Sequel to this thread: The Principality of Gallia Requires New Tanks...
You are the Minister of Defense Procurement of the small Baltic Nation of Gallia and well there is a slight problem. Apparently despite being literally neutral for decades now, and despite being literally demilitarized also for decades now, your two large neighbors, the Atlantic Federation and the Eastern Imperial Alliance have decided that all of these pesky border nations aren't neutralized enough.
THANKFULLY your country is so small, neutral and demilitarized that no one is talking about neutralizing and demilitarizing your nation yet. They're going to target those bigger, thicker, and juicier countries to the South first while still treating you like pals and allies, probably in an effort to gaslit you into not being so neutral.
The current administration has decided that they don't want to be steamrolled by either faction because their ways of life are totally incompatible with the super awesome high quality idyllic quality of life they have going on right now. The good news is, money isn't a concern. The analysts have worked out due to responsible public financing they can requip their military with modern weapons in an easily afforded manner. Also good news, the Gallian military is highly trained, highly professional, and has invested extensively in next generation training systems, simulators, centers, instruction and generous benefits, pay, pensions and care for its professional all volunteer force as well as an extensive conscription/reserve system. So manpower and basic infrastructure issues aren't a concern either.
Sadly the state of the Gallian Air Force is slightly... less developed then that of the Gallian Army, which again... might explain the current windfall in military public financing. In fact the only military air force that currently exists in Gallia is a squadron of very well maintained Perkunas Airships which are unique in the world for their large bomb bays, ability to deploy light armored vehicles to suitably small landing zones and originally being designed to also RAM BUILDINGS with their armored prows! Sadly, despite how cool it would be to ram enemy cityscapes into submission, the Perkunas Airships are theorized to probably be vulnerable to modern air defense and air to air capability since they are nearly century old designs only lightly modernized over the many refurbishments.
There is however a significant civilian aviation industry that includes hundreds of qualified pilots and flight instructors on basic propeller driven airplanes, turboprops, and to a lesser extent, helicopters and to an even lesser extent, jet aircraft. Domestic manufacturing of light civilian aircraft also exists within Gallia that mostly produce piston driven and turboprop aircraft. They have only started dabbling into producing of very light jet aircraft.
Other procurement deputies are working on acquiring new logistical armored vehicles, artillery, watercraft, munitions and a plethora of other military equipment. It's due to your background in being the most military geekish of all of the Procurement Ministers that you've been given the fun job of choosing Gallia'sNext First Generation Air Force!
Gallia issued open bids for the acquisition of at least three squadrons of (preferably) multirole fighters as well as at least one squadron of advanced military trainers. Also desired though the requirements are less stringent beyond the need to have them, including several transport aircraft for both heavy and light duty as well as a mixed squadron of recon/ISR craft in addition to training, support, and service contracts and a preference for production, licensing and technology transfer within Gallia and for deliveries to be completed within four years ideally. If you can get more, like air defense, helicopters, bonus airframes or whatnot, the better!
Basic Requirements Desired:
45 (Multirole) Fighters
15+ Mixed ISR/AEW Aircraft
15+ Advanced Trainers
4+ Heavy Transport Airplanes
4+ Light Transport Airplanes
While many offers were issued in response, many were tempered due to heinous (and true) allegations that the Gallian Ministry of Defense was willing to purchase armored vehicles from the infamous transnational genocidal paramilitary terrorist organization known as the Brotherhood of NOD. Such lies!
Eccentric Gallian-American Billionaire
- Despite the Pentagon no longer wanting to directly associate with a country that has openly decided to deal with an international terrorist organization, an eccentric American billionaire of Gallian ancestry has decided to take it upon himself to offer a lucrative aviation aid package while making billions in the process. Having acquired several aerospace defense companies (to help finance his ultimate goal of mining asteroids for profit and the future of humanity) he has many pet projects which would be aided by lucrative foreign contracts. So he's willing to sell you his modernized F-20 Tigershark light fighters, F-18 variants not purchased by the Pentagon or other export partners and the V-120 Valkyrie, their newest tiltrotor cargo helicopter to help offset their research and development budgets. He's also willing to refurbish some older aircraft to fill in your desired capabilities.
