Lame Bums
04-08-2005, 17:07
[Note: The construction and release of our own Super Dreadnoughts has put us in a pickle. Our policy has been, and will always be, to fire anti-SD missiles [specially designed tac-nukes] at an enemy SD upon sight. These were primarily produced for ego reasons by the generals in the Osten Wehrmacht. If our ships are nuked we will respond with a proportional attack on one of your cities.]
The Ankunft-class Super Dreadnought
[OOC: Picture removed pending new creation.]
Overview
Times were moving along. New nations were rising from the ashes of the anarchic lands, greater and more terrible than possibly imagined before. The Osten Kriegsmarine's strategy was typically far simpler than that of other navies. Their strategy was rarely to try and match the enemy man for man and ship for ship, it had historically been impossible, what with the amount of funding they had received. Their weapons weren't the massive ships and fleets that other nations posessed. They were typically smaller or cheaper ships with powerful weapons mounted, such as the Schifffurcht, which could shred even the most powerful of ships, or the Abfuhr, with enough ASW technology to stop a whole submerged fleet in it's tracks. But times were changing, and so were tactics. A small fleet, however powerful, could only defend itself from the enemy, not attack with much efficiency. Something was needed to be capable of single-handedly sinking an entire enemy fleet, launching enough planes for air support, and bombard enemy shorelines.
A contract was awarded to Guns! Guns! Guns!, the second largest gun-maker in Lame Bums, for the ship design, and Bargain Basement for the weaponry and armor to go on such a ship. The estimated amount spent by private corporations on Project Ankunft was estimated at 3.8 trillion, and took seven years to conceive. The construction at the Arkhangelsk shipyards took another four years and half a trillion just for construction. After eleven years, Project Ankunft was nearing completion. The tabloids were crazy about it, as nothing of that size could have been concealed from the public. The government never commented on it, furthering speculations as a massive floating fortress was being built in a shipyard. And after all that time, the two ships were ready for sea-trials.
Two massive Super-Dreadnoughts, the LBS-109 Verkauf and the LBS-110 Schutz.
Armor Design
Obviously, a ship of this scale survives on three things: firepower, manuverability, and armor. The armor for such a ship would only be able to come from one other place, and that is none other than the tanks for which the Osten Wehrmacht was famed for. The design was wrangled over for a long time, but the trimaran design was agreed upon, as it could take heavy damage and continue fighting.
The first layer of armor is barely an inch thick, but serves more than it's purpose. It is a carbon-carbon composite similar to Buckminster Fullrene, C60. Smaller projectiles, accidental bumps from other boats, and radar signals are all literally bounced off of this. While the ship has a mass thirty times that of the Iowa-class battleship, it typically registers as several Iowa-class ships, as opposed to one massive ship, due to the reflective abilities and construction of the carbons. Smaller projectiles such as 30mm shot and slow-moving torpedoes literally bounce off of the ship.
The second layer, and primary one, is a combination of vandium, copper,and iron. All of this is woven into one composite for the most powerful ship armor conceived by the Osten Kreigsmarine, or indeed, anything anyone in Lame Bums had yet developed, as it was previously impossible.
The amount of armor is also massive on this ship. The side and keel armor of the center section measure an impressive 1,200mm, the deck and superstructure armor measure 900mm, and outer sections have nearly 1,050mm all-around. The turrets have an impressive 900mm of this armor on them also, to ensure the maintaining of maximum firepower during conbat. The actual protection unknown, but is said to be ten times that of the current thickness.
Weaponry
Electrothermal-Chemical (ETC) technology is an advanced gun propulsion candidate that can substantially increase gun performance with less system burden than any other advanced gun propulsion technology. It has been under development since the mid 1980s.
ETC uses electrical energy to augment and control the release of chemical energy from existing or new propellants, and can significantly improve the performance of existing conventional cannons, both direct fire (e.g. tanks) and indirect fire (e.g. howitzers and Navy guns). The electrical energy is used to create a high-temperature plasma, which in turn both ignites the propellants and controls the release of the chemical energy stored in the propellants during the ballistic cycle.
