Kaukolastan
16-02-2004, 16:19
In a long expected move, Kaukolastan has begun rotating it's vessels through dry dock. All will be receiving massive upgrades, including:
1.) CIWS replaces with the "Millenium Gun", which will be coordinated to the BattleNet. The Millennium Gun, a naval deck weapon system, delivers inner-layer defense against sea-skimming antiship missiles, antiradiation missiles, and aircraft. It is also effective against fast-attack surface craft and near-shore targets during operations in littoral and riverine waters. Creating a "wall of lead," the Millennium Gun fires 35-mm ammunition, including the advanced Ahead round, at 1,000 rounds per minute. Each Ahead round disperses 152 metal subprojectiles. Forming a cone-shaped pattern, the subprojectiles destroy a target's control surfaces, seeker and other vital equipment components as a target moves through the wall of lead. The gun's muzzle brake programs each Ahead round as it exits the barrel, setting distance and subprojectile dispersal pattern.
2.) The Introduction of the MTHEL (Mobile, High Energy Laser) System. MTHEL makes a sharp break with the past. Instead of using highly reactive chemicals to create a laser beam inside a plume of hot gas, MTHEL performs its magic inside a special type of glass. Its operating principle is the same as that of all solid-state lasers, including those in CD drives and DVD players. Basically, light from a beefed-up flashbulb sends a stream of photons into nine neodymium-doped glass discs. Inside the discs, the light, which can be thought of as a rabble of raw recruits, becomes organized into a crack drill team--what physicists call a beam of coherent, monochromatic light. Gaining strength as more light is pumped in, the colorless laser beam bursts out one side of the crystal with enough power to heat steel at 200 yards. Paired with BattleNet, this will allow for defense, even against shells.
3.) RAM Shells for guns. Special purpose RAMjet rounds for 16/18.1" shells. Already travelling at Mach 6 on firing, the RAMjet has enough air flow to fire. These rounds double the effective range, and have the Parkins Guidance system, but have a decreased explosive load.
4.) SeaRAM Sytems installed. The SeaRAM combines and upgrades elements of two Navy weapons systems. It uses sensors of a Phalanx Gatling gun system and elements of a RAM (rolling airframe missile) system that can fire 11 guided missiles in rapid order. Successrate again test missiles showed 95% successrate, even on the Sunburn Missile.
5.) Upgrade to Second Generation BattleNet, with core systems install for ship, battlegroup, and Fleet level control Nets, as well as ARES control systems, which are not yet active. CLASSIFIED. (OOC: For information, review my posts on Project Prometheus.)
6.) Computer systems refit. Rearmament, reinforcement, and realignment of all systems. Helipads converted for New VTOL use.
7.)Conversion to HyStrike Missiles instead of Tomahawks or CALCMs. A unique aspect of this Navy program is that the goal is a single hypersonic strike weapon that will be launchable from air, surface and subsurface platforms. This is a first-time collaboration between these three communities to develop a common weapon system for time-critical and deeply buried targets. It is intended to produce increased operations effectiveness as well as life-cycle cost saving.
The surface-launched system can hit underground targets to a depth of 12 meters after flying at beyond Mach 4. The wingless missile changes direction in flight by using a bending body joint. The HyStrike comprises a fin-less, bending body airframe, fixed geometry annular inlet, and a slip-out booster/ramjet engine. It delivers a 1000-pound payload to a range exceeding 700 nautical miles at a speed of Mach 4.0.
The weapon's greatly decreased time to target gives the command, control, communications, computers and intelligence (C4I) components more time to search for and identify time-critical threats. Powerful kinetic penetrators defeat the enemy's tactic of burrowing deeper or building stronger bunkers. And the ability to take out threat weapons before they are launched increases Kaukolastani and allied survivability, efficiency, cost effectiveness.
1.) CIWS replaces with the "Millenium Gun", which will be coordinated to the BattleNet. The Millennium Gun, a naval deck weapon system, delivers inner-layer defense against sea-skimming antiship missiles, antiradiation missiles, and aircraft. It is also effective against fast-attack surface craft and near-shore targets during operations in littoral and riverine waters. Creating a "wall of lead," the Millennium Gun fires 35-mm ammunition, including the advanced Ahead round, at 1,000 rounds per minute. Each Ahead round disperses 152 metal subprojectiles. Forming a cone-shaped pattern, the subprojectiles destroy a target's control surfaces, seeker and other vital equipment components as a target moves through the wall of lead. The gun's muzzle brake programs each Ahead round as it exits the barrel, setting distance and subprojectile dispersal pattern.
2.) The Introduction of the MTHEL (Mobile, High Energy Laser) System. MTHEL makes a sharp break with the past. Instead of using highly reactive chemicals to create a laser beam inside a plume of hot gas, MTHEL performs its magic inside a special type of glass. Its operating principle is the same as that of all solid-state lasers, including those in CD drives and DVD players. Basically, light from a beefed-up flashbulb sends a stream of photons into nine neodymium-doped glass discs. Inside the discs, the light, which can be thought of as a rabble of raw recruits, becomes organized into a crack drill team--what physicists call a beam of coherent, monochromatic light. Gaining strength as more light is pumped in, the colorless laser beam bursts out one side of the crystal with enough power to heat steel at 200 yards. Paired with BattleNet, this will allow for defense, even against shells.
3.) RAM Shells for guns. Special purpose RAMjet rounds for 16/18.1" shells. Already travelling at Mach 6 on firing, the RAMjet has enough air flow to fire. These rounds double the effective range, and have the Parkins Guidance system, but have a decreased explosive load.
4.) SeaRAM Sytems installed. The SeaRAM combines and upgrades elements of two Navy weapons systems. It uses sensors of a Phalanx Gatling gun system and elements of a RAM (rolling airframe missile) system that can fire 11 guided missiles in rapid order. Successrate again test missiles showed 95% successrate, even on the Sunburn Missile.
5.) Upgrade to Second Generation BattleNet, with core systems install for ship, battlegroup, and Fleet level control Nets, as well as ARES control systems, which are not yet active. CLASSIFIED. (OOC: For information, review my posts on Project Prometheus.)
6.) Computer systems refit. Rearmament, reinforcement, and realignment of all systems. Helipads converted for New VTOL use.
7.)Conversion to HyStrike Missiles instead of Tomahawks or CALCMs. A unique aspect of this Navy program is that the goal is a single hypersonic strike weapon that will be launchable from air, surface and subsurface platforms. This is a first-time collaboration between these three communities to develop a common weapon system for time-critical and deeply buried targets. It is intended to produce increased operations effectiveness as well as life-cycle cost saving.
The surface-launched system can hit underground targets to a depth of 12 meters after flying at beyond Mach 4. The wingless missile changes direction in flight by using a bending body joint. The HyStrike comprises a fin-less, bending body airframe, fixed geometry annular inlet, and a slip-out booster/ramjet engine. It delivers a 1000-pound payload to a range exceeding 700 nautical miles at a speed of Mach 4.0.
The weapon's greatly decreased time to target gives the command, control, communications, computers and intelligence (C4I) components more time to search for and identify time-critical threats. Powerful kinetic penetrators defeat the enemy's tactic of burrowing deeper or building stronger bunkers. And the ability to take out threat weapons before they are launched increases Kaukolastani and allied survivability, efficiency, cost effectiveness.