Truitt
10-11-2005, 23:39
Alice Cooper-class PDAG (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v289/Truitt/ALICECOOPER-CLASS.png)
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Classification refers to a Patrol Craft - Destroyer - Assault Ship - Guided. This is misleading since it derives Patrol Craft (P) from its lack of massive crew, Destroyer (D) by its advanced self-protection and fleet protection properties, Assault Ship (A) via its massive armament that can be used against other vessels, and Guided (G) from its massive integration of sensory and response systems. The new classification, PDAG, refers now, in the Terramarine, to a vessel that is souly dedicated to protecting a fleet from aircraft, missiles, naval ships, and other threats at sea.
Powerplant / Propulsion / Maneuvering / Crew
The source of energy brought out by the Alice Cooper is that of a liquid-fueled Mercury-Potassium nuclear reactor. The exact amounts of power, however, has been classified.
The power is sent to HMP Drives, or Hydromagnetic Propulsion Drives, which move the surrounding water molecules by electronodes located in all three hulls, mostly in the middle hull.
There are no hydroplanes or rudders, and thus, no destruction to moving parts. This leaves less maintenance and cheaper initial construction cost of the non-powered vessel.
The upkeep by on-board crews is also very low due to the fact of the Alice Cooper being the first vessel ran and operated on 72% by computers. This is a revolution, as the Visby-class is the only competition in the real world, which has 41% computer-ran operations.
This allows less crewmen and less food and supplies, even for such a larger vessel, and thus, less logistical support is needed.
There are also seven escape vessels, floodable, which take up 90% of the crew of 189, with the rest of the crew (some 19) to stay, or to escape in the flood-locking command deck or to await surface web to be deployed by a near-by vessel to retrieve them. Also all seven escape vessels can be heavily cramped and hold the entire crew.
Armament
The armament of the Alice Cooper is broken into two groups, Light and Heavy. This does not include Electronics, which will be covered later.
The light Armament includes the four Yk38 Spitter-type Guns, two side-by-side on the above hull, which are capable both of 1,300rpm and are 32mm in size. They are equipped to be sub-dependant, being able to take in its own data from satellite and surrounding vessels, but besides that, relies on the Alice Cooper's on-ship sensors. Each Yk38 has an under-belly clip drum holding an estimated 12,000 rounds, due to it being the main defence gun and being bale to make a full rotation within five and a half seconds and an angled approach of 0 / 83 degrees. Two barrels.
The light Armament also includes a retractable helicopter pad in the rear, at which there are no support or logistical supplies on board the Alice Cooper, which this only stands as a pre-made base for air borne helicopters which may have lost their Host Ship from a sea-skimming missile or an air strike.
The heavy Armament is much different, however. This includes two systems. One is the most proud of all Close-In Weapons Systems (CIWS), the Yk55 Spitter-type Gun "Fineline" which is capable of 1,560rpm, 360 degree turning in eight point seven secounds, and an angled approach up to -2 / 97 degrees. The Yk55 has a drum of caseless rounds, some 8,900 rounds held, all at the size of 45mm. Four barrels.
The Yk55 is capable of sub-independent operation. Having its own sensory link up, but also is able to connect to satellite, Host Ship, and friendly surrounding sensors. It has a delation time of some .072 seconds, and a reaction time of .0988 seconds.
Friction and recoil is explained later on in the Electronic section.
An other heavy Armament is the location of two Praetorian II Anti-Air Missile Suits, independently ran, with two launchers, each launcher capable of six missiles each. With an additional stock of 12 missiles below these already-placed 12 missiles, the entire anti-air system is enough, especially with the CIWS guns.
Electronics
Sensors are the basic in sonar, a Magellan Navigator an PEDO Acquiring system, but the Alice Cooper is not equipped to fight other submarines, so there are no torpedo tubes. The PEDO only aids in the targeting of submarines for other vessels, and the Magellan to warn of incoming torpedoes or submarines. Both are semi-active/passive.
The radar and LIDAR on board is that of the Screen-Shot System, of an enclosed dome which serves both purposes over a horizontal error of 24 feet and vertical error of 9 feet.
However, the electronics that prove themselves the best on board the Alice Cooper is that of the Avoidance Systems.
The Avoidance Systems include, and will surely be added onto with new refits, a radar scrambling system, a LIDAR deploying shatter flux, and laser confusionary flux. The RADAR scrambler works on the same principle as that on board the Brian Johnson and Angus Young, with an exception of once entering twenty feet of the vessel no immune frequencies exist, except to those connected with the ships' own sensors.
