Abbott Defence

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Abbott Defence	Abbott Defence
Type 	Aerospace, Naval, and Weapons R&D Conglomerate
Formed 	2019
Founder(s) 	The European Federation, Frazer Abbott
Abbott Defence began life as a branch of the British Parliamentary Republic’s Ministry of Defence, and was responsible for a significant portion of the remilitarization effort throughout 2016 and 2017. After the formation of the European Federation, the Ministry of Defence was dissolved and it’s assets absorbed into the European Federation’s own Ministry of Defence, though the industrial assets that the BPR’s MoD held proved a more difficult acquisition to deal with. Though the Federation was no stranger to operating corporations directly, even at this very early juncture, the assets that would later become Abbott Defence quickly became a point of contention, as early attempts to integrate them into the Federal Armed Forces directly were bungled. This mishandling quickly grew into graver concerns over the Federation’s supposed aims to build a command economy. Seeing the possibility of continual absorption of corporations prompting either communist or extreme anti-communist parties to grow explosively, the Federation began to back off on any action that could be taken as “centrally planning”, opting instead to privatize assets that it had once claimed sole control over.
Abbott Defence was one such bundle of assets. Purchased by Frazer Abbott, ex-Minister of Defence for the BPR, Abbott Defence continues to operate much as it had under Parliamentary or Federal control, producing and developing warships and aircraft for the Federation. Notably, Abbott Defence is responsible for most of the Raider(s) I/II, the Buccaneer, the Super Vulcan, and many other Federal aircraft, and also operates and maintains Liverpool Shipyards, the main shipyard for the Federation, and home port of the Atlantic Fleet.
Category:European Federation
Category:PACYOA: TE