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14-08-2004, 22:33
Admiral class Battlecruiser
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Overview
The approval of the Tempest-class Battlecruisers came as a pleasant surprise to those who had been reluctant to support them. Their combination of firepower and speed seemed ideal for diplomatic voyages, escort duty and providing presence in forward areas where deployment of Battleships was not an option. The Tempest also met with some interest abroad, although the restrictions on sales meant that only three were sold, to the nation of Hattia.
The Tempests were however felt to be simply too expensive for high-volume production. Procurement Plan 21 called for the construction of 120 Battlecruisers, 40 Battleships and 16 Command Battleships within the space of 20 years; at the cost of the Tempest-class ships, this would total some 6.324 tillion dollars'expenditure on Battlecruisers alone, not accounting for upgrades to those ships already constructed, inflation, raw material price increases, labour cost increases, accidents, and so forth. As a comparatively low-cost complement for the Tempests, the Naval Office set into motion a programme for further research into Battlecruiser design. The programme was allotted medium priority, as the Naval Office's resources were already being extensively used on other work. The Naval Office was however able in December 2001 to issue the design criteria for the ship. The new Battlecruiser, tentatively dubbed the Admiral Romanov class after one of the greatest of DPUO Admirals, was to have 8 14-inch guns of the same type as fitted to the Tempest-class, mounted in four superfiring twin-gun turrets; an identical armour scheme where possible; a top speed of 35 knots or more; a displacement lower than that of the Tempest and smaller dmiensions; and the ability to carry out all the missions allocated to the Tempests.
These design parameters were found to create conflicting requirements. The fitment of 8 14in guns would have given these ships the same armament as the Tempests, but the use of four turrets would in fact have increased the displacement of the design. The reactor technology needed to attain a speed of 35+ knots would also have approximately the same mass as that of the original Tempest design. In addition, making a ship smaller than the Tempest yet able to mount all the weapons and armour needed to perform all of that ship's operations was also extremely difficult.
The Naval Office had however learned well from their experience in drawing up the requirements for the Tempest, and thus had given the design bureaux a rather more free hand than might otherwise have been the case. The only remaining problem was the lack of shipyards willing to submit a design. The reason for this was simple: they could not build the new ships. Every shipyard in DPUO had been assigned the construction of some sort of large surface combatant. The Soyuz and Harland's yards were working flat out on the building of Soyuz and Frunze-class Battleships, as well as the Hunter-class Command Battleships, and the two smaller yards oof Balfour and Kurtsov (which were amalgamated shortly after the announcement of the required specifications to form the DPUO State Shipbuilding Works) were occupied in construction of the Tempest-class Battlecruisers. Though each group submitted designs, none felt themselves able to construct the number of ships required, which was about 60. Not even the selection of the comparatively cheap and uncomplicated design submitted by the soon-to-be DSSW was considered practicable.
The Naval Office therefore took the unprecedented move of enacting its' right to utilise smaller concerns for military shipbuilding. The 20 small civil shipyards around DPUO were each assign their respective tasks, be that task construction of hull plates, propellers, frames, or missile mountings. The electronics industry was also turned to the task of providing the electronics needed for the construction of the ship's fire-control and sensor systems, while the nation's heavy gun builders were simply told to work double hours and get triple overtime pay. Even so, progress on the first of the class was extremely slow, especially following the commencement of the CM Cold War. Laid down on 7th October 2002, the first of the class, the Admiral Romanov, was only completed in July 2004, and in the end, the saving on the Tempest-class was minimal.
General
Crew: 1,762
Displacement: 70,090 tonnes unladen, 78,982 tonnes fully laden
Endurance: 120 days' steaming, 70 days' combat
Dimensions: Length 384m, Beam 33.2m, Draught 8.5m (mean)
Armament
Main armament is the DK-77 15-inch rifled naval gun, mounted in three twin-gun turrets each with elevation of 44 degrees and depression of -13 degrees. The guns fire APDS, HE, HE-FRAG, smoke, laser-guided 8-inch, chemical and nuclear shells. Maximum range is 43km, with an accurate range of 22.8km. The armour-piercing shell has a mass of 2,022lbs. Barrel life is approximately 360 full-charge firings.
