I like it  And holy moly that is a lot of guns XD Bet everyone went when the USSR launched those.

The secret is here:

Aviadvigatel PD-04 (1)    Power 1125    Fuel Use 67.50%    Signature 1125    Explosion 15%
Fuel Capacity 183,000 Litres    Range 4.1 billion km (10 days at full power)

A size-60 engine on a size-240 ship makes for a lot of extra room for guns, at the cost of either speed or as seen here range. This is a classic system patrol craft through and through and damn effective at the job, but don't count on it to prosecute any war against the soon-to-be-discovered Haplessians in Gamma Centauri or wherever. 

Despite lack of popular demand it's back

Indeed, one might even say it is because of the lack of popular demand, for what better reason to once more grace the forums?

Tupolev Tu-3 class Scout      500 tons       14 Crew       143 BP       TCS 10    TH 13    EM 0
3757 km/s      Armour 1-5       Shields 0-0       HTK 4      Sensors 0/0/0/0      DCR 0      PPV 0
Maint Life 15.67 Years     MSP 169    AFR 4%    IFR 0.1%    1YR 1    5YR 19    Max Repair 84 MSP
Captain 3rd rank    Control Rating 1   
Intended Deployment Time: 104 months    Morale Check Required   

Aviadvigatel PD-03 (1)    Power 37.5    Fuel Use 109.54%    Signature 13.125    Explosion 10%
Fuel Capacity 14,000 Litres    Range 4.6 billion km (14 days at full power)

People's Arsenal 84.5Mkm Active Search Sensor AS94-R120 (1)     GPS 10080     Range 84.6m km    Resolution 120

This design is classed as a Fighter for production, combat and planetary interaction
 

One scout ship to accompany the Tu-2s, The sensor is crappy but its the best that could be mounted at current tech (and is more of a secondary use given the point of the Tu-2 is to bombard planets and thus shouldn't even be in range of other ships, and use of the sensor would give away the location of the squadron. however politburo hardliners being politburo hardliners the ability to shoot other ships had to be included or a lot of people would get to go on holiday in Siberia)

Admiral Basisty class Destroyer      12,000 tons       481 Crew       2,553.6 BP       TCS 240    TH 1,125    EM 0
4687 km/s      Armour 5-46       Shields 0-0       HTK 81      Sensors 0/0/0/0      DCR 3      PPV 102
Maint Life 1.05 Years     MSP 799    AFR 384%    IFR 5.3%    1YR 731    5YR 10,967    Max Repair 562.5 MSP
Captain 1st rank    Control Rating 4   BRG   AUX   ENG   CIC   
Intended Deployment Time: 10 months    Morale Check Required   

Aviadvigatel PD-04 (1)    Power 1125    Fuel Use 67.50%    Signature 1125    Explosion 15%
Fuel Capacity 183,000 Litres    Range 4.1 billion km (10 days at full power)

People's Arsenal 20cm Railgun V40/C4 (6x4)    Range 160,000km     TS: 5,000 km/s     Power 12-4     Accuracy Modifier 100%     RM 40,000 km    ROF 15       
People's Arsenal 10cm Railgun V40/C4 (20x4)    Range 40,000km     TS: 5,000 km/s     Power 3-4     Accuracy Modifier 100%     RM 40,000 km    ROF 5       
People's Arsenal Beam Fire Control R192-TS5000 (2)     Max Range: 192,000 km   TS: 5,000 km/s     95 90 84 79 74 69 64 58 53 48
People's Arsenal Gas-Cooled Fast Reactor R109-PB40 (1)     Total Power Output 109.4    Exp 20%

People's Arsenal 2.7Mkm Active Search Sensor AS2-R1 (1)     GPS 3     Range 2.7m km    MCR 295.3k km    Resolution 1

ECM 10

This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes

The Admiral Basisty class Destroyer was designed in recognition of Soviet economic realities. Even if every resource in the nation was martialed towards shipbuilding the USSR would still be unable to keep up with capitalist shipbuilding. In such a rigged game the only winning move is not to play, the true breakthrough coming when it was realised that lacking the commercial shipping capacity the Soviets would not have many colonies to defend, thus resources could be plowed into the red army while the navy could be fobbed off with a compromised design. Enter the Admiral Basisty, designed to dominate earth orbit with thick armour, an enormous number of railguns and speedy enough to run down any other warship. The sacrifice for this was two fold, the engines while powerful were horribly inefficient crippling range and the design was ruinously expensive resulting in the USSR only being able to field a few of these behemoths. However the politburo saw these as minor drawbacks, the range was unimportant for operating in earth orbit and the lack of numbers would be countered by the lack of patrols resulting in the ability to surge the entire fleet in the first few weeks of any conflict (by which time the red army would have decided things one way or another)


