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Civitas Americae Weapons Export Consortium

The Civitas Americae Weapons Export Consortium is a gathering of weapons manufacturers from the nation of Civitas Americae. In order to boost sales, and increase the exposure of individual weapons, the Consortium was founded as a mutual effort. By agreement of the producers, all weapons sales are directed through the consortium, and there is some small measure of profit sharing.

Rules

1. Do your own math
2. Production rights are only available if listed.
3. Production rights do not allow you to sell those weapons to others.
4. We reserve the right to refuse sale.

Ground Equipment
Mk 1 Assault Battle Suit (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9959037&postcount=2)
M75 Templar railway gun (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9959040&postcount=3)
M76 Paladin railway gun (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9959040&postcount=3)
Mark 5 Naval Mine Deployment Shell (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9959040&postcount=3)
Mark 6 Anti-personnel Mine Deployment Shell (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9959040&postcount=3)
M3 AP mine (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9959040&postcount=3)
Der Drache Flammpanzer (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10032126&postcount=8)
M77 SAM/AAA railcar (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10032126&postcount=11)
M79 Missile Tender (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10032126&postcount=11)
Lynx Hochunterstützungpanzer (heavy support tank) (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10374217&postcount=12)
Schwere Panzerspähwagen SdKfz 312 Puma II (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10374217&postcount=12)

Air Equipment
Tu-161 Black Widow (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9959042&postcount=4)
Die Teufelbombe (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9959044&postcount=5)
BF14J Bearcat (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10032126&postcount=9)
EZ-1 Graf Zeppelin (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10032126&postcount=10)
DAGM-3 Hel ( http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10374319&postcount=14)
F-20 Siegmund air superiority fighter (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10374319&postcount=14)
F-19 Viper long range interceptor (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10374319&postcount=14)
A-15 Thunderbolt (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10374319&postcount=14)
A9W Freibeuter (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10374319&postcount=15)
AH-30 Ostrogoth attack helicopter (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10374319&postcount=15)

Naval Equipment
Carlos Hathcock-class very large battlecruiser (BBCN) (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9959047&postcount=6)
Saint George-class battleship (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9959047&postcount=6)
Neu Bayern-class heavy cruiser (CBN) (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9959047&postcount=6)
Neuhausburg-class antiaircraft cruiser (CAA) (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9959047&postcount=6)
Störtebecker-class anti-submarine destroyer (DDK) (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9959047&postcount=6)
Von Spee-class antiaircraft destroyer (DDAA) (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9959047&postcount=6)
Pebble-class anti-submarine frigate (FFK) (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9959047&postcount=6)
Hanslein-class minelayer (CM) (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9959053&postcount=7)
Gödeke Michels-class minelaying submarine (SSMN) (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9959053&postcount=7)
Mark 7 Deep Water Naval Mine (hhttp://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9959053&postcount=7)
Mark 8 Port Security Mine (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9959053&postcount=7)
Mark 9 Anti-submarine Mine (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9959053&postcount=7)
Mark 10 Anti-submarine Mine (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9959053&postcount=7)
Mark 56 Anti-Torpedo Torpedo (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=9959053&postcount=7)
Civitas Americae-class assault carrier (CVAN) ( http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10374362&postcount=16)

Mk I Assault Battle Suit

Developed to aid Mithril commandos in assaults on fortified compounds, the Assault Battle Suit is a testament to the engineers of Neu Sachsen Combat Systems Inc. Having purchased the rights to the Hybrid Assistive Limb system, the engineers improved upon it, vastly increasing its strength, though this required a return to a backpack to carry batteries. Once again inspiration struck, and commercially available supercapacitors were used, giving the suit power for combat operations lasting up to six hours, with recharge via APC taking only a few minutes.

The actual armor of the suit is built out of aluminum oxinytride, molded into the proper shapes. In some areas this armor is as thick as three inches, giving the user the ability to take multiple hits from a .50 caliber machine gun and still remain combat effective. However, it is recommended that portions so hit be replaced before the next battle, if possible, as this will reduce the suits armor effectiveness.

Needless to say, the armor makes aiming traditional weapons a bit hard. To counter this, the suit contains a heads up display and is Bluetooth enabled. Modified versions of traditional Civitas Americae weapons incorporate this Bluetooth technology to deliver their aim point information to the suit, which then shows where the weapon is aimed with a crosshair on the HUD. Currently these weapons include the AK-103, the Javelin missile launcher, the M2 heavy machine gun, and the Mark 19 automatic grenade launcher (which can be used in a semi-automatic mode with the battle suit modifications). With the last two weapons, a battle rifle trigger has been added, so that the weapons may be carried and fired in a fashion similar to that of a conventional assault rifle.

While the Assault Battle Suit is capable of hefting these weapons, and an additional 75kg of ammo or other equipment, it does not substantially add to the users running or jumping abilities, in large part because of the weight of the armor.

In case of a chemical attack, the suit is equipped with a Type 73 gas mask. In addition, the suit is equipped with a cooling system to prevent the users from becoming overheated.

Price per suit: $300,000. Average cost of replacement armor sections: $15,000

M75 Templar railway gun

When Civitas Americae began its Westamerika colony, it suddenly had land borders for the first time. In order to provide long-range artillery fire, and cross-channel fire in case an invasion was made of The Silver Sky’s nearby island, very long-range artillery was needed. The M75 Templar railway gun answered this need. Sporting a 280mm L/75 ETC cannon with EM rifling, this huge artillery piece has a range of 200 miles. In order for maximum mobility to be attained, it is built into a railway car, and travels on five-foot gauge rail. Weighing 215 tons and measuring 136 feet long, the sight of one of these is something never to be forgotten.

The M75 fires a 563-pound shell. Shell variants include high explosive, cluster, anti-personnel mine deployment, and naval mine deployment (limited to bottom distance mines due to weight). Computers aboard the M75 allow it to conduct time on target barrages, either by itself, or in unison with other guns.

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Price: $45 million a unit.

