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CM commissions the Kluxer Klass Kruiser.

Communist Mississippi
20-08-2004, 21:10
They're for sale in the store, or place your order here! Get them while they're hot!


Kluxer Klass Kruiser (3K-04)

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In response to the recent threats to Commonwealth territories, the Navarre Naval Yards were asked to design and build a ship that would be fast, light, easy to mass produce, well-armed, and easy to maintain. The ship would primarily be for service in the Commonwealth navies. The original plans were drawn up over a period of three months and after many more weeks of arguing over issues varying from the designation name, to the armaments, to the power plant, the design of the 3K-04 was finally agreed upon. The ship would be intended primarily for use as a convoy escort and blockade runner. It would have weapons and combat systems very similar to the Curtis Fabus Battleships, yet the number and size of these weapons would be greatly scaled down. The engineers nicknamed it, “Curtis junior”.



Designation: Kluxer Klass Kruiser (3K-04)

Role: Guided Missile Battle cruiser

Cost: 2 billion dollars.

Power Plant: Four Pebble Bed Reactors (CM-04A Pebble Bed Reactor using uranium carbide). This is the same reactor model used for the Curtis Fabus Class BB-04A, except this cruiser has fewer reactors.
Eight shafts, eight propellers, with five blades each. 820,540 HP

Speed: 36 miles per hour = 31 knots per hour.

Displacement: 42,183 tons.

Length: 962 feet

Beam: Max 71 feet. Waterline 62 feet.

Crew: Ship’s company: 1,304 (1,214 enlisted. 90 officers)
Marines: 32

Armament:
6: 12 inch guns in 2 triple turrets
6: 6 inch guns in 2 triple turrets
4: Sea Sparrow launchers
2: Phalanx CIWS 20mm mounts
2: MK 41 Vertical Launching Systems (96 Cells)
[Standard missile and Tomahawk ASM/LAM]
4:Standard Missile (MR)
4: Harpoon (from Standard Missile Launcher)
4: MK-46 torpedoes (from MK 32 SVTT triple mounts)
4: 76 mm (3-inch)/62 caliber MK 75 rapid fire gun

Combat Systems:
SPS-48E 3-D air search radar
SPS-49(V)5 2-D air search radar
3 Mk91 Fire Control
SPS-49 Air Search Radar
SPS-67 Surface Search Radar
4 Mk37 Gun Fire Control
2 Mk38 Gun Direction
1 Mk40 Gun Director
1 SPQ-9 [BB-61]

ASRS-13 "All Seeing Eye" 3-D air search radar
AVUS-14 2-D "BoardGame" air search radar
10 Mk101 Fire Control
XNAS-32 "Mole" Surface Search Radar
1 Data Uplink to Network & AWACs
AHMS-03 Hull mounted Sonar
ADMS-14 towed array Sonar

Helicopters:
Standard 3 SH-60 LAMPS MK III Seahawks (Can accommodate 3 of any helicopter)
Communist Mississippi
20-08-2004, 22:13
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DontPissUsOff
20-08-2004, 22:20
Purely as a matter of interest, it's knots, not knots per hour.
Praetonia
20-08-2004, 22:24
Lolzorz. 'Tis a nice cruiser and well designed, but as I said on MSN I make rather a lot of naval stuff myself.
IDF
20-08-2004, 22:40
1 billion is too cheap for a battlecruiser of 25,000 tons. Mine are around 2 billion and that is stretching to very cheap
Communist Mississippi
20-08-2004, 22:48
1 billion is too cheap for a battlecruiser of 25,000 tons. Mine are around 2 billion and that is stretching to very cheap


Price bumped. Thanks. :D
Scandavian States
20-08-2004, 23:46
[A battlecruiser isn't 25,000 tons, that's a large Destroyer or Light Cruiser. Most BCs are in the 40,000-50,000 range.]
The Freethinkers
20-08-2004, 23:57
Actually, 25,000 can be a battlecruiser. A light one. To be honest weight means little and it can be pretty much anything. I should say its armed like a heavy cruiser or a light battlecruiser....

And I didnt realise that there was also a Navarre Naval Yards in CM too.
Communist Mississippi
20-08-2004, 23:59
And I didnt realise that there was also a Navarre Naval Yards in CM too.


Yes, which is why it's "Kluxer Klass Kruiser" (3K-04)

Field Marshal Bertrand Navarre is the Imperial Wizard of the White Knights of Mississippi.
Communist Mississippi
20-08-2004, 23:59
[A battlecruiser isn't 25,000 tons, that's a large Destroyer or Light Cruiser. Most BCs are in the 40,000-50,000 range.]

Weight increased.