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(I'm looking for feedback on this design. And yes, they will be sold when the time comes. Many of the Systems and countermeasure will be explaned in a future post involving a larger ship)

Rapier-Class Heavy Cruiser

(Picture will be up shortly)

General

Type: Heavy Cruiser
Length: 306.14 Meters
Beam (widest point): 38.8 Meters
Draught: 8.4 Meters
Displacement (Full Load): 66,921 Tonnes
Displacement (Empty): 60,121 Tonnes
Maximum Speed: 40 Knots
Crew: 389 (21 Officers, 30 Air Crew, 32 Marines, 306 Enlisted)
Supplies: 6 months
General Armor Protection: Up to 14-inch shells

Weaponry

Projectile Armament
x12 DK-67 12-inch ETC naval cannons mounted in 4 triple turrets.
x4 SDS-3 CIWS

Missile Armament
x48 S-500K shipborne SAMs carried in 6 eight-celled rotary launchers
x25 P-190M heavy anti-ship missiles
x30 AT-101 Sacrifice anti-torpedo/submarine missiles in 3 ten-celled rotary launchers.

Subsurface Armament
x1 General Mine Launcher (up to 40 Mines)
x4 (2 Port, 2 Starboard) Torpedo Launchers

Systems

Countermeasures
TSCS-15 - ECM
CLC-6 - Anti-LADAR/IRST
CGC-12 - Chaff/Flare
CTC-8 - Anti-SONAR/LADAR

Detection
TSE-22 - RADAR
TSE-23 - RADAR
TSE-14 - RADAR
TSO-1 - LADAR
TSE-26 - Electro-Optics
TSO-5 - Electro-Optics
CSS-52 - SONAR
CMH-20 - SONAR

Propulsion and Avation

Propulsion and Engines
x1 1 245 MW Hafnium-Lutetium QNR-III
x3 MHD Waterjets

Aviation
x1 20x20 aviation pad
x1 hanger for one large helicopter or 2 small helicopters
x2 6,500 liter aviation fuel storage tanks

OOC: For the S-500K, you may want it to read 48 missiles in 6 8-cell rotary launchers. For the aviation fuel, you may want more than 2,500 litres as a decent-sized (SH-60B carried 2241 litres of fuel) ASW helicopter carries that amount in its internal fuel tanks. Otherwise, a very interesting design.

Opps, miss those things. Thanks.

The design is ment to be a "Fighting Cruiser." That is, it is not an AA, ASW, ASuW, or Guided Missile Cruiser. It's primary mission is to provide back-fire for the larger warships and to dish it out with Battlecruisers, other Cruisers, and any other of the smaller capital ships.

-Bump-

Bump. Noone else? No comments or critics?

Looks pretty good...I can't believe I forgot mines on my Challenger Class Heavy Cruiser, lol. What's the warhead weight for the missiles and torpedos? If you don't have that, that's cool, only a select few group of nuts like myself go to such an overboard level of detail.

Well the specs for the missiles will be released in a near-future design. The specs for the torpedos will be put up....sometime. I'm a fanatic but right now they are only general torpedo launchers. I might make them 655mm EM accelerated torpedo tubes that could fire almost any known torpedo with the use of a sabot.

Bump