Chapter 1,119 A Trillion-Level Budget

Standardizing battleships means that all future battleships, whether aircraft carriers or battleships, will refer to the template of the first battleship and be improved and produced on this basis. All weapons and functional accessories will also be designed and manufactured around the standards provided by this template.

This is just like the current space station, which basically uses the 6x4 standard proposed by Star Ring Trading. If someone is crazy enough to design a 6x5 interface, they will not be able to find an interface that can connect to it, and they will have to float in space and play by themselves.

Whoever has the power to formulate standards will have the right to speak in the industry for the next half century, or even a century.

This shows how enviable this order for the first million-ton naked ship is.

If China and Russia hadn't even crossed the technical threshold of the 500,000-ton class, and hadn't even touched the one-million-ton class, there would be no way that this first naked ship order would be able to convince people in the future. Heavy Industry took it all to itself!

However, the only company that is confident in completing this million-ton ship is Future Heavy Industries. Although China and Russia also have their own shipyards in Star Ring City, they mainly receive orders for small spacecrafts. .

Future Heavy Industries is different. Not only has it successfully produced three 500,000-ton "Seagull-class" transport ships, it is now producing the fourth "Seagull". The four Seagull-class ships not only accumulated rich shipbuilding experience for Future Heavy Industry, but also enabled the shipbuilding technology of its shipyards to reach a very high level.

Although they are jealous of these hundreds of billions of dollars of fat, member states such as China and Russia do not have many options. They can only hate their own domestic aerospace companies for not tying themselves to rockets and being left so far behind. .

Of course, the biggest piece of fat was taken away by the Future People Group, and there was still a lot of minced meat and soup left in the bowl.

You know, through 50% of the defense tax and the output value contributed by each member country, the funds under the Earth Defense Alliance have raised a total of 349 billion Singapore dollars. According to the estimates of the professional manager team hired by the fund, the current momentum of development can be maintained If this continues, the funds raised in 2019 will exceed S$1.2 trillion.

How terrifying is this number?

If you have to choose a reference for comparison, take the GDP data released by China five years ago as an example. The S$1.2 trillion has exceeded 10% of China's annual GDP in 2015.

That’s ten percent of the world’s second largest economy!

Of course, China's current GDP is far from what it was five years ago, especially after the asteroid mining plan was announced.

The GDP of several of the world's mainstream aerospace powers has increased significantly. However, even so, it still shows what a terrifying sum of money this S$1.2 trillion is.

Even if you can't help build battleships, you can still help build computers. Even if it's not enough, you can contribute one or two screws or buttons from a space suit. The more upstream the industry, the larger the downstream industries involved. The construction of such a million-ton military ship will stimulate the aerospace industry of each member country far more than five Seagull-class transport ships.

It is precisely because of this that everyone wants to get a piece of it.

It’s not just the Earth Defense Alliance that covets this piece of cake, but also the aerospace companies that are not member states.

Although these non-member countries have also contributed a lot of money in the form of defense taxes, the Earth Defense Alliance is extremely harsh on companies from non-member countries when selecting cooperation partners. Even SPCAEX, the leading aerospace company in Silicon Valley, only received orders worth S$1.7 billion from navigation projects.

This is a cake worth a total of S$1.2 trillion!

Those aerospace companies in Silicon Valley and Seattle are so jealous that they are bleeding. They have repeatedly organized employees and persuaded labor unions to petition the White House, demanding that the United States also join the Earth Defense Alliance, or at least establish a good cooperative relationship with the Earth Defense Alliance.

Entrepreneurs and labor unions are so united, even if we look at the history of American capital development, it is definitely worthy of the word unprecedented.

Japan is even more direct. The only asteroid mine is basically a joint operation of several powerful consortiums, delivering millions of tons of mineral resources to the Japanese manufacturing industry every year. As soon as the 50% defense tax came out, most of the profits were immediately divided. When the S$1.2 trillion cake was taken out, several consortiums suddenly couldn't sit still and began to join forces to put pressure on the Japanese government through Congress to join the Earth Defense Alliance.

In the Future Man Building on Coro Island, Jiang Chen was sitting in the office, drinking coffee and writing something seriously on paper.

If you get closer, you can see this line on the piece of paper - "Earth Defense Alliance Scientific Research Fund Usage Plan"

The first order from Futureman Heavy Industries Shipyard is an unarmed naked ship. Lu Wei's proposal completely solved the big trouble that the committee had been arguing about. The Earth Defense Alliance no longer had to worry about which company to purchase weapons, because it simply didn't purchase weapons now.

In the short term, this is undoubtedly a resource-saving choice. Instead of wasting production capacity on weapons destined to be eliminated, it is better to use it for farming. However, from a long-term perspective, this proposal is still somewhat ill-advised.

If you don't feed the arms dealers who make guns and cannons, how can you expect them to invest money in guns and promote the upgrading of weapons and equipment?

Weapons become stronger the more you buy them. Without buying and selling, there will naturally be no competition. Why did the military technology in the wasteland recover so quickly? Because in most survivor settlements, 50% or even 80% of the "GDP" is focused on weapons.

In such an environment, even though there were not many decent laboratories, the Sixth District relied on files and welding guns to create T3 power armor that was not inferior to the pre-war level. After NAC unified the Wanghai City area, although Jiang Chen invested a lot in scientific research, the update speed of weapons and equipment slowed down.

After the T4 powered armor, there has never been a new type of powered armor, and the K1 exoskeleton is the standard equipment for the infantry of the three major regiments. Relying on a uniform exoskeleton, NAC's army can already walk sideways in the wasteland, and naturally there is no need to change clothes.

The top priority of the Earth Defense Alliance now is to find a way to stimulate military industrial enterprises to develop weapons technology. It is best to encourage military industrial enterprises to engage in research and development of aerospace weapons through means other than orders.

The money is not bad, but how to spend so much money has become a big problem.

When he thought of this, Jiang Chen couldn't help but sigh.

Sometimes he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, it would be great if he traveled directly from the future. There is absolutely no precedent for many things, so we can only cross the river by feeling the stones. It's just a matter of budget now. After the Earth Fleet is established, there will be enough things to worry about.

"Talent, talent...the Earth Defense Alliance is still too short of talent." (To be continued.) New website launched