In my 6.1 campaign for the United Nations of Earth I've found (SM-ed there) an NPR in the Kowloon system 2 jumps away from Sol. I decided to plant some buoys at the JPs to be sure that no "Loon" incursion can occur. The Minelayers arrived to the JP and found right away a "Loon" ship sitting there. It's presumably a gate builder. I can not allow them to go where they want in my territory. My minelayers are equipped with long range size 14 MIRV-ed missiles and some standard size 4 ones and I gave them the order to engage enemy.
My minelayer design:
Stalwart class Minelayer 8,950 tons 237 Crew 1092.76 BP TCS 179 TH 540 EM 0
4022 km/s Armour 2-38 Shields 0-0 Sensors 6/6/0/0 Damage Control Rating 4 PPV 42
Maint Life 2.02 Years MSP 305 AFR 160% IFR 2.2% 1YR 100 5YR 1496 Max Repair 72 MSP
Intended Deployment Time: 12 months Spare Berths 3
Magazine 290
Klimov SEI-144 Military Drive (5) Power 144 Fuel Use 34.06% Signature 108 Exp 8%
Fuel Capacity 600,000 Litres Range 35.4 billion km (101 days at full power)
MBDA SWM-14 Launch Tube (3) Missile Size 14 Rate of Fire 210
General Electrics SFA-51U Missile Fire Control (1) Range 51.5m km Resolution 17
Novator SSM-100 Alpha (7) Speed: 14,400 km/s End: 49.1m Range: 42.4m km WH: 4 Size: 4 TH: 67 / 40 / 20
BAE TEM-10 Thermobuoy (5) Speed: 0 km/s End: 0m Range: 0m km WH: 0 Size: 10 TH: 0 / 0 / 0
MBDA PSTM-14 Fisherman Thermal Mine (10) Speed: 0 km/s End: 1.1d Range: 0.1m km WH: 0 Size: 14 TH: 0 / 0 / 0
MBDA MAS-211 Long Range Missile (5) Speed: 4,700 km/s End: 749.8m Range: 212m km WH: 0 Size: 14 TH: 15 / 9 / 4
General Electrics SSA-51 Active Array (1) GPS 6400 Range 51.2m km Resolution 100
Changzhou SSP-6T (1) Sensitivity 6 Detect Sig Strength 1000: 6m km
Changzhou SSP-6EM (1) Sensitivity 6 Detect Sig Strength 1000: 6m km
Missile to hit chances are vs targets moving at 3000 km/s, 5000 km/s and 10,000 km/s
This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes
The squadron consists of:
UNN Admiralty - jump tender, Commander Naomi Conolly
UNN Stalwart - Captain Anais de Bourdeille
UNN Wilder - Captain Sira Belkin
Additional forces are at Earth in the case of an unsuccessful attack.
Those are:
12th Cruiser Squadron "Brandenburg"
CA UNN Brandenburg
CA UNN Derfflinger
CA UNN Deutschland
DDG UNN Udaloy
DDG UNN Arkhandelsk
DDG UNN Saratov
DDG UNN Chelyabinsk
20th Carrier Squadron "Essex" - momentally refitting to Ion Engine standards
CV UNN Essex
CV UNN Langley
18x General Dynamics A-34 Warhawk
2x Tupolev Tu-221 Strizh AWACS
6x Boeing B-75 Astrofortress
The minelayers launched their long range missiles from a distance of cca 120m kilometers. Since these missiles have thermal sensors on board they were launched without activating the sensor suit.
The second stage separates successfully releasing two Eurosam SSM-5T's. The enemy is now in range of the onboard thermal sensors. It was identified as Bermat 002 with a thermal signature of 800.
The missiles hit the target, it's definitely not a construction ship. It fired back and shot down 2 missiles. Captain Anais de Bourdeille with the approval of the President of The United Nations decided to check out the ship with active sensors, fire some obsolete missiles from his magazine and then retreat ASAP to Earth. Meanwile the 12th Cruiser Squadron "Brandenburg" was alerted and sent full speed to the jump point.
The fired salvos surely had some effect because the crew of the minelayers noticed that Bermat 002 is streaming atmosphere.
Will continue later.