M76 Paladin railway gun

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The M76 Paladin was built to give a strategic artillery ability to the Civitas Americae military. While the M75 provided a powerful punch against enemy soldiers, and excelled at delivering mines, it lacked in its capability to destroy certain targets. This is where the M76 comes in. The 14-inch gun is used to destroy enemy railways, runways, reinforced bunkers, barracks, storage depots, and so on. Used properly in a first strike, it can prevent an enemy from presenting any meaningful resistance within its field of fire. Unlike the M75, it does not fire mine-filled shells. Rather, it fires only high explosive and armor piercing shells.

Like all Civitas Americae railway guns, it is built to the five foot gauge used in Civitas Americae, but can easily be modified to fit a variety of other gauges.

Specifications:
Gun: 356mm L/75 ETC with EM rifling
Range: 220 miles
Car weight: 230 tons
Shell weight: 1,458 pounds
Car length: 160 feet
Rate of fire: 1 shell every 90 seconds

Cost: $55 million


Mark 5 Naval Mine Deployment Shell
Designed to rapidly frustrate the ability of an opposing nation to use beaches for invasions, the Mark 5 is a 440 pound mine (400 pounds TNT) bottom distance mine which is fired out of the M75 Templar railway gun. Near the end of its flight, the fired shell breaks apart and a parachute slows the mine so that it does not break apart upon splash-down. Using a pressure sensor as well as an optical shadow sensor, the Mark 5 can remain active up to 10 years before power failure causes it to automatically detonate. For ease of retrieval, two sonar broadcast codes unique to each nation [OOC: So you can't detonate another nation's mines] will cause it to self-destruct or, alternatively, switch to safe mode and active a homing beacon. Price: $100,000

Mark 6 Anti-personnel Mine Deployment Shell
Designed for the rapid deployment of anti-personnel minefields, the Mark 6 carries up to 108 M3 AP landmines. Price: $20,000

M3 AP mine
A blast-type mine, the M3 is made out of plastic. Circular in shape, it measures 2.5 inches in diameter, 1.5 inches high, and weighs 3.5 pounds with an ounce of tetryl used as the explosive. A radio code unique to each nation [OOC: So you can't detonate another nation's mines] will cause it to self-destruct. Price: $20

Tu-161 Black Widow

When the Civitas Americae Air Force decided to replace the Valkyrie and Lancer bombers with the Tu-160 Blackjack, they also decided that they needed a better escort than the current F-108 Rapier. When the contract was put out, PSC Tupolev asked why they couldn’t just put some air-to-air missiles on the Blackjack. Thus was the Tu-161 Black Widow born.

Structurally, the Tu-161 is very similar to its parent design. The only notable difference is a weight reduction program that, though keeping the lavatory, enables the Black Widow to fly 150 mph faster than the Blackjack. The electronics are the main difference in this plane.

The traditional dials and gauges in the Tu-160 have been replaced with an LCD display, and a HUD has been added, making the pilot’s job much easier. The weapons system officer’s control panels have been upgraded to allow him to use the air-to-air weapons systems carried by the Black Widow.

The AN/APG-77 AESA radar has been installed, along with two Common Integrated Processors and an Inter/Intra-Flight Data Link. This advanced radar not only allows the Black Widow to engage up to six targets at once, but also functions as an electronics warfare package.

The Inter/Intra-Flight Data Link is the real killer however. Using the data link, squadrons of Tu-161s can launch synchronized attacks on enemies many times their number without fear of accidental double targeting.

The reason for the name Black Widow lies in its twin bomb bays. Each Black Widow has the ability to carry literally dozens of missiles mounted in rotary launchers. The rotary launchers allow for a quick release of missiles, and with the number of missiles carried by the Black Widow, entire divisions of aircraft may find themselves quickly under attack by a few squadrons of Black Widows

Weapons per bomb bay:
18 R-33
20 R-77
24 R-73M
6 Trapshoot
24 SHARK
6 Long-ARM
24 Rolling Airframe Missile (to shoot down missiles heading towards the Tu-161 or one of the bombers its escorting)

Like the Tu-160 Blackjack, the Black Widow is also capable of carrying two Massive Ordnance Air Blast bombs in each bomb bay, but current Air Force doctrine reserves these weapons for the Blackjack.

Endorsements:

“It’s a missile spamming…fighter?!” Field Marshal Arinze upon reviewing Tupolev’s bid.

“Woohoo, it’s a missile spamming fighter!” Various members of the Missile Consortium at the announcement of Tupolev’s selection for the Long Range Escort Fighter contract.

“Mommy…” Anonymous F-108 pilot witnessing a single squadron of Black Widows annihilate his division in a simulated engagement.

Price: $150 million
Production rights: $48 billion

Die Teufelbombe

Idle hands are the Devil's tools, and bored weapons designers are the proof of it. With the MOAB capable of being dropped from the Tu-160, the engineers at Westanhalt Explosives decided to come up with a superbomb worthy of the name. After realizing that a true superbomb would be undeliverable even by the massive An-225s which make up Civitas Americae’s transport fleet, the engineers decided to go all the way: They would make a bomb that maxed out the Sea Dragon Heavy Launch System. The resulting monstrosity was labeled The Devil Bomb, die Teufelbombe.

Weighing in at over 600 tons, die Teufelbombe contains 264 tons of Tritonal. The resulting explosion is the equivalent of 311.52 tons of TNT. Upon atmospheric reentry, a series of parachutes is used to slow down the bomb (feature not available on bunker buster variant). Using lattice control surfaces and GPS guidance, die Teufelbombe has a CEP of 30 meters. A radar altimeter is used for detonating the bomb.

Three variants are available. The second turns the bomb into the world’s largest, and most expensive, hand grenade, as the metal casing is specially designed to fragment. The first is the unmodified bomb, generally used for large-scale demolition or superdreadnought busting. The third eliminates the parachutes and adds a three-ton tungsten cap, creating the ultimate bunker buster. While the CEP does grow larger, to 200 meters, this variant is capable of penetrating up to a mile of reinforced concrete.

