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17-08-2004, 05:06
The Son House class Multirole Corvette is the backbone of the LRRN, which is a navy focused primarily on coastal defense, operating some 550 of these craft among other patrol and missile boats.
http://www.sok.dk/bluegame2001/images/presmed/bg1.jpg
The Son House class is the epitome of coast defense missile boats, and can trace its evolution back to the Osa class. However, the Son House is no little pushover boat.
Propulsion
The Son House class is propelled by three self-contained hybrid diesel/electric drives, which supply a maximum speed of 63 knots and an economical speed of 32 knots on electric only.
The advantages of a hybrid system are many, and include a reduced IR signature, a much higher fuel efficency, and drastically decreased environmental impact.
(While that surely is not important for many buyers, a high degree of environmental friendliness is required for LRR equipment.)
The ship can reach a maximum speed of 33 knots on any one of the self-contained units, and can maintain an economical speed of 15 knots on the same. The use of three seperate units increases redundancy, and each one of the Lunkwill & Fook SHD-5 units has been built for maximum reliability and maintainability, and are used on the Puffin class Tug/Minesweeper, the Hauk class inshore multirole boat, and the Quadrophenia class missile frigate.
Weaponry
The Son House class has been built so it can take on a wide variety of air, surface, and undersea threats.
Close-In Defense
Close-in defensive weaponry consists of the MDG-351 (http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/systems/mg.htm) 35mm CIWS gun. The Son House carries two, with one mounted in front of the bridge area (where the 76mm is in the export variant) and one semi-recessed into the bridge area covering the rear.
The Barak II missile system is also included, which is an improvement over the Barak I (http://www.israeli-weapons.com/weapons/missile_systems/sea_missiles/barak/Barak.html), which increases range to 20km for anti-aircraft. The Barak is also used as the shipboard SAM system. Barak is mounted in two 8-missile VLS cells on either side of the hull, 2.5 meters foreward of the bridge area.
Anti-Ship
The RBS-15F antiship missile is mounted in two quad silos, angled foreward at 70 degrees, towards the front of the hull. The RBS-15F has a range of 200km + at high subsonic speed.
The following missile types can be mounted:
Yakhont (4?)
Harpoon (8)
Gabriel IV (8)
NSM (8)
Anti-submarine
Four 630mm AST-32 homing torpedos are mounted two on either side of the hull. This coupled with a top-of-the-line Sonar system gives the Son House top notch antisubmarine capability.
Sensors And Countermeasures
The MMR-32 multipurpose radar has a range of over 200 kilometers, and can detect and track stealth aircraft at a reasonable distance (classified, but ~85km for the OCC record).
Passive thermal imaging systems are also included, and the ship's IR camera has a range of 100km in good weather.
Radar jamming and IR missile blinder systems are included, as is a radar warning reciever. These systems allow the Son House to avoid enemy missiles without physically destroying them.
Two 32-round decoy launchers are mounted in either side of the bridge block. They can launch a variety of decoys, including chaff, parachute-stabilized flares, and rotor-stabilized IR decoys.
A sonar suite is also included on the Son House, which has an effective passive range of around 25km.
Ship Design
The Son House class multirole corvette is designed to give the LRRN a top-notch vessel capable of being built in large numbers, yet still being a high-quality design, that can engage hostile aircraft, ships, and submarines, and come out alive. While a somewhat outmatched vessel one-on-one with, say, one of the newer destroyers on NS, it is, in squadrons and used with the proper tactics, capable of hindering or completely stopping operations by a surface warfare group of much larger ships.
The Son House class corvette uses a catamaran/air cushion hull design, which couples a catamaran hull with a hovercraft air cushion system. This design makes the Son House very light on the water, and thus very fast. Also, the catamaran/air cushion hull gives the ship a very low draft with almost no penalty to seakeeping characteristics.
Hovercraft are generally very fuel hungry and have only a limited range, but the Son House only uses its air cushion as a secondary system, and even then it does not take up much engine power.
