A few years ago NS set a target of raising ten billion zarks a year through export sales and other external funding streams. Unfortunately NS has never come close to that target and this year will likely only raise half the target. A problem is that sales of warships and other military equipment are becoming harder to come by as the market becomes saturated.
NS did foresee this and hoped that upgrades for their large customer base would plug the gap however this has not happened. An analyst has said that NS assumed small nations would upgrade their fleets the same frequency as NS but that is not what happens in practice.
The latest idea is engineering services. NS will help their customers maintain their fleets. Two customers have already said they are interested and NS hope this can raise nearly half a billion zarks a year.
