So i am back, we have stopped the conversion job about 1/8th of the way, so the projects dead on it's tracks until you guys give me a response.
Ofcourse, Ryu is an admirable Battleship but we need her out for two reasons: 1) She's very demanding on ammunition and fuel, not to mention that it's AA defence (PD) isn't very accurate so it burns 30mm Flakvehspuc and 167mm THD's really fast. and it's not money that's the issue; its the fact that it drains more than we can produce in a single ship/ship basis.
2) It's repairjobs are frequent and expensive. Yes, the money isn't an issue but wasting 1.1 billion dollars to fix a missing "Half of ship" is not a good sign; and it's the only ship that has that issue in the Kongou-class line, hell, our flagship for small battlecruiser-like battleships (Kongou-class) is a beast when it comes to dealing up with repair jobs, it barely even takes damage most of the time!.
Those two reasons paired up with the 57,75 billion dollar expenses in WARP drive equipment that was retrofitted into the KC line of BB's makes this ship well, a warfail in many, many, maaaaaany ways. besides, the plans for her Research Build include 2 90km range sensors!
Anyway, ill be signing off, goodbye