[FH] Dollars per credit

aebrain wrote (in addition to interesting stuff about making a
computer in your own kitchen):

>4000 tonne frigate costs about $800 mill these days - 5 tonnes/
mill
>A size 100 ( 10,000t ) FT ship costs about 350 MCr - about
25-30 tonnes per
>MCr. So we have 1 Cr is about the same as $25 in military
purchasing power.

Oops--a 10,000t FT ship costs about 350_points_ , therefore
3500MCr.

Modern Frigate $800M/4000t = $200,000 per ton
NAC DDH (the famous _Hypothetical_ class) 4000t = 40 mass times
3.5 = 140 points = 1400MCr, ie about Cr350,000 per ton.
Or Cr1.75 per dollar.

Sanity check:

 US GDP  $8,510,000,000,000
 Military budget (rate)  3.40%
 Military budget ($)  289,340,000,000
>>> 1 Cr per $25 = Cr 11,573,600,000
 MCr  11,574
 Navy portion  35%
 Ship contruction  35%
 Annual construction budget (MCr)  1,418
 Annual construction budget (points)  142
 Effective ship lifetime (years)  30
 Total value, all ships  4,253

Now, some of my figures are rough, but I'd say that the USN has
somewhat more than 4200 points worth of ships.

On the other hand, if we use $1 = Cr 1.75, we wind up with
186,082 points worth of ships.	My initial feel is that that's
rather high.

Comments?

-------Laserlight