NationStates Jolt Archive


Sea Trials

14-10-2003, 08:31
The MNV Revalation slid through the water quitly on her first run. She was destined to become the new pride of all of Marno's naval forces, the first Leviathan Battlecarrier.

Unlike most ships of the time, she had a trimar design that let her cut through the roughest of waters. Everyone on board hopped that the weather would get worse. She was suppose to beable to stay out nomatter how the sea was, and they wanted to test that. Sea State 5 was her operational rating, to bad that Hurrican George would pass the test ground by almost 400 miles. It was a catogory 3 and was suppose to get stronger before the wore itself out in the open seas.

All of the deck clutter was cleared and the angles changed. With-out the strait lines she was almost no radar profile. Though she was just shy of 200 meters long and 17.8 meters at her widest point.

The twin main guns where kept to a new, simpler weapon. Unlike battleships of the past with their 16 to 20 inch main guns, she had a pair of railguns. The railguns range was almost 500 km and a speed of mach 9, they still hit with the same punch of the older guns.

"New technology for the new world", was what everyone was saying. The aft section was a helipad, designed to launch and retrive the ships UAV's, UWA's, UCAV's, and UCWA's . If neccacry, she could land a pair of Sea King or Commanche choppers on the same deck.

Tonights test were kept simple and they had already completed several. Test the ships Azure Pods which allowed them to clear the dock with-out the use of tugboats. Bring the ship up to combat speeds and then the weapons systme. Their was to be no firing of the railguns tonight, but they wanted to besure that they could drop from 32 knots to 30 knots and power both guns. They had to drop to 29.8 knots, but still past with fling colors.

They were useing a skeleton crew for all over the ship, minus the Unmand Vechile Rooms. They were making sure that all 77 operators could go at once with-out slag or interfirince problems. To make sure that the system could handle the us, they were given a Blue Knight PT Boat to take with them.