User:Gran Altiplano/Navy

Altiplanero naval planning
Due to the fact that both Catamarca and Averillas were regional naval powers, with the former possessing substantial and unquenched blue-water ambitions, the initial Altiplanero navy inherited from the state's predecessors was fairly versatile in its capabilities, but suffered from an over-emphasis on short-range combatants developed primarily for posturing in the Bahía de Averillas and Centerenas Sea. Consequently, a number of the more technologically advanced projects in production at the time of the March Revolution had construction stalled or even outright cancelled for hulls not nearing completion. Those that could be more repurposed were, and the Áviles administration sought to sell the larger ones to sympathetic powers in an attempt to help finance ARCO's modernisation, in addition to other infrastructure projects.

Catamarca had built probably 2-3 Kyiv-class carriers by '77; two were barely altered and became the backbone of the Altiplanero surface forces; the last was sold while 2/3 complete to Sahil and would become the future Vikramaditya. There are probably also two, maybe three, Kuznetsov-class equivalents in service to the present; and then the new Áviles-class carriers are basically the QE2, but more aesthetic

Also look at doing more with the Altiplanero informal sector (maybe 20-25%?) to represent the abortive nature of centralisation reforms and the turn to a (more) market-based economy afterwards. ..