Secondary armament is six 2A64N1 lengthened smoothbore 152mm guns, mounted in triple turrets toward the stern of the ship. The guns can elavate to 46 degrees, depress to -16 degrees, and have a maximum range of 33km and a maximum accurate range of 20km. The guns can as in the Tempest fire the Krasnopol-M ATGM.
The ship also carries 12 VLS cells for the SS-N-19 or -19B long-range cruise missile, and a pair of trainiable four-round launcher boxes for the SS-N-26 "Yakhont" SSM atop the superstructure, fed by armoured vertical reloading system chutes.
Anti-aircraft and anti-missile defences consist of 5 AO-18 CIWS guns and 4 ASL-100 combination gun-flechette launchers, plus two SA-N-20 launchers. The latter two form the IULLDES (http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=343036) defence system, which is responsible for short and very short-range anti-aircraft and anti-missile defences. Mid-range defence is the SA-N-9 SAM, set in four launchers mounted on the superstructure and fed by armoured vertical reloading chutes. Long-range air defences are provided by the SA-N-6 SAM, mounted on either side of the after deck in two 4-cell VLS units.
Anti-submarine systems consist of the SS-N-27 ballistic anti-sub weapon launcher, of which two are carried, mounted on the superstructure in rounded, armoured housings, and five FRAS-1 anti-submarine mortars, mounted to give maximum coverage of the ship. These mortars
must be reloaded by a rotary autoloader after a full discharge, which requires approximately 5 minutes to complete.
The ship carries a towed anti-torpedo decoy, type OF-55.
This class also has a hangar bay that can accommodate 1 Ka-27B ASW helicopter or four Yak-061 "Shmel" UAVs at the aft superstructure.
Ammunition allocations
Main armament: 660 rounds
Secondary armament: 720 rounds
SA-N-6: 100 missiles
SA-N-9: 120 missiles
SA-N-20: 60 missiles
SS-N-19: 12 missiles
SS-N-26: 24 missiles
SS-N-27: 18 missiles
FRAS-1: 350 rockets
CIWS: 248,000 rounds
Compartmentation
The hull is divided by 90mm titanium alloy bulkheads into 9 compartments, each with its' own independent pump system and power generator for that pump system.
1) Storage, crew accommodation, fuel for emergency gas turbine engines, sonar dome, sonar backup computers;
2) SS-N-19 VLS systems, some CIWS storage;
3) Forward main armament and main CIWS storage;
4) Reactor spaces, with separate armoured upper compartment for SAM magazines;
5) Main machinery spaces, containing four sets geared steam turbines, turboalternators, batteries, with separate upper compartment for some SAM and secondary armament ammunition
storage;
6) SS-N-26 magazines, secondary gun magazines;
7) 20% After main armament ammunition storage, auxiliary fire-control computers, general storage, emergency diesel engines with fuel storage, emergency generators;
8) After main armament storage (80%), after SAM, ASW and CIWS storage;
9) Stern storage, backup diesel fuel storage, auxiliary command area, steering equipment.
The ammunition magazines incorporate blow-out panels and pressure-release valves to minimise damage in the event 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. The movement of the turboalternators and backup engines to separate compartments reduces the chance of a single hit disabling the ship's power.
Armour
The armour belt runs thusly:
Bow to bulkhead 1: 360mm composite armour with double-layer of Kontakt-5 ERA. Deck armour of two layers of 120mm composite armour, with insulating foam in between layers.
Bulkhead 1 to bulkhead 2: 390mm composite armour, with double-layer of Kontakt-5 ERA. Deck armour of two layers of 180mm composite armour, with insulating foam between layers. 150mm torpedo bulge.
Bulkhead 2 to bulkhead 3: 430mm composite armour, with double-layer of Kontakt-5 ERA. Deck armour of two layers of 195mm composite armour, with insulating foam between layers. 100mm torpedo bulge, widening to 150mm at bulkhead 2.
Bulkhead 3 to bulkhead 4: 390mm composite armour, with double-layer of Kontakt-5 ERA. Deck armour of two layers of 180mm composite armour, with insulating foam between layers. 150mm torpedo bulge.
Bulkhead 4 to bulkhead 5: 350mm composite armour, with double-layer of Kontakt-5 ERA. Deck armour of two layers of 180mm composite armour, with insulating foam between layers. 150mm torpedo bulge.
