Novikov
06-09-2005, 06:29
[OOC: Just some more stuff I finally decided to post. This is a single ship which doesn't really play much of a role in my RP's, but kept me busy designing while Azazia was away. I might put if up for sale produced by Macabees on Kreigzimmer sometime in the future. If you're my ally, you may also be privy to production rights - we'll see.]
VL 01 Kveta-class Battleship
NĽL Václav (http://photobucket.com/albums/a129/GenericName120/?action=view¤t=Kveta.jpg)
PROJECT: The VL 01 Kveta class of warships was intended to serve as the future flagships of the NVMF’s surface fleets, and to fill the ever-increasing need in the NVMF for a capital ship capable of engaging capital ships as large as the widely proliferated Dreadnaught designs now in service the world over. These vessels were also expected to fill the role of a standard battleship when involved in naval bombardments or joint operations with aircraft and surface vessels.
The NĽL Václav was to be the first ship of this line. Named the Válav, loosely translated as ‘Greater Glory,’ she was to be the largest warship ever produced in a Novikovian shipyard. Laid down in January 1604 (Novikovian Calendar), production was interrupted before the scheduled completion date in early in April 1606 when the Duma drydock facilities where the Václav was held were bombed by the Royal Azazian Airforce. After the Novikovian State’s capitulation to the United Kingdom of Azazia on Nov. 8, 1605, work on the Václav ceased and the unfinished ship was placed under lock and key by the Azazian government.
The ship was later towed to Azazian ports for reasons unspecified to Novikovian officials, although rumors state that she is now in service of the Royal Navy. Plans for another four Kveta-class warships also ended with the termination of hostilities, and the funds laid aside for their construction were devoted to more peaceable means. There are no plans for the current administration to attempt construction of a sixth Kveta.
HULL: The Václav was designed as a dual-hulled warship with a heavy emphasis on survivability rather than speed – in great contrast to most other surface ships in Novikovian employ. The dual-hull design has been popular throughout modern history as a means of helping a ship survive what would otherwise be crippling injuries. The basic principle of this is simple; if the outer hull is breached, the inner hull, though smaller and without much of the outer hull’s armor, will still be able to maintain the vessel’s buoyancy, and will allow an equal distribution of water between the two hulls so as to prevent a list in the case of damage.
Both the inner and outer hulls of the Václav were constructed using a steel-titanium composite based on the HY80 High-Pressure steel. The HY80 base material is used on most of Novikov’s submarines, and was chosen for the project because of its availability, reliability and high tensile-strength, being able to bear incredible amounts of pressure before fracturing. Titanium was added in small quantities (contributing between 3% and 5% of the total weight of the composite) as a means of further increasing the tensile-strength of the material. In order to protect against armor fracture due to explosions, a ceramic-steel composite was overlaid along the sides of the hull above and below the waterline. Likewise, the sloped main and secondary turrets of the Václav received a tremendous level of armor plating, the main turrets exceeding the level of protection anywhere else on the ship. Much of this level of protection was overlooked on the deck of the Václav, however, as designers turned back to the traditional wooden-plank overlay of Novikov’s historical warships.
All said, this armor design gives the Václav’s hull a total of up to 420 mm of armor placed on top of a hardened steel frame, and affords it in the area of 1,400 mm RHA on the main deck and just over 2,720 mm RHA along the side of the hull, which slopes at 18.5°. The heavily defended turrets, meanwhile, received 450 mm of armor over the three which housed the main guns, and 290 mm over those housing the secondary guns, giving them RHA values of 2,885 mm and 1,800 mm respectively.
ARMAMENT: The Václav was to be outfitted with six specially designed 440 mm (17.3 in) heavy naval guns. Each of these weapons, dubbed the T1 – Type 1 – Naval Guns, weighed in excess of 130 metric tons and could pitch a projectile weighing 3,170 kg over 37 km. Each of the T1 Naval Guns would independently targeted by the ship’s main targeting system, which used a combination of it’s own radar information and relayed satellite images to locate hostile targets. These guns were mounted in three heavily armored turrets, each turret containing two guns.
