Credonia
28-03-2004, 14:17
OOC: This submarine is best suited for special operations and surveillance, however, it is a worth opponent in nominal naval battle.
Description
Designed for multi-mission operations and enhanced operational flexibility, quieting has been incorporated in a smaller hull while military performance has been maintained or improved. The Intruder is expected to be as quiet as the Seawolf,class submarine and will incorporate a vertical launch system and have improved surveillance as well as special operations characteristics to enhance littoral warfare capability. The primary design driver for the sub is acoustic quietness equal to that of the Seawolf, even at the cost of reducing maximum top speed. With a focus on the littoral battlespace, the New Attack Submarine has improved magnetic stealth, sophisticated surveillance capabilities, and Special Warfare enhancements.
The Intruder is engineered for maximum design flexibility, responsiveness to changing missions and threats, and affordable insertion of new technologies to ensure that it will continue to be the right submarine well into the 21st Century. Integrated electronic systems with Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) components facilitate state-of-the-art technology introduction throughout the life of the class and avoid unit obsolescence. The Navy has never attempted such a large-scale integration effort on a submarine. While the BSY-1 and BSY-2 systems did have some level of integration, the Intruder combat system will have to be totally integrated.
The Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I) electronics packages also promote maximum flexibility for growth and upgrade. Coupled with the Modular Isolated Deck Structure (MIDS) and open-system architecture, this approach results in a lower cost and effective, command and control structure for fire control, navigation, electronic warfare, and communications connectivity.
The Intruder's sonar system is state-of-the-art and has more processing power than today's entire submarine fleet combined to process and distribute data received from its spherical bow array, high-frequency array suite, dual towed arrays, and flank array suite.
The Intruder's sail configuration houses two new photonics masts for improved imaging functions, and improved electronics support measures mast, and multi-mission masts that cover the frequency domain for full-spectrum, high data-rate communications. The sail is also designed for future installation of a special mission-configurable mast for enhanced flexibility and warfighting performance.
The Intruder is armed with a variety of weapons. It carries the most advanced heavyweight torpedoes, mines, Tomahawk cruise missiles, and Unmanned Undersea Vehicles (UUVs) for horizontal launch. In addition, Tomahawk missiles are carried in vertical launch tubes. It also features an integral Lock-Out/Lock-In chamber for special operations and can host Special Operations Forces' underwater delivery vehicles.
Reducing acquisition and life-cycle costs is a major objective of the Intruder design and engineering process. Cost avoidance is anticipated through the application of concurrent engineering design/build teams, computer-aided design and electronic visualization tools, system simplification, parts standardization, and component elimination. These innovations are intended to ensure that the ship is affordable in sufficient numbers to satisfy Credonia's future nuclear attack submarine force level requirements.
Roles of the Submarine
1) Covert Strike by launching land-attack missiles from vertical launchers and torpedo tubes
2) Anti-Submarine Warfare with an advanced combat system and a flexible payload of torpedoes
3) Anti-Ship Warfare, again, using the advanced combat system and torpedoes
4) Battle Group Support with advanced electronic sensors and communications equipment
5) Covert Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, using sensors to collect critical intelligence and locate radar sites, missile batteries and command sites as well as to monitor communications and track ship movements
6) Covert Minelaying against enemy shipping
7) Special Operations, including search and rescue, reconnaissance, sabotage, diversionary attacks, and direction of fire support and strikes.
Specifications
Power Plant One S9G pressurized water reactor, one shaft with pumpjet propulsor, Improved Performance Machinery Program Phase III, one secondary propulsion submerged motor
Displacement: 7,800 tons submerged
Length: 377 feet
Draft: 32 feet
Beam: 34 feet
Speed: 25+ knots submerged
Depth: Greater than 800 feet
Horizontal Tubes: Four 21" Torpedo Tubes
Vertical Tubes: 12 Vertical Launch System Tubes
Weapons: 38 weapons including- Vertical Launch System Tomahawk Cruise Missiles, Mk 48 ADCAP Heavyweight Torpedoes, Advanced Mobile Mines, Unmanned Undersea Vehicles
Special Warfare: Dry Deck Shelter, Advanced SEAL Delivery System
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
Crew: 113 officers and men
Price: $2 Billion
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http://server5.uploadit.org/files/kaimoni-construction.jpg
Description
Designed for multi-mission operations and enhanced operational flexibility, quieting has been incorporated in a smaller hull while military performance has been maintained or improved. The Intruder is expected to be as quiet as the Seawolf,class submarine and will incorporate a vertical launch system and have improved surveillance as well as special operations characteristics to enhance littoral warfare capability. The primary design driver for the sub is acoustic quietness equal to that of the Seawolf, even at the cost of reducing maximum top speed. With a focus on the littoral battlespace, the New Attack Submarine has improved magnetic stealth, sophisticated surveillance capabilities, and Special Warfare enhancements.
