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06-08-2004, 23:14
"Frunze" class Battleship
Overview
Following exhaustive testing of the first Soyuz-class nuclear-powered Battleships, it was determined by the Naval Staff that these ships had several serious deficiencies. The greatest problem was the enormous recoil caused by the 12 16-inch guns if the ship fired a broadside; this recoil was found during static main armament tests prior to the acceptance of the first Soyuz-class into service to cause serious damage to the recoil-absorbing mountings, gun turrets, and hull, so much so that after 25 full-charge broadsides the ship would often be incapable of fighting for between 8 and 12 hours while repairs were made to the guns and their turrets. Shock damage to the hull would also necessitate significant repairs to the ship after any action in which all 12 guns were regularly used. The recoil force was also, in certain very rare circumstances, capable of capsizing the vessel. Despite major work to improve matters during construction of the first of the class, including vastly strengthened recoil-absorbing mountings for the main armament and strengthening of the hull plates where possible, the problems remained, though it must be said that their seriousness was much diminished. The secondary armament, despite being increased during construction by the addition of 8 2A64 152mm smoothbore guns derived from land artillery pieces and the substitution of triple-gun AK-130 turrets in place of the original double-gun turrets fitted to the prototype, was still considered to be inadequate by many, and the hangar space for aircraft was also felt to be too small, restricting the vessel's freedom of action. It was also felt that the SSM complement was insufficient, meaning the ship was too reliant upon its' escorts to provide long-range anti-ship defences. Finally, the ship was felt to be too large in some circles, and it was true that the great length and beam of the Soyuz-class was difficult to accommodate in most existing naval yards. Nonetheless, the Soyuz was felt to be a basically sound design, and thus production went ahead. Twelve ships were originally planned; however the Soyuz class was still in production when the idea of the next class of battleship was first mooted in Navy circles.
In the latter part of 2002, a contract was offered to all the major DPUO shipbuilding facilities to construct the second class of Battleship. This contract called for a speed of 30-35 knots and a main armament of between 15 and 20 inch guns, with armour able to withstand all present and projected anti-shipping weapons systems, with maximum dimensions of 450x50x11, this being necessary to avoid the digging of specialised harmours for the ships, and not to exceed 94,000 tonnes fully laden. Designs were submitted by the four major shipbuilding firms, the winning submission coming from the Harland Shipbuilding Works of New Belfast. (Harland's, it should be noted, is a descendant company of Harland and Wolff, builders of the Titanic.) The design bore a strong similarity to the Nelson-class battleships of WWII.
General
Crew: 2,117
Displacement: 86,500 tonnes unladen, 91,157 tonnes fully laden
Endurance: 120 days' steaming, 54 days' combat operations.
Dimensions: Length 409.6m, Beam 43.3m, Draught (mean) 9.5m
Top speed: 36 knots
Armament
The main armament consists of nine DK-23 18-inch guns, firing a shell of 3,392lbs (this for an armour-piercing round). The guns have a maximum accurate range of approximately 26.9 kilometres and maximum range of 45.2 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 56km and accurate an accurate range of 23.4Km, and chemical shells. Barrel life is estimated at 270 full-charge firings per gun. The guns can elavate to 41 degrees and depress to -12 degrees. Rate of fire is approximately 3 RPM per gun. The guns are concentrated all forward in three triple-gun turrets, with turret B superfiring. In a chase action, turret C is inoperable directly forward.
Secondary armament is composed of 8 2A64N (for Naval) 152mm smoothbore guns mounted in four twin-gun turrets with an elevation of 44 degrees and depression of -13 degrees. As on the Soyuz-class, these have a rate of fire of 8 RPM per gun. These guns have a maximum range of 24Km and an optimum accurate range of 18Km, and can fire APHE, HE, HE-FRAG and Krasnopol-M ATGM munitions. Though of limited use against other large surface vessels, the Kransopol-M is excellent against smaller craft that would otherwise necessitate expenditure of valuable ammunition. The secondary armament can also fire smoke and chemical shells. The ship also posesses four four-round launcher boxes for the SS-N-22 SSM on the port and starboard decks, and a VLS system in place of the former position of the launches and funnel, containing 16 SS-N-19B missiles. Secondary gun armament is concentrated astern. It is of note that during the final design stages, the secondary armament was re-appraise significantly, with fewer 152mm guns being placed on the ship than had been designed.
