Lindim
15-01-2005, 20:51
Recognizing a changing and evolving world with the need for increased firepower and superior design in all warships, the aWen Corporation is pleased to announce the development of its next-generation trimaran battleship, the Deep Whale class of ships.
The Deep Whale excels at anti-ship missions and shore bombardment, and allows a nation to engage in and defeat the finest warships in the world. Superior armour and heavy weapons systems define this battleship as excellence on the seas.
Deep Whale-class Trimaran Battleship
General
Length: 432.2 meters
Width: 83.1 meters
Draught: 8.8 meters
Displacement: 168,116 tonnes
Speed: 33-37 knots, 28 knots recommended maximum for normal operations
Equipment
Armament: 12 x 20" (triple mountings in A, B, X, and Y positions); 2 x (double) 5" (forecastle and aft); 6 x Spinefish CIWS; 8 x 30mm (distributed evenly along starboard and port); 8 x torpedo tubes (aft, half/half above/below waterline); 4 x depth charge ports (aft below waterline); 3 x 64 cell VLS (Cruise and tacticals forecastle, AAM aft)
Aircraft: 4 EN-30BA helicopters (ASW and Recon), 2 Longspear UAVs
Crew: 1,267 standard; 1,804 maximum
Armour: (special, see below)
Propulsion: Four heavy nuclear engines, four six bladed coiled rod cast propeller; four bow thrusters, four waterjets in stern secondaries
Radar: Separated long and short range air search/weather and fire control arrays; phased surface search radar
Sonar: Active/passive towed sonar line and active/passive dome ASW sonar
LADAR: One array amidships
Aegis: Always
Safety
Passive Safety:
-Special Armour (special, see below)
-Seal and pressure anti-missile systems
-Multiple cross-sectioned voids
-Anti-flooding systems
-Anti-torpedo bulge
-EMP shielding against critical electronic systems
-Individual fire-fighting systems for electronics, weaponry, and personnel areas
-Additional deployable sensor arrays
-NBC filters
-Life preservers for all crew members
-Inflatable rafts and lifeboats
Active Safety:
-EW suite, including jamming
-Flare and decoy system
-Torpedo countermeasures
Armour
The armour system for the Deep Whale class represents a leap forward in terms of the survivability of a battleship in the NS world. The aWen Corporation, with permission, has adapted the Doujin-class armour scheme to the proportions of a battleship.
Individal Purchase Price: $10,000,000,000.
Adapted Doujin Armour Layers, From Freethinkers Defence Industries Presentation
A) ERA: This is a basic shaped charge of Solid-Form ONC designed to either destroy outright or at least significantly damage the penetrating cap and warhead of an incoming missile or light artillery shell similar to the way ERA works on MBTs. Although of limited effect against the largest anti-ship projectiles, the ERA packs are effective in negating exterior damage done by light weapons, and are also useful for warping the solid metal penetrators of kinetic energy weapons, significantly reducing their penetrative qualities.
B) EXTERIOR PROTECTIVE COMPOUND: This is a thick piece of a rubberised compound with considerable radar-absorption and acoustic silencing properties. Its major function is relatively mundane however, and that is simply to be a replaceable anti-corrosion panelling for the main hull. It does little in terms of actual protection aside from helping to break up the Doujins radar and acoustic profile to make it harder to target specific areas of the ship.
C) TV4A PANELLING: This is another layer of material on which the compound mentioned above actually sits on. These are basically slotted panels designed to be easily replaced when damaged or corroded. Unlike the compound above it however, the panelling is an active defence layer, working as both a de-capper plate for larger weapons (basically removing the penetrative head and such) and as a basic armour plate to absorb completely damage from lighter weapons such as aircraft cannons and light missiles.
D) FIRST PRINCIPLE ARMOUR LAYER: The first real layer made up of dedicated armour, this panel is surprisingly thin, at average thickness over the ship's length. Although relatively thin by most battleship plating standards, this level of armour is sufficient to stop any RL anti-shipping weapon. Built as panels and then plasma-soldered together, this layer is design to stop the most common weapons and bombs without causing too much stress damage to the ships main structure.