As an additional armament, the Václav carried six 220 mm (8.6 in) T2 Naval Guns mounted like the T1s in three armored turrets. These weapons had a range of 20 km and were to serve as bombardment and littoral defense weapons, although they could be used with undoubted effectiveness against hostile ships which escaped the Václav’s six main guns. The Václav also carries three missile launchers each chambered for eighteen MM40 Exocet anti-shipping cruise missiles. For each of these three weapons, a further thirty-six missiles are carried onboard, half in an automatic loading position, and half below deck in storage. These missile launchers are targeted in the same manner as all other weapons onboard the ship, through the use of a comprehensive fire-control computer.
To defend against the threat of hostile aircraft and inbound missiles, the Václav had an array of countermeasures and air-defense systems already in successful employ aboard the D647 Morsky-Orol Cruisers. These systems included a dozen Crotale EDIR systems, eighteen Simbad short-range SAMs, four Modele 69 CADAM 100 mm guns, several forms of air-sentry radar, and a mix of SAGAIE and DAGAIE missile decoys. Also onboard was an untested pair of 20mm CIWS systems adopted for those weapons emplaced to defend Novikovian territory by Macabean engineers eight years ago.
DETECTION SYSTEMS: The Václav was equipped with most standard detection systems seeing service onboard other Novikovian vessels. Almost exclusively of French design, these included the DRBV 51B surface sentry radar, DRBV 26A air sentry radar, DRBC 32D targeting radar, DRBN 34 navigation radar, ETBF DSBV 62C sonar, and Syva torpedo alert system. In addition to these systems, the Václav carried it’s own high power air-search Doppler Radar – NDRBV 1 - which gave comprehensive radar coverage in all directions, and was effective at detecting roughly 80% of sea-skimming missiles which often occupied blind spots in other air-search radars onboard.
COMMUNICATIONS: The Václav used the standard SENIT 4 tactical information system and carried aboard an HF/VHF Radio relay and the Syracuse II Satellite Transmission system, all of which facilitated simple and rapid transmission of information throughout the fleet.
PROPULSION: The Václav was outfitted with three 15K Pressurized Water Reactors adopted form those used onboard the Charles DeGaulle Aircraft Carriers in service with the NVMF. These reactors incorporated a secondary air-cooling system to help reduce the massive heat signatures given off by these powerplants. With all three reactors running, the Václav was projected to have a top speed of 32 knots, acceptably fast for a warship of the size, but at least marginally slower than many other surface vessels in Novikovian employ.
STATISTICS:
Displacement: ~64,000 metric tons
Length: 273 meters
Beam: 34.5meters
Draft: 12.8 meters
Speed: 32 knots
Propulsion: Three 15K Pressurized Water Reactors, Six Turbines, Three shafts, Five-Bladed Screw
Crew: 1,344 Sailors and Officers
Armament:
-54 MM40 Exocet Anti-Ship Missile
-12 Crotale EDIR Missile Systems (Total 32 missiles in launcher, 72 in magazine)
-18 Simbad SAM Systems (4 Minstral Missiles each)
-4 Modele 68 CADAM 100mm Gun Turrets (2 Forward, 2 Aft)
-6 T1 440mm Naval Guns
-6 T2 220mm Naval Guns
-2 Model 01 20mm CIWS
Detection:
-2 Syva torpedo alert systems
-2 DRBV 51B surface sentry radars
-2 DRBV 26A air sentry radars
-4 DRBC 32D targeting radars
-2 DRBN 34 navigation radars
-1 DUBV 23 hull sonar
-1 NDRBV 01 air sentry radar
Countermeasures:
-10 SAGAIE NG decoy lauchers
-6 DAGAIE decoy launchers
-1 ARBR 17 radar detector
-1 SAIGON radio emission detector
-2 ARBB 33 jammer
Tactical Information System: SENIT 4
Communication Systems:
-HF, UHF, VHF, and SHF Liaison
-Syracuse II Satellite Transmission System
Aircraft:
-Up to 3 Panther Helicopters (ASW and Transport Variants)
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Price: 4 billion USD (No Export at this time)
Operating cost: 412 million USD
VL 01 Kveta-class Battleship
NĽL Václav (http://photobucket.com/albums/a129/GenericName120/?action=view¤t=Kveta.jpg)
PROJECT: The VL 01 Kveta class of warships was intended to serve as the future flagships of the NVMF’s surface fleets, and to fill the ever-increasing need in the NVMF for a capital ship capable of engaging capital ships as large as the widely proliferated Dreadnaught designs now in service the world over. These vessels were also expected to fill the role of a standard battleship when involved in naval bombardments or joint operations with aircraft and surface vessels.
