Standardizing warships means that all future warships, whether aircraft carriers or battleships, will refer to the template of the first battleship, and improve and produce on this basis. Pens, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info and all weapons, functional accessories, will also be designed and manufactured around the standards provided by this template.

It's like the current space station, which basically uses the 6x4 standard proposed by Transwarp Trade. If someone makes a mistake in designing a 6x5 interface, they can't find an interface that can dock with him, so they can only float in space and play by themselves.

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

It can be seen from this that the order for the first megaton bare ship is so eye-catching.

If it weren't for the fact that China and Russia hadn't even crossed the technical threshold of 500,000 tons, and the million-ton class hadn't even touched the door, the order for the first bare ship would not have been able to let the future heavy industry monopolize it!

However, now there is only one company that is confident to complete this million-ton giant ship, and although China and Russia also have their own shipyards in Star Ring City, they mainly receive orders for small spacecraft.

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

Although they are jealous of the fat of hundreds of billions of Singapore dollars, China, Russia and other member states have not much to do, and can only hate why several domestic aerospace companies don't tie themselves to rockets and be thrown so far away.

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

The Earth Defence Alliance's funds have raised a total of S$349 billion through 50 per cent of the defence tax and the output value contributed by member states, and the team of professional managers employed by the fund estimates that if the current momentum continues, more than S$1.2 trillion will be raised in '19.

How terrifying is this number?

If you have to pick a reference for comparison, taking 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 10 percent of the world's second-largest economy!

Of course, China's current GDP is far from being comparable to that of five years ago, especially after the announcement of the asteroid mining plan, the GDP of several major aerospace powers in the world has increased significantly. However, even so, it can still show what a terrifying amount of money this S$1.2 trillion is.

Even if you can't help build a battleship, you can help build a computer, and no matter how bad it is, you can contribute a screw or two or a button on a spacesuit. The more upstream the industry, the more huge the downstream industry involved, and the construction of such a megaton military giant ship will stimulate the space industry of each member country far more than five Seagull-class transport ships.

That's why everyone wants a piece of the pie.

It's not just the Earth Defense Alliance that's salivating, but also the non-member space companies.

Although these non-member countries have also contributed a lot of money in the form of defense taxes, the Earth Defense Alliance has been extremely harsh on non-member companies when choosing partners to work with. Even SPCAEX, one of the leading aerospace companies in Silicon Valley, has only received S$1.7 billion in orders for navigation projects.

That's a S$1.2 trillion cake!

The aerospace companies in Silicon Valley and Seattle in the United States, whose eyes were so red that they were dripping blood, repeatedly organized their employees and persuaded the union to petition the White House to demand 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 trade unions are so united that even in the history of American capital, they definitely deserve the word unprecedented.

Japan is more direct, the only asteroid mine is basically done by several powerful consortia, which deliver millions of tons of mineral resources to Japan's manufacturing industry every year. As soon as the 50 percent defense tax came out, most of the profits were immediately divided. Later, as soon as the S$1.2 trillion cake was brought out, several consortia suddenly couldn't sit still and began to join forces to put pressure on the Japanese government through the Diet to join the Earth Defense Alliance.

In the Future Man Building on Koro Island, Jiang Chen was sitting in his office, drinking coffee and writing something on a piece of paper seriously.

If you get closer, you can see this line on that piece of paper -- "Plan for the Use of Scientific Research Funds of the Earth Defense Alliance"

The first order of the Future Man Heavy Industries shipyard was for unarmed bare ships. Lu Wei's proposal completely solved the big trouble that the committee had debated endlessly, and the Earth Defense Alliance no longer had to worry about which company's weapons to procure, because they would not purchase weapons at all.

In the short term, this is undoubtedly a resource-saving option, and instead of wasting production capacity on weapons that are destined to be obsolete, it is better to use it for farming. In the long run, however, this proposal is somewhat underconsidered.

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

Weapons are getting stronger and stronger, and if there is no trading, there will be no competition, so why is the military technology in the wasteland recovering so quickly? Because most of the survivor settlements, 50 percent, or even 80 percent of the "GDP" is on weapons.

In such an environment, even if there were few decent laboratories, the Sixth Block relied on files and welding guns to hammer out the T3, a power armor that was not inferior to the pre-war level. After the 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 power armor, there has been no new type of power armor, and the K1 exoskeleton is the standard configuration of the infantry of the Three Master Regiments. With a homogeneous exoskeleton, NAC's army can already walk sideways on the wasteland, and naturally there is no need for a change of outfit.

At present, the top priority of the Earth Defense Alliance is to find a way to stimulate the development of weapons technology in the military industry, and it is best to encourage the military industry to engage in research and development in space weapons through means other than orders.

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

As soon as he thought of this, Jiang Chen couldn't help but sigh.

Sometimes he can't help but sigh in his heart, if only he had crossed over directly from the future. There is no precedent for many things, and you can only cross the river by feeling the stones. It's just a matter of budget, and when the Earth Fleet is established, there are still things that will be enough for him to worry about.

"Talent, talent...... The talent of the Earth Defense Alliance is still too lacking. (To be continued.) )