Bulkhead 5 to bulkhead 6: 385mm composite armour with double-layer of Kontakt-5 ERA. Deck armour of two layers of 120mm composite armour, with insulating foam in between layers. 15omm torpedo bulge.
Bulkhead 6 to bulkhead 7: 350mm composite armour with double-layer of Kontakt-5 ERA. Deck armour of two layers of 150mm composite armour, with insulating foam in between layers. 150mm torpedo bulge.
Bulkhead 7 to bulkhead 8: 430mm composite armour, with double-layer of Kontakt-5 ERA. Deck armour of two layers of 195mm composite armour, with insulating foam between layers. Torpedo bulge of 150mm.
Bulkhead 8 to stern: 350mm composite armour with double-layer of Kontakt-5 ERA. Deck armour of two layers of 150mm composite armour, with insulating foam in between layers. Torpedo bulge narrows from 150mm to 0mm within 20m of bulkhead 8.
Turret armour
Main turrets
Front: 320mm composite armour
Side: 250mm composite armour
Rear: 120mm composite armour
Roof: 200mm composite armour
Secondary turrets
Front: 260mm composte armour
Side: 175mm composite armour
Rear: 100mm composite armour
Roof: 120mm composte armour
Superstructure uses titanium alloy armour of 290mm thickness, able to stop missiles, shells up to 16in.
Conning tower has 320mm composite armour.
Electronics
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-B LF VDS
Fire-control
KOK-615B1 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.
EW
Wine Glass and Bell Shroud ESM Intercept receivers
Bell Squat Jammer systems
Burn Eye anti-LADAR smoke generators; armoured vents in sides of hull
16 PK-10 Chaff Decoy RLs
Propulsion
2 OK-700V 210MW Pressurised-water reactors driving four sets geared steam turbines turning four shafts, each with 1 seven-bladed variable-pitch bronze screw.
4 backup S-66M 10,000hp diesel engines, one per shaft, driving through two automatic gearboxes with 4 forward and 2 reverse speeds, attached via 1 direct-drive shaft per engine to 1 B-12 emergency generator.
Top speed for the class is 36-38 knots.
http://img26.exs.cx/img26/5784/Renown-01modsupc1.jpg
Overview
The approval of the Tempest-class Battlecruisers came as a pleasant surprise to those who had been reluctant to support them. Their combination of firepower and speed seemed ideal for diplomatic voyages, escort duty and providing presence in forward areas where deployment of Battleships was not an option. The Tempest also met with some interest abroad, although the restrictions on sales meant that only three were sold, to the nation of Hattia.
The Tempests were however felt to be simply too expensive for high-volume production. Procurement Plan 21 called for the construction of 120 Battlecruisers, 40 Battleships and 16 Command Battleships within the space of 20 years; at the cost of the Tempest-class ships, this would total some 6.324 tillion dollars'expenditure on Battlecruisers alone, not accounting for upgrades to those ships already constructed, inflation, raw material price increases, labour cost increases, accidents, and so forth. As a comparatively low-cost complement for the Tempests, the Naval Office set into motion a programme for further research into Battlecruiser design. The programme was allotted medium priority, as the Naval Office's resources were already being extensively used on other work. The Naval Office was however able in December 2001 to issue the design criteria for the ship. The new Battlecruiser, tentatively dubbed the Admiral Romanov class after one of the greatest of DPUO Admirals, was to have 8 14-inch guns of the same type as fitted to the Tempest-class, mounted in four superfiring twin-gun turrets; an identical armour scheme where possible; a top speed of 35 knots or more; a displacement lower than that of the Tempest and smaller dmiensions; and the ability to carry out all the missions allocated to the Tempests.
These design parameters were found to create conflicting requirements. The fitment of 8 14in guns would have given these ships the same armament as the Tempests, but the use of four turrets would in fact have increased the displacement of the design. The reactor technology needed to attain a speed of 35+ knots would also have approximately the same mass as that of the original Tempest design. In addition, making a ship smaller than the Tempest yet able to mount all the weapons and armour needed to perform all of that ship's operations was also extremely difficult.
