HailandKill
15-06-2005, 20:07
OOC Notes:
To address all those issues that was mentioned in the OOC release:
1) Because I am using F-35B it is possible to house 10 on the flight deck (which is internal) for quicker takeoff. Also it possible to hold 14+ aircraft in the hangar. Because the length is 45ft and the wingspan 36ft there are ways in which these planes can be held, even wing to wing.
2) The flight deck is internal! I have re-typed my description to clear this up. Doors that are part of the hull open, by sliding under, and reveal the flight deck. I have a really shitty paint illustration but it gets the job done. Link: http://img147.echo.cx/my.php?image=submarine4ux.png
3) The crew is smaller because the fact it’s a submarine and not a large aircraft carrier and all my aircrew have special training on top of normal training. Also because in this case smaller=better and hence we have to cut out some of the numbers.
I hope this makes everything clear and that I hope i have attempted to make a good ship. Also I might need to change the propulsion to make it quieter but I am not sure what reactor to use so if you know of one please let me know.
This will be sold for export but for the time being it will only be sold to allies.
Specs:
Maiden Class Submarine
Length: 480 ft.
Length from beam to beam: 100ft.
Height: 90ft.
Crew: 400 persons.
Introduction
The Maiden class submarine was influenced by the idea that having a mobile air wing that could strike from no known position could give a big advantage in war. The HailandKill navy had begun to research ideas and along with the war department of IronMaidia to come to this design. This submarine was also designed to launch aircraft for surprise attacks and it also designed to fight in submarine to submarine warfare if it is necessary.
Hull
The Maiden class submarine is ninety feet in height containing four main decks. All the decks on the Maiden class are connected to the hull and are stationary. Deck four makes the main airstrip that planes take off from; this deck is thirty-two feet in height. Deck four also has two cut-outs in its bow and stern ends for the elevators. Deck three is the main aircraft hangar and is twenty-two feet high; deck three has four main elevators that connect to the top of deck four to bring aircraft to the main flight deck. These elevators have four poles that hold the elevator, and these poles are connected to deck three. These poles bring the elevator up or down. These poles are also hydraulic and worked by a panel on the elevator. Deck three can hold twenty four F-35 B/C aircraft, or twenty four planes of similar dimensions. Decks two and one are each split up into two major compartments. The front most part of deck two is the command room and the operating aircraft control room. The rear part of deck two is the crew bunkrooms. The lowest deck, deck one has a torpedo room in the front most part of the ship. The two pebble nuclear reactors are located in the rearmost part of the ship. This reactor room is sealed from the rest of the ship with one inch thick lead coating and a single access door.
A major component and innovation of the hull for the Maiden class is that the top part of the hull is retractable to allow aircraft takeoff from the main flight deck. The flight deck itself is four hundred and forty feet long by sixty feet in width and is stationary. The retractable top of the hull is operated by two hydraulic arms to slide the panels underneath the stationary part of the top of the hull. Each panel is forty five feet (curved) by four hundred and forty feet. The panels meet in the center of the ship when closed and are tipped with rubber to minimize water leakage. The two panels are coated with thin rubber liners underneath them. Compression and expansion joints are placed by the stationary piece where the panels are when they are closed to minimize any water leakage. The panels in the ship are made watertight along to keep the flight deck underneath dry but the expansion and compression joints along with the rubber coating help insure safety and dryness.
The actual hull is comprised of four layers. The first layer is one and a half inch thick HY-100 steel followed by the second layer of one inch thick titanium. The third layer is a two and a half inch thick layer of an aluminum and copper alloy. The fourth and final layer is a single inch of hardened steel.
Six torpedo mounts are built into the hull. The torpedo room can fire MK-48 torpedoes or harpoon SSM missiles.
Aircraft Launch
The flight deck on the Maiden class submarine can launch up to ten SVTOL aircraft. HailandKill and IronMaidia navies will use F-35 navy modified planes. Ten SVTOL aircraft can be tied down on the aircraft deck while the submarine is submerged to make takeoff quicker. The SVTOL systems on the planes will make takeoff and landing vertical and when planes are landing a wire will catch the plane to minimize slipping and crashing during landing. The aircraft will have to maneuver about 35ft up and out of the submarine before it has total 3-D maneuvering ability.
