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Unvelied! The Soyuz class nuclear-powered Battleship!

DontPissUsOff
02-08-2004, 14:14
"Soyuz" class Battleship

N.B. This and all other weapons systems will not be sold to the following:

1) Aggressive Governments, Right or Left-wing
2) Far right-wing Governments/organisations
3) Terrorist organisations
4) Enemies of DPUO
5) Enemies of our allies
6) Any front-man for any of the above.

Discounts are available for:

*Members of any alliances with us
*Nations unable to pay immediately but capable of paying in installments
*Nations who the Government supports who need the ships immediately and cannot pay on the spot.

Overview

The Soyuz class Battleship was commissioned following exhaustive study by the General Staff into "The projected utility of Battleships in a future conflict", which concluded that with the considerable advances in air-defences and anti-submarine systems in the post-war period, the Battleship had in fact emerged from obsolescence, and could indeed provide a valuable role in a balanced Fleet. The report led to evaluation by the Navy and the Defence Ministry of the feasibility of Battleship construction, and when this concluded that given the state of national industry and economy it could be easily afforded, and was indeed necessary due to the imminent retirement of many older systems, notably from the submarine forces but also including several Kirov class CGNs; a replacement for these vessles would have to be sought.

Following these reports and other information, the decision to construct twelve Battleships, to be divided among the four Fleets, was approved by the Parliament in the Naval Renewal Act of 14th March, 1995. Ship-design facilities were asked to submit proposals to the MoD and Navy for evaluation, which took place over the next three years, taking in information from all possible sources. The evaluation commission the selected the most promising design, from the Soyuz Shipbuilding Organisation, located in Balgorsk, and began exhaustive analysis of every aspect of the ship's construction. The final design was submitted, after no less than 165 revisions, on June 8th 1999.

The Soyuz class is a mono-hulled design, these ships having no reliance on outriggers and posessing excellent speed and handling characteristics, as well as being less costly to construct. It has an armoured outer hull and an inner hulled, with the space between filled with an airspace in between two layers of insulating, thermosetting foam plastic.


General

Crew: 2,076
Displacement: 82,800 tonnes unladen, 87,220 tonnes fully laden
Endurance: 100 days' steaming 44 days' combat.
Dimensions:

Length 441m
Beam 48.9m
Draught (mean) 10.3m

Armament

The main armament consists of twelve 16-inch guns in four triple-mounting turrets, of similar type to those employed on HMS Nelson, but with a barrel lengthened by 10 calibres and a heavier shell of 2,576lbs compared to 2,048lbs. The lengthened barrel allowed an increase in muzzle velocity to be obtained, while the heavier shell was an attempt to reduce loss of accuracy at long range. The guns have a maximum accurate range of approximately 24 kilometres and maximum range of 40 kilometres, and can fire APDS, HE-FRAG, HE and low-calibre (10-inch) guided shells, as well as a rocket-assisted shells with a range of 57 km, but an accurate range of 28Km. Barrel life is estimated at 250 full-charge firings per gun. The guns can elavate to 45 degrees and depress to -15 degrees. Secondary armament consists of eight trainable four-missile launcher boxes for the SS-N-26 (Yakhont) and SS-N-22 (Moskit) SSM, plus four secondary turrets mounting triple AK-130 130mm guns, with elavation of 42 degrees and depression of -11 degrees, mounted at deck level at the corners of the superstructure, and eight 2A64 152mm guns mounted in four single-gun turrets along the side of the ship, at deck level. The rate of fire for the main armament is approximately three rounds per minute per gun, making 36 rounds per minute in total. Secondary armament has a rate of fire of 10 rounds per minute per gun, and thus 30 RPM per turret, for the AK-130s and 8 RPM for the 152mm guns. A Soyuz-class can theoretically in a broadside therefore unleash more than 27,000 lbs of metal at an enemy ship.