The Naval Office had however learned well from their experience in drawing up the requirements for the Tempest, and thus had given the design bureaux a rather more free hand than might otherwise have been the case. The only remaining problem was the lack of shipyards willing to submit a design. The reason for this was simple: they could not build the new ships. Every shipyard in DPUO had been assigned the construction of some sort of large surface combatant. The Soyuz and Harland's yards were working flat out on the building of Soyuz and Frunze-class Battleships, as well as the Hunter-class Command Battleships, and the two smaller yards oof Balfour and Kurtsov (which were amalgamated shortly after the announcement of the required specifications to form the DPUO State Shipbuilding Works) were occupied in construction of the Tempest-class Battlecruisers. Though each group submitted designs, none felt themselves able to construct the number of ships required, which was about 60. Not even the selection of the comparatively cheap and uncomplicated design submitted by the soon-to-be DSSW was considered practicable.
The Naval Office therefore took the unprecedented move of enacting its' right to utilise smaller concerns for military shipbuilding. The 20 small civil shipyards around DPUO were each assign their respective tasks, be that task construction of hull plates, propellers, frames, or missile mountings. The electronics industry was also turned to the task of providing the electronics needed for the construction of the ship's fire-control and sensor systems, while the nation's heavy gun builders were simply told to work double hours and get triple overtime pay. Even so, progress on the first of the class was extremely slow, especially following the commencement of the CM Cold War. Laid down on 7th October 2002, the first of the class, the Admiral Romanov, was only completed in July 2004, and in the end, the saving on the Tempest-class was minimal.
General
Crew: 1,762
Displacement: 70,090 tonnes unladen, 78,982 tonnes fully laden
Endurance: 120 days' steaming, 70 days' combat
Dimensions: Length 384m, Beam 33.2m, Draught 8.5m (mean)
Armament
Main armament is the DK-77 15-inch rifled naval gun, mounted in three twin-gun turrets each with elevation of 44 degrees and depression of -13 degrees. The guns fire APDS, HE, HE-FRAG, smoke, laser-guided 8-inch, chemical and nuclear shells. Maximum range is 43km, with an accurate range of 22.8km. The armour-piercing shell has a mass of 2,022lbs. Barrel life is approximately 360 full-charge firings.
Secondary armament is six 2A64N1 lengthened smoothbore 152mm guns, mounted in triple turrets toward the stern of the ship. The guns can elavate to 46 degrees, depress to -16 degrees, and have a maximum range of 33km and a maximum accurate range of 20km. The guns can as in the Tempest fire the Krasnopol-M ATGM.
The ship also carries 12 VLS cells for the SS-N-19 or -19B long-range cruise missile, and a pair of trainiable four-round launcher boxes for the SS-N-26 "Yakhont" SSM atop the superstructure, fed by armoured vertical reloading system chutes.
Anti-aircraft and anti-missile defences consist of 5 AO-18 CIWS guns and 4 ASL-100 combination gun-flechette launchers, plus two SA-N-20 launchers. The latter two form the IULLDES (http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=343036) defence system, which is responsible for short and very short-range anti-aircraft and anti-missile defences. Mid-range defence is the SA-N-9 SAM, set in four launchers mounted on the superstructure and fed by armoured vertical reloading chutes. Long-range air defences are provided by the SA-N-6 SAM, mounted on either side of the after deck in two 4-cell VLS units.
Anti-submarine systems consist of the SS-N-27 ballistic anti-sub weapon launcher, of which two are carried, mounted on the superstructure in rounded, armoured housings, and five FRAS-1 anti-submarine mortars, mounted to give maximum coverage of the ship. These mortars
must be reloaded by a rotary autoloader after a full discharge, which requires approximately 5 minutes to complete.
The ship carries a towed anti-torpedo decoy, type OF-55.
This class also has a hangar bay that can accommodate 1 Ka-27B ASW helicopter or four Yak-061 "Shmel" UAVs at the aft superstructure.
Ammunition allocations
Main armament: 660 rounds
Secondary armament: 720 rounds
SA-N-6: 100 missiles
SA-N-9: 120 missiles
SA-N-20: 60 missiles
SS-N-19: 12 missiles
SS-N-26: 24 missiles
SS-N-27: 18 missiles
FRAS-1: 350 rockets
CIWS: 248,000 rounds
Compartmentation
The hull is divided by 90mm titanium alloy bulkheads into 9 compartments, each with its' own independent pump system and power generator for that pump system.
