I'm opening this thread to allow for comments and inquiries about the ship designs
I've posted on the wiki. I used to have a page for my old Terran Federation, but I overwrote it with this one since I'm generally happier with the new designs.
Here's my newest design, the
Rheinland-class Strike Cruiser, designed to run targets down and put house-sized holes in them.
![Cool 8)](http://aurora2.pentarch.org/Smileys/classic/cool.gif)
I'm currently retooling my shipyards for an initial building run of eight vessels.
Rheinland class Strike Cruiser 12,000 tons 1313 Crew 5416.4 BP TCS 240 TH 1440 EM 1800
12000 km/s Armour 8-46 Shields 60-300 Sensors 36/36/0/0 Damage Control Rating 6 PPV 54
Annual Failure Rate: 192% IFR: 2.7% Maint Capacity 1693 MSP Max Repair 288 MSP Est Time: 2.02 Years
GN-160M5 ICARUS InerCon Fusion Drive (18) Power 160 Fuel Use 50% Signature 80 Armour 0 Exp 5%
Fuel Capacity 350,000 Litres Range 105.0 billion km (101 days at full power)
GenCore Xi-class R300/25 Barriers (12) Total Fuel Cost 300 Litres per day
Raytheon Spartan-320 CIWS (2x6) Range 1000 km TS: 32000 km/s ROF 5 Base 50% To Hit
EADS Durandal 300mm/VC68 Naval Railgun (6x4) Range 420,000km TS: 12000 km/s Power 21-8 RM 6 ROF 15 7 7 7 7 7 7 5 5 4 4
Durandal FCS 240-8 (2) Max Range: 480,000 km TS: 8000 km/s 98 96 94 92 90 88 85 83 81 79
Type XII InerCon Fusion Reactor (4) Total Power Output 48 Armour 0 Exp 5%
Artemis ALS 86-20 (1) GPS 2160 Range 86.9m km Resolution 20
Hunter PST 2.36 (1) Sensitivity 36 Detect Sig Strength 1000: 36m km
Hunter PSE 2.36 (1) Sensitivity 36 Detect Sig Strength 1000: 36m km
ECCM-3 (2) ECM 40
This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes
The anti-missile protection should be enough against light warheads: the
Rheinland is meant to charge in after the enemy has wasted its heavier missiles against the gauss turrets of the
Sussex-class frigates (and possibly a newer design in the not so distant future). I'm also considering designing a fast anti-missile corvette class to follow and protect the strike cruisers, since they're quite faster than the aforementioned frigates and the missile-armed
Percivals.