Everything but the F-18 Variants can be delivered immediately. Said billionaire wants to open factories to manufacture the F-20's and to build or refurbish old Hornet airframes into F-18L Standards.
60 F-20 Tigersharks (including 15 Two-Seat Trainers- can it even fit two seats? Who knows)
45 F-18L Hornets (lighter land based variant of F-18 Hornet. Will require domestic construction/conversion facility)
15 F-18 HARV (high altitude fighter with high angles of attack and thrust vectoring)
10 F/A-18D(RC) (two seat Recon Variants of the F/A-18D)
5 EA-18G Beasts
5 C-130J Hercules (never heard of it)
12 V-120 Valkyries (apparently we never specified we wanted planes, not helicopters)
South Korea
Thankfully despite being aligned with the West, the Republic of South Korea is still willing to deal with us in an official capacity. They are willing to share their advanced Black Eagle late 4th Generation VTOL Fighters to us as well as sending us older aircraft to fulfill our secondary requirements. Dealing with South Korea diplomatically will help warm relations with the West but also not particularly worsen relations with not-Russia and China. South Korea is willing to financially support local production of the Black Eagle if the domestic Gallian Arms Industry is up to it. Local servicing of the other aircraft is allowed and license to build the South Korean F-16 and UH-60 Helicopter variants.
45 Black Eagle Fighters (advanced Korean built VTOL strike fighter with vastly improved speed, weapons and survivability)
15 AV-8B Harrier II's (two seat trainer variants)
10 KF-16C Block52 (SEAD and Recon Aircraft)
5 EA-18G Growler (not as beastly as the other EA-18G)
4 C-130H Hercules (these guys have them too? What are the chances?)
8 UH-60P Utility Helicopters (apparently we never specified we wanted planes, not helicopters to the Koreans as well)
4 Nighthawk Transports (More helicopters, but these ones are stealth!)
Global Defense Initiative
OH SHIT! WHAT THE FUCK DO THEY WANT? Oh... wait... General Solomon of the newly established Global Defense Initiative is willing to overlook our previous association with the Brotherhood of NOD and as a sign of good faith, is willing to offer us a sample of the protective power the Global Defense Initiative now offers. They'll give us some lovingly refurbished F-18D Hornets, some Hercules Transport Aircraft, and even access to their fancy new Orca model Carryalls. Also they'll give us a squadron of their cutting edge Interceptors and will build a giant underground radar station that they assure us can detect almost anything that dares approach our airspace. For some reason no one else wants to build a giant radar station in their territory.
The GDI merely want to build an underground base in Gallian territory "For the Benefit and Defense of All of Humankind." They are willing to license manufacture and service of the Hornets as well as the Interceptors, except for the engines which they want to keep seeeeeecret. The Hornets and Hercules can be delivered immediately, everything else will become operational in the coming five years. Access to GDI Training facilities is also going to be made available. Also open to construction of an Orca components factory since it'll be the new GDI airframe.
45 F-18D Hornets (including 15 two seater trainers)
15 Interceptors (not stealth but high speed with advanced avionics and weapons and equipped with new pulse engine technology)
5 C-130J Hercules (What is with this? Does everyone just buy the same heavy transport plane?)
10 Orca Carryall (advanced new VTOL to carry any armored vehicle, well within reason)
1 Large Radar Station (The Global Defense Initiative Won't Sell Us Any Dedicated AEW/ISR Aircraft but will give us full access to the data from their mysterious underground radar station that has super detection capabilities for some reason)
Red China
Red China is sad and hurt that Gallia did not accept their generous offer of armored military vehicles but is willing to overlook Gallia's shortsightedness and xenophobia and hopes that we can move forward together in an atmosphere of mutual respect and understanding.
