Radar, anti-submarine missile fire control system, and anti-ship gun fire control system are all basic configurations of this retired Coastal Combat Ship.
But whether they can be used or not is another question.
After all, it’s not on a mission, just routinely patrolling near the islands, so it’s not surprising that the missile bay is empty year-round. ɴᴇᴡ ɴᴏᴠᴇʟ ᴄʜᴀᴘᴛᴇʀs ᴀʀᴇ ᴘᴜʙʟɪsʜᴇᴅ ᴏɴ noᴠelfire.net
Firing a missile costs tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of US Dollars; when not in use, they still require maintenance, and warfare is really too costly.
After careful consideration, Allen Zhang decided to purchase such a Coastal Combat Ship.
The person in charge had already prepared a package contract, allowing the General Sect Leader and the coordinator Sieg to review it; the basic package comes with a cost of 5.5 million US Dollars, including two four-seat speedboats and several small boats, which can all be equipped with firepower like machine guns or individual RPG launchers for real-time fire support and sea rescue.
After verifying its correctness, Allen Zhang had Sieg decisively sign his name. For transportation, one could choose the General Electric Boat Company to deliver it to a designated location or arrange personnel to move the combat ship themselves, but delivery would require an additional fee. After consideration, the General Sect Leader chose to have his own people take the Coastal Combat Ship away, focusing on cost-effectiveness.
Through the channels of the Hanberger Foundation, the funds were transferred to the designated account of the General Electric Boat Company.
"Mr. Campri, Mr. Jin, we have received your transfer, wondering if you have any interest in other private cruisers and yachts?" After a successful transaction, the person in charge Darcy warmly said.
"We are here not only to purchase the combat ship but mainly to learn about the Spruance-class destroyers," Allen Zhang said.
"We can now go to visit the destroyer," Darcy smiled, immediately leading them away from the combat ship to the bay where the destroyers were moored. It still looked like a monstrous iron beast.
The destroyer, with a length of 171.6 meters, a width of 16.8 meters, a full-load displacement of 7700 tons, and a maximum range of 6600 nautical miles, was much larger than the Coastal Combat Ship, not even in the same level.
Previously, twenty people could easily manage to drive and navigate the combat ship, but for the destroyer beast, without fifty people you can’t even maintain normal shift operations; just looking at the machinery components made one feel like their brain was being attacked by scientific theories and technology.
Darcy led a few people aboard the destroyer and visited the bridge and the engine room, providing some explanations. Looking at the electronic equipment and circuitry, besides radar and sea maps which could be recognized, everything else left the General Sect Leader utterly confused and overwhelmed.
A few Qibatu ground crew members who already understood electrical circuits found the visit very intriguing, even discussing with Harvard where to start with modifications.
They already knew a lot about this destroyer, there was not much else to say, just checking the performance and functionality integrity before discussing the price.
Darcy gave them the General Electric Boat Company’s selling price, a second-hand retired destroyer priced at 55 million US Dollars. This price was clearly much more favorable than that of the combat ship, after all, a second-hand Spruance-class destroyer varies in price from 40 million to 200 million US Dollars.
The price of 55 million US Dollars was mainly because the General Electric Boat Company only sells the destroyer’s hull, without suitable weapons systems available for purchase, only including ordinary ammunition and replaceable components.
Otherwise, just selecting some genuine Tomahawk cruise missiles or Asroc Anti-submarine Missiles, you wouldn’t possibly get it for fifty million US Dollars; the budget would instantly exceed a hundred million US Dollars.
Moreover, if you want to buy this stuff, you have to see if others would sell it to you. Pure heavy weaponry!