The Navy was continuing to expand even as the Army disbanded their foot divisions. Horses were too expensive to maintain. There was also talk of moving the motorized divisions into the reserve, leaving only the Tank divisions in active service.
However, the Navy would continue to grow. The new super Dreadnoughts were being completed and dozens of diving boats had been completed. Several new airships were in service and the Parachute Corps had been completed.
Coastal defenses were completed. All that would be needed in time of war would be millions of land and sea mines, which were stockpiled near the coastline in hidden bunkers. Any beach that could be used to land troops was overlooked by massive concrete forts, built to withstand the heaviest of shells. Massive guns were built into this artificial cliffs and several offshore islands had been transformed into concrete battleships. Detailed maps of every kilometers of coastline were drawn up and provided to the artillery crews, with ranges and elevations marked relative to each gun. No invading army could hope to reach any beach unscathed and the design of the defenses meant that no warship could get in range without also being in range of the coastal guns. In time of war, mines would be anchored out to thirty kilometers from the shore, submerged no less than 2 meters and no more than 10. The beaches themselves would be death traps with land mines, boat and vehicle traps, barbed wire entanglements, machine guns, howitzers, field guns, mortars, rockets, and riflemen. Every beach under Manticoran control had these forts and it was only a matter of time before an enemy put them to the test.
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