The LIDAR avoidance is also on the hull, but that is in the section explaining that. The main avoidance is in the Tri-Type Countermeasure Burst System (TTCBS). It is a side-mounted tubing, triangularly-shaped, which deploys out seventeen flares (an F-15E Strike Eagle deploys only six), ten chaffs (F-15E deploys four), and eight Shatter Flux Charges, which are connected to the flares and blow into deployment once the flares ignite some thirty feet away from the tube in-flight.
The Flux is made up of mirrical reflective metals, all light-weighted, which shoot LIDAR and laser frequencies and signals into separate directions, making missiles and sensors guided by these devices nearly useless with a single tube shot.
The flares are also made of Flarzen, a air-weighted flammable foam which burns slowly but has a slightly lower heat signature. Ideal in getting rid of incoming IR-guided missiles from aircraft. The chaff deploys as lighter-than-air pocketed chromium metal sheets which are more or less plastic-like than metal due to a foaming material ironically combined to prevent it from falling too fast. Allows for a more powerful radar avoidance.
There is also a satellite visual destruction system which fires up right above the fleet twenty seven rockets which blow above the fleet to deploy a hydrogen-carbon composite which will slowly dissipate in the air, instead of falling back down. It blows some hundred feet above the fleet, allowing for aircraft to be deployed and visual horizon reading.
The rockets deploy from below the helicopter pad, which hydraulically moves to a 130 degree angle for the launch of the rockets. The rockets then blow at a pre-set time on a basic clock timer. It takes about seven minutes for the cloud, nicknamed Sunburn Dust, to fully dissipate.
Hull
The hull's design is initially similar to that of the Sea Lance (http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/images/sea-lance-002.gif) but with a larger inner hull and thinner side hulls, allowing for a trimaran characteristic.
The hull is made to withstand a single sea-skimming missile shot from a cone-charged thermite round. An outer anti-kinetic reactive armor, or AKRA, and the inner Vanadium-Scandium layer with a reinforcement of a steel-carbon composite below it. The hydrofoils connecting the upper hull to the lower podular mechanisms are reinforced with tungsten carbon-carbon support rods and inner sheeting with carbon-lithium composites.
The hull, systems, and armament above the Hydrofoils are covered also in an outer Ironshard RAM (Radar-Absorbant Material) layer.
The entire super-structural body consists of MegaFlux, a reflective paint scheme which helps avoid percision laser and LIDAR systems, and the front and rear of the Surface Hull has smaller but more concentrated and powerful layers of MegaFlux.
The Tri-Type Countermeasure Burst System (TTCBS) also has the largest layer of MegaFlux, a reflective duty of 45 units, enough to block almost any LIDAR sensor and most high-frequency ow-beam "blue" lasers, the common military grade laser for targeting, known best for being used in the LANTIRN on board the F-14 Tomcat.
To prevent torpedo htis the entire Sea Hull is majorly sonar-absorbant materials, include anechoic tiling, guacho-nickel with a magnesium demagnitiser, and Ironshard SAHM (Sonar Absorbant Hull Material).
Gel-Based Recoil and Friction Systems
The CIWS themselves, Yk38 and Yk55, are both loaded onto their own independant gel-base recoil system. The Yk38 is cooled by water and open-barreling, and the Yk55 is cooled by a gel-liquid mixture of lithium, hydrogen, and sodium.
The fricition systems, which cool instead of resisting the friction itself (as that makes more maintance troubles and upkeeping disfigurements), as as regular ones, threading through the barrel, loading, and discarding mechanisms.
The recoil, however, is more complicated, and most money-draining of the entire ship next to rounds. The gel works with a rubber spring system inbetween the gelly substances which is on a circular platform below the gun/weapon.
The gel compresses and takes all fo the energy taken from the recoil into heat, and then sends it into the rubber, which is connected to many rods around the system, which also act as an additional armor for it.
This allows for a higher rate of fire for longer durations of time with little to no critical damage or infractures.
