The Cildanian CourierThe Cildanian Courier is a widely circulated newspaper in Cildania delivering news daily accros the nation_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________July 14th 4504PDS back in government, Defense ministry finishes frigates, launches new projectsAs the remaining Banstill class frigates finish construction the defense ministry begins a new project while the Royal Chancellor reaches out to luthori________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________One month ago the last 4 Banstill class frigates finished construction and entered the Cildanian fleet. The project to construct all 6 had cost around 2.4 billion CDC in total for construction and another 200 million for contracts with both Vanuku and VALCRY.
With the new ships ready the fleet has 6 fine new additions. But for the defense ministry the ambition for a strong navy doesnt end there. The defense minister Yasmin Garcia, during the press conference about the new frigates, revealed that the ministry of defense is already preparing for the next big expansion of the National Navy. She showed a design for a new corvette. This corvette was, according to Garcia, designed in collaboration with VALCRY and will be constructed exclusively in the new VALCRY Group shipyard. The new corvette was, just like the new VALCRY missiles, designed for quick descisive action and will also function in a support role for the rest of the fleet. The name of the new Cildanian designed corvette will be the Lightning Class corvette and a initial number of 5 will be constructed in the coming 3 to 4 years.
Despite this being a significant development for Cildania with it being the first self designed ship to be constructed the defense minister told reporters that this is part of a larger project called the Expansion for the Defense of Cildania project or EDC.
In this project which will span the next 7 years and can be extended a special fund will be established to fund several expansions of primarily the naval forces of the National Cildanian Armed Forces. In the first face which will last 5 years the new couple of 5 corvettes will be constructed, the older ASW destroyer of the National Navy will be brought to the docks for repairs and modernizations and 2 new cruisers will be aquired for the navy.
The new cruisers will likely be aquired outside of Cildania while the ASW destroyer of the navy will be repaired in Cildania itself and the 5 corvettes will be constructed in Cildania as well.
The government is now looking for partners to aquire the new cruisers.
A rough computer model of the new Cildanian designed Lightning class of which 5 will be constructed in the coming years Royal Chancellor Bosio invites Luthorian foreign minister to Qart Qildar to strengthen ties________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________Royal Chancellor Zazu Bosio has formally invited the foreign minister of Luthori to make a state visit to Qart Qildar to strengthen ties between Cildania and Luthori. This request came after the Luthorian government announced its intentions of establishing new ties with the nations of Terra. According to Bosio Cildania would be "honoured" to host a Luthorian delegation and sees an opportunity to "closely allign our nations so that we may protect eachothers interests and the interests of Terra as a whole"
Bosio underlined the importance of more cooperation with nations like Luthori and is "actively looking to establish ties with many nations on terra"
Bosio on his way to the Chancellors office