The Son House class has also been designed with a low radar cross section. While newer radars can easily defeat stealth aircraft, the Son House's much lower relative speed allows it to go undetected, especially when hiding among coastal geography. 90% composite construction also helps reduce RCS, and also reduces production and operating costs. The ship does not corrode at nearly the rate that it would if it was made of metal, and it is far more durable, reliable, and parts can be replaced much more easily.
Crew Features
The Son House typically carries a crew of 15, three officers and ten enlisted/NCO. The crew is fully NBC protected, and there are three 20-person life rafts mounted near the crew areas. The hull can withstand high-caliber cannon shells, and the interior is designed to allow the maximum number of crew possible to escape in the event of a missile strike.
The Son House is extremely seaworthy, and even in the event of a capsizing, the crew is protected by fully watertight compartments, and can actually leave the ship via a hatch placed in the bottom of the hull.
Variants
Son House I: equipped with one Kashtan CIWS and without the Barak system.
90,000,000 USD
Son House II (allies only): as listed in the description.
105,000,000 USD
Son House A (export version): equipped with a 76mm Oto-Melara Super Rapid main gun, no Barak, and RBS-15F replaced with Harpoon missile
75,000,000 USD
http://www.knmskjold.org/logg2000/flate2.jpg
The crew of a Son House exiting the ship during rescue drills.
http://www.knmskjold.org/logg2000/alver.jpg
A Son House navigating a narrow coastal waterway.
http://www.knmskjold.org/logg2000/helloy2.jpg
A Son House tied up against an island during manouvers.
http://www.knmskjold.org/logg2000/rdnvx.jpg
On the bridge.
http://www.knmskjold.org/logg2000/sb90n.jpg
A Son House being used as a mothership for inshore patrol boat operations. Note the CB-90s lashed to the side and the two Hauk class patrol boats behind the corvette.
Note: Background checks will be performed on all buyers (more or less). The Son House class corvette must not be used against the nation of LRR or its allies. LRR government armories reserves the right to refuse sales to anyone, and will do so concerning nazis, Communist Mississippi, and anyone without an up-to-scratch human rights record.
http://www.sok.dk/bluegame2001/images/presmed/bg1.jpg
The Son House class is the epitome of coast defense missile boats, and can trace its evolution back to the Osa class. However, the Son House is no little pushover boat.
Propulsion
The Son House class is propelled by three self-contained hybrid diesel/electric drives, which supply a maximum speed of 63 knots and an economical speed of 32 knots on electric only.
The advantages of a hybrid system are many, and include a reduced IR signature, a much higher fuel efficency, and drastically decreased environmental impact.
(While that surely is not important for many buyers, a high degree of environmental friendliness is required for LRR equipment.)
The ship can reach a maximum speed of 33 knots on any one of the self-contained units, and can maintain an economical speed of 15 knots on the same. The use of three seperate units increases redundancy, and each one of the Lunkwill & Fook SHD-5 units has been built for maximum reliability and maintainability, and are used on the Puffin class Tug/Minesweeper, the Hauk class inshore multirole boat, and the Quadrophenia class missile frigate.
Weaponry
The Son House class has been built so it can take on a wide variety of air, surface, and undersea threats.
Close-In Defense
Close-in defensive weaponry consists of the MDG-351 (http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/systems/mg.htm) 35mm CIWS gun. The Son House carries two, with one mounted in front of the bridge area (where the 76mm is in the export variant) and one semi-recessed into the bridge area covering the rear.
The Barak II missile system is also included, which is an improvement over the Barak I (http://www.israeli-weapons.com/weapons/missile_systems/sea_missiles/barak/Barak.html), which increases range to 20km for anti-aircraft. The Barak is also used as the shipboard SAM system. Barak is mounted in two 8-missile VLS cells on either side of the hull, 2.5 meters foreward of the bridge area.
Anti-Ship
The RBS-15F antiship missile is mounted in two quad silos, angled foreward at 70 degrees, towards the front of the hull. The RBS-15F has a range of 200km + at high subsonic speed.