Price: $3 billion, including launch delivery system. Production rights: $3 trillion

Carlos Hathcock-class Very Large Battlecruiser (BBCN)

Length: 1,123 feet
Beam: 114 feet
Draft: 36 feet
Displacement: 100,000 tons
Propulsion: 3 A4W reactors, 6 electric drive propellers.
Speed: 40 knots
Range: Essentially unlimited
Crew Complement: 1,800

Armament:
Two Double 25”L\60 ETC with EM rifling
14 Phalanx CIWS
12 Triple Mark 56 ATT launchers
10 Rolling Airframe Missile launchers each with 21 missiles
1 Catapult with two drones

Armor:
35-inch turret face
30-inch barbette
20-inch deck
20-inch bulkheads
25-inch belt, 20°

Countermeasures:
Noisemakers
Prairie-Masker

Sensors:
AN/SPY-3 MFR
AN/SPS-49
AN/SPS-55
AN/SPS-64
AN/SQS-53B Hull Mounted SONAR
AN/SQS-53C Hull Mounted SONAR
AN/SQR-19B Towed Array SONAR (TACTAS)
AN/SLQ-32A(V)3 Electronic Warfare Suite
Back-up radars for each turret

Price:
$10 billion
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Designed for quick reaction, running down retreating enemies, and mobbing SDNs. Typically on an anti-SDN patrol they'll operate in squadrons of at least a dozen, plus escorts. Classified as battlecruiser in the Civitas Americae Navy rather than battleship because it isn't really expected to survive smacking itself with its own guns.

Saint George-class battleship (BBN)

Length: 950 feet, 4 inches
Beam: 115 feet, 11 inches
Displacement: 85,000 tons
Draft: 39 feet, two inches
Speed: 37 knots
Complement: 800 officers and men
Drive: 2x A4W nuclear reactor, 4x electric drive screws
Armor: 20 inch turret armor, 14 inch side armor, 9 inch deck armor
Armament:
Four triple 18-inch ETC turrets with EM rifling
12 Phalanx CIWS
8 Rolling Airframe Missile launchers with 21 missiles each
6 Triple Mark 56 ATT launchers
1 Catapult with 2 drones
Countermeasures:
Noisemaker
Prairie-Masker
Sensors:
AN/SPY-3 MFR
AN/SPS-49
AN/SPS-55
AN/SPS-64
AN/SQS-53B Hull Mounted SONAR
AN/SQS-53C Hull Mounted SONAR
AN/SQR-19B Towed Array SONAR (TACTAS)
AN/SLQ-32A(V)3 Electronic Warfare Suite

Cost: $4.5 billion


Neu Bayern-class Heavy Cruiser (CBN)

Length: 820 feet
Beam: 83 feet
Draft: 28 feet
Displacement: 27,400 tons
Propulsion: Two D2G nuclear reactors with electric drive
Speed: 33 knots
Range: Limited by food stores
Crew Complement: 500 officers and crew

Armament:
3 Triple 12-inch ETC guns with EM rifling
6 Rolling Airframe Missile launchers with 21 missiles each
5 Phalanx CIWS
5 Triple Mark 56 ATT launchers
2 Triple 21-inch torpedo launchers

Countermeasures:
Prairie-Masker
Noisemakers

Sensors:
AN/SPY-3 MFR
AN/SPS-49
AN/SPS-55
AN/SPS-64
AN/SQS-53B Hull Mounted SONAR
AN/SQS-53C Hull Mounted SONAR
AN/SQR-19B Towed Array SONAR (TACTAS)
AN/SLQ-32A(V)3 Electronic Warfare Suite

Price: $1 billion

Neuhausburg-class anti-aircraft cruiser (CAA)

Length: 640 feet
Beam: 66 feet
Draft: 32 feet
Displacement: 10,200 tons
Propulsion: 4 LM-2500 Gas Turbine Engines
Speed: 32 knots
Range: 3,000 nm at flank, up to 8,000 at slower speeds
Crew Complement: 350 officers and crew

Armament:
392 Standard missile VLS tubes
6 Rolling Airframe Missile launchers with 21 missiles each
5 CIWS
3 Triple Mark 56 ATT launchers
2 5-inch ETC guns
2 21-inch torpedo tubes

Countermeasures:
Prairie-Masker
Noisemakers

Sensors:
AN/SPY-3 MFR
AN/SPS-49
AN/SPS-55
AN/SPS-64
AN/SQS-53B Hull Mounted SONAR
AN/SQS-53C Hull Mounted SONAR
AN/SQR-19B Towed Array SONAR (TACTAS)
AN/SLQ-32A(V)3 Electronic Warfare Suite

Price: $1 billion

Störtebecker-class antisubmarine destroyer (DDK)

Length: 610 feet
Beam: 62 feet
Draft: 27 feet
Displacement: 8,500 tons
Propulsion: 4 LM2500+ gas turbines, two shafts.
Speed: 34 knots
Range: 3,300 nm at flank, up to 8,000nm at lower speeds.
Crew Complement: 350 officers and enlisted

Armament:
32 ASROC VLS tubes
4 Phalanx CIWS
3 Rolling Airframe Missile launchers with 21 missiles each
4 21-inch torpedo tubes with 20 Mark 48 ADCAP
2 Triple Mark 56 ATT launchers
1 5-inch ETC gun

Aircraft: 2 SH-60 helicopters

Countermeasures:
Noisemakers
Prairie-Masker

Sensors:
AN/SPY-3 MFR
AN/SPS-49
AN/SPS-55
AN/SPS-64
AN/SQS-53B Hull Mounted SONAR
AN/SQS-53C Hull Mounted SONAR
AN/SQR-19B Towed Array SONAR (TACTAS)
AN/SLQ-32A(V)3 Electronic Warfare Suite

Price: $800 million

Von Spee-class anti-aircraft destroyer (DDAA)

Length: 610 feet
Beam: 62 feet
Draft: 27 feet
Displacement: 8,500 tons
Propulsion: 4 LM2500+ gas turbines, two shafts.
Speed: 34 knots
Range: 3,300 nm at flank, up to 8,000nm at lower speeds.
Crew Complement: 350 officers and enlisted

Armament:
196 Standard missile VLS tubes
4 Phalanx CIWS
3 Rolling Airframe Missile launchers with 21 missiles each
4 21-inch torpedo tubes with 20 Mark 48 ADCAP
2 Triple Mark 56 ATT launchers
1 5-inch ETC gun

