Mauiwowee
09-08-2005, 22:33
AP:
With understated fanfare, Mauiwowee launched its new aircraft carrier, "The Black Queen" today from the W.M.D., Inc. Naval Shipyard at Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, Hawaii. Refered to as "the Cave Carrier" by workers during construction, the carrier uses a Tri-Maran design, first proposed to the navy by Queen Harriet during her short rule in Mauiwowee. While some protests have been lodged over naming the carrier after one of the most notorious rulers in Mauiwowee's history, a former ruler now serving several life sentences for murder and treason, his majesty king Rox and General Jack T. Ripper defended the ship's name by stating "Despite her faults, serious as they are, she is the one who proposed the design and arranged to fund the building of the ship. She is a former queen of Mauiwowee and royalty still, despite her status as a prisoner. Just as King 'Lude did and King Rox does, the Black Queen Harriet had a dream of Mauiwowee's naval superiority in the world, this ship is a testament to that vision and the name of the ship is an acknowledgement of an accomplishment we should all be proud of."
General Ripper indicated in his statement that The Black Queen would be subjected to rigorous sea trials and evaluation over the next year while plans for a follow version were being drawn up. "If she performs as well as anticipated, 5 more carriers like her will be built in the coming years." General Ripper also indicated that a Penta-Maran design, using 4 instead of 2 outriggers was also being considered and evaluated for possible construction. "The Beauty of this ship is that even with the 2 outriggers blown completely off, she'll still float and work like today's standard carrier. The outriggers provide exceptional safety and protection by adding another layer of ship that missiles and/or torpedos have to penetrate to get to the main ship and take her completely out of commission. Undamaged, she can be launching planes and planes can land at the same time on the two runways. We anticipate changing the way the world thinks about carriers and their design" continued the General. As she put out to sea to begin her sea trials today, the ship carried 30 of W.M.D., Inc.'s new Stryker aircraft (shown in the below pre-production artist's rendering) and 25 Bong-Buster II aircraft.
Released specification on the ship and pre-production cut-away drawings are reproduced below. Changes from pre-production to the finished ship are classified, but sources inform SidTV that the final ship is "about 98% in line with the pre-production plans."
The Black Queen
Builder: W.M.D., Inc. Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, Hawaii
Power Plant: Three Nuclear Power Plant (A4W Pressurized Water Reactors?), 3 Screws
Rendundant Power Plant: Two Desiel/Electric (General Electric?) delivering 47,000 H.P. each to 2 of the 3 screws
Length: 1,100 feet
Flight Deck:
Width: 310 feet
Area: 5.75 acres
Catapults: 3, Electromagnetic "ski launch" design
Aircraft Elevators: 3
Beam: 144 feet (main hull), 35 feet (outrigger hulls)
Displacement: Approx. 102,000 tons
Speed: 28+ knots nuclear power/18+ knots desiel-electric
Aircraft: 55 (Standard Deployment, 72 possible with reductions in helicopter compliment)
Helicopters: 20 (Standard - 5 Appache Attack, 15 Sea-Stallion or similar)
Crew:
Ship's Company 2,650
Air Wing 2,100
Armament:
4 Sea Sparrow launchers
4 Phalanx CIWS 20mm mounts
4 Tomahawk DSLAM launchers
Combat Systems SPS-48E 3-D air search radar & SPS-49(V)5 2-D air search radar
3 Mk91 Fire Control
AN/SLQ-32(V)4 active jamming/deception with AN/WLR-1H ESM
6 Targeted EMP arrays
4 Super-Cav Torpedo Launchers (W.M.D., Inc. TL300)
Electronics: W.M.D., Inc. PAL9500AI Computer system & Network w/ 4 layer redundancy
Guidance: Satellite GPS
Communications: Satellite Radio, Television & Microwave based broadband internet
Cost: $6.49 Billion
CROSS-SECTION
http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/4469/hmsblackqueen5ld.jpg
FLIGHT & HANGAR #1 DECK
http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/8110/flightandhangardecks7jn.jpg
HANGAR-DECK#2
http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/6592/hangardeck25td.jpg
DECK #3
http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/9528/deck32cg.jpg
DECK #4
http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/3517/deck49cn.jpg
DECK #5
http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/3016/deck54zx.jpg
ARTIST'S SKETCH
http://www.first-to-fly.com/Program%20Images/Kit/!22%20Future%20air%20carrier.jpg
OOC: Comments, Questions, Issues?