Anti-missile and short-range AA protection is provided by the IULLDES Mark II system mounted on the fo'c'sle and stern of the ship, consisting of eight Falanga 30mm CIWS and four SA-N-20 missile launchers (see IULLDES (http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=343036) entry for further details), plus four SA-N-6 and four SA-N-9 launchers mounted at the corners of the superstructurefor longre-range anti-missile and anti-air defence. The ship also posesses two helicopter/V/STOL hangars and landing pads that can accommodate two aircraft, including two Yak-141Ms or a pair of Ka-27B ASW helicopters. Further anti-submarine defence is provided by the SS-N-27 ASW anti-submarine weapon, for which two launchers are carried, one mounted on the forcastle and one on the sterndeck. Both launchers have sloped, composite (as on T-90M) armoured casings with exhaust vents to vent propulsion gases from the rocket boosters.


Ammunition allocations

Main armament: 1,200 rounds
Secondary Armament: 2,000 rounds
SA-N-6: 120 missiles
SA-N-9: 340 missiles
SA-N-20: 400 missiles
SS-N-22: 24 missiles
SS-N-26: 20 missiles
SS-N-27 ASW: 20 weapons

Compartmentation

The hull is divided by watertight bulkheads into seven compartments:

1) Sonar dome, crew accomodation, galleys, recreation area, storage;
2) Forward main armament magazines, forward missile magazines for SAMs, AShMs and ASWs;
3) Main reactor spaces;
4) Main machinery spaces (heat exchangers, turbines);
5) Stern main armament magazines, stern missile magazines for SAMs, AShMs and ASWs;
6) Secondary armament magazines (AK-130, 2A64); also magazines for CIWS system.
7) Auxilliary machinery spaces (turboalternators, batteries, backup diesel engines).


Armour

The armour belt runs as follows:

Side armour from forward crew accomodation and ancilliaries to bulkhead for forward magazines: 350mm composite with Kontakt-5 ERA double outer layer and anti-corrosion paint. Two layers of 120mm composite armour over deck, space between filled with insulating foam.

From bulkhead for forward magazines two bulkhead for main reactor spaces: 470mm composite with Kontakt-5 ERA double outer layer and anti-corrosion paint. Two layers of 320mm composite armour over deck, space between filled with insulating foam.

From bulkhead for main reactor spaces to bulkhead for main machinery spaces: 425mm composite with Kontakt-5 ERA double outer layer and anti-corrosion paint. Two layers of 180mm composte armour over deck, space between filled with insulating foam.

From bulkhead for main machinery spaces to bulkhead for stern main armament magazines: 180mm composite with Kontakt-5 ERA double outer layer and anti-corrosion paint. Two layers of 320mm composte armour over deck, space between filled with insulating foam.

From bulkhead for stern main armament magazines to bulkhead for secondary armament magazines: 470mm composite with Kontakt-5 ERA double outer layer and anti-corrosion paint. Two layers of 200mm composte armour over deck, space between filled with insulating foam.

From bulkhead for secondary armament magazines to bulkhead for auxilliary machinery spaces: 440mm composite with Kontakt-5 ERA double outer layer and anti-corrosion paint. Two layers of 180mm composte armour over deck, space between filled with insulating foam.

From bulkhead for auxilliary machinery spaces to stern: 350mm composite with Kontakt-5 ERA double outer layer and anti-corrosion paint. Two layers of 120mm composite armour over deck, space between filled with insulating foam.

Titanium alloy anti-torpedo bulge of 300mm filled with insulating foam integral to hull design.

Hull armour configuration:

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Turret armour

Front: 400mm composite
Side: 320mm composite
Rear: 200mm composite
Roof: 270mm composite

Secondary turrets carry 300mm composite on front, 260mm composite on sides and roof, 150mm composite on rear.

Superstructure is armoured against shell splinters, missile splinters, shell up to 50mm calibre etc.