Countermeasures:
Noisemakers
Prairie-Masker

Sensors:
AN/SPY-3 MFR
AN/SPS-49
AN/SPS-55
AN/SPS-64
AN/SQS-53B Hull Mounted SONAR
AN/SQS-53C Hull Mounted SONAR
AN/SQR-19B Towed Array SONAR (TACTAS)
AN/SLQ-32A(V)3 Electronic Warfare Suite

Price: $800 million


Pebble-class antisubmarine frigate (FFK)

Length: 450 feet
Beam: 46 feet
Draft: 22 feet
Displacement: 4,100 tons
Propulsion: Two LM-2500 Gas Turbine Engines
Speed: 30 knots
Range: 6,000 nm
Crew Complement: 200 officers and crew

Armament:
2 Rolling Airframe Missile launchers with 21 missiles each
2 Phalanx CIWS
1 Triple Mark 56 ATT launchers
2 21-inch torpedo tubes with 10 torpedoes
16 ASROC VLS tubes

Countermeasures:
Prairie-Masker
Noisemakers

Sensors:
AN/SPY-3 MFR
AN/SPS-49
AN/SPS-55
AN/SPS-64
AN/SQS-53B Hull Mounted SONAR
AN/SQS-53C Hull Mounted SONAR
AN/SQR-19B Towed Array SONAR (TACTAS)
AN/SLQ-32A(V)3 Electronic Warfare Suite

Price: $400 million

Hanslein-class minelayer (CM)

Length: 235 feet
Beam: 29 feet, 7 inches
Draft: 15 feet
Displacement: 2,700 tons
Propulsion: 2 diesel engines, 5000 horsepower; 2 shafts
Speed: 20 knots
Range: 3,000 nm
Crew: 36
Armament:
6 minelayers
300 Mark 8-10 mines
100 Mark 7
Price: $50,000,000



Gödeke Michels-class minelaying submarine (SSMN)
Length: 377 feet
Beam: 34 feet
Draft: 32 feet
Displacement: 7,800 tons
Depth: 1,200+ feet
Propulsion: Transformational Technology Core pressurized water reactr.
Speed: 25+ knots

Armament:
8 21" torpedo tubes
1 Mark 7 minelayer located aft f t he conning tower
100 Mark 8-10 mines
20 Mark 7 mines
20 Mark 48 ADCAP

Sonars:
Spherical active/passive arrays
Light Weight Wide Aperture Arrays
TB-16, TB-29
High frequency chin and sail arrays

Counter measures:
1 internal launcher
14 external launchers
Crew: 113
Price: $2 billion


Mark 7
The Mark 7 Deep Water Naval Mine in many ways resembles a suicidal submarine. Packed with over four thousand pounds of HBX-3 high explosive, this mine will dive, much like a submarine, and then wait at a pre-determined depth for an enemy ship to come by. This depth is usually that which will result in a resonance effect upon a superdreadnought which is unlucky enough to trigger the mine's pressure sensors. Several ultracapacitors and a set of small props enable the mine to keep place for up to one year. At the end of this period it will surface and broadcast a "Pick me up call" to the Civitas Americae Navy. A specific sonar signal may be sent by CAN units to cause it to self-destruct or prematurely surface and deactivate for clearing of a minefield. This is laid only by ship.

Cost: $45,000


Mark 8
The Mark 8 Port Security Naval Mine is very effective at making enemy ports secure for Civitas Americae ships, and not for enemy ships. Layable by air, cruise missile, or submersible, this small pressure and magnetic fuzed mine is moored to the bottom of the port and is effective in depths up to 200 meters. Though its 500 pound explosive won't do much damage to an SDN, it'll cripple or sink an escorting vessel. The Mark 8B is launched as a 21-inch torpedo, allowing to propel itself to the enemy port, reducing the risk to the submarine deploying it.

Cost: $750. $2,500 for the Mark 8B.

Mark 9 Anti-Submarine Mine
Deployable by air, ship, or submersible, the Mark 9 is a deep sea anti-submarine mine. Upon deployment, it simply waits at the end of its moor until a hostile submarine is detected. Upon detecting the sonar signature of an enemy submarine, it launches a Mark 48 ADCAP torpedo. It is operational in waters up to 3,000 feet deep.

Mark 10 Anti-Submarine Mine
Deployable by air, ship, or submerisible, the Mark 10 is a coastal variant of the Mark 9. It operates in waters no deeper than 1,000 feet. Typically, an outer layer of Mark 10s will be sown around an enemy port before a series of Mark 8 mines is sent into the port.

Price for both: $3 million (due to the torpedo)

Mark 56 Anti-Torpedo Torpedo
Caliber: 304.8mm
Weight: 250 kg
Length: 2600 mm
Minimum speed: 25 knots
Maximum speed: 70 knots
Range: 5-12 kilometers depending on speed used.
Warhead: 20 kilograms
Cost: $1 million

When the Rolling Airframe Missile defense system was added to Civitas Americae’s ships, the inevitable question of “Why can’t we produce an equivalent for torpedoes?” was asked. The Mark 56 was Neu Sachsen Combat Systems Inc.’s answer, and adopted by the Civitas America Navy. It is now a standard feature on all new ships.

"Der Drache" Flammpanzer

During its wargaming, the Civitas Americae Marine Corps decided that it needed a more effective tool for rooting out entrenched soldiers and MOUT. That tool was "die Drache", a flamethrower tank.

Taking the Merkava 4 currently used by the CAMC, the newly formed Thurn und Taxis Military System got rid of the top mounted machine gun and troop compartment. Replacing these were a flamethrower and its fuel tanks.

Using a propietary napalm thickened fuel, "die Drache" is capable of sending a jet of flame over 200 yards, and sustaining that jet for three minutes. While it isn't of much use in a conventional tank battle, its use in rooting out hostiles in a city is invaluable.

Specifications:
Crew: 3. Gunner, commander, driver
Length with gun forward: 9.04m
Width without skirts: 3.72m
Height to turret roof: 2.66m
Weight: 65t
Main gun: 120mm smoothbore
Amunition on board: 48 rounds
Ready to fire rounds: 10
Secondary weapon: Mark 4 vehicle mounted flamethrower
Ammunition on board: 180 seconds
Ready to fire rounds: N/A
Mortar: 60mm
Mortar range: 2,700m
V-12 diesel engine: 1,500hp
Maximum speed: over 60km/h
Cross country speed: up to 55km/h
Range: 500km

Cost: 3.5 million

BF14J Bearcat

A Bearcat accelerating past Mach 2.9 with waveriders extended.