The primary mode of attack comes in the form of fifteen 30-inch ETC cannons, mounted three to a turret, five turrets in all. The massive recoil is absorbed through an array of thousands of micro-springs, much like the shocks on your car. The initial plan was to have railguns instead, but the recoil was simply too much for a shell that size. This is compensated for. A total of twenty 15-inch railguns are mounted on the sides of the ship, using the same recoil system, with range nearly that of the main guns. The primary shot can fly nearly two hundred miles in indirect mode, and the secondaries nearly 120 miles. Both the ETC guns and railguns have an ammo supply of five hundred rounds each.
However, despite this massive arnament, it is the seconday weapons which are used to target large ships due to some unique new technology. The railguns have a unique type of shell which fires SABOT rounds similar to a tank cannon, for massive armor-piercing ability. The penetration was estimated at four thousand millimeters, or many times that needed to sink an Iowa or Nimitz.
The teritary weapons system on the Ankunft-class dreadnoughts is twenty torpedo tubes, designed to launch 533mm torpedoes at close ranges to enemy ships, say, within twenty miles. This doubles as an anti-ship weapon and an anti-submarine weapon.
A classic on all ships is the cruise missile. In this case, a thousand Ausgang-type cruise missiles are loaded onto the ship, with fifty ready to fire at any given time. They have long range and the firepower necessary to bring the hurt to the enemy.
Another precaution against other capital ships [enemy aircraft carriers, other Super Dreadnoughts] is the loadout of fifty Schifffurcht anti-Capital Ship missiles. These would be used to quickly out an enemy super dreadnought out of comission, as opposed to an hours-long battle with large guns and high human and material cost.
The primary defensive system is the tried-and-true Ewigkeit SAM battery. Fifty of these batteries are mounted on the ship, meaning if need be, [b]400 missiles can be in the air in a matter of seconds. Knowing the threat of enemy air-power, ten thousand of these missiles are stored in below-decks ammo bays. These missiles double as a powerful anti-air system and anti-missile system, with an effective range of three hundred miles.
However, this ship could be forced to go back to the shipard for a year if a Schufffurcht got lucky. The armor was intentionally designed to force these missiles to bounce off or go off on the surface, yet no chances could be taken. Fifty DREAD guns are also mounted on the ship functioning as the primary CIWS should enemy anti-ship missiles get through the screen of Ewigkeit missiles. One more precaution was taken. Ten Phalanx guns were placed on top of the ship to protect against missiles that may fly vertical into the ship in an attempt to literally blow it to hell.
As a last wildcard, the Shtora-3 defense suite was also mounted on the ship, a larger version of that used on tanks. This nifty device used by the Israelis scrambles enemy laser-based rangefinders, making it impossible to determine the range of the ship, unless they guess. While a ship the size of the Ankunft is pretty hard to miss, maybe they'll get lucky.
Propulsion
The primary method of propulsion comes in the form of ten Pebblebed nuclear reactors, eight of which turn the four screws at the speed desired. The last two power two smaller screws at the rear of each side of the ship, which are used to assist in turning in a battlezone. The ten reactors push out more power than those powering some cities, to move the floating fortress at 32 knots, maximum speed. This speed was not predicted, it originally being 25 knots, however, the design must've had something to do with the speed that the engineers missed out on. Either way the range is near-infinite, limited only by the supplies onboard.
Other
The ship has a projected crew of 8,200, with troop carrying capacity of 12,500. The side-decks are used for one thing--the launching and recovery of planes. In all, one hundred and fifty aircraft are held in the lower bays, with two fully functional runways. This provides more than enough air support for any campaign, with enough naval-based firepower and troop carrying capacity to bring the fight to the enemy. The air compliment of the ship consists of five hundred pilots and one thousand servicemen, for a total wartime crew of 9,700. The ship is capable of launching smaller ships [hovercraft, dinghies, even a frigate or two] for amphibious operations.
Specifications:
Max Speed - 32 knots
Length - 750 Meters
Width - 192 Meters
Draft - 14 Meters
Height [Keel to Top] - 165 Meters
Displacement - 1,720,000 Tons
[These ships can be ordered on a cash and carry basis, ergo, you pay for the ship we build it, it's yours then. Sale Cost: $300 billion. Also remember to check the Bargain Basement if you're unsure of a weapons system. The link is in my sig.]
