Mauiwowee
24-08-2005, 04:40
Dear Esteemed Gentlemen of the Portland Iron Works:
W.M.D. has developed a new design for a tri-maran battleship. Our basic plans and outlines are reproduced below for your review. However, we would like to make the production of the final ship a joint venture between W.M.D., Inc. and the Pratorian Shipyard and our good friends in Sarzonia. We are therefore asking for your assistance in finalizing plans for the propulsion (we lean towards nuclear with a backup deisel system, but . . .) and systems on board the ship. We will build the initial ship in our yards, but once we've worked out all the bugs with you, we would both be licensed to produce and sell the craft under a cross-licensing and development agreement. We would think you would be agreeable to this idea and look forward to working with you in the future.
Sincerely,
General Jack T. Ripper,
CEO, W.M.D., Inc.
Mauiwowee
OOC: I figured I'd go to the master ship builders to complete this baby. My Cad drawing is good, but I need to make sure the systems work well - I'm looking at about a 2010 Tech Level for the finished product.
http://img362.imageshack.us/img362/7583/trimaranbattleship3pt.jpg
Triad-class battleship
Length: 294 m; Beam: 55 m; Draught: 16.1 m
Displacement 164,300 tonnes full
Armament: 3 x 3 460 mm ETC guns; 6 x 155 mm ETC guns port and starboard; 10 x 90 mm ETC guns port and starboard; 6 x 96 cell Mk 136 VLS; 4 x 650 mm TT; 24 x 35 mm Rattlesnake CIWS; 8 x 'underwater CIWS' supercav guns.
Protection: 762 mm-860 mm advanced armour composite (amorphous steel, titanium, vanadium, aluminum, ballistic ceramics); double-bottomed, reinforced keel with void spaces over a honeycomb frame.
Aircraft: Space for up to 10 medium ASW helicopters or two small prop driven seaplanes
Propulsion: Four PebbleBed nuclear reactors compartmentalised with extensive thermal insulation surrounding each reactor; four internalised waterjets.
Speed: 34.6 knots maximum.
Electronics: Sensors: AN/SPY-3B MFR multi-function radar; AN/SPS-64(V)10 navigational radar; AN/SQS-56 (K) hull mounted sonar; Electronics Warfare Suite: AN/SLY-2 (V) Advanced Integrated Electronic Warfare System (AIEWS); Decoys: AN/SLQ-49; AN/SLQ-25 Nixie; MK-53 Nulka DLS; Fire Control: MK-99 FCS missile fire control; Gun fire control: MK-88 GFCS (System calculates ballistic gun orders, The GFCS conducts direct firing attacks against surface radar and optically tracked targets); Torpedo Fire Control: MK-117 ACWSCS (Anti-Submarine Weapon Control System, Underwater Fire Control System); Countermeasures: Towed array sonar utilizing a hull transducer or a towed active transducer or both. It is an integrated ASW, Mine Avoidance and Torpedo Defense underwater system. Targeted EMP system.
Complement: 2,100
Price: $5.5 billion[/QUOTE]
W.M.D. has developed a new design for a tri-maran battleship. Our basic plans and outlines are reproduced below for your review. However, we would like to make the production of the final ship a joint venture between W.M.D., Inc. and the Pratorian Shipyard and our good friends in Sarzonia. We are therefore asking for your assistance in finalizing plans for the propulsion (we lean towards nuclear with a backup deisel system, but . . .) and systems on board the ship. We will build the initial ship in our yards, but once we've worked out all the bugs with you, we would both be licensed to produce and sell the craft under a cross-licensing and development agreement. We would think you would be agreeable to this idea and look forward to working with you in the future.
Sincerely,
General Jack T. Ripper,
CEO, W.M.D., Inc.
Mauiwowee
OOC: I figured I'd go to the master ship builders to complete this baby. My Cad drawing is good, but I need to make sure the systems work well - I'm looking at about a 2010 Tech Level for the finished product.
http://img362.imageshack.us/img362/7583/trimaranbattleship3pt.jpg
Triad-class battleship
Length: 294 m; Beam: 55 m; Draught: 16.1 m
Displacement 164,300 tonnes full
Armament: 3 x 3 460 mm ETC guns; 6 x 155 mm ETC guns port and starboard; 10 x 90 mm ETC guns port and starboard; 6 x 96 cell Mk 136 VLS; 4 x 650 mm TT; 24 x 35 mm Rattlesnake CIWS; 8 x 'underwater CIWS' supercav guns.
Protection: 762 mm-860 mm advanced armour composite (amorphous steel, titanium, vanadium, aluminum, ballistic ceramics); double-bottomed, reinforced keel with void spaces over a honeycomb frame.
Aircraft: Space for up to 10 medium ASW helicopters or two small prop driven seaplanes
Propulsion: Four PebbleBed nuclear reactors compartmentalised with extensive thermal insulation surrounding each reactor; four internalised waterjets.
Speed: 34.6 knots maximum.
Electronics: Sensors: AN/SPY-3B MFR multi-function radar; AN/SPS-64(V)10 navigational radar; AN/SQS-56 (K) hull mounted sonar; Electronics Warfare Suite: AN/SLY-2 (V) Advanced Integrated Electronic Warfare System (AIEWS); Decoys: AN/SLQ-49; AN/SLQ-25 Nixie; MK-53 Nulka DLS; Fire Control: MK-99 FCS missile fire control; Gun fire control: MK-88 GFCS (System calculates ballistic gun orders, The GFCS conducts direct firing attacks against surface radar and optically tracked targets); Torpedo Fire Control: MK-117 ACWSCS (Anti-Submarine Weapon Control System, Underwater Fire Control System); Countermeasures: Towed array sonar utilizing a hull transducer or a towed active transducer or both. It is an integrated ASW, Mine Avoidance and Torpedo Defense underwater system. Targeted EMP system.
Complement: 2,100
Price: $5.5 billion[/QUOTE]