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The prototype BF14J in its hangar

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While the Civitas Americae Navy was undergoing a massive modernization and reorganization, it did not concern itself solely with ships, but also with aircraft. The F-21 Attack Super Tomcat, while an excellent fighter, was getting outdated, and a replacement was sought. Amerikanisch Raumfahrt’s Bearcat won the resulting fly off.

While the Air Force’s preference for stand off weaponry to reduce enemy air defense makes for large, and relatively slow bomb trucks, the Navy’s need for a fighter capable of eliminating opponents who also use stand off weapons before they can use such requires a fast fighter, which can quickly intercept the opposing force far away from the fleet. To aid in this, the Bearcat is powered by two 46,000lb turbofan jets and uses variable-geometry to create a waverider wing structure. Because of this, the Bearcat has a cruising speed of Mach 3.1, and a top speed of Mach 3.3. Rather than use exotic, and highly expensive, materials to deal with the resulting heat, the Bearcat uses an intricate system of heat pipes, filled with mercury, to keep heat buildup to reasonable levels. This high-speed emphasis does mean that there is rather less fuel economy at lower speeds however.

In keeping with modern times, the Bearcat uses a helmet-mounted display, with cueing capability. A HUD is kept for use as a backup. Radar consists of the same AN/APG-77 AESA used in the Tu-161 Black Widow, along with the processing power and datalink available to the Air Force fighter.

Because of the excessive drag that pylons would put on the Bearcat, it does not have them, but rather carries all ordinance internally. Its single 30 feet by 8 feet bomb bay is capable of carrying 6 R-33, 6 AIM-120D, 12 AIM-9X, or a mixture of the above. For bombing runs, it can also carry up to a dozen of the new Stand Off Small Diameter Bomb. The high speed of the Bearcat allows it to accurately drop these bombs from over 150 miles away, 200 miles if it does a high-speed pop-up attack.

While most of the Bearcat’s protection lies in its high speed, it is equipped with plenty of chaff and flares, as well as two towed decoys that can be deployed to fool hostile missiles. All-aspect thrust vectoring and an IR laser to jam heat-seeking missiles increase the chance of survival even more. If, however, all these defenses fail and the plane is struck by a missile, both the pilot and the radar intercept officer have individual escape pods, to allow a safe ejection at any altitude and speed, from sitting parked on the runway to flying top speed at 70,000 feet.

Crew: 2, Pilot and Radar Intercept Officer
Length: 64 feet, 3 inches
Wingspan: 70 feet
Height: 17 feet
Loaded: 62,000 pounds
Maximum speed: Mach 3.3
Cruising speed: Mach 3.1
Service ceiling: 70,200 feet
Rate of climb: 60,000 feet per minute
Combat Range: 1,400nm
Power: 2x 46,000lb turbofans
Armament:
6 R-33
6 AIM-120D
12 AIM-9X
12 SOSDB
Or mix

Cost: $70 million

EZ-1 Graf Zeppelin

Length: 300 feet
Width: 160 feet
Height: 95 feet
Volume: 2.1 million cubic feet
Maximum altitude: 90,000 feet
Cruising altitude: 85,000 feet
Maximum duration: 18 months
Lifting gas: Helium and nitrogen
Power: Radiosotope thermoelectric generator using plutonium-238, 6 electric motors
Speed: 20 mph
Cost: $750 million

When the Stratellite concept was unveiled, the Civitas Americae Air Force and Organized Militia both had the same idea. Rather than using it for communications work, why not use it for AWAC duty?

A slightly larger version of the Stratellite was built for the military, enabling a larger payload and higher altitude. With literally billions of transmit/receive modules for its Advanced Electronically Scanned Array Radar, it has unprecedented range and power, able to detect even the stealthiest target over 600 kilometers away. The combined power of this radar when focused can burn out even hardened systems, allowing the EZ-1 to act as an air defense system in its own right.

The Graf Zeppelin is actually a drone airship, controlled by a ten-man crew on the ground. This allows for a smaller fleet to perform the same amount of work that a manned fleet could do.

M77 SAM/AAA railcar

After the Marine Corps and Organized Militia took possession of the M75 and M76 railway guns, they realized that they also needed air defenses that could travel with these guns. The M77 was designed by Liechtenstein Rail to satisfy this need. A veritable behemoth of anti-aircraft fire, the M77 carries three medium-range SAM launchers along with four Rolling Airframe Missile launchers and two anti-aircraft guns taken from the BTR-94.

Car weight: 18 tons
Car length: 15 meters
Armament:
3 SLAMRAAM launchers with 90 missiles each
4 RAM launchers with 21 missiles each
2 ZU-23-2 twin 23mm guns with 15,000 rounds each
Cost: $30 million

M79 Missile Tender

The M79 Missile Tender is a railcar designed to carry extra missiles for the M77 and M78 anti-aircraft railcars. With reloading equipment and cranes built onto the car, the M79 can quickly reload or restock missiles.

Like all Civitas Americae rolling stock, the M79 is built to a five-foot gauge, but export versions can be easily modified to fit the gauge of the purchasing nation.

Specifications:
Car dry weight: 5 tons
Car length: 25 meters
Cargo capacity: 60 tons of missiles
Cost: $10 million

Lynx Hochunterstützungpanzer (heavy support tank)

The Lynx Hochunterstützungpanzer was developed for the Civitas Americae Marine Corps to replace the Merkava 4 then in service. Unlike the Merkava 4, however, the Lynx was not designed to act as a main battle tank, but rather to give heavy assistance to Marine Corps assaults, with enemy tank formations destroyed by bomber or helicopter attacks.