Targeting/Radar/Sonar Systems
The AN/BSY-2 Submarine Combat System is designed to support Maiden class submarines in all mission areas. It is required to detect, classify, localize and track targets, platforms, and weapons by means of onboard active and passive sensors and with target information from other platforms and external detection systems. The combat control subsystem provides setting and control of weapons, over-the-horizon targeting, combat systems management, improved target motion analysis, piloting and navigation functions, and automatic contact correlation. It includes the weapon launch equipment for the MK 48 Advanced Capability torpedo and the Tomahawk Missile. Acoustic hardware includes a truncated 24 ft diameter spherical receive array, a 15 ft diameter hemisphere active transmit array, the Wide Aperture Array (WAA), a low frequency bow array, two towed arrays, and a mine detection and avoidance high frequency array. The submarine's control suite is equipped with computer touch screens. The submarine's steering and diving control is via a four-button, two-axis joystick.
Radar used on Maiden class submarines is the advanced electronically scanned array (AESA) AN/APG-81 multi-function radar. The AN/APG-81AESA will combine an integrated radio frequency subsystem with a multifunction array to track all targets.
Countermeasures
Maiden class submarines will be fitted with the AN/WLY-1 acoustic countermeasures system which provides range and bearing data, and the mast-mounted AN/BLQ-10 Electronic Support Measures (ESM) system. AN/BLQ-10 provides full spectrum radar processing, automatic threat warning and situation assessment
Propulsion
The Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) is a new type of high temperature helium gas-cooled nuclear reactor, which builds and advances on world-wide nuclear operators' experience of older reactor designs. The most remarkable feature of these reactors is that they use attributes inherent in and natural to the processes of nuclear energy generation to enhance safety features. It is also a practical and cost-effective solution to most of the logistics of generating electricity. These reactors power two main fans that propel the ship.
Crew
The actual submarine is run by twenty officers and two hundred and twenty crewmen. There are twenty-four main pilots and ten reserve pilots. There are forty aircraft mechanics on board. There are twenty-five landing and taking off personnel who guide the planes in and out of the submarine. There are sixty-five various specialists for the air wing.
Cost: 6 Billion USD
To address all those issues that was mentioned in the OOC release:
1) Because I am using F-35B it is possible to house 10 on the flight deck (which is internal) for quicker takeoff. Also it possible to hold 14+ aircraft in the hangar. Because the length is 45ft and the wingspan 36ft there are ways in which these planes can be held, even wing to wing.
2) The flight deck is internal! I have re-typed my description to clear this up. Doors that are part of the hull open, by sliding under, and reveal the flight deck. I have a really shitty paint illustration but it gets the job done. Link: http://img147.echo.cx/my.php?image=submarine4ux.png
3) The crew is smaller because the fact it’s a submarine and not a large aircraft carrier and all my aircrew have special training on top of normal training. Also because in this case smaller=better and hence we have to cut out some of the numbers.
I hope this makes everything clear and that I hope i have attempted to make a good ship. Also I might need to change the propulsion to make it quieter but I am not sure what reactor to use so if you know of one please let me know.
This will be sold for export but for the time being it will only be sold to allies.
Specs:
Maiden Class Submarine
Length: 480 ft.
Length from beam to beam: 100ft.
Height: 90ft.
Crew: 400 persons.
Introduction
The Maiden class submarine was influenced by the idea that having a mobile air wing that could strike from no known position could give a big advantage in war. The HailandKill navy had begun to research ideas and along with the war department of IronMaidia to come to this design. This submarine was also designed to launch aircraft for surprise attacks and it also designed to fight in submarine to submarine warfare if it is necessary.
Hull
The Maiden class submarine is ninety feet in height containing four main decks. All the decks on the Maiden class are connected to the hull and are stationary. Deck four makes the main airstrip that planes take off from; this deck is thirty-two feet in height. Deck four also has two cut-outs in its bow and stern ends for the elevators. Deck three is the main aircraft hangar and is twenty-two feet high; deck three has four main elevators that connect to the top of deck four to bring aircraft to the main flight deck. These elevators have four poles that hold the elevator, and these poles are connected to deck three. These poles bring the elevator up or down. These poles are also hydraulic and worked by a panel on the elevator. Deck three can hold twenty four F-35 B/C aircraft, or twenty four planes of similar dimensions. Decks two and one are each split up into two major compartments. The front most part of deck two is the command room and the operating aircraft control room. The rear part of deck two is the crew bunkrooms. The lowest deck, deck one has a torpedo room in the front most part of the ship. The two pebble nuclear reactors are located in the rearmost part of the ship. This reactor room is sealed from the rest of the ship with one inch thick lead coating and a single access door.