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Despite lack of popular demand it's back
The Russians are all in on winning the ground war on earth thus want to dominate earth orbit above all else, now this is forced upon them by economic and diplomatic reality but its still not a terrible plan, any war will be started by Russia (with the dead hand of the Tu-2s to stop attacks) so destroyers can be maneuvered into position to hit key targets before war begins

FX-3 class Strikefighter      250 tons       4 Crew       58.5 BP       TCS 5    TH 13    EM 0
7528 km/s      Armour 1-3       Shields 0-0       HTK 1      Sensors 0/0/0/0      DCR 0      PPV 12.5
Maint Life 4.47 Years     MSP 40    AFR 50%    IFR 0.7%    1YR 3    5YR 49    Max Repair 32.8125 MSP
Magazine 12   
Lieutenant Commander    Control Rating 1   
Intended Deployment Time: 3 months    Morale Check Required   

General Electric F405 (1)    Power 37.5    Fuel Use 1711.63%    Signature 13.1250    Explosion 25%
Fuel Capacity 26,000 Litres    Range 1.1 billion km (40 hours at full power)

General Dynamics Gauss Cannon R300-8.00 (1x3)    Range 16,000km     TS: 7,528 km/s     Accuracy Modifier 8.00%     RM 30,000 km    ROF 5       
General Dynamics Beam Fire Control R16-TS5000 (1)     Max Range: 16,000 km   TS: 5,000 km/s     38 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

General Dynamics Size 4.0 Box Launcher (3)     Missile Size: 4.0    Hangar Reload 100 minutes    MF Reload 16 hours
General Dynamics 9.2Mkm Anti-Fighter Missile Fire Control FC9-R5 (1)     Range 9.3m km    Resolution 5
Raytheon ARM 1 Shrike (3)    Speed: 27,950 km/s    End: 50.2m     Range: 84.2m km    WH: 2    Size: 4.000    TH: 93/55/27

Raytheon 4.6Mkm Active Fighter Search Sensor AS4-R5 (1)     GPS 11     Range 4.6m km    Resolution 5

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 Fighter for production, combat and planetary interaction
 

FX-4 class Interceptor      250 tons       4 Crew       64.2 BP       TCS 5    TH 13    EM 0
7528 km/s      Armour 1-3       Shields 0-0       HTK 1      Sensors 0/0/0/0      DCR 0      PPV 14.5
Maint Life 4.55 Years     MSP 40    AFR 50%    IFR 0.7%    1YR 3    5YR 47    Max Repair 32.8125 MSP
Magazine 14   
Lieutenant Commander    Control Rating 1   
Intended Deployment Time: 3 months    Morale Check Required   

General Electric F405 (1)    Power 37.5    Fuel Use 1711.63%    Signature 13.1250    Explosion 25%
Fuel Capacity 11,000 Litres    Range 0.5 billion km (17 hours at full power)

General Dynamics Gauss Cannon R300-8.00 (1x3)    Range 16,000km     TS: 7,528 km/s     Accuracy Modifier 8.00%     RM 30,000 km    ROF 5       
General Dynamics Beam Fire Control R16-TS5000 (1)     Max Range: 16,000 km   TS: 5,000 km/s     38 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

General Dynamics Size 1 Box Launcher (14)     Missile Size: 1    Hangar Reload 50 minutes    MF Reload 8 hours
General Dynamics 9.2Mkm Anti-Fighter Missile Fire Control FC9-R5 (1)     Range 9.3m km    Resolution 5
General Dynamics CAM 1 Pikeman (14)    Speed: 25,600 km/s    End: 3.1m     Range: 4.7m km    WH: 2    Size: 1.0000    TH: 136/81/40

Raytheon 4.6Mkm Active Fighter Search Sensor AS4-R5 (1)     GPS 11     Range 4.6m km    Resolution 5

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 Fighter for production, combat and planetary interaction

The results of Fleet defense against an attack squadron 2002 (where 20+ missiles were projected to get through the AMM fire from two New York class frigates) alarmed the DoD who immediately put out a tender for a fighter capable of defending against an attack by a hostile fighter squadron. Both Lochheed Martin and a newcomer to the fighter game Northrop-Grumman submitted bids, however these bids were radically different from each other. Northrop-Grumman submitted arguably the most conventional design with the FX-4, an interceptor armed with the General Dynamics R300-8 gauss cannon and 14 General Dynamics CAM 1 Pikeman close attack missiles, the idea was to get in close while remaining too small for the fire controls of the opposing fighters to get target lock, it was calculated that 2 pikemen would be required to destroy each fighter so the FX-4 was capable of destroying 7 fighters before switching to guns (hits were close to guaranteed provided enemy fighters had a similar speed to the F-2). The FX-3, the submission from Lochheed Martin was far more radical, working closely with Raytheon Lochheed Martin built the FX-3 around the unique capabilities of the Raytheon ARM 1 Shrike anti-radiation missile

