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Yay! If I get in, Indhopal can cut back on Project Treadstone!PeZook wrote:Here we go, brand new ISCA bulletin full of happy corporate feelgoodspeak. And Raj, the FUN vote is going well so farA few more votes and you're in.
I told you you can take delivery whenever you want.Raj Ahten wrote:Speaking of people building things and deliveries, Rogue Ice I do believe I ordered a type 212 boat from you for Indhopal for this year, any idea when it will be delivered? I was hoping to order 1 a year for 3-4 years....
RogueIce wrote:I told you you can take delivery whenever you want.Raj Ahten wrote:Speaking of people building things and deliveries, Rogue Ice I do believe I ordered a type 212 boat from you for Indhopal for this year, any idea when it will be delivered? I was hoping to order 1 a year for 3-4 years....
Whoops. I likely just missed it in the pages and pages of posts this thing produces.....No worries. I've done that myself I few times.Raj Ahten wrote:
Yay! Fireworks time!Lonestar wrote:GIANT BRIDGE #1 IS DONE!
SS-20 has about 5,500km range with a normal payload, 7,000km with a lightweight warhead. That’s enough to hit any point on the map from Saddamistani territory alone, though some launchers have been deployed in Shepnukistan for the last several years in ordered to complicate enemy defence planning (ABM radars don’t rotate). However most UAR missiles, cruise and ballistic, other then our wounderful nuclear ramjet, are smaller and shorter ranged.phongn wrote: You're already well within range of UAR nuclear assets, even SS-20s based in the UAR proper, IIRC.
Another nation joined the renegade list.The Yosemite Bear wrote:ok, WTF happened while I was away for a day?
Ah.. finally Constantinople Shipping has competition...RogueIce wrote:Well I'm going to set up my private shipping corporations now, which will eventually start leasing ships from my Merchant Marine so I'm not having to pay their full upkeep from government coffers.
From Wikipedia:RogueIce wrote:So what is TEU as compared to DWT anyway?
As noted above, the TEU is an inexact unit, and hence cannot be converted precisely into other units. The most common dimensions for a 20-foot container are 20 feet long x 8 feet wide x 8.5 feet high. This corresponds to a volume of 1,360 cubic feet (39 m³). However, both 9.5 feet (2.9 m) tall High cube and 4.25 feet (1.30 m) half height containers are also reckoned as 1 TEU.[2][3] This gives a volume range of 680 cubic feet (19 m³) to 1,520 cubic feet (43 m³) for one TEU.
While the TEU is not itself a measure of mass, some conclusions can be drawn about the maximum mass that a TEU can represent. The maximum gross mass for a 20-foot dry cargo container is 24,000 kilograms (53,000 lb).[4] Subtracting the tare mass of the container itself, the maximum amount of cargo per TEU is reduced to approximately 21,600 kilograms (48,000 lb).[4]
Similarly, the maximum gross mass for a 40-foot dry cargo container (including the 9.5 feet (2.9 m) high cube container) is 30,480 kilograms (67,200 lb).[4] After correcting for tare weight, this gives a cargo capacity of 26,500 kilograms (58,000 lb).[4]
Twenty-foot, "heavy tested" containers are available for heavy goods such as heavy machinery. These containers allow a maximum weight of 67,200 pounds (30,500 kg), an empty weight of 5,290 pounds (2,400 kg), and a net load of 61,910 pounds (28,080 kg).
Well, in general, ships are classified by both their capacity and their dimensions (be it Malaccamax, Suezmax or Panamax.)RogueIce wrote:Gah, why the heck did you pick such an odd way to classify your ships?
So every TEU us about 21.6 tonnes. So your 6000 TEU is about 129600 tonnes. Which assuming that's just cargo capacity is 129,600 DWT, or 129.6 ths/DWT (to figure by the 'building points' system we use).
Damn, that's even bigger than the Nuclear Commerce Ship, assuming I didn't fuck up my math somewhere.
Of course, but having them right in the middle of Central Sea complicates our defense once again, especially the very short time such a missile would need to reach the Red Technocracy, Pezookia, Shroomania and other FUN nations which are bordering the Central Sea.You're already well within range of UAR nuclear assets, even SS-20s based in the UAR proper, IIRC.
I think we need to get down to figure the cost of increasing the size of the shipyards. No doubt for the kingdoms and it's very easy to do so since they can just buy off the steel from people and expand vigorously, but we need to work out a proper scaling factor.RogueIce wrote:Hm. Well it's just easier to have one standard when I'm trying to figure out what kind of ships to buy, you know.
Well, given that they've just bought some damn huge cargo ships, those will probably be the centerpiece of their expanded fleet. I think I'll go with smaller buys mostly though.
I probably underballed it - but that's understandable, since I never worked on such a projectFingolfin_Noldor wrote: I think we need to get down to figure the cost of increasing the size of the shipyards. No doubt for the kingdoms and it's very easy to do so since they can just buy off the steel from people and expand vigorously, but we need to work out a proper scaling factor.
At the rate I went for the last few years, I easily have a shipyard capacity equivalent to the upper end of an Imperium.
Its actually quite within weight limits for an Mi-26 to airlift a BMP-2 or BMP-3; no need to use the specialist and absurdly lightly armored BMDs. I don’t know how the range difference would work out, but in general air mobile units are only going to go 60-100 miles from base to start with.PeZook wrote: I figure I will buy some heavy hitters for my airmobile batallion, mechanizing a single company with heli-transportable BMDs
Hmm...it would appear you're right, though that means doubling the amounts of helicopters I'll need (from what I heard, they can carry 2 BMDs but only one BMP)Sea Skimmer wrote: Its actually quite within weight limits for an Mi-26 to airlift a BMP-2 or BMP-3; no need to use the specialist and absurdly lightly armored BMDs. I don’t know how the range difference would work out, but in general air mobile units are only going to go 60-100 miles from base to start with.
Is it possible to uparmour the BMD-4? I was thinking of upgrading the armour for these things.Sea Skimmer wrote:Its actually quite within weight limits for an Mi-26 to airlift a BMP-2 or BMP-3; no need to use the specialist and absurdly lightly armored BMDs. I don’t know how the range difference would work out, but in general air mobile units are only going to go 60-100 miles from base to start with.