# Cryrian News Network **URL:** \ **Category:** News Broadcasts\ **Created:** [October 29, 2020, 2:24pm UTC](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/t/cryrian-news-network/14076 "2020-10-29T14:24:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 2
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_March 20, 2024_ **“Build, Build, Build, Buy, Buy, Buy.” Defense Spending Floods Cryrian Manufacturers.** **Tarva—** Cryria’s defense spending has reached levels not seen since the Great War, following parliamentary approval of a sweeping plan to boost military expenditures through 2025. The budget, passed by the Andra Kammaren, continues a trend of significant annual increases dating back to 2018 and reflects mounting regional security concerns. The package allocates more than 317 billion CKR (approximately 63 billion SHD) to the Cryrian Defense Forces (CDF), covering personnel costs, training, planning, and maintenance—and a windfall for Cryrian manufacturers. The CDF’s decade-long procurement spree has kicked into high-gear with particular emphasis on reinforcing air-defense capabilities, including major acquisitions of surface-to-air missile systems. “The world is uneasy, and there is no reason to expect that this will change,” Defense Minister Majken Tornquist told attendees at a defense expo in Tarva. “The Government has one message for you: you must build, build, build, and we will buy, buy, buy.” The Defense Minister went on to describe an expedited procurement process which will circumvent normal tender procedures in certain critical areas. Tornquist also described plans to streamline acquisitions by bypassing traditional tendering processes for high-priority systems. “If we cannot buy at home, we will buy abroad,” she said, in an apparent reference to a recent purchase of reconnaissance drones from Packilvania. “It is the Government’s desire to invest in domestic industries, but the only thing that counts is that equipment reaches our men and women in uniform.” Aerospace manufacturer Tarva Defense Systems announced that it will add shifts and expand assembly lines to meet what it described as an unprecedented volume of new orders. The Defense Ministry confirmed purchases of five new batteries of long-range CX-3 surface-to-air missiles and eleven additional batteries of the medium-range CX-2, nearly doubling the latter’s current inventory. Tarva Defense Systems is also developing a successor to the short-range CX-1, with initial orders already placed. The procurement surge extends across multiple sectors. Emerson Land Systems will produce more than 470 Armored Mobility Vehicles, while Hejeld AB is set to manufacture “several hundred” CV 90 infantry fighting vehicles and at least thirty main battle tanks for the Army. The Lavini Steel Shipyards have been tasked with building a successor class to the Navy’s aging _Nymf_-class Rotantic patrol vessels. Deliveries of the new equipment are expected throughout the remainder of the decade and into the early 2030s. According to an analysis by the Leidenstad-based Center for International Security Studies, the scale of acquisitions reflects a comprehensive reassessment of regional threats by both the General Staff and the Ministry of Defense. “Decisionmakers in Leidenstad increasingly anticipate further hostile interventions in the wake of Ymirland’s civil war,” the Center wrote. “This expectation is shared in Amrakh Gazarv, and both the Kingdom of Cryria and Älemsi Negdel have embarked on major armament programs despite the absence of a formal alliance.” Political analysts note that the distribution of defense investments may carry domestic implications as well. Much of the new spending is expected to flow into industrial and technological hubs near Kalsa, Lavini, and Tarva—all keys to the Social Democrats’ strategy ahead of the November 2024 general elections. The spending will also weaken Cryria’s public sector fiscal balance. Government forecasters predict that a sizeable surplus will shrink and may become a shallow deficit by 2026. [Previous page](https://forum.theeastpacific.com/t/cryrian-news-network/14076.md?page=1)