Standardizing warships meant that all future warships, whether aircraft carriers or battleships, would refer to the template of the first warship and be improved and produced on the basis of this template. All weapons and functional accessories would also be designed and manufactured according to the standards provided by this template.
Just like the current space station, it basically used the 6x4 standard proposed by Celestial Trade. If someone was stupid enough to design a 6x5 interface, there would be no interface that could dock with it, and it could only float in space by itself.
Whoever controlled the right to set the standard would have the right to speak in the industry for the next half a century, or even a century.
From this, it could be seen how envious the order for the first million-ton warship was.
If it weren't for the fact that Hua and Russia hadn't even crossed the technical threshold of the 500,000-ton class, and they hadn't even touched the door of the million-ton class, the order for the first warship wouldn't have been monopolized by Future Heavy Industries!
However, only Future Heavy Industries had the confidence to complete this million-ton ship. Although Hua and Russia also had their own shipyards in Celestial City, they mainly accepted orders for small spacecraft.
Future Heavy Industries was different. Not only did it successfully produce three "Seagull-class" transport ships, but it was now in the process of producing the fourth "Seagull-class". The four Seagull-class not only accumulated a wealth of shipbuilding experience for Future Heavy Industries, but it also made the shipbuilding technology of its shipyards reach a very high level.
Although they were jealous of the hundreds of billions of Xin New Dollars, Hua, Russia, and other member states didn't have much choice. They could only hate the few domestic aerospace companies for not tying themselves to rockets and being left behind so much.
Of course, the biggest piece of meat was taken by Future Group, but there was still a lot of minced meat and soup left in the bowl.
Through the 50% defense tax and the output value contributed by member states, the Earth Defense Alliance's fund has raised a total of 349 billion Xin New dollars. According to the team of professional managers hired by the fund, if the current momentum is maintained, the funds raised in 2019 will exceed 1.2 trillion Xin New dollars.
How terrifying was this number?
If you had to choose a reference for comparison, taking the GDP data released by Hua five years ago as an example, 1.2 trillion Xin New Dollars had exceeded 10% of Hua's annual GDP in 2015.
That's 10% of the world's second-largest economy!
Of course, China's current GDP was far from what it was five years ago. Especially after the announcement of the asteroid mining plan, the GDP of the world's major aerospace countries had increased significantly. However, even so, it still showed what a terrifying amount of money 1.2 trillion Xin New Dollars was.
Even if he couldn't help build a battleship, he could help build a computer. At the very least, he could contribute one or two screws or buttons on a spacesuit. The more upstream the industry, the larger the downstream industry involved. The construction of such a million-ton military ship would stimulate the aerospace industry of the member states far more than five Seagull-class transport ships.
It was precisely because of this that everyone wanted a piece of the pie.
It was not only the Earth Defense Alliance that coveted this piece of cake, but also the aerospace companies that were not members.
Although these non-member countries also contributed a lot of money in the form of defense taxes, the Earth Defense Alliance was extremely harsh on non-member countries' enterprises when choosing partners. Even SpcaeX, the leading aerospace company in Silicon Valley, only received orders of 1.7 billion Xin New dollars from navigation projects.
This was a cake with a total value of 1.2 trillion Xin New dollars!
The aerospace companies in Silicon Valley and Seattle were extremely jealous. They repeatedly organized employees and persuaded unions to petition the Capitol, asking the UA to also join the Earth Defense Alliance, or at least establish a good cooperative relationship with the Earth Defense Alliance.
Entrepreneurs and labor unions were so united that even in the history of the UA capital development, it was absolutely worthy of the word "unprecedented."
Nippon was even more direct. The only asteroid mine was basically operated by several powerful consortia and transported millions of tons of mineral resources to Nippon's manufacturing industry every year. As soon as the 50% defense tax came out, most of the profits were taken away. Later, when the 1.2 trillion Xin New dollar cake was taken out, several consortia suddenly couldn't sit still and began to work together to pressure the Nippon government through the Congress to join the Earth Defense Alliance.
Inside Future Building on Coro Island, Jiang Chen was sitting in his office, drinking coffee while writing something on a piece of paper.
If you looked closer, you could see a line of words on the paper – "Earth Defense Alliance Research Fund Use Plan"
Future Heavy Industries shipyard's first order was an unarmed naked ship. Lu Hao's proposal completely solved the big problem of the committee's endless debate. The Earth Defense Alliance no longer needed to worry about which company to purchase weapons from, because now they simply didn't need to purchase weapons.
In the short term, this was undoubtedly a resource-saving choice. Instead of wasting production capacity on weapons destined to be eliminated, it was better to use it for farming. However, from a long-term perspective, this proposal was still a bit thoughtless.
If you don't feed the arms dealers who make guns and cannons, how can you expect them to invest money in guns and cannons and promote the upgrading of weapons and equipment?
The more you buy, the stronger the weapon. Without sales, there would naturally be no competition. Why did the military technology on the wasteland recover so quickly? Because in most survivor settlements, 50% or even 80% of the "GDP" was spent on weapons.
In such an environment, even without a few decent laboratories, the Sixth Street still relied on files and welding torches to create the T3 power armor that was not inferior to the pre-war level. After NAC unified the Wanghai 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 were no new power armors, and the K1 kinetic skeleton was the standard for the infantry of the three major divisions. With all kinetic skeletons, the NAC Army could already move freely on the wasteland, and naturally, there was no need to change their equipment.
Now the top priority of the Earth Defense Alliance was to find a way to stimulate military enterprises to develop weapons technology. It was best to encourage military enterprises to engage in research and development of aerospace weapons through other means than orders.
Money was not a problem, but how to spend the money became a big problem.
When Jiang Chen thought of this, he couldn't help but let out a sigh.
Sometimes he also couldn't help but exclaim in his mind that it would be great if he traveled directly from the future. Many things had no precedent at all, and he could only feel the stones to cross the river. Now it was only a budget issue. Once the Earth Fleet was established, there would be more things to worry about.
"Talents, talents … The Earth Defense Alliance is still lacking in talents."
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