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Dragoon Class Hydrofoil Corvette

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Length: 50m
Beam: 9.6m
Midship depth: 4.6m
Crew:: 48 Naval; 12 marines
Displacement: 458 metric tons (full load)
Speed (Foil Borne):: 46knts (cruise) 52knts (max)
Speed (Hull Borne):: 34knts (cruise) 38knts (max)
Range: 750km at 45knts (Foil Borne)
Armament: 1x 4.5” ETC Naval Cannon (forecastle); 8x SSM Canisters (aft; SSM (Lance, Harpoon, Exocet etc.); 6 missiles); 8 cell Ballista VLS (superstructure; SAM; Discus; 16 missiles); 16x 81mm ASW ‘Sword’ Guided Mortar (160 shells); 1x Testudo CIWS (includes gun, missiles and countermeasures); 2x 12.7mm machineguns (mounted on rails)
Armour: 35mm Kevlar / Titanium
Air Search Radar: GO-80 ‘Pilia’ Active / Passive Phased Array
Surface Search Radar: GO-80 ‘Pilia’ Active / Passive Phased Array
Fire Control Radar: GO-83 ‘Simplex’ Phased Array
ASW Sonar: Bow-mounted GO-87 DETAR phased Sonar (only useable when hull borne)
Propulsion: 2x Gas Turbine / Electric Hybrids each powering one shaft, each holding a single 5-blade propeller
Running Costs: $1,000,000 per year

The Dragoon Class Hydrofoil Corvette project was initiated by IPS in responce to the similar designs produced by other nations. The Dragoon Class, however, carries a heavier armament, including ASuW, SAM and ASW systems, in addition to the massive speed advantage over regular ships provided by the hydrofoil design. ASuW systems include the 6 SSM launchers mounted at the rear of the ship sloped at 45 degree to conserve space. These can be loaded with the Praetonian built Lance missile, most standard Western missiles (Harpoon, Exocet, Ottomat etc) and some of the smaller of the Soviet designs (ie. Yakhont III). SAM systems include the 8 cell VLS, which can be loaded with the small RL SAMs (ie Aster-15) or the vastly superior Praetonian built Discus SAM which can also intercept missiles, the 30mm CIW system and the DP 4.5” cannon. The ASuW system fitted to the Dragoon is the especially designed ‘Sword’ Guided Mortar, which fires an 81mm shell with a link to the ship’s sonar, or in-built acoustic or passive sonar guidance.

This impressive array of weaponry combined with the unique speed and maneuverability provided by the hydrofoil design make this ship the perfect coastal defence or patrol boat. It can sink ships several times it’s size with ease and then quickly escape without taking fire from enemy vessels. The Dragoon Class has a place in any nation’s navy, and is designed for any nation to be able to afford.

Cost: $35,000,000

Sarzonia would like to order four of the Dragoon-class hydrofoil corvettes for a total of $140 million. Money shall be wired upon confirmation.

Thank you for your consideration.

Terrence A. Wilson
Vice President for Defense
Incorporated States of Sarzonia

P.S. I believe it may be of interest to you to note that our Navy Chief, John Newman is currently taking medication to control his *ahem* exuberance upon being informed of this order. We are getting to the point where we have to make other arrangements any time we order from your storefront, Isselmere-Nieland's or Hybalt's. We also have heavily soundproofed our offices.

[OOC: Five minutes on the market and I've already ordered! How's that for speed! :D]

I'll buy 10.
*Money wired upon confirmation*

The Republic of Sharina is looking for a decent ship design to achieve the following objectives:

1. Ability to fight off piracy
2. Effective Coast Guard vessels
3. Act as a screen force for my destroyers and cruisers
4. Respond to sea emergencies quickly
5. Aid in defense of Sharina's coasts aganist troop transports and such when and if Sharina is ever invaded.


We believe that these hydrofoils may be the answer to our ship design demands. What kind of arrangements would you offer to a new and developing nation?

We eagerly await your response, Praetoria.


Live well,
President Rand Veristek

Sarzonia: Your Dragoon Class Hydrofoils have already been dispatched, as we have built several in advance in anticipation of orders and need from our own navy. I hope that your ships serve your navy well and you consider ordering more in the future.

P.S. I'm pleased to hear that Mr Newman enjoys ordering our products so much :) .

Office of the Director-General
Imperial Praetonian Shipyards
Praetonia

Huahin: The first siz of your order of Dragoon Class Hydrofoil Corvettes have been dispatched, the following four shall be dispatched at the end of the month. I hope that your ships serve you well and that you consider us again in the future.

Office of the Director-General
Imperial Praetonian Shipyards
Praetonia

7,to be shipped to Port Lemur,for use in the Lemurrian Home Guard.
Funds shall be wired upon confirmation of order.

Sharina: Our ship can fulfill all of your requirements except for number 3. Due to fuel constraints Dragoon Class ships (and all other ships of this type) are not able to escort a battlefleet very far from a refueling station, however it would be possible were you to dispatch a sufficient number of replenishment vessels and travel at a speed much lower than the listed cruising speed.

