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Length: 162m
Beam: 43m
Draught: m
Crew:: 245 Naval
Displacement: 18,309 tonnes (full load)
Speed:: 35knts (cruise) 40knts (max)
Range: Limited only by state of nuclear fuel and consumables
Armament: 4x 8”/72cal Naval Railguns (A and X positions in dual turrets); 64cell Ballista VLS (forecastle; SAM; 128 missiles); 8cell Ballista VLS (amidships; SSM; 16 missiles); 128cell Ballista VLS (amidships; AMM; 256 missiles); 6x Testudo CIWS (includes gun, rockets and countermeasure suite); 2x 30mm Cannon (optional)
Railgun Charging time: 1 Minute per Gun, 4 Minutes Full volley
Capacitor Energy Storage Capacity: 5 Volleys
Armour: Specially devised composite amour scheme: (http://photobucket.com/albums/v387/Praetonia/?action=view&current=TigerAmourScheme.gif) Main belt: 127mm; deck armor: 127mm; main turret faceplates 135mm; main turret sides 95mm; reactor casing: 135mm; superstructure 127mm; bulkheads 127mm
Helicopters: 2x ASW
Air Search Radar: GO-82 A ‘Causa’ Active / Passive Phased Array
Surface Search Radar: GO-82 F ‘Causa Mk II’ Active / Passive Phased Array
Fire Control Radar: GO-83 C ‘Simplex Mk III’ Phased Array
ASW Sonar: GO-87 DETAR phased Sonar and towed Sonar array (active / passive)
Propulsion: Two GNO-05 Escort Pebble-bedded Nuclear Engines, one per shaft, each with a single five bladed propeller
Running Costs: $45,000,000 per year

The Tiger Class Railgun Gunboat is the second joint project completed by the Portland Iron Works and Imperial Praetonian Shipyards. The ship features a main armament of railguns, designed to engage heavily armoured targets at long range. Equipped with two nuclear engines and an anti-air and ASW armament the ship can both project her power around the world alone or as part of a fleet, aswell as being able to protect a nation’s territorial waters from attack by heavily armoured opponents. This is one of the most technologically advanced ships ever built.

Cost: $2bn

The Commonwealth is most interested in the new joint venture project between Praetonia and Sarzonia. We would like an initial purchase of 5 Tiger Class Railgun Gunboat for a total of $7.5 billion. Funds will be wired upon confirmation. We are also interested in production rights for this craft. Is this possible?

Johannas Stuttgart,
Minister of Finance

To: Johannas Stuttgart,
Minister of Finance, Commonwealth of Granzi
From: Commodore Barbara Tucker (ISN-Ret.)
Managing Director, Portland Iron Works
Subject: Confirmation of order

We at the Portland Iron Works are glad to confirm your order for five (5) Tiger-class gunboats. After applying your 15% discount, your total is $6.375 billion. The ships are currently under construction and should be in your possession following sea trials by [5 p.m. PDT tomorrow].

We do not yet have production rights available for sale but we will look into the matter. We hope that your ships serve your navy well and you consider purchasing more in the future.

We are glad to have a strong relationship with the Commonwealth of Granzi and we hope to continue to foster a great friendship between our peoples!

[OOC: Normally orders have to go through both storefronts but I dont see Sarzonia having any problem with this]

Thankyou for taking an interest in the Tiger Class. Your five ships should arrive within 1 year, depending on weight of orders. We do not yet have production rights available for sale but we will look into the matter. I hope that your ships serve your navy well and you consider purchasing more in future.

Office of the Director-General
Imperial Praetonian Shipyards

EDIT: LOL

[OOC: Normally orders have to go through both storefronts but I dont see Sarzonia having any problem with this]

Thankyou for taking an interest in the Tiger Class. Your five ships should arrive within 1 year, depending on weight of orders. We do not yet have production rights available for sale but we will look into the matter. I hope that your ships serve your navy well and you consider purchasing more in future.

Office of the Director-General
Imperial Praetonian Shipyards

[OOC: I just posted a confirmation. Oops.]

Go with yours, it's better.

Go with yours, it's better.

[OOC to Praetonia: I sheepishly note the TG I sent asking the question that you just answered here. EDITL I added the note about production rights into mine.]

