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[Parsely]

Greetings, fellow citizens! Our esteemed President sends His regards from the palace; He's very excited to see what inventions you have in store! He hopes you won't disappoint him like the last team. He deeply regretted their simultaneous resignation, and was disappointed to read that they had all decided to volunteer for assignment to the Arctic science station.

The OOC thread for this game is here, and you should probably read it. The basic rules are that each year you get to design a weapon or piece of equipment, then you may revise that design or an existing one, and then everything goes into production and you get to find out if your weapons are doing better than the Amerikan ones.

Current state of the army:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Weapons:
- Crowmurder SAM: A long-range surface to air missile. Average speed, carries a lot of fuel. Uses semi-active radar homing to track its target by communicating with the radar station on the ground illuminating its target. [1 Ore, 2 Chemicals, Inexpensive]
- Needle "10 Second Mile" SRAAM: A short-range air to air missile that uses semi-active radar homing. Requires the firer to keep illuminating the target until the missile connects. Is extremely deadly when conditions are met due to the sheer speed and maneuverability of the missile. [1 Ore, 1 Chemical, Inexpensive]
- Belle Semiautomatic Handgun: A 9mm handgun worn as a sidearm by Confederate military personnel on Earth. It's angular shape is considered stylish by many users. Used primarily by jet pilots. [1 Ore, Inexpensive]
- Belle Semiautomatic Mk.ii: Belle with a lengthened, perforated barrel, which gives the weapon very low recoil. Has a built-in wire frame stock which folds over the top of the gun, increasing bulk, but also steadiness. Has to be worn from a strap over the shoulder or across the chest. Can still be fired while the stock is folded. Popular with astronauts. [1 Ore, Inexpensive]

Technology:
- Metric system. Meters, kilograms, liters.
- Firearms
- Alloys
- Chemical monopropellant
- Rocket engine
- Jet engine
- Automated Guidance Navigation and Control (GNC)
- Digital computers
- Radar
- SARH missiles
- Solar Panels

Astronauts and Pilots:
- Post-Graduates: Confed astronauts and pilots have more rigorous standards of education for entry into their program and as such have a small chance to improvise clever solutions to bugs with their equipment. The bigger the bug, the worse their chance of fixing it. Because of the low number of volunteers who are talented enough to pass candidacy, the Confed can sometimes suffer from shortages of manpower if they take many casualties in a single year.
- Ackerson Full-Pressure Suit: A dull green, soft-skinned suit that keeps the wearer at the proper ambient pressure in order to facilitate breathing at high altitudes. Has an anti-G undergarment for combating loss of consciousness during demanding maneuvers. [2 Chemicals, Inexpensive]

Vehicles:
- Valiance 2-Stage Rocket: A smallish liquid fuel booster rocket, for launching small payloads into LEO. [2 Ores, 3 Chemicals, Expensive]
- Z-1 Rocket Fighter: Extreme altitude fighter, built for intercepting rockets as they take off. Has an unfortunately small payload of a single Needle SRAAM. [2 Ores, 2 Chemicals, Inexpensive]
- Atakon Independent Flight Module: A basic capsule capable of reentry that can hold up to 4 astronauts; contains essential life support and propulsion systems. Powered by batteries. The Confederacy often employ single man teams for non-military missions to save on manpower, relying on advanced training and equipment to keep astronauts safe. [2 Ores, Inexpensive]
- Sunrise Disposable Missile Sat: A repurposed comsat that has a pair of disposable missile tubes that carry Crowmurder missiles modified for use in space. Powerful ground radars detect targets in space, feed the information into computers, and send it to the missile via radio. The missile is fired, then detonated on command before it reaches its target. Uses a fragmentation warhead normally utilized in air-to-air engagements to kill the enemy. [2 Ores, 2 Chemicals, Inexpensive]

Resources:
1 Research facility. You may initiate 1 new project each year.
2 Ore
2 Chemicals

What shall we design, People's Engineers?

[Stirk]

Hmm...It seems it would be best for us to focus on something Big, given that we can only introduce one project and generally have a skill set that works best with "High Quality Low Quantity".

[VoidSlayer]

We can 'reliably' put small payloads into orbit, how about a communication satellite?  Once we can communicate in high orbit we can start putting all sorts of neat little gadgets up there.

It may also be important for beginning a communications network since our country spans half the damn globe.

We do not have solar technology so anything we put up will be severely limited in it's time those.

We can decide on the specifics once there is consensus on a plan.  I am thinking using hacked active radar systems as a base for the communication system.

Glory to Oceania

[~Neri]

We should research Solar Panels. It's essential for any lasting installation.

[Dansmithers]

Voting for solar panels
As far as designs, I think we should invest in manned space vehicles/lifters for said vehicles.

[~Neri]

We should gain air superiority before moving into spess vehicle stuff. We have no need for vehicles when we have no installations to park them at.

We need to design an air superiority fighterjet. We currently have a countermissile one.

Also, what about ground assets. Do we have ground assets?

[Dansmithers]

We should gain air superiority before moving into spess vehicle stuff. We have no need for vehicles when we have no installations to park them at.

According to wikipedia, the USSR has already resaerced long-duration life support systems by this point, so an orbiter couldstay up indefinitely without resupply(except ammo and fuel)

Plus, a surplus of engineers means manned applications are a priority.

[~Neri]

We aren't the USSR though.

[Graknorke]

Well at the moment we have the ability to shut down use of rockets and aircraft (via interceptors and SAMs respectively), so pushing that advantage would be good. Airspace has resources and if we can interrupt the USSA's attempts at getting to space in the process then that's doubly worth it.
While getting something to LEO would grant an easy 3 chemicals, I don't think that's really urgently needed at the moment, so I'll second the proposal for a fighter.

[VoidSlayer]

I will support solar panels for future unmanned satellites.

We have manpower shortages with high quality candidates.

We need to make our rockets take less ore, we have so little.

We can afford to make a fighter with 1 more ore or chemical use without making it more expensive then our current one.  Do we want to concentrate on range or firepower?

[Dansmithers]

Maybe modify the fighter with machineguns?/make a variant

[~Neri]

I would say we should concentrate on range. If they can't see us. They can't shoot us.

So we will likely be using missiles with the fighters.

Although machineguns are useful also.

[Graknorke]

So chances are that the new fighter would have to give up either some speed or just be bigger and more expensive in order to be able to carry bigger weapons than a single Needle SRAAM. Not than slower is that bad of a thing if the range advantage is good enough.

[VoidSlayer]

I would say we should concentrate on range. If they can't see us. They can't shoot us.

So we will likely be using missiles with the fighters.

Although machineguns are useful also.

Sorry I meant range as in how far it can go from our bases.  Like flying from Africa to South America for example...

If we want heavier armaments, we should base it on the existing design, strap on more existing missiles, add a second pilot compartment and give him radar equipment to guide the missiles.

[~Neri]

Now that I think about it, we should make a missile that functions as a long range antifighter missile. Then redesign the existing fighter to hold more of them and be able to guide them.