Anti-aircraft protection is provided by the IULLDES Mark III system mounted on the fo'c'sle and stern of the ship, consisting of four ASL-100 combination gun/flechette launchers, two AO-18 CIWS guns 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 on a large AA platform about atop the superstructure. The ship also posesses a helicopter/V/STOL hangar and landing pad that can accommodate anything up to four aircraft, including two Yak-141Ms and 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: 1,080 rounds
Secondary Armament: 1,600 rounds
SA-N-6: 120 missiles
SA-N-9: 340 missiles
SA-N-20: 300 missiles
SS-N-22: 48 missiles
SS-N-27 ASW: 24 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 and CIWS magazines, forward missile magazines for SAMs and ASWs;
3) Main reactor spaces;
4) Main machinery spaces (heat exchangers, turbines);
5) Secondary armament magazines (2A64N), either side of VLS cells;
6) Auxilliary machinery spaces (turboalternators, batteries, backup gas-turbine engines), secondary fuel tanks for emergency engines.
7) Primary fuel storage for emergency engines, storage.
The ammunition magazines incorporate blow-out panels and pressure-release valves to minimise damage in the enet of a magazine explosion. The large open spaces of the engine and reactor rooms are divided by transverse bulkheads separating the individual reactors, engines and shafts. One reactor can run both sets of turbines via pipelines which traverse the bulkheads.
Armour
The armour belt runs as follows:
Side armour from forward crew accomodation and ancilliaries to bulkhead for forward magazines: 410mm composite with Kontakt-5 ERA double outer layer and anti-corrosion paint. Two layers of 170mm 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 220mm composite armour over deck, space between filled with insulating foam.
From bulkhead for main reactor spaces to bulkhead for main machinery spaces: 455mm composite with Kontakt-5 ERA double outer layer and anti-corrosion paint. Two layers of 200mm composite armour over deck, space between filled with insulating foam.
From bulkhead for main machinery spaces to bulkhead for stern main armament magazines: 415mm composite with Kontakt-5 ERA double outer layer and anti-corrosion paint. Two layers of 210mm composite 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 composite 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 composite 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.
Anti-torpedo bulge of 130mm filled with insulating foam integral to hull design, running from five metres forward of Bulkhead #1 to five metres aft of bulkhead #6.
Armoured conning tower, with 300mm composite armour.
Hull armour configuration:
http://img26.exs.cx/img26/6738/Armour.jpg
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
The masts of the ship take the SSM fire-control and surveillance radars, while the upper superstructure holds the navigation and SAM radars.
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, barrel wear 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
10 PK-10 Chaff Decoy RLs
Propulsion
2 OK-700w 210MW Pressurised-water reactors driving two sets direct-drive steam turbines turning two shafts, each with 1 seven-bladed variable-pitch bronze screw.
Eremrgency propulsion: 4 M8KF boost gas turbines, 45,000 shp, two per shaft, driving through two automatic gearboxes with 4 forward and 2 reverse speeds.
http://img7.exs.cx/img7/8629/BBN2-Final1.jpg
http://uk.geocities.com/invasion1940/images/naval/nelson.jpg
http://www.navyking.com/E/Battleship/Nelson/Nelson.jpg
http://www.plimsoll.org/images/18320_tcm4-23200.JPG
Nations interested in purchases can buy one of these for 7.5 billion USD.
Purchasing restrictions:
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 which cannot pay immediately but can in installments
*Nations who we support in urgent need of the ships, able to pay in the future.
