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12 Tribes class Super Carrier

IDF
02-10-2004, 16:10
12 Tribes class Supercarrier

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OVERVIEW: This ship puts super in the term supercarrier. It is the 1st trimarian carrier in the IDF Navy. It's purpose is to give admirals more power far from home than multiple airbases can. This ship takes a long time to build and they are built at the Southern Sinai Yard near the Red Sea. The ship has thick armor to survive a fire fight and trimarian hulls allow flamable materials to be stowed in the central hull, away from where torpedoes and missiles will hit. This carrier is very survivable and with 2 full air wings on board, it will keep itself safe.

Length: 1,915 feet
beam: 356 feet (trimarian hull)
flight deck width: 387 feet
draft: 52 feet
displacement: 452,000 tons
powerplant: 8 x GE A5W/A2G nuclear pressurized reactors: 625,000 shp
propulsion: 4 water pressure propulsors, plus 4 azipod screws
speed: 31.3 knots
complement: 8,150 men
Catapults: 6 steam powered
Elevators: 3 port, 2 starboard, 2 mid-deck

AIRCRAFT
Can hold 195 planes in hangar level stretching across all three hulls.


Weapons:

4 RAM launchers
12 x 30 mm goalkeeper CIWS
58 cell VLS system (carries what ever type of missile you want)

Radar
Air Search: RCA SPY-3D(V) Phased Array
Surface Search: Norden SPS-67(V)3
Navigation: Raytheon SPS-64(V)9
Fire Control: 5 x Raytheon/RCA SPG-62

SONAR
GE SSQ-89(V)6
bow mounted active/search attack SQR-19B
SSQ-91(V)10 passive towed array



NOTE THIS IS NOT FOR SALE AT THIS TIME. ALL SHIPS UNDER CONSTRUCTION ARE TO BE TRANSFERED TO THE IDF NAVY DUE TO CURRENT WORLD SITUATION. ALLIES CAN TG ME IF THEY WANT ONE.

The IDF Navy plans to have 12 of these her fleet, 4 have been completed and commissioned, they are the lead ship, ISS LEVI, ISS BENJAMIN, ISS DAN, and ISS NEPHTALI

PRICE = $25 BILLION