Electronics: Radar, Sonar, Ladar, Fire-control, EW


Radar/LADAR

MR-710 Fregat-MA 3d Air/Surface search radar, datalinked with Kite Screech and Oko radars
4 Palm Frond Nav radar
Volna SA-N-6 fire-control radar
Kite Screech AK-130 fire-control radar
IULLDES LADAR and Radar systems (4 Osminog LADAR, 4 Oko Fire-control radar, 2 SBI-16KB surface-search radar)
2 MR-360/Podkat SA-N-9 Fire-control
Garpun-Bal SSM guidance/targeting radar


Sonar

Zvezda-IIM Sonar suite, MKG-345 bow-mounted LF sonar dome
Ox Tail LF VDS


Fire-control

KOK-615B fire-control computer, measures gun angle, ship speed, target speed, wind speed, wind direction, cant angle, air temperature, gun temperature, an inputted barrel wear value and ship movement to give highly accurate fire-control for main armament and secondary armament when under manual control.


EW

Wine Glass and Bell Shroud ESM Intercept receivers
Bell Squat Jammer systems
Burn Eye anti-LADAR steam-generators; armoured vents in sides of hull
10 PK-10 Chaff Decoy RLs


Propulsion

2 OK-700w 210MW Pressurised-water reactors driving four sets geared steam turbines turning four shafts, each with 1 seven-bladed variable-pitch bronze screw

8 backup 1,100HP GTD-1000M gas-turbines, two per shaft, driving through two automatic gearboxes with 4 forward and 2 reverse speeds.

Top speed for the class is 36 knots.


The Soyuz-class cost approximately 6.4 billion dollars per ship, and can be built at the rate of one every 7 months.

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Ayur
02-08-2004, 14:23
Well, what's the price for one of these babies??
DontPissUsOff
02-08-2004, 14:25
About 7.1 billion dollars per ship, that's without any ammo. With all the ammo, plus planes and their weapons, you're looking at 7.25 billion. This is of course negotiable. :)
Scoyle
02-08-2004, 15:12
I'll take 1 w/everything = 7.5 billion

-----Money Wired Upon Confirmation-----
Scoyle
02-08-2004, 15:13
Whats the Amount of Crew?
DontPissUsOff
02-08-2004, 15:19
OOC: I'll add that now.

IC: Order confirmed! Your ship will be the first off the slipway. Construction was begun last month and has proceeded more rapidly than anticipated; nonetheless you will not receive the ship for at least 10 (NS) months (OOC: this would equate to about a day). Would you like to select a name for the ship before the launching?
DontPissUsOff
02-08-2004, 16:43
BBump
Scandavian States
02-08-2004, 17:18
[A good design. However, trimarans do not rely on outriggers to float, that is an unjust misrepresentation started by others who are ignorant of even the basics of trimaran design and had need of lies to justify their own self-importance.]
DontPissUsOff
02-08-2004, 17:21
OOC: Shh! :p I know they don't rely on 'em to float. But I also know that it makes a good publicity line. "OUR ships don't need outriggers!" etc. Real reasons are 1) It's cheaper for all concerned and 2) I love the beauty of the mono-hulled Battleship. And in any case this thing needn't worry about losing an outrigger, won't affect her combat ability even slightly. Largely because she doesn't have them. Heh.

And thanks for the commendation!
Praetonia
02-08-2004, 17:58
OOC: A trimaran losses an outrigger and keeps going, a mono-hull sinks and doesn't.
DontPissUsOff
02-08-2004, 18:01
OOC: Ah, but can it actually fire the main weapons once it has? This ain't me tryna make a point btw it's a genuinely curious question.

Oh, and thanks to Praetonia for being an excellent sounding board for this design!
McLeod03
02-08-2004, 18:10
One last bit of info you missed, How big is it? You've got displacement, but i can't see any lengths, drafts, beams etc...
DontPissUsOff
02-08-2004, 18:16
Bah! Thanks mate! I must pay more attention on this sort of thing...
Sarzonia
02-08-2004, 18:18
Sarzonia would like to purchase one fully stocked Soyuz-class battleship for $7.5 billion for testing and evaluation purposes.

Money will be wired upon confirmation.

Thank you for your cooperation.