Deminsions
Full Displacement: 11666 tons
Draft: 23 ft
Extreme Beam: 63 ft
Overall Length: 586 ft
Maximum Speed: 36kt
Armament
[4] Yk38 Spitter Dual-Barreled
[4] Yk55 "Fineline" Quad-Barrel
[2] Praetorian II Anti-Air Missile Suites
Price: 4,300,000,000[oB]
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Classification refers to a Patrol Craft - Destroyer - Assault Ship - Guided. This is misleading since it derives Patrol Craft (P) from its lack of massive crew, Destroyer (D) by its advanced self-protection and fleet protection properties, Assault Ship (A) via its massive armament that can be used against other vessels, and Guided (G) from its massive integration of sensory and response systems. The new classification, PDAG, refers now, in the Terramarine, to a vessel that is souly dedicated to protecting a fleet from aircraft, missiles, naval ships, and other threats at sea.
Powerplant / Propulsion / Maneuvering / Crew
The source of energy brought out by the Alice Cooper is that of a liquid-fueled Mercury-Potassium nuclear reactor. The exact amounts of power, however, has been classified.
The power is sent to HMP Drives, or Hydromagnetic Propulsion Drives, which move the surrounding water molecules by electronodes located in all three hulls, mostly in the middle hull.
There are no hydroplanes or rudders, and thus, no destruction to moving parts. This leaves less maintenance and cheaper initial construction cost of the non-powered vessel.
The upkeep by on-board crews is also very low due to the fact of the Alice Cooper being the first vessel ran and operated on 72% by computers. This is a revolution, as the Visby-class is the only competition in the real world, which has 41% computer-ran operations.
This allows less crewmen and less food and supplies, even for such a larger vessel, and thus, less logistical support is needed.
There are also seven escape vessels, floodable, which take up 90% of the crew of 189, with the rest of the crew (some 19) to stay, or to escape in the flood-locking command deck or to await surface web to be deployed by a near-by vessel to retrieve them. Also all seven escape vessels can be heavily cramped and hold the entire crew.
Armament
The armament of the Alice Cooper is broken into two groups, Light and Heavy. This does not include Electronics, which will be covered later.
The light Armament includes the four Yk38 Spitter-type Guns, two side-by-side on the above hull, which are capable both of 1,300rpm and are 32mm in size. They are equipped to be sub-dependant, being able to take in its own data from satellite and surrounding vessels, but besides that, relies on the Alice Cooper's on-ship sensors. Each Yk38 has an under-belly clip drum holding an estimated 12,000 rounds, due to it being the main defence gun and being bale to make a full rotation within five and a half seconds and an angled approach of 0 / 83 degrees. Two barrels.
The light Armament also includes a retractable helicopter pad in the rear, at which there are no support or logistical supplies on board the Alice Cooper, which this only stands as a pre-made base for air borne helicopters which may have lost their Host Ship from a sea-skimming missile or an air strike.
The heavy Armament is much different, however. This includes two systems. One is the most proud of all Close-In Weapons Systems (CIWS), the Yk55 Spitter-type Gun "Fineline" which is capable of 1,560rpm, 360 degree turning in eight point seven secounds, and an angled approach up to -2 / 97 degrees. The Yk55 has a drum of caseless rounds, some 8,900 rounds held, all at the size of 45mm. Four barrels.
The Yk55 is capable of sub-independent operation. Having its own sensory link up, but also is able to connect to satellite, Host Ship, and friendly surrounding sensors. It has a delation time of some .072 seconds, and a reaction time of .0988 seconds.
Friction and recoil is explained later on in the Electronic section.
An other heavy Armament is the location of two Praetorian II Anti-Air Missile Suits, independently ran, with two launchers, each launcher capable of six missiles each. With an additional stock of 12 missiles below these already-placed 12 missiles, the entire anti-air system is enough, especially with the CIWS guns.
Electronics
Sensors are the basic in sonar, a Magellan Navigator an PEDO Acquiring system, but the Alice Cooper is not equipped to fight other submarines, so there are no torpedo tubes. The PEDO only aids in the targeting of submarines for other vessels, and the Magellan to warn of incoming torpedoes or submarines. Both are semi-active/passive.
The radar and LIDAR on board is that of the Screen-Shot System, of an enclosed dome which serves both purposes over a horizontal error of 24 feet and vertical error of 9 feet.
However, the electronics that prove themselves the best on board the Alice Cooper is that of the Avoidance Systems.
The Avoidance Systems include, and will surely be added onto with new refits, a radar scrambling system, a LIDAR deploying shatter flux, and laser confusionary flux. The RADAR scrambler works on the same principle as that on board the Brian Johnson and Angus Young, with an exception of once entering twenty feet of the vessel no immune frequencies exist, except to those connected with the ships' own sensors.