The 200 MiG's and Gatling Tanks and Bolt Action Rifles can be delivered immediately while the Spy Planes, C-130's and Helix Helicopter deliveries will take more time. Each plane and vehicle will be shipped with a manual and training video except for the Helix Helicopter which they might actually provide training for. Also we get all of the Black Napalm we can soak up! They also offer licenses to build state of the art Q-5 Fantan Strike Aircraft and advanced MiG-21 Fighter Jets and more Black Napalm.
200ish MiGs (Not sure what variant... they all fly and can deploy air to ground or air to air Black Napalm missiles though)
200 Gatling Tanks
15 Spy Planes (lovingly refurbished by tiny Chinese hands from the Soviet-era boneyard they were dragged out from for export)
4 C-130B Hercules (anything similarity to other C-130's is purely coincidental. These are totally not copies of Vietnam War era C-130B's captured from South Vietnam)
20 Helix Multi-Role Helicopters (Propaganda Speakers Come Free and Already Playing Though Probably Can Be Removed-But Why Would You Want to?)
1,000,000 Bolt Action Rifles (non-negotiable)
A World With No Boundaries
Apparently dealing with the Brotherhood of NOD has brought all of the colorful renegade ideologues out of the woodwork. They are offering licenses to construct all of the aircraft in question, including a 5th Generation stealth fighter they somehow got access to but won't tell us how, because it was likely stolen via intermediaries from the United States. They'll give the licenses for production over ASAP but actual deliveries of all aircraft will be over a period of four years. Level and scale of training won't be up to the standards others can offer.
45 MiG-31B Foxhounds (fifteen two seat trainers)
15 YF-22 not-Raptors
10 Su-24MP Fencers
5 EA-6B Growlers
4 C-130E Hercules (Wouldn't expect anything less)
12 CH-47 Chinooks (was going to tell them we wanted planes, was too scared to correct them though)
Again, so many enticing offers, choose wisely!
You are the Minister of Defense Procurement of the small Baltic Nation of Gallia and well there is a slight problem. Apparently despite being literally neutral for decades now, and despite being literally demilitarized also for decades now, your two large neighbors, the Atlantic Federation and the Eastern Imperial Alliance have decided that all of these pesky border nations aren't neutralized enough.
THANKFULLY your country is so small, neutral and demilitarized that no one is talking about neutralizing and demilitarizing your nation yet. They're going to target those bigger, thicker, and juicier countries to the South first while still treating you like pals and allies, probably in an effort to gaslit you into not being so neutral.
The current administration has decided that they don't want to be steamrolled by either faction because their ways of life are totally incompatible with the super awesome high quality idyllic quality of life they have going on right now. The good news is, money isn't a concern. The analysts have worked out due to responsible public financing they can requip their military with modern weapons in an easily afforded manner. Also good news, the Gallian military is highly trained, highly professional, and has invested extensively in next generation training systems, simulators, centers, instruction and generous benefits, pay, pensions and care for its professional all volunteer force as well as an extensive conscription/reserve system. So manpower and basic infrastructure issues aren't a concern either.
Sadly the state of the Gallian Air Force is slightly... less developed then that of the Gallian Army, which again... might explain the current windfall in military public financing. In fact the only military air force that currently exists in Gallia is a squadron of very well maintained Perkunas Airships which are unique in the world for their large bomb bays, ability to deploy light armored vehicles to suitably small landing zones and originally being designed to also RAM BUILDINGS with their armored prows! Sadly, despite how cool it would be to ram enemy cityscapes into submission, the Perkunas Airships are theorized to probably be vulnerable to modern air defense and air to air capability since they are nearly century old designs only lightly modernized over the many refurbishments.
