The DeltarianThe Deltarian is the national Newspaper of Deltaria and gives you the news that matters and is approved by the central committee right on your doorstep________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________March 9th 4547Navy announces major expansion following the government plans for significantly increasing the military budgetAs the government will massively increase the military budget in coming years the navy has announced "Plan Forward" to launch a major expansion of the navy and increase training efforts________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________As new funding starts coming in already all branches of the military are laying out their plans with the new influx of cash. The army will increase the number of active soldiers and up the production of military hardware like the new T-14 Armata tank. The airforce is rumoured to accelerate the design and construction of new modernized jets and today the navy released their "Plan Forward", a plan to launch a major expansion program to, as the president stated earlier, "maintain the balance of power".
The new plan will include a massive expansion of the already large deltarian navy. This expansion comes on top of the nearly completed expansion of the submarine fleet that was launched 2 years ago. The navy is reportedly contacting Trigunia for blueprints on the Kirov class battlecruiser, one of the largest non aircraft carrier ships on terra, and is preparing the paperwork to construct 8 new Admiral Gorshkov class frigates, 8 new Udaloy class and 5 new Sovremennyy class destroyers, 4 new Slava class cruisers, 12 new steregushchiy-class corvette (if blueprints can be obtained from Trigunia), 2 brand new Kirov Class battlecruisers (if blueprints can be obtained from Trigunia) and, at last, a second Němec class carrier, one of the most modern and largest carrier classes currently on terra.
Despite the massive increase in military spending such a major expansion of the navy is still a time consuming and costly task. The navy has realized this however, stating that this is a plan that will be "gradually implemented as military spending increases"
The first phase of Plan Forward will focus on construction of the second Němec class carrier, which will be the fifth carrier in the deltarian fleet, and the construction of the 2 new Kirov Class battlecruisers once the blueprints for them have been obtained. The process of constructing the battlecruisers will take approximately 4 years each but according to the DOF and MoD both are working on expanding the shipyard facilities already to make sure they are able to construct both of the class simultaniously, putting the time until completion for the Kirov class battlecruisers at around 3 years.
The Němec class carrier will take around 4 to 5 years to fully construct. The plan of the MoD and naval command is to extend construction on the Němec carrier to both phase one and phase two.
Phase two will include one of the biggest challenges for the navy and will commence once the battlecruisers have been constructed. This phase will include the construction of all the planned destroyers, half of the corvette's and half of the frigates planned. This major effort demands a new shipyard to be built as well, this new shipyard is likely planned in the Socialist Republic of Alazinder, although this is yet to be confirmed. Over 13 destroyers, 6 corvette's, 2 cruisers and 4 frigates will have to be constructed within a timeframe of 7 years. The government underlines the difficulty this may encounter however and has stated that it would be "acceptable" of a timespan of 8 years for phase two.
Once phase two is completed the last and less intensive phase will commence which will see the construction of the remaining 4 frigates, the 2 remaining slava class cruisers and 6 more corvette's. Phase 3 will take between 4 to 6 years. Overall the MoD and some naval officials estimate the entire expansion program will take around 16 years to fully complete and will cost more money then any naval expansion before in deltarian history.
The ministries of defense and finance are confident however that with the fase plan this massive expansion can be achieved. The new plan is said to perfectly allign with the increased budget each year, spending most of the increased military budget allocated to the navy on exactly this expansion.
Construction on phase one of the plan is expected to commence within 1 to 2 years once the shipyard facilities have been expanded.
Currently a small shipyard in Alazinder, soon to be expanded and modernized to fill the needs of the massive expansion plan