The Ankunft-class Super Dreadnought
[OOC: Picture removed pending new creation.]
Overview
Times were moving along. New nations were rising from the ashes of the anarchic lands, greater and more terrible than possibly imagined before. The Osten Kriegsmarine's strategy was typically far simpler than that of other navies. Their strategy was rarely to try and match the enemy man for man and ship for ship, it had historically been impossible, what with the amount of funding they had received. Their weapons weren't the massive ships and fleets that other nations posessed. They were typically smaller or cheaper ships with powerful weapons mounted, such as the Schifffurcht, which could shred even the most powerful of ships, or the Abfuhr, with enough ASW technology to stop a whole submerged fleet in it's tracks. But times were changing, and so were tactics. A small fleet, however powerful, could only defend itself from the enemy, not attack with much efficiency. Something was needed to be capable of single-handedly sinking an entire enemy fleet, launching enough planes for air support, and bombard enemy shorelines.
A contract was awarded to Guns! Guns! Guns!, the second largest gun-maker in Lame Bums, for the ship design, and Bargain Basement for the weaponry and armor to go on such a ship. The estimated amount spent by private corporations on Project Ankunft was estimated at 3.8 trillion, and took seven years to conceive. The construction at the Arkhangelsk shipyards took another four years and half a trillion just for construction. After eleven years, Project Ankunft was nearing completion. The tabloids were crazy about it, as nothing of that size could have been concealed from the public. The government never commented on it, furthering speculations as a massive floating fortress was being built in a shipyard. And after all that time, the two ships were ready for sea-trials.
Two massive Super-Dreadnoughts, the LBS-109 Verkauf and the LBS-110 Schutz.
Armor Design
Obviously, a ship of this scale survives on three things: firepower, manuverability, and armor. The armor for such a ship would only be able to come from one other place, and that is none other than the tanks for which the Osten Wehrmacht was famed for. The design was wrangled over for a long time, but the trimaran design was agreed upon, as it could take heavy damage and continue fighting.
The first layer of armor is barely an inch thick, but serves more than it's purpose. It is a carbon-carbon composite similar to Buckminster Fullrene, C60. Smaller projectiles, accidental bumps from other boats, and radar signals are all literally bounced off of this. While the ship has a mass thirty times that of the Iowa-class battleship, it typically registers as several Iowa-class ships, as opposed to one massive ship, due to the reflective abilities and construction of the carbons. Smaller projectiles such as 30mm shot and slow-moving torpedoes literally bounce off of the ship.
The second layer, and primary one, is a combination of vandium, copper,and iron. All of this is woven into one composite for the most powerful ship armor conceived by the Osten Kreigsmarine, or indeed, anything anyone in Lame Bums had yet developed, as it was previously impossible.
The amount of armor is also massive on this ship. The side and keel armor of the center section measure an impressive 1,200mm, the deck and superstructure armor measure 900mm, and outer sections have nearly 1,050mm all-around. The turrets have an impressive 900mm of this armor on them also, to ensure the maintaining of maximum firepower during conbat. The actual protection unknown, but is said to be ten times that of the current thickness.
Weaponry
Electrothermal-Chemical (ETC) technology is an advanced gun propulsion candidate that can substantially increase gun performance with less system burden than any other advanced gun propulsion technology. It has been under development since the mid 1980s.
ETC uses electrical energy to augment and control the release of chemical energy from existing or new propellants, and can significantly improve the performance of existing conventional cannons, both direct fire (e.g. tanks) and indirect fire (e.g. howitzers and Navy guns). The electrical energy is used to create a high-temperature plasma, which in turn both ignites the propellants and controls the release of the chemical energy stored in the propellants during the ballistic cycle.
