[FT]Fleet sizes...

I am working on my own "Unofficial Nation" for FT. (Cartographers don't
have to worry about map space....you can relax..    :)	)

Had a question about fleet sizes. Is there an accepted ratio of fleet
size to population size? (ie. how many ships -- of verious sizes -- per
million of planetary population?)

I don't want munchkinize the size of my fleet...Just a believable size.

Don H wondered:

> Had a question about fleet sizes. Is there an accepted ratio of fleet

My assumptions are: Population * 24000$ = GNP GNP * 5% = defense budget
Defense Budget * 80% = Navy Budget (most countries would have a much lower
Navy:Army ratio than
Alarish--USN
is about 35% of US Defense budget) Navy Budget * 35% = Ship Construction
Budget Ships cost 120,000$ per ton (which was the right figure for 10 years
ago).
Multiply your annual shipbuilding budget by twenty years to get your initial
fleet size.

> Laserlight wrote:

> My assumptions are:

Thanks for the info...Now to crunch out some ship designs, and then the
fleet(s)...

This is a repost of the fleet sizes issue.

> Donald Hosford wrote:

> Had a question about fleet sizes. Is there an accepted ratio of fleet