RE: FT Campaigns

Convenient & abstract.	KISS makes for faster processing.

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[mkw] Admiral Peter Rollins; Task Force Zulu

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laserlight [SMTP:laserlight@quixnet.net]
> Sent: Thursday, December 30, 1999 10:26 AM
> To:	gzg-l@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU
> Subject:	Re: FT Campaigns
> 
> From: Robertson, Brendan <Brendan.Robertson@dva.gov.au>
> 
> >The cost x5 fit in with the economic/time scale available.  The
> homeworld
> >could build/R&D between 300-500 pts/turn depending on the shipyard
> size
> >which would take 1-2 turns to research& build a new destroyer class,
> but
> >12-15 turns for a new superdreadnought class, which at 1 week/turn is
> still
> >fast, but could be better spent on standard designs unless you expect
> a
> >long, drawn out conflict.
> 
> 
> So you just picked something convenient, sounds like?  One of the
> naval studies books I read recently implied that, in the Real World,
> the cost to R&D is about three times the actual build cost of the
> ship, and the procurement process usually takes from 5 to 15 years
> (with 5 years being exceptionally short--I think one class of Dutch
> frigates managed it).