Thanks to USSNA for helping me a tonne with the air defence systems :D
Overview
Following exhaustive testing of the first Soyuz-class nuclear-powered Battleships, it was determined by the Naval Staff that these ships had several serious deficiencies. The greatest problem was the enormous recoil caused by the 12 16-inch guns if the ship fired a broadside; this recoil was found during static main armament tests prior to the acceptance of the first Soyuz-class into service to cause serious damage to the recoil-absorbing mountings, gun turrets, and hull, so much so that after 25 full-charge broadsides the ship would often be incapable of fighting for between 8 and 12 hours while repairs were made to the guns and their turrets. Shock damage to the hull would also necessitate significant repairs to the ship after any action in which all 12 guns were regularly used. The recoil force was also, in certain very rare circumstances, capable of capsizing the vessel. Despite major work to improve matters during construction of the first of the class, including vastly strengthened recoil-absorbing mountings for the main armament and strengthening of the hull plates where possible, the problems remained, though it must be said that their seriousness was much diminished. The secondary armament, despite being increased during construction by the addition of 8 2A64 152mm smoothbore guns derived from land artillery pieces and the substitution of triple-gun AK-130 turrets in place of the original double-gun turrets fitted to the prototype, was still considered to be inadequate by many, and the hangar space for aircraft was also felt to be too small, restricting the vessel's freedom of action. It was also felt that the SSM complement was insufficient, meaning the ship was too reliant upon its' escorts to provide long-range anti-ship defences. Finally, the ship was felt to be too large in some circles, and it was true that the great length and beam of the Soyuz-class was difficult to accommodate in most existing naval yards. Nonetheless, the Soyuz was felt to be a basically sound design, and thus production went ahead. Twelve ships were originally planned; however the Soyuz class was still in production when the idea of the next class of battleship was first mooted in Navy circles.
In the latter part of 2002, a contract was offered to all the major DPUO shipbuilding facilities to construct the second class of Battleship. This contract called for a speed of 30-35 knots and a main armament of between 15 and 20 inch guns, with armour able to withstand all present and projected anti-shipping weapons systems, with maximum dimensions of 450x50x11, this being necessary to avoid the digging of specialised harmours for the ships, and not to exceed 94,000 tonnes fully laden. Designs were submitted by the four major shipbuilding firms, the winning submission coming from the Harland Shipbuilding Works of New Belfast. (Harland's, it should be noted, is a descendant company of Harland and Wolff, builders of the Titanic.) The design bore a strong similarity to the Nelson-class battleships of WWII.
General
Crew: 2,117
Displacement: 86,500 tonnes unladen, 91,157 tonnes fully laden
Endurance: 120 days' steaming, 54 days' combat operations.
Dimensions: Length 409.6m, Beam 43.3m, Draught (mean) 9.5m
Top speed: 36 knots
Armament
The main armament consists of nine DK-23 18-inch guns, firing a shell of 3,392lbs (this for an armour-piercing round). The guns have a maximum accurate range of approximately 26.9 kilometres and maximum range of 45.2 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 56km and accurate an accurate range of 23.4Km, and chemical shells. Barrel life is estimated at 270 full-charge firings per gun. The guns can elavate to 41 degrees and depress to -12 degrees. Rate of fire is approximately 3 RPM per gun. The guns are concentrated all forward in three triple-gun turrets, with turret B superfiring. In a chase action, turret C is inoperable directly forward.
Secondary armament is composed of 8 2A64N (for Naval) 152mm smoothbore guns mounted in four twin-gun turrets with an elevation of 44 degrees and depression of -13 degrees. As on the Soyuz-class, these have a rate of fire of 8 RPM per gun. These guns have a maximum range of 24Km and an optimum accurate range of 18Km, and can fire APHE, HE, HE-FRAG and Krasnopol-M ATGM munitions. Though of limited use against other large surface vessels, the Kransopol-M is excellent against smaller craft that would otherwise necessitate expenditure of valuable ammunition. The secondary armament can also fire smoke and chemical shells. The ship also posesses four four-round launcher boxes for the SS-N-22 SSM on the port and starboard decks, and a VLS system in place of the former position of the launches and funnel, containing 16 SS-N-19B missiles. Secondary gun armament is concentrated astern. It is of note that during the final design stages, the secondary armament was re-appraise significantly, with fewer 152mm guns being placed on the ship than had been designed.