1) Storage, crew accommodation, fuel for emergency gas turbine engines, sonar dome, sonar backup computers;
2) SS-N-19 VLS systems, some CIWS storage;
3) Forward main armament and main CIWS storage;
4) Reactor spaces, with separate armoured upper compartment for SAM magazines;
5) Main machinery spaces, containing four sets geared steam turbines, turboalternators, batteries, with separate upper compartment for some SAM and secondary armament ammunition
storage;
6) SS-N-26 magazines, secondary gun magazines;
7) 20% After main armament ammunition storage, auxiliary fire-control computers, general storage, emergency diesel engines with fuel storage, emergency generators;
8) After main armament storage (80%), after SAM, ASW and CIWS storage;
9) Stern storage, backup diesel fuel storage, auxiliary command area, steering equipment.
The ammunition magazines incorporate blow-out panels and pressure-release valves to minimise damage in the event 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. The movement of the turboalternators and backup engines to separate compartments reduces the chance of a single hit disabling the ship's power.
Armour
The armour belt runs thusly:
Bow to bulkhead 1: 360mm composite armour with double-layer of Kontakt-5 ERA. Deck armour of two layers of 120mm composite armour, with insulating foam in between layers.
Bulkhead 1 to bulkhead 2: 390mm composite armour, with double-layer of Kontakt-5 ERA. Deck armour of two layers of 180mm composite armour, with insulating foam between layers. 150mm torpedo bulge.
Bulkhead 2 to bulkhead 3: 430mm composite armour, with double-layer of Kontakt-5 ERA. Deck armour of two layers of 195mm composite armour, with insulating foam between layers. 100mm torpedo bulge, widening to 150mm at bulkhead 2.
Bulkhead 3 to bulkhead 4: 390mm composite armour, with double-layer of Kontakt-5 ERA. Deck armour of two layers of 180mm composite armour, with insulating foam between layers. 150mm torpedo bulge.
Bulkhead 4 to bulkhead 5: 350mm composite armour, with double-layer of Kontakt-5 ERA. Deck armour of two layers of 180mm composite armour, with insulating foam between layers. 150mm torpedo bulge.
Bulkhead 5 to bulkhead 6: 385mm composite armour with double-layer of Kontakt-5 ERA. Deck armour of two layers of 120mm composite armour, with insulating foam in between layers. 15omm torpedo bulge.
Bulkhead 6 to bulkhead 7: 350mm composite armour with double-layer of Kontakt-5 ERA. Deck armour of two layers of 150mm composite armour, with insulating foam in between layers. 150mm torpedo bulge.
Bulkhead 7 to bulkhead 8: 430mm composite armour, with double-layer of Kontakt-5 ERA. Deck armour of two layers of 195mm composite armour, with insulating foam between layers. Torpedo bulge of 150mm.
Bulkhead 8 to stern: 350mm composite armour with double-layer of Kontakt-5 ERA. Deck armour of two layers of 150mm composite armour, with insulating foam in between layers. Torpedo bulge narrows from 150mm to 0mm within 20m of bulkhead 8.
Turret armour
Main turrets
Front: 320mm composite armour
Side: 250mm composite armour
Rear: 120mm composite armour
Roof: 200mm composite armour
Secondary turrets
Front: 260mm composte armour
Side: 175mm composite armour
Rear: 100mm composite armour
Roof: 120mm composte armour
Superstructure uses titanium alloy armour of 290mm thickness, able to stop missiles, shells up to 16in.
Conning tower has 320mm composite armour.
Electronics
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-B LF VDS
Fire-control
KOK-615B1 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.
EW
Wine Glass and Bell Shroud ESM Intercept receivers
Bell Squat Jammer systems
Burn Eye anti-LADAR smoke generators; armoured vents in sides of hull
16 PK-10 Chaff Decoy RLs
Propulsion
2 OK-700V 210MW Pressurised-water reactors driving four sets geared steam turbines turning four shafts, each with 1 seven-bladed variable-pitch bronze screw.
4 backup S-66M 10,000hp diesel engines, one per shaft, driving through two automatic gearboxes with 4 forward and 2 reverse speeds, attached via 1 direct-drive shaft per engine to 1 B-12 emergency generator.
Top speed for the class is 36-38 knots.