There is however a significant civilian aviation industry that includes hundreds of qualified pilots and flight instructors on basic propeller driven airplanes, turboprops, and to a lesser extent, helicopters and to an even lesser extent, jet aircraft. Domestic manufacturing of light civilian aircraft also exists within Gallia that mostly produce piston driven and turboprop aircraft. They have only started dabbling into producing of very light jet aircraft.
Other procurement deputies are working on acquiring new logistical armored vehicles, artillery, watercraft, munitions and a plethora of other military equipment. It's due to your background in being the most military geekish of all of the Procurement Ministers that you've been given the fun job of choosing Gallia's
Gallia issued open bids for the acquisition of at least three squadrons of (preferably) multirole fighters as well as at least one squadron of advanced military trainers. Also desired though the requirements are less stringent beyond the need to have them, including several transport aircraft for both heavy and light duty as well as a mixed squadron of recon/ISR craft in addition to training, support, and service contracts and a preference for production, licensing and technology transfer within Gallia and for deliveries to be completed within four years ideally. If you can get more, like air defense, helicopters, bonus airframes or whatnot, the better!
Basic Requirements Desired:
45 (Multirole) Fighters
15+ Mixed ISR/AEW Aircraft
15+ Advanced Trainers
4+ Heavy Transport Airplanes
4+ Light Transport Airplanes
While many offers were issued in response, many were tempered due to heinous (and true) allegations that the Gallian Ministry of Defense was willing to purchase armored vehicles from the infamous transnational genocidal paramilitary terrorist organization known as the Brotherhood of NOD. Such lies!
Eccentric Gallian-American Billionaire
- Despite the Pentagon no longer wanting to directly associate with a country that has openly decided to deal with an international terrorist organization, an eccentric American billionaire of Gallian ancestry has decided to take it upon himself to offer a lucrative aviation aid package while making billions in the process. Having acquired several aerospace defense companies (to help finance his ultimate goal of mining asteroids for profit and the future of humanity) he has many pet projects which would be aided by lucrative foreign contracts. So he's willing to sell you his modernized F-20 Tigershark light fighters, F-18 variants not purchased by the Pentagon or other export partners and the V-120 Valkyrie, their newest tiltrotor cargo helicopter to help offset their research and development budgets. He's also willing to refurbish some older aircraft to fill in your desired capabilities.
Everything but the F-18 Variants can be delivered immediately. Said billionaire wants to open factories to manufacture the F-20's and to build or refurbish old Hornet airframes into F-18L Standards.
60 F-20 Tigersharks (including 15 Two-Seat Trainers- can it even fit two seats? Who knows)
45 F-18L Hornets (lighter land based variant of F-18 Hornet. Will require domestic construction/conversion facility)
15 F-18 HARV (high altitude fighter with high angles of attack and thrust vectoring)
10 F/A-18D(RC) (two seat Recon Variants of the F/A-18D)
5 EA-18G Beasts
5 C-130J Hercules (never heard of it)
12 V-120 Valkyries (apparently we never specified we wanted planes, not helicopters)
South Korea
Thankfully despite being aligned with the West, the Republic of South Korea is still willing to deal with us in an official capacity. They are willing to share their advanced Black Eagle late 4th Generation VTOL Fighters to us as well as sending us older aircraft to fulfill our secondary requirements. Dealing with South Korea diplomatically will help warm relations with the West but also not particularly worsen relations with not-Russia and China. South Korea is willing to financially support local production of the Black Eagle if the domestic Gallian Arms Industry is up to it. Local servicing of the other aircraft is allowed and license to build the South Korean F-16 and UH-60 Helicopter variants.