As for smaller nations, we are very welcoming of their custom, and are willing to extend to you an interest free loan with which to pay for your order, which is to be paid back at whatever rate you wish within 15 years.

Office of the Director-General
Imperial Praetonian Shipyards
Praetonia

These seem excellent for coastal defense, and a costal defense boat is exactly what I need, so I would like to purchase:
1,000 Dragoon Class Hydrofoil Corvettes
Total: 35 Billion *Money Wired Upon Confirmation*

Lemurria: The seven ships will be dispatched within two months. I hope that they will serve your navy well and that you will consider Imperial Praetonian Shipyards again in the future for your naval requirements.

Office of the Director-General
Imperial Praetonian Shipyards
Praetonia

The God Falltothzu: Your proposed order is excessively huge and would tie up our shipyards for several years, if not decades. Therefore, so we are able to provide ships for our other valued customers, I am afraif I must decline your order. However, we would be willing to provide you with 100 such vessels for the slightly discounted price of $3.25bn. This order, should you choose to place it, will take 6 years to complete.

Office of the Director-General
Imperial Praetonian Shipyards
Praetonia

that is fine

Lemurria: The seven ships will be dispatched within two months. I hope that they will serve your navy well and that you will consider Imperial Praetonian Shipyards again in the future for your naval requirements.

Office of the Director-General
Imperial Praetonian Shipyards
Praetonia

Thank you,we certainly shall.

Greetings, Praetonia.

The Republic of Sharina would desire to purchase 20 of your Hydrofoils for 700 million.

If we like these hydrofoils, we would certainly be willing to purchase 80 additional Hydrofoils.

We can pay the 700 million up front for the initial 20 Hydrofoils for testing and examining purposes. However, if we do decide to purcahse the 80 additional vessels, we would like to seek a payment plan of:

400 million each year for 7 years to cover the total cost of 2.8 billion dollars.


Would these terms be acceptable? We are eager to explore Hydrofoil technology.


Live well,
President Rand Veristek



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OOC:

I'm not sure if this would be excessive or just enough Hydrofils to hold my nation for the next few weeks Real Time until my nation hits 50 million or something?

I'm pretty new to NS, started a few days ago. Any advice or feedback on my RP'ing and purchases would be greatly appreciated. :D

That would be more than acceptable. We are always willing to help newer nations aquire our first class naval defence systems, and so our payment plans are very flexible for smaller andless economically powerful nations.

Your ships will arrive within 1 NS year (1 RL day) and when they do I hope they serve your navy well and that you consider us again in future.

Office of the Director-General
Imperial Praetonian Shipyards
Praetonia

OOC: That's ok for your whole navy at this point so long as you pay over several years (which you are). The best way to learn to RP is to read RPs, although the stickies are quite good too.

Though we already have a sizable fleet of Kingston-class MCDV's, we would still like to make a small order of 10 Dragoons.

We are also curious as to the effectiveness of the 30mm CIWS you have with the Dragoon versus the Phalanx CIWS. We already have the Phalanx in service on most of our ships and would like to avoid re-training if possible, unless of course your CIWS is more effective.

Payments will be wired upon confirmation.

I will take 500, please. Money wired on confirmation.

The Testudo CIWS system mounted on the Dragoon Class is significant more effective than the Phalanx, incorporating more advanced and effective sensor and targetting systems, also there is not problem of retraining as the Testudo (and the Phalanx) is completely automated.

Your order has been confirmed and will be completed in 3 months, thankyou for choosing IPS and I hope that your ships serve your navy well.

Office of the Director-General
Imperial Praetonian Shipyards
Praetonia

I will take 500, please. Money wired on confirmation.

Jangle Jangle Ridge: Your proposed order is excessively huge and would tie up our shipyards for several years, if not decades. Therefore, so we are able to provide ships for our other valued customers, I am afraif I must decline your order. However, we would be willing to provide you with 100 such vessels for the slightly discounted price of $3.25bn. This order, should you choose to place it, will take 10 years to complete.

Office of the Director-General
Imperial Praetonian Shipyards
Praetonia

Jangle Jangle Ridge: Your proposed order is excessively huge and would tie up our shipyards for several years, if not decades. Therefore, so we are able to provide ships for our other valued customers, I am afraif I must decline your order. However, we would be willing to provide you with 100 such vessels for the slightly discounted price of $3.25bn. This order, should you choose to place it, will take 10 years to complete.

Office of the Director-General
Imperial Praetonian Shipyards
Praetonia

I understand. I will take the order of 100 ships. Once again, I will wire on confirmation.

Also, we are considering designating the Dragoons as ACDV's (Advanced Coastal Defence Vessel). Do you have a more suitable title?

ACDV sounds a decent title. I call them CDHCs (Coastal Defence Hydrofoil Corvettes), but ACDV is fine.

also there is not problem of retraining as the Testudo (and the Phalanx) is completely automated.[/b]

We were of course referring to the training of maintenance technicians.

OOC: Possibly a stupid question, but the Testudo isn't a real system, is it? Is it something you made up with your shipyards?