The basic rule of thumb when fighting this tank is “If we can see it, we can kill it.” The 152mm hypervelocity howitzer is capable of accurately engaging targets up to 6,000 meters distant, half a kilometer further than then the horizon in flat terrain. A typical combat load consists of a mix of hypervelocity penetrators in case of tank engagement, HE shells, and two or three canister rounds. Facing canister can be a terrifying experience for infantry, especially as the canister rounds carried by the Lynx carry 1,500 tungsten pellets. When specially authorized, a one-kiloton yield nuclear shell can also be carried.

The Mark 4 vehicle mounted flamethrower has returned. There are two unofficial theories as to why the Lynx is equipped with it. The first is that wargaming found the “Der Drache” variant of the Merkava to be extremely effective, and the Marine Corps decided to standardize it. The second is that tankers enjoyed watching “crunchies” piss themselves when the flamethrower fired so much that they insisted that all new tanks have one. The real reason is probably a mixture of both. Of course, given that this requires having a container full of modified napalm in the Lynx, special measures were taken to keep the crew safe. The container is situated ahead of the crew in the front of the tank, just behind the main engine. As the napalm is used up, the container is filled with Halon 1301. In the event that the container is pierced, the napalm is immediately dumped beneath the tank along with all remaining Halon. Like the top mounted machine gun, the Mark 4 is fired by remote control, rather than requiring a crew member to be exposed to enemy fire.

The electronics system in the Lynx includes a laser range finder and designator, FLIR, GPS, and LandNet. The laser range finder, in addition to finding the range of an enemy target, can also designate the target for an airstrike or give the coordinates for an artillery barrage. LandNet is the Marine Corps’ tactical implementation of the Global Information Grid, similar to the Navy’s FORCEnet. If need be, or the crew feels sufficiently perverse, the electronics systems are more than capable of targeting and shooting down an enemy helicopter with the main gun. Also, if fed the targeting information from infantry, UAVs, or other sources, the main gun can be used as an artillery piece and lob a shell over the horizon and on top of the opposing tank, conveniently on top of the weakest point of armor.

The armor on the Lynx is rather thin on the sides and rear compared to main battle tanks. As one general was rumored to say, “An MBT hit is going to kill them anyhow, why bother pretending that it won’t with extra armor?” Since the Lynx isn’t supposed to engage enemy tanks on the battlefield as a routine matter, it is somewhat of a moot point. 4 6-tube smoke grenade launchers and the anti-rocket TROPHY active protection system grant additional protection.
Variants:

Lynx-A: Command vehicle distributed at the platoon level and higher. Has additional communications equipment and is equipped with Shortstop.

Lynx-B: Engineer version.


Specifications:
Crew: 4. Gunner, loader, commander, driver
Length: 8 meters
Length with gun forward: 11.2m
Width: 3.52m
Height to turret roof: 2.4m
Weight: 55 tons
Main gun: 152mm hypervelocity howitzer
Ammunition on board: 40
Ready to fire rounds: 10
Secondary armament: Mark 4 vehicle mounted flamethrower
Ammo: 60 seconds
Tertiary armament: Coaxial 12.7mm machine gun, top mounted 12.7mm machine gun
Ammo: 2,500 rounds
Armor: British Chobham, 250mm around the tank.
Additional protection provided by TROPHY active protection system
V-12 diesel engine: 1,500 hp
Maximum speed: 75 kmh
Cross country speed: 65 kmh
Range: 400km
Cost: $10 million


Schwere Panzerspähwagen SdKfz 312 Puma II

Specifications:
Crew: 3, plus 12 passengers
Length: 8.3 meters
Width: 2.95m
Height: 2.8m
Weight: 30 tons
Main gun: One remotely controlled turret with two 30mm Bushmaster II
Ammunition on board: 600 per gun
Secondary armament: Two LOSAT missile launchers on side of turret
Ammo: 2 rounds
Armor: MEXAS, 400mm RHAe vs CE
Additional protection provided by TROPHY active protection system
V-12 diesel engine: 500 hp
Maximum speed: 90 km/h
Cross country speed: 50 km/h
Amphibious speed: 10 km/h
Range: 300km
Cost: $1.4 million

Kaiser-class Superdreadnought (SDN)

The Kaiser-class superdreadnought was designed by Neuhausburg Shipyards in order to capitalize on the growing market in such extremely large ships, and to possibly woo the Civitas Americae Navy into purchasing some of these ships, which were disfavored by the Navy.

Unlike every other superdreadnought that had been reviewed by the Civitas Americae Navy, the Kaiser-class does not strive to be a jack of all trades, but seeks solely to be the master of one trade: Surface warfare. Observers will search in vain for the airstrips and missile tubes so prevalent on other superdreadnoughts.

The Kaiser-class SDN possesses the most powerful gun armament afloat, with 16 dual twenty-five inch turrets. In order to mount this tremendous armament, the designers at Neuhausburg took a novel approach that took advantage of the tremendous beam of the Kaiser-class. Rather than mount a single row of turrets down the center, two rows of turrets were mounted along the side of the upper deck. With the turrets mounted at staggered intervals, all guns are capable of firing along the same trajectory if needed.

In the empty center row are twenty-five five-inch guns. These are not normal five-inch guns however. These are slaved to the counterbattery radar of the ship and are used to intercept large enemy shells before they intercept the ship, turning a large explosive shell into relatively harmless fragments of steel. Placed throughout the deck, over a hundred Rolling Airframe Missile launchers and a hundred and twenty Mark 56 Anti-Torpedo Torpedo launchers provide defense against incoming powered threats both air and seaborne. For last-ditch defense against torpedoes, both conventional and supercavitating, a hundred and fifteen machine guns firing supercavitating bullets are built into the hull beneath the waterline.

Should an enemy shell or missile manage to strike a Kaiser-class vessel however, it will have to deal with the extremely heavy armor mounted by these vessels. With eleven to twelve feet of advanced armor plating facing the enemy in addition to its active defenses, the Kaiser-class is the most survivable ship currently in existence.

Of course, all of this comes at a tremendous weight, and Kaiser-class vessels displace a total of 2.5 megatons. Much of this internal volume is available for storage of ammunition, food, and fuel for smaller escorting vessels. In order to propel this weight, the Kaiser-class is powered by eight A5W nuclear reactors, each connected a propellor.

