Kalistani Major History

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Shipments of Vanukean Weaponry arrive in Kalistan
Vanuku delivers "on time"
Port Sweedes, Vrassa District
March 7, 4410

For the second time, a large convoy of Vanukean ships arrived at the sleepy port in northern Vrassa today.  This convoy was carrying newly purchased Weaponry from Vanuukean defense industries, and was finally reaching its port of final destination to offload in Kalistan.  All other traffic was denied entrance into the port while the Vanukean ships offloaded their cargo of 50 Helicopters (25 Attack and 25 Transport)  (OOC:  RL Equivalent AH 64 Apache and CH-47 Chinook respectively), 50 Cheetah Mk. IVtanks (OOC:  RL Equivalent Leopard 2) 350 Salient Infantry fighting vehicles (OOC:  RL Equivalent CV90 Combat Vehicles) and 160 Infantry Mobility Vehicles (OOC:  RL Equivalent LGS Fennek). All told, more than 25 Billion KRB in Military equipment has arrived in Kalistan since last November.


A Batch of Salient IFV's is offloaded a Vanukean Transport at Port Sweedes.  The Shipment was part of more than 25 Billion Rubles of Purchases over the last 6 months


Newly purchased Corvettes are escorted to Port Devon by Vanukean Naval Vessels

Accompanying these ships were 6 new Corvettes, dubbed in Kalistan "Sulari-Class" (OOC:  RL Equivalent Braunschweig Class), which continued on to Port Devon at Kalibug, and joined the 12 new Gallegos-Class Offshore patrol boats (OOC: RL Equivalent Holland Class) and 20 new Eshar-Class Light Patrol Craft (OOC:  RL Equivalent Armidale-Class) which arrived a couple months ago.  These ships will form the mobile section of the new Kalistani Regular Navy. The arrival of the Corvettes signals a change in fortunes for the Kalistani Navy, which has suffered significant losses in recent weeks due to the ongoing conflict over the Ananto Straits.  All remaining purchases from Vanuku are expected within the next year, as Vanukean factories work overtime to fill Kalistani Orders.

Both Defense Minister Santamaria and Foreign Minister Williams were on hand to receive the Military and Naval deliveries.  Williams issued the following statement: "We are greatly satisfied with the Vanukean effort to meet our requests.  This process lays a wonderful foundation for future talks between Kalistan and Vanuku.  We look forward to discussing a security arrangement which will be aimed at free trade, and perhaps a new alliance between our two countries.  Who knows.  Of course, we are open to ideas, especially ones that explicitly balance the growing power of Kazulia and Lourenne in this region of the world.  The Northern Alliance has taken far too many liberties with lands which are not their own, and our hope is that they can be checked from expanding any further.  We hope closer relations with Vanuku will allow Kalistan to take a leading role in that check."