OOC: THe Testudo is a Praetonian designed system. It isn't an uber C1W5 gUn!!!1111shift+1!!111! It's just better than the Phalanx, but then there are RL CIWS guns better than the phalanx. As well as a gun it has a rack of small missiles (again this is in use on some Russian ships) and it includes countermeasures (flares, ECM, radar jammers etc.).

JJR: Confirmed

BUMPzorz

BUMPage

Bump for sales

To the Grand Praetonia,

On behalf of Lethislavania, and under the Right to Purchase law, the Royal Army would like to purchase 100 [One Hundres] Hydrofoils. I believe this wil come out to the price of 3.5 Billion, although you may have discounting for such a large order. We thank you for your time and look forward to a response.

Semper Fi,

Grand Master General Zayku

Thankyou for taking an interest in our Dragoon Class Hydrofoil Corvette. We are able to fill your order for 100 hydrofoils, however due to the scale of the order and the burden placed upon our shipyard facilities by previous orders your order will take 15 NS years to complete. We are, however, willing to offer you our standard bulk order discount recuding the overall price to $3.25bn.

Office of the Director-General
Imperial Praetonian Shipyards
Praetonia

Thank you for the discount. Lethislavania is indeed still interested. Consider the order an affirmative.

Bump

OOC: HA I was wondering why my hydrofoil sales where down lately. Well you've done it. Your going to run me out of the business. Well not on my watch.








A small shameless promotion:


Buy the Orion Class Assault Hydrofoil and its wonderful varients. Cheaper than the Dragoon. Faster than the Dragoon. We have hydrofoils for every need. Balanced all around warfare. Anti-ship operations, ASW, cruise missle strikes. You can make an entire fleet out of my Orion Class Hydrofoils. So come on down.

1) The Dragoon Class is a bigger ship with a heavier weapons loadout

2) The Dragoon Class has three times the anti-ship ship firepower of the Orion and carries better quality missile and launching systems.

3) The Dragoon Class has a vastly superior SAM system utilising a SCRAMjet missile which can intercept other missiles with ease.

4) The Dragoon Class has a specially designed guided ASW mortar, superior to the ASW system in your craft.

5) The Dragoon Class is manufactured by Imperial Praetonian Shipyards, a high-rated shipyard corporation that has sold over $7 trillion of ships.

6) Dont advertise in my threads.

OOC: While I think the main difference in our ships is that yours is Super-Modern tech while mine strictly uses Modern Tech. No Scramjets no ASW Mortars. I use what the US Navy uses. And one of the reasons you don't see me selling a whole lot of ships is because we use them exculsively in the Morathanian navy. While yours may have 3 times the anti-ship capabilities of the original Orion you cannot say that yours has more than the Perseus class or the new Super Orion. Plus my most expensive ship is still 10 million USD cheaper than yours. The original Orion which you say has 3 times less Anti-ship capability is faster, cheaper, and if anything mechanical happens to your Orion tell me and I'll replace it or fix it free of charge. This is not an ad this is just a rebuttal. But I'll go back to selling mine you can continue to leech off my idea for your own gain.

ASW Mortars are in use today. SCRAMjets are possible today with enough money and funding. If you accept the Doujin (which everyone does) then you accept SCRAMjets. Although the greater ratio of anti-shipping weapon may not be true on the later versions the Dragoon certainly has a greater anti-ship loadout. The Dragoon also features a Gas Turbine / Electriv hybrid allowing very fast speed (faster than RL hydrofoils) and also the ability to switch to electric for a silent, if slower, journey. This isnt your idea, numerous examples of this craft exist.

El Bumpo!

One question....
Does it have the capability to launch nuclear warheads???
If yes then I'll have 20 to test them out.
If they are extremely good at obliterating things I will have another 4,880. But just 20 for now.
Money arrives soon after i receive them. (Is it OK if I pay you in gold bars?)
:headbang:

So what happens if you fling, say, 50 or so of these at a carrier battle group? Would they be able to close in and take out the carrier before the escorts could stop it? :)

Is 50 of these magnificent hydrofoils an acceptable sum?

Goldburn: We do not fit nuclear payload delivery systems to hydrofoils, as we see no need to. However, the gun and missile systems are of a standard size, and so if you have a nuclear shell / small tactical nuclear missile that can fit the launchers, then there is nothing to stop you from doing so. Do you still wish to go ahead with the order?

Office of the Director-General
Imperial Praetonian Shipyards
Praetonia

Axis Nova: Of course! That is primarily what they are for. In fact, you don't even have to go that close to engage with SSMs. A few of these can launch a deadly barrage of Harpoons (or if you have something better then them, and yes pretty much any NS designed system would be much better than the harpoon) at carriers or troop transports and stop an invasion in its tracks.

Office of the Director-General
Imperial Praetonian Shipyards
Praetonia

Swords of Changal: 50 Dragoon Class Hydrofoils would cost a grand total of $1.75bn. Such an order would take some time (5 NS years / 5 RL days) to complete.

Office of the Director-General
Imperial Praetonian Shipyards
Praetonia

We'll take them!

Excellent. The your ships should be with you in the time stated above.

Bump