NationStates Jolt Archive

After the introduction of the Sabre class DHKNs, the 252 Gaea class DDGNs that they were meant to replace were taken from active service and put into mothballs. Normally warships would be scraped for reclamation almost immediately, but the spectre of war was looming and it was decided that the excess destroyers might have a future use. This decision has proven fortuitous, not because there is any major war that would require the reactivaiton of these ships, but because the hull can be used as a rebuild operation to phase in the Scandavian variant of the Freethinkers Centaur-X class DDGN.

Minotaur class Nuclear-Powered Heavy Destroyer
Displacement: 45,000 tons
Dimensions: 265M L x 64M W x 10.5M D
Propulsion:
2 x Pebblebed reactors rated at 150Mw each
6 x Water jets
Speed: 40+ knots (top speed)
Crew: 350
Endurance: Limited to crew endurance only.
Radar:
APAR-12E Air/Surface (Long Range Air/Surface Search/Targeting)
PDI AEWR-1 Early Warning (Long Range Air Search/Tracking)
PDI OTH-MR (Medium Range Over-The-Horizon Search/Targeting)
PDI OTH-LR (Long Range Over-The-Horizon Search/Tracking)
PDI ASL-1 (Mod 1) (Short Range/CIWS Air Search/Tracking LIDAR)
G04 Navigation
Fire Control:
Falltech GSWDC Control Bloc (Ship Control)
Falltech NG04A (Mod 2) (Gunfire Control)
Host arrays for multilink combat systems (such as AEGIS)
EW:
Falltech Mk603 Intercept/Jamming Unit
Falltech Type 5 MR Chaff/Flare Dispensers
SLQ-25A Nixie torpedo countermeasure
Mk53 SRBOC decoy RL
Host arrays for ELINT equipment
LIDAR:
PDI NSL-1A (Hull mounted, medium range)
PDI NSL-2A (Multiple line towed LIDAR array, medium range)
Aviation: 800m2 Helipad and Hangar, 3 x large helicopters.
Armament:
4 x 6”/64 ETC (Double Mounts)
4 x 76mm/62 Super Rapid ETCs
2 x 144-Cell Mk72 Strategic Single-Load VLS
4 x 72-Cell Mk72 Tactical Dual-Load VLS
4 x PDI 50mm Underwater Supercav Railguns
6 x Mk45 CAMDS
6 x 25mm BI M/C Cannons
4 x Machine Gun Mounts
4 x ML 533mm Torpedo Catapults (16 Torpedoes and 60 depth charges/mines)
4 x Mk2 12-Cell Unguided ASW Mortars
Armour: 200mm multilayered titanium/vandium/aluminum and ballistic ceramics; interlaced with sensor pads, cooling detergent, and mounted on a honeycomb frame

Conversion will begin immediately with 2 two-year building cycles of one hundred and twenty ships, and a third two-year building cycle of twelve ships. The program is expected to cost 504 billion, with a yearly budget of 84 billion.

OOC: And if anyone's interested in the design: http://s7.invisionfree.com/FDI/index.php?showtopic=46 . BTW, The Freethinkers do want paying, you know.

[Project cost updated to account for royalties.]

OOC: Both the Minotaur and Centaur class ships are quite impressive, but I'm left wondering if they're really Destroyers, or rather light cruisers. Compare these ships against a CG, and I think they'd come out favorably in the way of weapons, crew, and plain ole' size.

Also, either your dimensions or your displacement seem off. The IRL US Navy's Ticonderoga Class CG is 567 feet long, and displaces 9,600 tons.

Overall, though, she's an impressive ship.

By capability and size they are very powerful, very heavy cruisers, but the Destroyer designation comes from the role they fill in the Freethinker Navy (the original builders, and who define ships by role rather than size), and so they are called Destroyers.

The weight is fine, considering how much more mass-intensive these are than the standard thin steel constructs that are modern warships. But thanks for the compliment regardless.

OOC: Geeze, I'd hate to be on the bad side of one of your cruisers, then. Err, bump.

[Actually, the Minotaur is heavier than the Alexandria class heavy cruiser by about 13,000 tons. But then again, the Alexandria was built before Freethinkers started to scale up his warships. The Berlin class CAN and Ankara class CGN that Freethinkers is designing to replace the Alexandria will be in the same weight class but will only have basic electronics systems in comparison and will gain heavier weapons and armour.]

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