Re: [FT]Fleet sizes...

Laserlight wrote:

>
> 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.

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

Donald Hosford