Perhaps in order to prevent others from thinking that he favors the Army and neglects the Navy, or perhaps because of the space war that the group will fight sooner or later, Ramsey put a lot of effort into the naval plan for 2155.
This can be seen through the Army Plan Book, which is no thicker than a finger, and the Navy Plan Book, which is like a dictionary, in front of him. Where did Ramsey's white hair come from a few days ago.
"I believe everyone here knows that the Army's military expenditure in 2154 is 45 billion US dollars, while the Navy's military expenditure is only 5 billion US dollars." Seeing that everyone was shocked by the heavy plan in front of him and did not dare to reply, Ramsay shook his head. He shook his head and said, "But the Army has more than 100,000 troops to support, including various fighter planes, armored trains, war supplies, etc."
"Four-five billion is already the smallest amount that can be achieved after extreme compression. In comparison, the combat personnel of the Navy Department do not exceed two thousand, and they received fifty billion without any combat tasks assigned to them. I think everyone should agree with the budget of 100 million U.S. dollars, right?"
"I agree. Your Excellency General's vicious vision is a treasure of the group. How can we not believe you?"
Seeing that Ramsey was feeling sorry for himself, Harland quickly stepped into the role of CEO and comforted him with a playful smile: "This is not the beginning of the group, so the military expenditure is slightly insufficient. After my planning, the budget allocation and custody for 2155 has been The military is satisfied."
After hearing this, Ramsay grinned, and a sly look flashed in his eyes, which made the CEO feel deceived, but he couldn't take back what he just said.
"Haha, I'm not joking anymore. If you ask me, five billion in naval military spending is not only not a lot, it's far from it!"
Ramsay laughed and then regained his serious expression, using his vicious eyes to point out that the group's current attitude towards the navy still needs to be more radical in order to have the power to fight against the civilized empires that it will face sooner or later.
However, Ramsay, who is well versed in the idea of advancing before suppressing, quickly explained the configuration of the group's main naval warships in the future according to the three views of the frigate on the holographic projection, giving everyone in the conference room full confidence. .
It is said to be a capital ship, but in fact it is the three old frigates bought from the Quavarian tribe. One of them has been repaired by the power of the system and reached its best condition.
The remaining two ships are parked in the berth on Fenhabenis and are being inspected day and night by the robot engineering team. If nothing goes wrong, they will be fully repaired to the point where they can perform combat missions in less than half a month.
But even if the three frigates have reached the best state of "full health, full armor and full shields", the engineering department still needs to change their weapon configurations, replacing the original small-caliber laser cannons with the latest dual-purpose laser cannons designed by the scientific research department. A 400 mm caliber electromagnetic rail gun is installed, and some small-caliber laser cannons and point defense artillery groups are installed for supplementary firepower.
After these improvements and upgrades are installed, these three reborn frigates will join the group's naval department with a new look as regular warships. They will serve as the mainstay of the group's armed forces for a considerable period of time and protect the group's legitimate business activities.
These three frigates will also receive a loud and appropriate classification name - "Javelin" class frigates.
After seeing the renderings of the modified battleships, Yang Tianyi dared to pat his chest and assure himself that even if the mechanics from the Quavarian tribe came, he might not dare to recognize these three battleships that he was once so familiar with.
The paper data of the "Javelin" class frigate is quite good. The hull length of just over 200 meters allows her to accommodate any whims of scientists from the Scientific Research Department. Whether it is a large-scale fleet battle or a fight against pirates, she can do it. It can be used in various combat missions with its excellent firepower and versatility.
Under extreme circumstances, the entire frigate only needs less than a hundred people to exert its full combat effectiveness. However, in order to make up for the attrition during combat in a timely manner, and considering that multi-purpose frigates sometimes need to cooperate or perform landing missions alone, each Each Javelin-class frigate is expected to carry a combat crew of 400 - including 250 battleship crew members and 150 marines.
Given the continued expansion of naval training facilities and the continued recruitment of reserve crews, the Department of the Navy's current situation is a classic one of "men waiting for ships," rather than "ships waiting for men."
In this regard, Haaland promised that next year he would try his best to build a prototype of a naval dock in the low-Earth orbit of Hughes III, but I am afraid it will only be a prototype.
It is too difficult to build a naval dock independently, which Yang Tianyi also understands. Even if there are drawings of the Oneworld Group space station, it is still very difficult and dangerous to copy them.
Not to mention the various problems that would be encountered when building a star warship from scratch, so he did not expect the group to have the ability to produce its own frigates in a year's time.
However, a construction vessel specifically designed to build space structures might be a good start.
If there were a group of professional engineering ships with lengths ranging from tens to hundreds of meters, many of the group's space projects could be put on the agenda as soon as possible.
The proposal of this idea actually made Gano, who had been sitting there silently, speak up.
"We can find a custom-made engineering ship from the World Group or any shipyard on Fenhabennis. Doesn't the boss have the ability to analyze the spaceship design drawings? Just copy other people's designs first. Anyway, Hughes III and Elysium Space No one will bother us about patent rights."
The method proposed by Garneau made everyone in the conference room shine. They all thought that this was a good method that would allow the group to obtain a professional engineering ship with the best performance in the shortest time.
Especially for the Universal Group, which has a very developed shipbuilding industry, civilian engineering ships are not valuable at all. Every day, countless mining companies or space construction developers find their orbital shipyard on Fenhabennis and submit their shipbuilding orders.
Garno twirled his thin and long beard at the corner of his mouth and said confidently: "The group's arms business on Fenhabenis is quite good. Including the profits from various smuggling, the shipbuilding costs are completely sufficient. The only thing we need to worry about is It’s just that the shipyard has too many orders and the group’s orders need to be queued up.”
"Very good. In that case, I will leave the engineering ship matter to you, Garneau. No matter what method is used, within two months I will see that the group has a perfect ship at the berth on Fenhabennis. Professional engineering vessel!”
"It's been two months, there's no problem, please don't worry!"
After quickly calculating in his mind the possible bribes to the shipyard for jumping the queue and the shipbuilding time, Garneau twirled his beard and gave his guarantee.
After solving the problem of the engineering ship, Ramsay suddenly discovered that the problem of the naval battleship that had troubled him for a long time might soon be solved, which made him very happy.
So after looking through the dictionary-like naval plan, the old general smiled and said that the military report was over. Regarding the details, he would contact the heads of each department individually after the meeting, so as not to take up the precious time of the meeting.
"Well, strong force is the guarantee for the group's survival. Thank you for your hard work, General."
Nodding to Ramsay who sat down, Yang Tianyi turned his attention to Gano, who was still twirling his beard.
"The world of stars doesn't seem to be very peaceful recently. What do you think of this, Garno?"