Kathy Bunhall
Deputy Navy Chief
Incorporated States of Sarzonia
DontPissUsOff
02-08-2004, 18:22
Confirmed. One Soyuz-class Battleship laid down, to be constructed at the Rostov yard. Estimated completion time: 4 (RL) days. Please give us any feedback you may have, since you will doubtless perform some tests we have forgotten.
DontPissUsOff
03-08-2004, 00:46
Bump!
DontPissUsOff
03-08-2004, 11:18
Bump
Sarzonia
03-08-2004, 14:44
The Soyuz-class battleship ordered by the Sarzonian Navy was picked up by a skeleton crew led by Lt. Commander Kerrie Patinkin (the niece of the legendary admiral Marcus Patinkin). The ship will begin its shakedown cruise and its testing and evaluation phase and a full report will be forthcoming.

Deputy Navy Chief Kathy Bunhall is along to provide the report.
DontPissUsOff
03-08-2004, 22:21
We hope you find your Soyuz-class to be a fine combat vessel! Please send us any and all feedback regarding the design.

On a related note, the DPUO Navy today took delivery of the first of its' Soyuz-class BBNs. Soyuz, the name-ship of the class, was officially handed over to the Navy at 11:24 AM today, in a ceremoney punctuated by great cheers from all involved parties. She will begin work-ups, expected to take about 3-4 months, shortly, and will probably enter fleet service in about 6 months.
Communist Mississippi
03-08-2004, 22:22
I'll purchase 3, money wired upon confirmation.

Occ- If you get time later, go to msn.
DontPissUsOff
03-08-2004, 22:29
When he heard of CM's request, Defence Minister Kazakov apparently went through a string of expletives rarely heard since his days in the infantry. From these his Press Secretary, in between having small books thrown in his direction, was able to decipher the following:

"We are most ill at ease with CM following their repeated policies directed against us and fellow Marxist nations, and are in any case unprepared to sell CM any weapons systems due to their lasting support for Fascist and Nazi terror groups. This means that"

Unfortunately, at this point Kazakov's aim seems to have rather improved, and the Press Secratary was unable to complete his message, though he did make an attempt despite the concussion.
Ottoman Khaif
04-08-2004, 01:34
Soyuz class 4= 30 Billion
money will be sent when ships are Confirmed.
DontPissUsOff
04-08-2004, 01:54
We would require to to provide an end-user certificate to satisfy us that these ships will not be used by any of the following:

*Terrorist organisations
*Extremist Governments
*Nations with a history of aggressive behaviour
*Nations currently hostile toward us
*Nations currently hostile to our allies.

This is due to intelligence suggesting you are attempting to purchase these ships on behalf of an unspecified but undersirable third party. While we do not know who the third party is, we are extremely concerned that none of these ships fall into the hands of our enemies or dangerous organisations.

Such a certificate would have to be provided by a neutral third party.
Decisive Action
04-08-2004, 02:13
We would require to to provide an end-user certificate to satisfy us that these ships will not be used by any of the following:

*Terrorist organisations
*Extremist Governments
*Nations with a history of aggressive behaviour
*Nations currently hostile toward us
*Nations currently hostile to our allies.

This is due to intelligence suggesting you are attempting to purchase these ships on behalf of an unspecified but undersirable third party. While we do not know who the third party is, we are extremely concerned that none of these ships fall into the hands of our enemies or dangerous organisations.

Such a certificate would have to be provided by a neutral third party.

I'd like to buy 7, they are destined for our naval forces. We will not be giving them to any other nation.
DontPissUsOff
04-08-2004, 13:53
Bomp! (Different to a bump in some way)

DA, we would again have to have proof from a third party we trust that you can be trusted with these ships. Recent information suggesting that our opponents are seeking to purchase Soyuz-clas BBNs for use in testing has worried us deeply.
DontPissUsOff
05-08-2004, 01:04
Bumping
DontPissUsOff
07-08-2004, 17:05
Bumpified!
DontPissUsOff
21-11-2004, 03:05
Bump - refitted version coming soon!