E) ARMOURED RODS/COMPOSITE LAYER: This layer is the most effective of the armoured panels. The idea is very simple, and basically consists of taking advantage of the tendency of kinetic projectiles to follow the path of least resistance when moving against a slope. Because the composite is there for energy dissipation, its tensile strength, whilst still strong, is noticeably less than that of the lateral rods. So, when the projectile moves against the curved face of the rod the shell is most likely to try to move in the direction of the slope, whilst the force of the projectile itself continues pushing forward, causing the projectile to bend, which dissipates a lot of the energy as well warping the projectile so that it no longer retains any significant penetrative quality. The beauty of this system is that it allows the shells own energy to destroy itself. Multiple layers of these rods do very nasty things to projectile rounds, and on testing slabs of this armour it was not uncommon to pull lightning bolt shaped rail gun rounds out of the armour panels. The composite material also works to dissipate energy across the ship.
The composite and rods are also useful in terms of EMP protection, with the composite providing a resistance barrier to the effects of EMP with the rods acting as a frame for the ship-wide Faraday cage to protect against electronic discharge.
F) SECOND PRINCIPLE ARMOUR LAYER.
G) BLAST SPACE: The principle role of this section is the effective channelling of explosive gas away from the ship and out through designated blast ducts that vent the explosive force out into the open instead of trapping it in the hull where it can cause serious hull damage. There are secondary decks, usually used as storage for non-vital systems and stores, although a lot of these have been replaced by large trim tanks. This layer is positioned so that projectile that does survive the transition of the various armoured layers with a delayed fuse will explode in this section, where its explosive force will be safely channelled away.
H) (SHRAPNEL SHEET) TERTIARY PRINCIPLE ARMOURED LAYER: A sheet of principle armour that works to collect any shrapnel from the above armoured layers, as well as provide a last chance stop for anything that does get through the main armoured layers. This layer also supports some of the interior decks as well.
I) SECONDARY BULKHEADS: The bulkheads that separate rooms and support some individual decks are designed to resist damage created by explosive gas expansion. This is why the bulkheads are made of the same composite as found in the main armour layer, which allows the material to bend and buckle without collapsing as the gas is vented away, this contains the damage and limits the amount of repair work being done. This also reduces the battleship's total weight.
The Deep Whale excels at anti-ship missions and shore bombardment, and allows a nation to engage in and defeat the finest warships in the world. Superior armour and heavy weapons systems define this battleship as excellence on the seas.
Deep Whale-class Trimaran Battleship
General
Length: 432.2 meters
Width: 83.1 meters
Draught: 8.8 meters
Displacement: 168,116 tonnes
Speed: 33-37 knots, 28 knots recommended maximum for normal operations
Equipment
Armament: 12 x 20" (triple mountings in A, B, X, and Y positions); 2 x (double) 5" (forecastle and aft); 6 x Spinefish CIWS; 8 x 30mm (distributed evenly along starboard and port); 8 x torpedo tubes (aft, half/half above/below waterline); 4 x depth charge ports (aft below waterline); 3 x 64 cell VLS (Cruise and tacticals forecastle, AAM aft)
Aircraft: 4 EN-30BA helicopters (ASW and Recon), 2 Longspear UAVs
Crew: 1,267 standard; 1,804 maximum
Armour: (special, see below)
Propulsion: Four heavy nuclear engines, four six bladed coiled rod cast propeller; four bow thrusters, four waterjets in stern secondaries
Radar: Separated long and short range air search/weather and fire control arrays; phased surface search radar
Sonar: Active/passive towed sonar line and active/passive dome ASW sonar
LADAR: One array amidships
Aegis: Always
Safety
Passive Safety:
-Special Armour (special, see below)
-Seal and pressure anti-missile systems
-Multiple cross-sectioned voids
-Anti-flooding systems
-Anti-torpedo bulge
-EMP shielding against critical electronic systems
-Individual fire-fighting systems for electronics, weaponry, and personnel areas
-Additional deployable sensor arrays
-NBC filters
-Life preservers for all crew members
-Inflatable rafts and lifeboats
Active Safety:
-EW suite, including jamming
-Flare and decoy system
-Torpedo countermeasures
Armour
The armour system for the Deep Whale class represents a leap forward in terms of the survivability of a battleship in the NS world. The aWen Corporation, with permission, has adapted the Doujin-class armour scheme to the proportions of a battleship.
