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I can see you getting rid of the older capital ships, but your last 3 are still quite new. Also Mexico would be more than willing to help you out by taking Gassen of your hands...
Looking it up, I noticed that it was bought for 1,000 tons. Don't know why so low, but I am sure that there would be many nations around who would have offered much, much more than that for that carrier. Sounds to me like a really bad deal...
I have comments on two levels - the first technical, the second strategic.
The aircraft carrier design has little provision for anything other than aircraft in its miscellaneous weight. I believe you ought to reconsider that - such things as electronic systems, damage control, spare aircraft - will require some provision in that category. That will have cascade impact across the design.
Strategically, I am not certain whether the focus on aircraft carriers make sense for Nordmark. The aircraft carrier is an offensive, power-projection platform, and without supporting capital ships, leaves you only that option. Unless you plan to carry a war to Canada, that makes small sense to me. I think that given Nordmark's very extensive merchant fleet and limited overseas commitments (territory wise) a concentration on commerce protection would make greater sense.
The newer elements of the current force in all classes will be going into mothballs, as will all of the BBs, rather than the scrapyard; remaining active will be the Luleas and four of their preceeding sister class, the sixteen Tiermes class, the ten DD45s and the twenty-four DD38s. The current submarine force is considered of appropriate size, while amphibious manning will be folded over to the marine jaeger's budget.I can see the logic of that (edit: downsizing, that is). Wouldn't surprise me if other powers had similar issues.
I take it, then, that you'd also be retiring the various small carriers. What about your escort/submarine/amphib elements?
How big a tonnage price do you place on first-rate jet engine technology, when you don't already have it, or on keeping a strategically necessary ally sweet? In my case, the difference between the Gassen's scrap value and a thousand tons.There may be no MSRPs but there is a minimum price below which it is better to scrap the ship than to sell it. In this case, it would have been a much better deal for Nordmark to scrap the Gassen than to sell it to Germany for that price... No non-tonnage considerations exist to make this deal a fairer deal for Nordmark. They have been conned, tricked and swindled by the Scamming Hun Thieves... (but that is my opinion )
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I consider spare parts - adequate to assemble new aircraft if absolutely necessary - to fall within the hundred thirty-odd tons allocated to each aircraft that doesn't consist of, well, aircraft, and the existing overage should be enough for radar systems. Do you have any suggestions for the tonnage that should go towards damage control?
There may be no MSRPs but there is a minimum price below which it is better to scrap the ship than to sell it. In this case, it would have been a much better deal for Nordmark to scrap the Gassen than to sell it to Germany for that price... No non-tonnage considerations exist to make this deal a fairer deal for Nordmark. They have been conned, tricked and swindled by the Scamming Hun Thieves... (but that is my opinion :) )
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I consider spare parts - adequate to assemble new aircraft if absolutely necessary - to fall within the hundred thirty-odd tons allocated to each aircraft that doesn't consist of, well, aircraft...
Taking another whack at it...
...and whimpering at the manpower required by the hull growth.
*checks*3,000 t of damage control seems like massive over-kill to me.
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