[OOC to Granzi: Your order is confirmed at the price listed.]

Bump

Bumpit.

do what needs to be done, praetonia.

We have discovered that if the ship is lengthened to the specification now shown above, the effective usefulness of the ship would be more than doubled. As such we have decided to delay all current orders by 2 NS years in order to lengthen the hulls to provide our customers with a better product. Current orders will not have to pay extra to meet the new price.

Isn't your "Gun Boat" basically a destroyer?

Yes, well now a light cruiser size, but the name gunboat refers to it's main armament of guns, as opposed to missiles as is the norm.

I was going to say, my Gun-boats have twice the speed and half the length, good little boats mind, very reliable down rivers. That gives me an Idea, check Sirens of Titan's map then PM on Victoria I have an Idea, good one I think.

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What do you get a ship to go at 70knts :/.

Check the Thames River Police, take off 5 knots and add Twin .60 Magine guns, 4 .50 Calibre Wolfbanes and you have a "Banshee"

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You can't get ships to go much faster than 45, maybe 50 if you're very lucky in perfect conditions with no cargo, because of the captive wave. You certainly cant get 70 with anything sea-worthy.

Come on work with me here!

Thames River Police Patrol Boats go around 70 knots due to the fact that people who fall in the river are dead in 2 minutes. everything was sacrificed for speed.

I have sacrificed all, but armaments for speed, it's a hit and run boat. No more, used to attack coastlines and run away, hit big ships quickly and run away,

Two Torp Tubes on port and starboard side reduce the speed by an extra 10 knots, so the grand total the average Banshee goes is 55 knots. But a few still aren't fitted with Torpedo Tubes so can still go around 65 Knots.

Put it this way, although a rifle round may not penatrate th hull, anything else will!

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unless it's a hydrofoil, or hydroplanes, it's a godmod.

unless it's a hydrofoil, or hydroplanes, it's a godmod.

The Tiger?

Official Imperial Communique

Nice ship, we'll take 10. Money wired on confirmation.

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The Tiger?
OOC: No The O Faolains' ship. I already had a talk with Chardonay about the Tiger...

IC: We are pleased to confirm the order from Doomingsland. Your 10 ships will take approximately 6 NS years to complete and will cost $20bn. I hope that your ships serve your navy well and that you consider the Portland Iron Works and Imperial Praetonian Shipyards in future when looking to enlarge your fleet.

Office of the Director-General
Imperial Praetonian Shipyards
Praetonia

OOC: After thinking about what you guys have written (Don't use God Mod it sounds too much of an insult) and talking to a Royal Navy Engineer I decided I needed to revise the Specs of the Banshee. The Banshee was originally based on the PT boats that fought in the Pacific Arena of the Second World War, I then suped it up.

http://www.tugboathoga.com/PT1.jpg
PT-boat (MTB)

So here is a PT Boat's Statistics:

Builder: Elco
Length: 70'
Mass: 40 Tons
Speed: 45 Knots
Engines: 3
Horse Power: 1200
Year: 1940

Armaments: two standard twin .50 caliber machine guns
Some had a single .30 caliber machine gun
On the front deck, there was a .20-millimeter anti-aircraft gun
sometimes a 37-millimeter cannon.
On the rear deck, a .40-millimeter gun
The boats also carried from two to four Mark IV torpedoes,
a number of depth charges,
a smoke screen generator, rockets, mortars, and an assortment of hand grenades, handguns and rifles.


Now for a suped up version,

Builder: Dogs of War Ltd., Imperial Naval Dockyards Ltd.
Length: 70'
Mass: 45 tons (using Fibre glass and Wood no more metal, except on armaments)
Speed: 55 knots
Engines: 3
Larger engines exerting 1500 Work Horse Power
Year: 2000 - 2020

Armaments: Twin .60 Calibre Machine Guns
Single Wolfbane (.50 Calibre)
20 Millimeter Anti-Aircraft gun
40 Millimeter MPG (Anti-Everything)
Two Torpedo Tubes, (Armed with four Torps per Mission)
OR
5 Depth Charges
Each man has a CV-105 a piece

Very nice but could you post it somewhere else.