The NĽL Václav was to be the first ship of this line. Named the Válav, loosely translated as ‘Greater Glory,’ she was to be the largest warship ever produced in a Novikovian shipyard. Laid down in January 1604 (Novikovian Calendar), production was interrupted before the scheduled completion date in early in April 1606 when the Duma drydock facilities where the Václav was held were bombed by the Royal Azazian Airforce. After the Novikovian State’s capitulation to the United Kingdom of Azazia on Nov. 8, 1605, work on the Václav ceased and the unfinished ship was placed under lock and key by the Azazian government.
The ship was later towed to Azazian ports for reasons unspecified to Novikovian officials, although rumors state that she is now in service of the Royal Navy. Plans for another four Kveta-class warships also ended with the termination of hostilities, and the funds laid aside for their construction were devoted to more peaceable means. There are no plans for the current administration to attempt construction of a sixth Kveta.
HULL: The Václav was designed as a dual-hulled warship with a heavy emphasis on survivability rather than speed – in great contrast to most other surface ships in Novikovian employ. The dual-hull design has been popular throughout modern history as a means of helping a ship survive what would otherwise be crippling injuries. The basic principle of this is simple; if the outer hull is breached, the inner hull, though smaller and without much of the outer hull’s armor, will still be able to maintain the vessel’s buoyancy, and will allow an equal distribution of water between the two hulls so as to prevent a list in the case of damage.
Both the inner and outer hulls of the Václav were constructed using a steel-titanium composite based on the HY80 High-Pressure steel. The HY80 base material is used on most of Novikov’s submarines, and was chosen for the project because of its availability, reliability and high tensile-strength, being able to bear incredible amounts of pressure before fracturing. Titanium was added in small quantities (contributing between 3% and 5% of the total weight of the composite) as a means of further increasing the tensile-strength of the material. In order to protect against armor fracture due to explosions, a ceramic-steel composite was overlaid along the sides of the hull above and below the waterline. Likewise, the sloped main and secondary turrets of the Václav received a tremendous level of armor plating, the main turrets exceeding the level of protection anywhere else on the ship. Much of this level of protection was overlooked on the deck of the Václav, however, as designers turned back to the traditional wooden-plank overlay of Novikov’s historical warships.
All said, this armor design gives the Václav’s hull a total of up to 420 mm of armor placed on top of a hardened steel frame, and affords it in the area of 1,400 mm RHA on the main deck and just over 2,720 mm RHA along the side of the hull, which slopes at 18.5°. The heavily defended turrets, meanwhile, received 450 mm of armor over the three which housed the main guns, and 290 mm over those housing the secondary guns, giving them RHA values of 2,885 mm and 1,800 mm respectively.
ARMAMENT: The Václav was to be outfitted with six specially designed 440 mm (17.3 in) heavy naval guns. Each of these weapons, dubbed the T1 – Type 1 – Naval Guns, weighed in excess of 130 metric tons and could pitch a projectile weighing 3,170 kg over 37 km. Each of the T1 Naval Guns would independently targeted by the ship’s main targeting system, which used a combination of it’s own radar information and relayed satellite images to locate hostile targets. These guns were mounted in three heavily armored turrets, each turret containing two guns.
