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Executor-Class Arsenal Ship

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/arsenal_72.jpg

Background:With the days of the old battleships able to provide adequate naval-based land support gone. Tersanctus set into motion an Idea to incorporate high firepower with low-manning, and a vessel that would be 50% less life-cycle maintenance cost. The Arsenal Ship is aslo designed to have passive survivability, essentially it is extremley difficult to hit with modern weapons, by combining the use of tactical countermeasures, and reducing the ships radar signature, to nearly undetectable levels. The design assures that, if the ship were hit by a missile or torpedo, the magazines will not be violated, finally the hull is designed and sized, so that even if the ship is hit by a missile or torpedo, it will not sink.

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/arsenal2.jpg

Armament: 500 Vertical Launch System (VLS)
Tomahawk Land-Attack Missiles (T-LAMs)
Tactical Missile System


Crew: 50 Personnel, (Highly Automated)

Design:Low Radar Signature ("Stealthy")
Double Hulled

Length: 655 feet

{Tag; For Intelligence Purposes}

Well you would only really be able to launch an attack in calm seas unless you wanted you ship to get flooded but you would only have to worry about subsmarines, aircraft, warships with good gun targeting systems, and stallites giving away where your ships are but in a ship to ship battle or ship to sub or ship and air battle they will hit more than once. you need defensing agaist Air attacks, attacks by other ships and agaist multable missiles and torpedos and ways to counter attack, because as it stands now its a sitting duck and would not survive a naval or air attack. Western Asia could point out some more details and give you some advise to make it better even if he is overly fond of missiles systems.

Advice: Base your design on the Kirov-class battlecruiser, instead. There is no set of targets that calls for 500 missiles. Of course, if you want to waste money on this design, who am I to stop you?