The LIDAR avoidance is also on the hull, but that is in the section explaining that. The main avoidance is in the Tri-Type Countermeasure Burst System (TTCBS). It is a side-mounted tubing, triangularly-shaped, which deploys out seventeen flares (an F-15E Strike Eagle deploys only six), ten chaffs (F-15E deploys four), and eight Shatter Flux Charges, which are connected to the flares and blow into deployment once the flares ignite some thirty feet away from the tube in-flight.
The Flux is made up of mirrical reflective metals, all light-weighted, which shoot LIDAR and laser frequencies and signals into separate directions, making missiles and sensors guided by these devices nearly useless with a single tube shot.
The flares are also made of Flarzen, a air-weighted flammable foam which burns slowly but has a slightly lower heat signature. Ideal in getting rid of incoming IR-guided missiles from aircraft. The chaff deploys as lighter-than-air pocketed chromium metal sheets which are more or less plastic-like than metal due to a foaming material ironically combined to prevent it from falling too fast. Allows for a more powerful radar avoidance.
There is also a satellite visual destruction system which fires up right above the fleet twenty seven rockets which blow above the fleet to deploy a hydrogen-carbon composite which will slowly dissipate in the air, instead of falling back down. It blows some hundred feet above the fleet, allowing for aircraft to be deployed and visual horizon reading.
The rockets deploy from below the helicopter pad, which hydraulically moves to a 130 degree angle for the launch of the rockets. The rockets then blow at a pre-set time on a basic clock timer. It takes about seven minutes for the cloud, nicknamed Sunburn Dust, to fully dissipate.
Hull
The hull's design is initially similar to that of the Sea Lance (http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/images/sea-lance-002.gif) but with a larger inner hull and thinner side hulls, allowing for a trimaran characteristic.
The hull is made to withstand a single sea-skimming missile shot from a cone-charged thermite round. An outer anti-kinetic reactive armor, or AKRA, and the inner Vanadium-Scandium layer with a reinforcement of a steel-carbon composite below it. The hydrofoils connecting the upper hull to the lower podular mechanisms are reinforced with tungsten carbon-carbon support rods and inner sheeting with carbon-lithium composites.
The hull, systems, and armament above the Hydrofoils are covered also in an outer Ironshard RAM (Radar-Absorbant Material) layer.
The entire super-structural body consists of MegaFlux, a reflective paint scheme which helps avoid percision laser and LIDAR systems, and the front and rear of the Surface Hull has smaller but more concentrated and powerful layers of MegaFlux.
The Tri-Type Countermeasure Burst System (TTCBS) also has the largest layer of MegaFlux, a reflective duty of 45 units, enough to block almost any LIDAR sensor and most high-frequency ow-beam "blue" lasers, the common military grade laser for targeting, known best for being used in the LANTIRN on board the F-14 Tomcat.
To prevent torpedo htis the entire Sea Hull is majorly sonar-absorbant materials, include anechoic tiling, guacho-nickel with a magnesium demagnitiser, and Ironshard SAHM (Sonar Absorbant Hull Material).
Gel-Based Recoil and Friction Systems
The CIWS themselves, Yk38 and Yk55, are both loaded onto their own independant gel-base recoil system. The Yk38 is cooled by water and open-barreling, and the Yk55 is cooled by a gel-liquid mixture of lithium, hydrogen, and sodium.
The fricition systems, which cool instead of resisting the friction itself (as that makes more maintance troubles and upkeeping disfigurements), as as regular ones, threading through the barrel, loading, and discarding mechanisms.
The recoil, however, is more complicated, and most money-draining of the entire ship next to rounds. The gel works with a rubber spring system inbetween the gelly substances which is on a circular platform below the gun/weapon.
The gel compresses and takes all fo the energy taken from the recoil into heat, and then sends it into the rubber, which is connected to many rods around the system, which also act as an additional armor for it.
This allows for a higher rate of fire for longer durations of time with little to no critical damage or infractures.
Deminsions
Full Displacement: 11666 tons
Draft: 23 ft
Extreme Beam: 63 ft
Overall Length: 586 ft
Maximum Speed: 36kt
Armament
[4] Yk38 Spitter Dual-Barreled
[4] Yk55 "Fineline" Quad-Barrel
[2] Praetorian II Anti-Air Missile Suites
Price: 4,300,000,000[oB]