A major component and innovation of the hull for the Maiden class is that the top part of the hull is retractable to allow aircraft takeoff from the main flight deck. The flight deck itself is four hundred and forty feet long by sixty feet in width and is stationary. The retractable top of the hull is operated by two hydraulic arms to slide the panels underneath the stationary part of the top of the hull. Each panel is forty five feet (curved) by four hundred and forty feet. The panels meet in the center of the ship when closed and are tipped with rubber to minimize water leakage. The two panels are coated with thin rubber liners underneath them. Compression and expansion joints are placed by the stationary piece where the panels are when they are closed to minimize any water leakage. The panels in the ship are made watertight along to keep the flight deck underneath dry but the expansion and compression joints along with the rubber coating help insure safety and dryness.
The actual hull is comprised of four layers. The first layer is one and a half inch thick HY-100 steel followed by the second layer of one inch thick titanium. The third layer is a two and a half inch thick layer of an aluminum and copper alloy. The fourth and final layer is a single inch of hardened steel.
Six torpedo mounts are built into the hull. The torpedo room can fire MK-48 torpedoes or harpoon SSM missiles.
Aircraft Launch
The flight deck on the Maiden class submarine can launch up to ten SVTOL aircraft. HailandKill and IronMaidia navies will use F-35 navy modified planes. Ten SVTOL aircraft can be tied down on the aircraft deck while the submarine is submerged to make takeoff quicker. The SVTOL systems on the planes will make takeoff and landing vertical and when planes are landing a wire will catch the plane to minimize slipping and crashing during landing. The aircraft will have to maneuver about 35ft up and out of the submarine before it has total 3-D maneuvering ability.
Targeting/Radar/Sonar Systems
The AN/BSY-2 Submarine Combat System is designed to support Maiden class submarines in all mission areas. It is required to detect, classify, localize and track targets, platforms, and weapons by means of onboard active and passive sensors and with target information from other platforms and external detection systems. The combat control subsystem provides setting and control of weapons, over-the-horizon targeting, combat systems management, improved target motion analysis, piloting and navigation functions, and automatic contact correlation. It includes the weapon launch equipment for the MK 48 Advanced Capability torpedo and the Tomahawk Missile. Acoustic hardware includes a truncated 24 ft diameter spherical receive array, a 15 ft diameter hemisphere active transmit array, the Wide Aperture Array (WAA), a low frequency bow array, two towed arrays, and a mine detection and avoidance high frequency array. The submarine's control suite is equipped with computer touch screens. The submarine's steering and diving control is via a four-button, two-axis joystick.
Radar used on Maiden class submarines is the advanced electronically scanned array (AESA) AN/APG-81 multi-function radar. The AN/APG-81AESA will combine an integrated radio frequency subsystem with a multifunction array to track all targets.
Countermeasures
Maiden class submarines will be fitted with the AN/WLY-1 acoustic countermeasures system which provides range and bearing data, and the mast-mounted AN/BLQ-10 Electronic Support Measures (ESM) system. AN/BLQ-10 provides full spectrum radar processing, automatic threat warning and situation assessment
Propulsion
The Pebble Bed Modular Reactor (PBMR) is a new type of high temperature helium gas-cooled nuclear reactor, which builds and advances on world-wide nuclear operators' experience of older reactor designs. The most remarkable feature of these reactors is that they use attributes inherent in and natural to the processes of nuclear energy generation to enhance safety features. It is also a practical and cost-effective solution to most of the logistics of generating electricity. These reactors power two main fans that propel the ship.
Crew
The actual submarine is run by twenty officers and two hundred and twenty crewmen. There are twenty-four main pilots and ten reserve pilots. There are forty aircraft mechanics on board. There are twenty-five landing and taking off personnel who guide the planes in and out of the submarine. There are sixty-five various specialists for the air wing.
Cost: 6 Billion USD