Missile Size: 4.000 MSP  (10.0000 Tons)     Warhead: 2    Radiation Damage: 2    Manoeuvre Rating: 10
Speed: 27,950 km/s     Fuel: 645     Flight Time: 50 minutes     Range: 84.21m km
EM Sensor Strength: 0.14    Detect Sig Strength 1000:  2,958,040 km
Cost Per Missile: 3.524     Development Cost: 352
Chance to Hit: 1k km/s 279.5%   3k km/s 93.2%   5k km/s 55.9%   10k km/s 28.0%

Materials Required
Tritanium  0.5
Boronide  0.084
Uridium  0.14
Gallicite  2.80
Fuel:  645
 

The thinking behind the Shrike is that any battle against a fighter equipped enemy would take place close to ground based sensors (due to range restrictions as well as there being not much of value in sol apart from the earth at the time) hence any time a scout fighter switched on it's active sensor it would be lit up like a Christmas tree for the ground based tracking stations on earth. The shrike would then be fired at the scout fighter locking on with it's inbuilt EM sensor when it got close and destroying the target, rendering the squadron it was presumably accompanying blind and either causing them to be unable to fire their munitions or causing their munitions (which presumably do not have sensors of their own) to self destruct mid flight. The Shrike was also slightly faster than the ASM 1 Harpoon in order to be able to beat any incoming ordinance 'to the punch' in the words of one Raytheon engineer (as an extra bonus to the cost conscious DoD the Shrike was even cheaper than a Harpoon). The FX-3 mounted 3 Shrikes (2 shrikes were calculated to be enough to disable and E-1 Sentry however a third was included as there was a small chance to miss) plus the R300-8 gauss cannon of the FX-4, this combined with it's long range (for a fighter) and high speed gave it a secondary function as a commerce raider (this wasn't particularly interesting to the DoD but it was a nice touch). The problem for the DoD was that both tactical approaches had huge flaws and easily executable counters, the FX-4 would likely not get into range before incoming missiles hit and the FX-3 could be counted by either turning active sensors off and on to bait the shot or by bringing fighters in closer while leaving the sensor fighter at maximum range in order to reduce the time on target for the incoming ordnance. However an easily countered defense was better than none and the DoD saw promise for the two approaches working together (the threat of the Shrike brining the fighters in closer making it easier for the FX-4 to intercept them). the FX-3 became the Lochheed Martin F-3 Wraith and the FX-4 became the F-4 Phantom. The DoD also drew up the Carrier Concept 02 around this time projecting a future fleet carrier would have 24 F-2 Rapiers, 1 F-3 Wraith, 2 F-4 Phantoms and 2 E-1 Sentries for a total hanger space of 7250 tons on a projected 16,000 ton vessel


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Last American designs for a while I promise (unless I finish the Bunker Hill before I go on holiday on Friday), the next one will probably be visiting Mother Russia for their take on a nuclear deterrent

The F-3 and F-4 are both somewhat compromised designs (needing large engines and loads of fuel (especially the F-3) to achieve that high speed), this means that the F-3 lacks a long range fire control so its kind of stuck in its roll (being unable to launch long-range strikes if the target has no EM signature). On the F-4 the missiles and FC/AS range is far too short (by the time the F-4 gets into range any fighters will probably be long gone). However short of constructing a massive anti fighter sensor on a dedicated platform (which is quite beyond America's capabilities ATM) its the best I could come up with (and what's the fun of being perfect all the time), of course America doesn't have to worry yet because no other power has fighters yet but that may change soon (he says definitely not foreshadowing the next couple of designs or anything)

One last thing the DoD is getting a bit ahead of itself with the Carrier Concept 02 (it doesn't even have the capability to build CVEs let alone a proper CV)

Beam armed warships will not be going faster than 7000 km/s at early tech.

I totally forgot that missile dodge chance was tied to target speed. An incredibly rookie mistake.

Excellent stuff, and a lot of good points regarding the Abdiel. Learning a lot!

It depends on the range of enemy beam weapons. But IMO this speed should be enough on this tech level. You dont really need to got that far.

It also allows this platform to move to guard jump point or to bombard hostile colony on other planet in Sol.

In Honorverse, Manticoran fortresses guarding junction also have limited mobility so they can change formation around the wormholes and such.