, and under license in Colstream, Mokastana and Zaheran.
The Consul is an excellent vessel, combining state-of-the-art countermeasures systems with a large missile payload, relatively high speed and ultra-long range. At a length of 650m, it satisfies the requirement of 800 yards maximum (720m), whilst provided over 800 metric tonnes of missile payload.
For more details, please look here (http://z4.invisionfree.com/NSDraftroom/index.php?showtopic=3439). If you wish for the airship to be tested, we are able to loan you a Consul-class Aerocruiser, along with training personnel to instruct crews and demonstrate the airship's effectiveness.

Yours,
Alfegos Aeronautics

OOC: Great design. It reminds me of the Kirov airship in Red Alert 2.

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Official Communique from the Volzgradien Government

To: The Military of Alfegos

We would be honored if you sent one Consul-class Aerocruiser for the trials. We are extremely interested in purchasing it, seeing as our own airship designs are much inferior. We thank you for providing much more then the necessary information on your craft. Our troops already are familiar with the immense destructive power of even a handful of these Aerocruisers.

If the Consul-class is the victor in the trials, we shall place an order immediately. Also, we would be very pleased if you could sell us the manufacturing rights to the Consul Aerocruiser.

(OOC: Alfegos Aeronautics is the main airship builder in Alfegos. I love the design, though I've never really played on C&C. This one is the one I've done with the greatest focus on it, and has the most uses and RP'ing experience.)

We thank you for accepting our offer, and will dispatch an airship immediately. Being recently constructed, it has no official designation as of yet, except for the current civilian registration NL-012M. Arrival will be within 48 hours under its own power from its holding place at Neo'los.
Note that facilities for airship construction are highly specialised, to the point that we recommend that the cheapest option would be to purchase the airships, though we can enter further negotiations should the airship design be accepted.

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The airship passed over the quiet seascape below, engines throbbing as it moved towards its destination. Aboard, the large training crew sat at the controls, at rest or at sleep, running the massive airship as it passed into international waters. Weapons lay at rest as it peacefully carried onwards through the clouds, dropping the occasional piece of ballast as it lifted upwards towards the sky. Behind it, the four support ekranoplans started up behind, slowly cruising as the airship moved towards the same destination as the airship, carrying large volumes of spare parts, emergency engineering crews and extra fuel canisters to fuel the airship. One held mobile mooring vehicles, to help hold down the vessel at rest whilst the testing was carried out. The sun shone over the aluminium tail as it passed away from its homeland, towards uncertain foreign shores.