45 Black Eagle Fighters (advanced Korean built VTOL strike fighter with vastly improved speed, weapons and survivability)
15 AV-8B Harrier II's (two seat trainer variants)
10 KF-16C Block52 (SEAD and Recon Aircraft)
5 EA-18G Growler (not as beastly as the other EA-18G)
4 C-130H Hercules (these guys have them too? What are the chances?)
8 UH-60P Utility Helicopters (apparently we never specified we wanted planes, not helicopters to the Koreans as well)
4 Nighthawk Transports (More helicopters, but these ones are stealth!)
Global Defense Initiative
OH SHIT! WHAT THE FUCK DO THEY WANT? Oh... wait... General Solomon of the newly established Global Defense Initiative is willing to overlook our previous association with the Brotherhood of NOD and as a sign of good faith, is willing to offer us a sample of the protective power the Global Defense Initiative now offers. They'll give us some lovingly refurbished F-18D Hornets, some Hercules Transport Aircraft, and even access to their fancy new Orca model Carryalls. Also they'll give us a squadron of their cutting edge Interceptors and will build a giant underground radar station that they assure us can detect almost anything that dares approach our airspace. For some reason no one else wants to build a giant radar station in their territory.
The GDI merely want to build an underground base in Gallian territory "For the Benefit and Defense of All of Humankind." They are willing to license manufacture and service of the Hornets as well as the Interceptors, except for the engines which they want to keep seeeeeecret. The Hornets and Hercules can be delivered immediately, everything else will become operational in the coming five years. Access to GDI Training facilities is also going to be made available. Also open to construction of an Orca components factory since it'll be the new GDI airframe.
45 F-18D Hornets (including 15 two seater trainers)
15 Interceptors (not stealth but high speed with advanced avionics and weapons and equipped with new pulse engine technology)
5 C-130J Hercules (What is with this? Does everyone just buy the same heavy transport plane?)
10 Orca Carryall (advanced new VTOL to carry any armored vehicle, well within reason)
1 Large Radar Station (The Global Defense Initiative Won't Sell Us Any Dedicated AEW/ISR Aircraft but will give us full access to the data from their mysterious underground radar station that has super detection capabilities for some reason)
Red China
Red China is sad and hurt that Gallia did not accept their generous offer of armored military vehicles but is willing to overlook Gallia's shortsightedness and xenophobia and hopes that we can move forward together in an atmosphere of mutual respect and understanding.
The 200 MiG's and Gatling Tanks and Bolt Action Rifles can be delivered immediately while the Spy Planes, C-130's and Helix Helicopter deliveries will take more time. Each plane and vehicle will be shipped with a manual and training video except for the Helix Helicopter which they might actually provide training for. Also we get all of the Black Napalm we can soak up! They also offer licenses to build state of the art Q-5 Fantan Strike Aircraft and advanced MiG-21 Fighter Jets and more Black Napalm.
200ish MiGs (Not sure what variant... they all fly and can deploy air to ground or air to air Black Napalm missiles though)
200 Gatling Tanks
15 Spy Planes (lovingly refurbished by tiny Chinese hands from the Soviet-era boneyard they were dragged out from for export)
4 C-130B Hercules (anything similarity to other C-130's is purely coincidental. These are totally not copies of Vietnam War era C-130B's captured from South Vietnam)
20 Helix Multi-Role Helicopters (Propaganda Speakers Come Free and Already Playing Though Probably Can Be Removed-But Why Would You Want to?)
1,000,000 Bolt Action Rifles (non-negotiable)
A World With No Boundaries
Apparently dealing with the Brotherhood of NOD has brought all of the colorful renegade ideologues out of the woodwork. They are offering licenses to construct all of the aircraft in question, including a 5th Generation stealth fighter they somehow got access to but won't tell us how, because it was likely stolen via intermediaries from the United States. They'll give the licenses for production over ASAP but actual deliveries of all aircraft will be over a period of four years. Level and scale of training won't be up to the standards others can offer.
45 MiG-31B Foxhounds (fifteen two seat trainers)
15 YF-22 not-Raptors
10 Su-24MP Fencers
5 EA-6B Growlers
4 C-130E Hercules (Wouldn't expect anything less)
12 CH-47 Chinooks (was going to tell them we wanted planes, was too scared to correct them though)
Again, so many enticing offers, choose wisely!
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