Anti-aircraft protection is provided by the IULLDES Mark III system mounted on the fo'c'sle and stern of the ship, consisting of four ASL-100 combination gun/flechette launchers, two AO-18 CIWS guns 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 on a large AA platform about atop the superstructure. The ship also posesses a helicopter/V/STOL hangar and landing pad that can accommodate anything up to four aircraft, including two Yak-141Ms and 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: 1,080 rounds
Secondary Armament: 1,600 rounds
SA-N-6: 120 missiles
SA-N-9: 340 missiles
SA-N-20: 300 missiles
SS-N-22: 48 missiles
SS-N-27 ASW: 24 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 and CIWS magazines, forward missile magazines for SAMs and ASWs;
3) Main reactor spaces;
4) Main machinery spaces (heat exchangers, turbines);
5) Secondary armament magazines (2A64N), either side of VLS cells;
6) Auxilliary machinery spaces (turboalternators, batteries, backup gas-turbine engines), secondary fuel tanks for emergency engines.
7) Primary fuel storage for emergency engines, storage.
The ammunition magazines incorporate blow-out panels and pressure-release valves to minimise damage in the enet of a magazine explosion. The large open spaces of the engine and reactor rooms are divided by transverse bulkheads separating the individual reactors, engines and shafts. One reactor can run both sets of turbines via pipelines which traverse the bulkheads.
Armour
The armour belt runs as follows:
Side armour from forward crew accomodation and ancilliaries to bulkhead for forward magazines: 410mm composite with Kontakt-5 ERA double outer layer and anti-corrosion paint. Two layers of 170mm 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 220mm composite armour over deck, space between filled with insulating foam.
From bulkhead for main reactor spaces to bulkhead for main machinery spaces: 455mm composite with Kontakt-5 ERA double outer layer and anti-corrosion paint. Two layers of 200mm composite armour over deck, space between filled with insulating foam.
From bulkhead for main machinery spaces to bulkhead for stern main armament magazines: 415mm composite with Kontakt-5 ERA double outer layer and anti-corrosion paint. Two layers of 210mm composite 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 composite 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 composite 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.
Anti-torpedo bulge of 130mm filled with insulating foam integral to hull design, running from five metres forward of Bulkhead #1 to five metres aft of bulkhead #6.
Armoured conning tower, with 300mm composite armour.
Hull armour configuration:
http://img26.exs.cx/img26/6738/Armour.jpg
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
The masts of the ship take the SSM fire-control and surveillance radars, while the upper superstructure holds the navigation and SAM radars.
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, barrel wear 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
10 PK-10 Chaff Decoy RLs
Propulsion
2 OK-700w 210MW Pressurised-water reactors driving two sets direct-drive steam turbines turning two shafts, each with 1 seven-bladed variable-pitch bronze screw.
Eremrgency propulsion: 4 M8KF boost gas turbines, 45,000 shp, two per shaft, driving through two automatic gearboxes with 4 forward and 2 reverse speeds.
http://img7.exs.cx/img7/8629/BBN2-Final1.jpg
http://uk.geocities.com/invasion1940/images/naval/nelson.jpg
http://www.navyking.com/E/Battleship/Nelson/Nelson.jpg
http://www.plimsoll.org/images/18320_tcm4-23200.JPG
Nations interested in purchases can buy one of these for 7.5 billion USD.
Purchasing restrictions:
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 which cannot pay immediately but can in installments
*Nations who we support in urgent need of the ships, able to pay in the future.
Thanks to USSNA for helping me a tonne with the air defence systems :D