The primary mode of attack comes in the form of fifteen 30-inch ETC cannons, mounted three to a turret, five turrets in all. The massive recoil is absorbed through an array of thousands of micro-springs, much like the shocks on your car. The initial plan was to have railguns instead, but the recoil was simply too much for a shell that size. This is compensated for. A total of twenty 15-inch railguns are mounted on the sides of the ship, using the same recoil system, with range nearly that of the main guns. The primary shot can fly nearly two hundred miles in indirect mode, and the secondaries nearly 120 miles. Both the ETC guns and railguns have an ammo supply of five hundred rounds each.
However, despite this massive arnament, it is the seconday weapons which are used to target large ships due to some unique new technology. The railguns have a unique type of shell which fires SABOT rounds similar to a tank cannon, for massive armor-piercing ability. The penetration was estimated at four thousand millimeters, or many times that needed to sink an Iowa or Nimitz.
The teritary weapons system on the Ankunft-class dreadnoughts is twenty torpedo tubes, designed to launch 533mm torpedoes at close ranges to enemy ships, say, within twenty miles. This doubles as an anti-ship weapon and an anti-submarine weapon.
A classic on all ships is the cruise missile. In this case, a thousand Ausgang-type cruise missiles are loaded onto the ship, with fifty ready to fire at any given time. They have long range and the firepower necessary to bring the hurt to the enemy.
Another precaution against other capital ships [enemy aircraft carriers, other Super Dreadnoughts] is the loadout of fifty Schifffurcht anti-Capital Ship missiles. These would be used to quickly out an enemy super dreadnought out of comission, as opposed to an hours-long battle with large guns and high human and material cost.
The primary defensive system is the tried-and-true Ewigkeit SAM battery. Fifty of these batteries are mounted on the ship, meaning if need be, [b]400 missiles can be in the air in a matter of seconds. Knowing the threat of enemy air-power, ten thousand of these missiles are stored in below-decks ammo bays. These missiles double as a powerful anti-air system and anti-missile system, with an effective range of three hundred miles.
However, this ship could be forced to go back to the shipard for a year if a Schufffurcht got lucky. The armor was intentionally designed to force these missiles to bounce off or go off on the surface, yet no chances could be taken. Fifty DREAD guns are also mounted on the ship functioning as the primary CIWS should enemy anti-ship missiles get through the screen of Ewigkeit missiles. One more precaution was taken. Ten Phalanx guns were placed on top of the ship to protect against missiles that may fly vertical into the ship in an attempt to literally blow it to hell.
As a last wildcard, the Shtora-3 defense suite was also mounted on the ship, a larger version of that used on tanks. This nifty device used by the Israelis scrambles enemy laser-based rangefinders, making it impossible to determine the range of the ship, unless they guess. While a ship the size of the Ankunft is pretty hard to miss, maybe they'll get lucky.
Propulsion
The primary method of propulsion comes in the form of ten Pebblebed nuclear reactors, eight of which turn the four screws at the speed desired. The last two power two smaller screws at the rear of each side of the ship, which are used to assist in turning in a battlezone. The ten reactors push out more power than those powering some cities, to move the floating fortress at 32 knots, maximum speed. This speed was not predicted, it originally being 25 knots, however, the design must've had something to do with the speed that the engineers missed out on. Either way the range is near-infinite, limited only by the supplies onboard.
Other
The ship has a projected crew of 8,200, with troop carrying capacity of 12,500. The side-decks are used for one thing--the launching and recovery of planes. In all, one hundred and fifty aircraft are held in the lower bays, with two fully functional runways. This provides more than enough air support for any campaign, with enough naval-based firepower and troop carrying capacity to bring the fight to the enemy. The air compliment of the ship consists of five hundred pilots and one thousand servicemen, for a total wartime crew of 9,700. The ship is capable of launching smaller ships [hovercraft, dinghies, even a frigate or two] for amphibious operations.
Specifications:
Max Speed - 32 knots
Length - 750 Meters
Width - 192 Meters
Draft - 14 Meters
Height [Keel to Top] - 165 Meters
Displacement - 1,720,000 Tons
[These ships can be ordered on a cash and carry basis, ergo, you pay for the ship we build it, it's yours then. Sale Cost: $300 billion. Also remember to check the Bargain Basement if you're unsure of a weapons system. The link is in my sig.]