Length: 980 metres
Draft: 44 metres
Beam: 103 metres
Displacement: 2.5 megatons
Endurance: Essentially unlimited
Crew: 10,800
Powerplant:
8 A5W nuclear reactors

Propulsion:
8 screws

Speed: 18 knots

Armaments:
16 dual 25-inch ETC guns
25 5-inch anti-shell guns
100 triple Mark 56 Anti-Torpedo Torpedo launchers
120 Rolling Airframe Missile launchers with 21 missiles each

Armor:
144-inch turret face
121-inch barbette
121-inch deck
20-inch bulkheads
144-inch belt, 20°

Aircraft: 12 SH-60

Cost: $300 billion

König-class Escort Superdreadnought (SDEN)

With the creation of the Kaiser-class SDN, the designers at Neuhausburg Shipyards realized that they needed a vessel fit for escorting these huge new ships. To answer this need, they created the König-class escort superdreadnought.

Smaller than the massive Kaisers, the Königs are capable of packing an even larger punch. Their massive surface area is devoted wholly to vertical launch system cells. A total of 35,380 of these cells fill this ship. While most missiles will take up the entire tube, some smaller missiles can fit two or even four missiles into a tube, providing the unprecedented ability of a single ship firing up to 141,520 missiles in a single salvo. However, the König-class is also built for sustainability. Her vast internal volume, and the design of the VLS cells, allows her to carry two reloads per cell and replenish these cells while underway, for a total missile capacity of 106,140-424,560 missiles.

Obviously, this ship is a rather attractive target. That is why she has been equipped with 15 five-inch anti-shell guns, 25 triple Mark 56 Anti-Torpedo Torpedo launchers, and 30 Rolling Airframe Missile launchers. Thirty machine guns mounted on the underside of the hull fire supercavitating bullets as a last-ditch torpedo defense.

Length: 612 metres
Draft: 20 metres
Beam: 76 metres
Displacement: 722,000 tons
Endurance: Essentially unlimited
Crew: 5,200
Powerplant:
6 A5W nuclear reactors

Propulsion:
6 screws

Speed: 22 knots

Armament:
35,380 VLS tubes with variety of missiles, room in hull for two additional shots per tube).
25 triple Mark 56 Anti-Torpedo Torpedo launchers
15 5-inch anti-shell guns
30 Rolling Airframe Missile launchers with 21 missiles each

Cost: $75 billion, not including missiles

DAGM-3 Hel

Power: Nuclear ramjet, 600 megawatts unshielded.
Length: 38 feet
Diameter: 5 feet
Warhead: 12 W-89 200 kiloton nuclear warheads
Weight: 24,000 pounds
Range: Hee hee.
Cruising speed: Mach 3.1
Guidance: Intertial with terrain mapping, GPS as optional backup system.
Cruising altitude: 250 feet.
Cost: $45 million

F-20 Siegmund air superiority fighter

Specifications:
Crew: 2; Pilot and Radar Intercept Officer
Length: 52 feet
Width: 40 feet
Height: 17 feet
Weight: 58,000 pounds fully loaded
Service ceiling: 60,000 ft.
Maximum speed: Mach 2.1
Cruising speed: Mach 1.4
Power: 2x 42,000lb turbofan
Combat radius: 600 miles without external drop tanks
Armament:
1x 37mm cannon
6 wing hardpoints
6 fuselage hardpoints
20,000 pounds of ordnance
Cost: $55 million

F-19 Viper long range interceptor

The Navy’s BF14J Bearcat interceptor proved useful not only for defending ships but also for defending the home territory of Civitas Americae, becoming the first fighter to go into service with the Organized Militia straight from the production lines. Though the Tu-161 performed adequately as a long-range interceptor, its low speed (a dash capability of only Mach 2) meant that it would take too long to intercept enemy aircraft at a suitably far distance. In response to this need for a long-range high speed interceptor, the Civitas Americae Air Force issued a contract, won by Breton Air.

The F-19 resembles the old SR-71 in many ways, the most significant being appearance. Unlike its predecessor, however, it does not rely on exotic, and expensive, materials to protect it from the dangerous temperatures associated with atmospheric friction at high Mach. Rather, like the B-70 Valkyrie, the Viper circulates the fuel through the plane and uses the fuel as a heat sink. This has the side benefit of eliminating the fuel leaks, and hence need for aerial refueling after take-off, also boosting the range.

Like the SR-71, the F-19 uses a hybrid turbojet-ramjet to power it. The more powerful twin J102 engines are capable of propelling the craft at Mach 3.6, though it is more common to cruise at Mach 3.48. The increased fuel capacity of the F-19 allows it to intercept targets out to 1500 miles out.

Like all Civitas Americae fighters, the F-19 is equipped with a powerful radar system that also functions as a jamming system, and anti-cruise missile system (through high powered radar pulses which knock out missile electronics). A datalinking system also aids in increasing squadron performance.

Specifications:
Crew: 2; Pilot and Radar Intercept Officer
Length: 110 feet
Width: 56 feet
Height: 18 feet, 6 inches
Weight: 112,000 pounds fully loaded
Service ceiling: 80,000 ft.
Combat radius: 1,500 miles
Maximum speed: Mach 3.6
Cruising speed: Mach 3.48
Power: 2x 50,000lb hybrid turbojet-ramjet engines
Armament:
3 long range missiles
6 medium range missiles
8 short range missiles
Cost: $100 million

A-15 Thunderbolt

Built by Shinsei Industries, the A-15 Thunderbolt is a cheap export aircraft designed for counterinsurgency, close air support, and reconnaissance work. There are also unconfirmed reports that it has proven to be a very valuable insurgency aircraft.

The Thunderbolt’s chief design characteristic is an ability to fly from small, rough, unprepared forward airfields. It is this characteristic that has made it invaluable to many rebellions, which are unable to hold or afford a traditional airbase, but are able to find patches of reasonably flat ground and quickly camouflage the aircraft. Compared to most aircraft of its size, it has tough landing gear, similar to that which you might find on a naval aircraft.

Two 1,200 horsepower turboprop engines power this propeller driven aircraft to a maximum speed of 320 miles per hour. With a full combat load of four thousand pounds, this aircraft has a combat radius of 220 miles, and a ferry range, minus the combat load, of 2,400 miles.