With understated fanfare, Mauiwowee launched its new aircraft carrier, "The Black Queen" today from the W.M.D., Inc. Naval Shipyard at Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, Hawaii. Refered to as "the Cave Carrier" by workers during construction, the carrier uses a Tri-Maran design, first proposed to the navy by Queen Harriet during her short rule in Mauiwowee. While some protests have been lodged over naming the carrier after one of the most notorious rulers in Mauiwowee's history, a former ruler now serving several life sentences for murder and treason, his majesty king Rox and General Jack T. Ripper defended the ship's name by stating "Despite her faults, serious as they are, she is the one who proposed the design and arranged to fund the building of the ship. She is a former queen of Mauiwowee and royalty still, despite her status as a prisoner. Just as King 'Lude did and King Rox does, the Black Queen Harriet had a dream of Mauiwowee's naval superiority in the world, this ship is a testament to that vision and the name of the ship is an acknowledgement of an accomplishment we should all be proud of."
General Ripper indicated in his statement that The Black Queen would be subjected to rigorous sea trials and evaluation over the next year while plans for a follow version were being drawn up. "If she performs as well as anticipated, 5 more carriers like her will be built in the coming years." General Ripper also indicated that a Penta-Maran design, using 4 instead of 2 outriggers was also being considered and evaluated for possible construction. "The Beauty of this ship is that even with the 2 outriggers blown completely off, she'll still float and work like today's standard carrier. The outriggers provide exceptional safety and protection by adding another layer of ship that missiles and/or torpedos have to penetrate to get to the main ship and take her completely out of commission. Undamaged, she can be launching planes and planes can land at the same time on the two runways. We anticipate changing the way the world thinks about carriers and their design" continued the General. As she put out to sea to begin her sea trials today, the ship carried 30 of W.M.D., Inc.'s new Stryker aircraft (shown in the below pre-production artist's rendering) and 25 Bong-Buster II aircraft.
Released specification on the ship and pre-production cut-away drawings are reproduced below. Changes from pre-production to the finished ship are classified, but sources inform SidTV that the final ship is "about 98% in line with the pre-production plans."
The Black Queen
Builder: W.M.D., Inc. Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, Hawaii
Power Plant: Three Nuclear Power Plant (A4W Pressurized Water Reactors?), 3 Screws
Rendundant Power Plant: Two Desiel/Electric (General Electric?) delivering 47,000 H.P. each to 2 of the 3 screws
Length: 1,100 feet
Flight Deck:
Width: 310 feet
Area: 5.75 acres
Catapults: 3, Electromagnetic "ski launch" design
Aircraft Elevators: 3
Beam: 144 feet (main hull), 35 feet (outrigger hulls)
Displacement: Approx. 102,000 tons
Speed: 28+ knots nuclear power/18+ knots desiel-electric
Aircraft: 55 (Standard Deployment, 72 possible with reductions in helicopter compliment)
Helicopters: 20 (Standard - 5 Appache Attack, 15 Sea-Stallion or similar)
Crew:
Ship's Company 2,650
Air Wing 2,100
Armament:
4 Sea Sparrow launchers
4 Phalanx CIWS 20mm mounts
4 Tomahawk DSLAM launchers
Combat Systems SPS-48E 3-D air search radar & SPS-49(V)5 2-D air search radar
3 Mk91 Fire Control
AN/SLQ-32(V)4 active jamming/deception with AN/WLR-1H ESM
6 Targeted EMP arrays
4 Super-Cav Torpedo Launchers (W.M.D., Inc. TL300)
Electronics: W.M.D., Inc. PAL9500AI Computer system & Network w/ 4 layer redundancy
Guidance: Satellite GPS
Communications: Satellite Radio, Television & Microwave based broadband internet
Cost: $6.49 Billion
CROSS-SECTION
http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/4469/hmsblackqueen5ld.jpg
FLIGHT & HANGAR #1 DECK
http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/8110/flightandhangardecks7jn.jpg
HANGAR-DECK#2
http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/6592/hangardeck25td.jpg
DECK #3
http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/9528/deck32cg.jpg
DECK #4
http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/3517/deck49cn.jpg
DECK #5
http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/3016/deck54zx.jpg
ARTIST'S SKETCH
http://www.first-to-fly.com/Program%20Images/Kit/!22%20Future%20air%20carrier.jpg
OOC: Comments, Questions, Issues?