The Intruder is engineered for maximum design flexibility, responsiveness to changing missions and threats, and affordable insertion of new technologies to ensure that it will continue to be the right submarine well into the 21st Century. Integrated electronic systems with Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) components facilitate state-of-the-art technology introduction throughout the life of the class and avoid unit obsolescence. The Navy has never attempted such a large-scale integration effort on a submarine. While the BSY-1 and BSY-2 systems did have some level of integration, the Intruder combat system will have to be totally integrated.
The Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence (C3I) electronics packages also promote maximum flexibility for growth and upgrade. Coupled with the Modular Isolated Deck Structure (MIDS) and open-system architecture, this approach results in a lower cost and effective, command and control structure for fire control, navigation, electronic warfare, and communications connectivity.
The Intruder's sonar system is state-of-the-art and has more processing power than today's entire submarine fleet combined to process and distribute data received from its spherical bow array, high-frequency array suite, dual towed arrays, and flank array suite.
The Intruder's sail configuration houses two new photonics masts for improved imaging functions, and improved electronics support measures mast, and multi-mission masts that cover the frequency domain for full-spectrum, high data-rate communications. The sail is also designed for future installation of a special mission-configurable mast for enhanced flexibility and warfighting performance.
The Intruder is armed with a variety of weapons. It carries the most advanced heavyweight torpedoes, mines, Tomahawk cruise missiles, and Unmanned Undersea Vehicles (UUVs) for horizontal launch. In addition, Tomahawk missiles are carried in vertical launch tubes. It also features an integral Lock-Out/Lock-In chamber for special operations and can host Special Operations Forces' underwater delivery vehicles.
Reducing acquisition and life-cycle costs is a major objective of the Intruder design and engineering process. Cost avoidance is anticipated through the application of concurrent engineering design/build teams, computer-aided design and electronic visualization tools, system simplification, parts standardization, and component elimination. These innovations are intended to ensure that the ship is affordable in sufficient numbers to satisfy Credonia's future nuclear attack submarine force level requirements.
Roles of the Submarine
1) Covert Strike by launching land-attack missiles from vertical launchers and torpedo tubes
2) Anti-Submarine Warfare with an advanced combat system and a flexible payload of torpedoes
3) Anti-Ship Warfare, again, using the advanced combat system and torpedoes
4) Battle Group Support with advanced electronic sensors and communications equipment
5) Covert Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance, using sensors to collect critical intelligence and locate radar sites, missile batteries and command sites as well as to monitor communications and track ship movements
6) Covert Minelaying against enemy shipping
7) Special Operations, including search and rescue, reconnaissance, sabotage, diversionary attacks, and direction of fire support and strikes.
Specifications
Power Plant One S9G pressurized water reactor, one shaft with pumpjet propulsor, Improved Performance Machinery Program Phase III, one secondary propulsion submerged motor
Displacement: 7,800 tons submerged
Length: 377 feet
Draft: 32 feet
Beam: 34 feet
Speed: 25+ knots submerged
Depth: Greater than 800 feet
Horizontal Tubes: Four 21" Torpedo Tubes
Vertical Tubes: 12 Vertical Launch System Tubes
Weapons: 38 weapons including- Vertical Launch System Tomahawk Cruise Missiles, Mk 48 ADCAP Heavyweight Torpedoes, Advanced Mobile Mines, Unmanned Undersea Vehicles
Special Warfare: Dry Deck Shelter, Advanced SEAL Delivery System
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
Crew: 113 officers and men
Price: $2 Billion
http://server5.uploadit.org/files/kaimoni-intruder.jpg
http://server5.uploadit.org/files/kaimoni-construction.jpg