[FH] Fleet Size: Alarishi

Making the assumptions of:
-- a population of approximately 30 million in 2187, (higher than
initial estimates but it's amazing what changing your growth rate 1% will
do--and I
had to do that to get the money to build a fleet)
-- a per capita GNP of 10,000 Cr (up from the normal 8000 due to not
having
to cope with government regulations and other hidden taxes--this is
actually a pretty reasonable adjustment since the cost to the average American
family of businesses complying with government regulations is approximately
$7000/year--and that's just the regulations that have had cost studies
done. This is according to a study done by the US Chamber of Commerce),
-- 7% defense tax of which 90% goes to the Navy and 10% to the Army,
-- 35% of service budget available for procurement,
-- 5 year cycle for Army and 30 year cycle for Navy
-- guesstimating that my battalions will be about +50% more expensive
than the normal ones (add powered armor and infantry walkers, take away APCs,
most artillery, and aircraft),
 --ignoring local defense ships and militia, plus a Jerez class vessel
that the AE happened upon (just after it had its FSE codes erased and hadn't
quite had its Islamic Federation codes loaded in--one second is plenty
of time for an assault AI)
--and ignoring battle losses (I assume increased taxes and decreased
development costs in wartime would make up for that--a simplifying and
totally unjustified assumption):

I come up with 114 ships (about 25 CE up to BC, 36 DD or DDH, about 50
SC-FF), and about 20 battalions (or equivalent, since a lot of my troops
are parceled out in companies and platoons). In my copious free time (cough,
cough!) I'll work up a fleet list and army list and post on my

Careful now, or we'll find ourselves visited by smoking men in black who erase
things with extreme prejudice.

8^)

Jim Clem
Full Thrust Site http://www.geocities.com/area51/stargate/2891/ncs.html

On Thu, 18 Mar 1999 08:19:49 -1000 "Jared E Noble"
> <JNOBLE2@mail.aai.arco.com> writes:

<snip cool summary of how you arrived at your budget, etc - very
impressive,
BTW.>

> Hopefully this will help the GZG-Pedia team ("GZG-Pediatricians"?) and

Well, audio buffs are called audiophiles, so would that make the
GZG-Pedia team
into GZG-Pediaphiles?