As an additional armament, the Václav carried six 220 mm (8.6 in) T2 Naval Guns mounted like the T1s in three armored turrets. These weapons had a range of 20 km and were to serve as bombardment and littoral defense weapons, although they could be used with undoubted effectiveness against hostile ships which escaped the Václav’s six main guns. The Václav also carries three missile launchers each chambered for eighteen MM40 Exocet anti-shipping cruise missiles. For each of these three weapons, a further thirty-six missiles are carried onboard, half in an automatic loading position, and half below deck in storage. These missile launchers are targeted in the same manner as all other weapons onboard the ship, through the use of a comprehensive fire-control computer.
To defend against the threat of hostile aircraft and inbound missiles, the Václav had an array of countermeasures and air-defense systems already in successful employ aboard the D647 Morsky-Orol Cruisers. These systems included a dozen Crotale EDIR systems, eighteen Simbad short-range SAMs, four Modele 69 CADAM 100 mm guns, several forms of air-sentry radar, and a mix of SAGAIE and DAGAIE missile decoys. Also onboard was an untested pair of 20mm CIWS systems adopted for those weapons emplaced to defend Novikovian territory by Macabean engineers eight years ago.
DETECTION SYSTEMS: The Václav was equipped with most standard detection systems seeing service onboard other Novikovian vessels. Almost exclusively of French design, these included the DRBV 51B surface sentry radar, DRBV 26A air sentry radar, DRBC 32D targeting radar, DRBN 34 navigation radar, ETBF DSBV 62C sonar, and Syva torpedo alert system. In addition to these systems, the Václav carried it’s own high power air-search Doppler Radar – NDRBV 1 - which gave comprehensive radar coverage in all directions, and was effective at detecting roughly 80% of sea-skimming missiles which often occupied blind spots in other air-search radars onboard.
COMMUNICATIONS: The Václav used the standard SENIT 4 tactical information system and carried aboard an HF/VHF Radio relay and the Syracuse II Satellite Transmission system, all of which facilitated simple and rapid transmission of information throughout the fleet.
PROPULSION: The Václav was outfitted with three 15K Pressurized Water Reactors adopted form those used onboard the Charles DeGaulle Aircraft Carriers in service with the NVMF. These reactors incorporated a secondary air-cooling system to help reduce the massive heat signatures given off by these powerplants. With all three reactors running, the Václav was projected to have a top speed of 32 knots, acceptably fast for a warship of the size, but at least marginally slower than many other surface vessels in Novikovian employ.
STATISTICS:
Displacement: ~64,000 metric tons
Length: 273 meters
Beam: 34.5meters
Draft: 12.8 meters
Speed: 32 knots
Propulsion: Three 15K Pressurized Water Reactors, Six Turbines, Three shafts, Five-Bladed Screw
Crew: 1,344 Sailors and Officers
Armament:
-54 MM40 Exocet Anti-Ship Missile
-12 Crotale EDIR Missile Systems (Total 32 missiles in launcher, 72 in magazine)
-18 Simbad SAM Systems (4 Minstral Missiles each)
-4 Modele 68 CADAM 100mm Gun Turrets (2 Forward, 2 Aft)
-6 T1 440mm Naval Guns
-6 T2 220mm Naval Guns
-2 Model 01 20mm CIWS
Detection:
-2 Syva torpedo alert systems
-2 DRBV 51B surface sentry radars
-2 DRBV 26A air sentry radars
-4 DRBC 32D targeting radars
-2 DRBN 34 navigation radars
-1 DUBV 23 hull sonar
-1 NDRBV 01 air sentry radar
Countermeasures:
-10 SAGAIE NG decoy lauchers
-6 DAGAIE decoy launchers
-1 ARBR 17 radar detector
-1 SAIGON radio emission detector
-2 ARBB 33 jammer
Tactical Information System: SENIT 4
Communication Systems:
-HF, UHF, VHF, and SHF Liaison
-Syracuse II Satellite Transmission System
Aircraft:
-Up to 3 Panther Helicopters (ASW and Transport Variants)
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Price: 4 billion USD (No Export at this time)
Operating cost: 412 million USD