The following missile types can be mounted:
Yakhont (4?)
Harpoon (8)
Gabriel IV (8)
NSM (8)
Anti-submarine
Four 630mm AST-32 homing torpedos are mounted two on either side of the hull. This coupled with a top-of-the-line Sonar system gives the Son House top notch antisubmarine capability.
Sensors And Countermeasures
The MMR-32 multipurpose radar has a range of over 200 kilometers, and can detect and track stealth aircraft at a reasonable distance (classified, but ~85km for the OCC record).
Passive thermal imaging systems are also included, and the ship's IR camera has a range of 100km in good weather.
Radar jamming and IR missile blinder systems are included, as is a radar warning reciever. These systems allow the Son House to avoid enemy missiles without physically destroying them.
Two 32-round decoy launchers are mounted in either side of the bridge block. They can launch a variety of decoys, including chaff, parachute-stabilized flares, and rotor-stabilized IR decoys.
A sonar suite is also included on the Son House, which has an effective passive range of around 25km.
Ship Design
The Son House class multirole corvette is designed to give the LRRN a top-notch vessel capable of being built in large numbers, yet still being a high-quality design, that can engage hostile aircraft, ships, and submarines, and come out alive. While a somewhat outmatched vessel one-on-one with, say, one of the newer destroyers on NS, it is, in squadrons and used with the proper tactics, capable of hindering or completely stopping operations by a surface warfare group of much larger ships.
The Son House class corvette uses a catamaran/air cushion hull design, which couples a catamaran hull with a hovercraft air cushion system. This design makes the Son House very light on the water, and thus very fast. Also, the catamaran/air cushion hull gives the ship a very low draft with almost no penalty to seakeeping characteristics.
Hovercraft are generally very fuel hungry and have only a limited range, but the Son House only uses its air cushion as a secondary system, and even then it does not take up much engine power.
The Son House class has also been designed with a low radar cross section. While newer radars can easily defeat stealth aircraft, the Son House's much lower relative speed allows it to go undetected, especially when hiding among coastal geography. 90% composite construction also helps reduce RCS, and also reduces production and operating costs. The ship does not corrode at nearly the rate that it would if it was made of metal, and it is far more durable, reliable, and parts can be replaced much more easily.
Crew Features
The Son House typically carries a crew of 15, three officers and ten enlisted/NCO. The crew is fully NBC protected, and there are three 20-person life rafts mounted near the crew areas. The hull can withstand high-caliber cannon shells, and the interior is designed to allow the maximum number of crew possible to escape in the event of a missile strike.
The Son House is extremely seaworthy, and even in the event of a capsizing, the crew is protected by fully watertight compartments, and can actually leave the ship via a hatch placed in the bottom of the hull.
Variants
Son House I: equipped with one Kashtan CIWS and without the Barak system.
90,000,000 USD
Son House II (allies only): as listed in the description.
105,000,000 USD
Son House A (export version): equipped with a 76mm Oto-Melara Super Rapid main gun, no Barak, and RBS-15F replaced with Harpoon missile
75,000,000 USD
http://www.knmskjold.org/logg2000/flate2.jpg
The crew of a Son House exiting the ship during rescue drills.
http://www.knmskjold.org/logg2000/alver.jpg
A Son House navigating a narrow coastal waterway.
http://www.knmskjold.org/logg2000/helloy2.jpg
A Son House tied up against an island during manouvers.
http://www.knmskjold.org/logg2000/rdnvx.jpg
On the bridge.
http://www.knmskjold.org/logg2000/sb90n.jpg
A Son House being used as a mothership for inshore patrol boat operations. Note the CB-90s lashed to the side and the two Hauk class patrol boats behind the corvette.
Note: Background checks will be performed on all buyers (more or less). The Son House class corvette must not be used against the nation of LRR or its allies. LRR government armories reserves the right to refuse sales to anyone, and will do so concerning nazis, Communist Mississippi, and anyone without an up-to-scratch human rights record.