Individal Purchase Price: $10,000,000,000.
Adapted Doujin Armour Layers, From Freethinkers Defence Industries Presentation
A) ERA: This is a basic shaped charge of Solid-Form ONC designed to either destroy outright or at least significantly damage the penetrating cap and warhead of an incoming missile or light artillery shell similar to the way ERA works on MBTs. Although of limited effect against the largest anti-ship projectiles, the ERA packs are effective in negating exterior damage done by light weapons, and are also useful for warping the solid metal penetrators of kinetic energy weapons, significantly reducing their penetrative qualities.
B) EXTERIOR PROTECTIVE COMPOUND: This is a thick piece of a rubberised compound with considerable radar-absorption and acoustic silencing properties. Its major function is relatively mundane however, and that is simply to be a replaceable anti-corrosion panelling for the main hull. It does little in terms of actual protection aside from helping to break up the Doujins radar and acoustic profile to make it harder to target specific areas of the ship.
C) TV4A PANELLING: This is another layer of material on which the compound mentioned above actually sits on. These are basically slotted panels designed to be easily replaced when damaged or corroded. Unlike the compound above it however, the panelling is an active defence layer, working as both a de-capper plate for larger weapons (basically removing the penetrative head and such) and as a basic armour plate to absorb completely damage from lighter weapons such as aircraft cannons and light missiles.
D) FIRST PRINCIPLE ARMOUR LAYER: The first real layer made up of dedicated armour, this panel is surprisingly thin, at average thickness over the ship's length. Although relatively thin by most battleship plating standards, this level of armour is sufficient to stop any RL anti-shipping weapon. Built as panels and then plasma-soldered together, this layer is design to stop the most common weapons and bombs without causing too much stress damage to the ships main structure.
E) ARMOURED RODS/COMPOSITE LAYER: This layer is the most effective of the armoured panels. The idea is very simple, and basically consists of taking advantage of the tendency of kinetic projectiles to follow the path of least resistance when moving against a slope. Because the composite is there for energy dissipation, its tensile strength, whilst still strong, is noticeably less than that of the lateral rods. So, when the projectile moves against the curved face of the rod the shell is most likely to try to move in the direction of the slope, whilst the force of the projectile itself continues pushing forward, causing the projectile to bend, which dissipates a lot of the energy as well warping the projectile so that it no longer retains any significant penetrative quality. The beauty of this system is that it allows the shells own energy to destroy itself. Multiple layers of these rods do very nasty things to projectile rounds, and on testing slabs of this armour it was not uncommon to pull lightning bolt shaped rail gun rounds out of the armour panels. The composite material also works to dissipate energy across the ship.
The composite and rods are also useful in terms of EMP protection, with the composite providing a resistance barrier to the effects of EMP with the rods acting as a frame for the ship-wide Faraday cage to protect against electronic discharge.
F) SECOND PRINCIPLE ARMOUR LAYER.
G) BLAST SPACE: The principle role of this section is the effective channelling of explosive gas away from the ship and out through designated blast ducts that vent the explosive force out into the open instead of trapping it in the hull where it can cause serious hull damage. There are secondary decks, usually used as storage for non-vital systems and stores, although a lot of these have been replaced by large trim tanks. This layer is positioned so that projectile that does survive the transition of the various armoured layers with a delayed fuse will explode in this section, where its explosive force will be safely channelled away.
H) (SHRAPNEL SHEET) TERTIARY PRINCIPLE ARMOURED LAYER: A sheet of principle armour that works to collect any shrapnel from the above armoured layers, as well as provide a last chance stop for anything that does get through the main armoured layers. This layer also supports some of the interior decks as well.
I) SECONDARY BULKHEADS: The bulkheads that separate rooms and support some individual decks are designed to resist damage created by explosive gas expansion. This is why the bulkheads are made of the same composite as found in the main armour layer, which allows the material to bend and buckle without collapsing as the gas is vented away, this contains the damage and limits the amount of repair work being done. This also reduces the battleship's total weight.