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The following SSBN, designed by Crusade Naval Yards, is being sold off, because of the introduction of the Hammerhead Class SSBN...

Avenger Class SSBN

http://www.milparade.com/1999/35/0263.jpg

Builder: Aureal Naval Yards and Crusade Naval Yards
Power Plant: One S11J Nuclear Reactor
Length: 497 feet
Draft: 55 ft
Beam: 47 ft
Displacement: 18,637 submerged
Speed: +39 knots
Cost: US$15 billion
Operating Cost: US$100 million per year
Crew: 151 crew (31 officers)
Armament:
4 forward torpedo tubes--12 Swordfish Torpedoes or 12 Seaskimmer Anti-ship Missiles
2 Vertical Launch Tubes--4 Tomahawk or Bushwacker Missiles
24 Vertical Launch Hazard Tubes--12 SS-N-53 Tsunami SLBMs or 24 SS-N-50 Kraken SLBMs
6 Anti-Aircraft Missile Launchers--12 Igla V Missiles
Sonars: Spherical active/passive arrays, Light Weight Wide Aperture Arrays, TB-16, TB-29, and future towed arrays, High-frequency chin and sail arrays
Countermeasures: 1 internal launcher (reloadable 2-barrel)
14 external launchers

SLBMs Used...
-SS-N-50--Kraken Missiles--five 10 Megaton warheads--Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles (SRBMs)--3500 kilometers

-SS-N-53--Tsunami Missiles--two 88 Megaton warheads--SLBMs--2000 kilometers

Hmmm my region needs some more subs...

Dont think we have 15 billion just sitting here tho, can I pay you 5 billion a day?

Very impressive - world class weaponry, especially with the Spearfish torpedos. The nuclear payload is a bit weedy though - can you remove the standard weapons so I can replace them with Trident II D-5 missiles. If so - how much will you knock off the price?

Defence Procurement Agency (RN)
Confederacy of Li Kam States

Hmmm my region needs some more subs...

Dont think we have 15 billion just sitting here tho, can I pay you 5 billion a day?

That's fine, how many do you want?

Very impressive - world class weaponry, especially with the Spearfish torpedos. The nuclear payload is a bit weedy though - can you remove the standard weapons so I can replace them with Trident II D-5 missiles. If so - how much will you knock off the price?

Defence Procurement Agency (RN)
Confederacy of Li Kam States

I sell it to you for, hmm...US$12 billion. Good, finally a newbie, who doesn't want nukes...