While a small aircraft, with a maximum take off weight of only 16,000 pounds, the Thunderbolt carries a substantial armament. Mounted in the nose are two 30mm cannon and four .50 caliber machine guns. Along the wings and fuselage are five hardpoints for the carrying of external ordnance. Anything from rockets to drop tanks to JDAMs and JSOWs can be mounted. In addition, the wingtips allow for the mounting of two short-range missiles such as the AIM-9 Sidewinder, in case the Thunderbolt should unexpectedly meet with enemy helicopters or similar aircraft. Finally, the Thunderbolt is equipped with both forward-looking infrared radar and a laser designator, as a matter of course.

The Thunderbolt is not too heavily armored. While the tandem cockpit for the copilot and weapons system officer is armored against heavy machine gun fire, heavy machine gun fire will rip through the rest of the airplane, and cannon fire will turn the aircraft into a pretty orange blossom in the sky. In case of emergency, the pilot and WSO may eject using zero-zero ejection seats.

Specifications:
Crew: 2; pilot and weapons system operator
Length: 15.3 meters
Wingspan: 14.7 meters
Height: 5.4 meters
Ceiling: 30,000 feet
Armament:
2x 30mm cannon with 250 rounds per gun
4x .50 caliber machine gun with 900 rounds per gun
Up to 4,000 pounds of additional ordnance on 5 external hardpoints
Empty weight: 9,000 pounds
Maximum take off weight: 16,000 pounds
Maximum speed: 320 mph
Combat radius: 220 miles
Ferry range: 2,400 miles
Take off distance: 1,250 feet
Price: $5 million

A9W Freibeuter

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Surprisingly, the A9W Freibeuter was not designed out of a Civitas Americae Navy requirement. Rather, it was designed to fulfill a need in the Burgundian Reichsmarine for a long-range carrier-borne bomber force.

Like most Civitas Americae aircraft, the A9W is designed for long-range supercruise operations. The twin J-93 engines grant this large vessel a cruise speed of Mach 1.8, and a dash speed of Mach 2.6. This high speed grants a high sortie rate as, even if flying to missions at the edge of its combat radius (defined as the farthest it can fly with a full bomb load and 30 minutes loiter time without refueling), 1,182 nautical miles (1,360 statute miles), the Freibeuter only takes two hours to fly to the target, destroy it, and return to the carrier, leading to a potential sortie rate of five sorties per aircraft per day. By no means is this an absolute limit however. Using buddy stores instead of bombs, a Freibeuter can refuel another Freibeuter to increase its range. Using another Freibeuter to refuel it on the way out to a strike, and another on the way home, a single Freibeuter can hit a target 2,063 nautical miles (2,374 statute miles) away.

The Freibeuter carries its entire payload, all 21,000 pounds, inside an internal fuselage bomb bay. To deploy the bombs or missiles, an ejector arm lowers the bomb from the bay into air before releasing it. Originally, the weapons were to have simply been forcibly ejected from the aircraft using explosive bolts and/or compressed air, but during flight testing, it was determined that bombs released in this manner tended to be caught up in the bombers airstream and carried along with it for a short ways, reducing bombing accuracy to essentially zero. While the ejector arm solution does increase the amount of time it takes to drop all ordnance and hence slightly increases vulnerability, it was considered far more preferable to take longer and hit the target than to take less time and miss.

As befits a modern bomber, the Freibeuter is host to a series of sophisticated electronics. In a first for Civitas Americae bombers, the Freibeuter is equipped with terrain-following radar, allowing for low-level penetrations as well as high altitude ones, though this has an adverse effect on both speed and range. Surprisingly, the Freibeuter is also equipped with the same AESA radar as Americaen fighters as well as a compatible datalink system. The reason for this is two-fold. Firstly, it gives both bombers and escorting fighters a bigger picture of the enemy threat than they might otherwise have. Second, the Freibeuter is more than capable of using its bomb bay to hold air-to-air missiles instead of bombs. The AESA radar allows them to engage fighters on their own terms, and the datalinking allows all fighters and bombers to act in support of each other, rather than trying to fight and survive as individual units.

The Freibeuter has more than just speed and altitude to penetrate enemy airspace. In addition to the preferred method of simply blowing up enemy air defense systems long before they can range on the aircraft, two Supersonic-Cruise Armed Decoy (SCAD) can be carried, though at the expense of any other payload due to their size. The SCAD is a cruise missile designed in such a fashion that the radar signature matches that of the Freibeuter. Add in the SCADs ECM systems, though not nearly as powerful as those on the Freibeuter, and the fact that the SCAD is in fact armed, and enemy air defense systems are forced to divert previous resources, thus easing the way in for the Freibeuter.

In addition to its powerful ECM suite, the Freibeuter is equipped with the usual mix of chaff, flares, towed decoys, and a laser anti-IR missile jammer. Unusually for a bomber, the A9W is designed to be able to pull up to 6.3 Gs, greatly increasing its survivability.

Two subtypes of the Freibeuter exist. The A9W-1 is a dedicated jamming bird. The fully integrated jamming pods that have been designed into the airframe, eliminating the bomb bay in the process, are capable of a wide variety of jamming. Upon detection of an enemy radar, it is capable of jamming the range of frequencies used by that radar. Up to fifteen different radars, including airborne radars, may be jammed with 3kW jammers. The PB5W is a long-range naval reconnaissance plane typically used for pre- and post-strike target assessment.

Specifications
Crew: 2, Pilot and Navigator
Length: 78 feet, 2 inches
Wingspan: 54 feet
Height: 19 feet, 4 inches
Maximum Takeoff Weight: 84,823 lbs
Empty weight: 35,000 lbs
Service Ceiling: 58,000 feet
Combat radius: 1,182 nautical miles (1,360 statute miles)
Maximum speed: Mach 2.6
Cruising speed: Mach 1.8
Power: 2x J-93 30,000 pounds thrust.
Payload: 21,000 pounds of internal ordnance
Cost: $120 million

AH-30 Ostrogoth attack helicopter

Designed to replace the Mi-28N Havoc attack helicopter then in service, the AH-30 Ostrogoth is an innovative and heavy hitting new helicopter.

Seeing sustained hovering as a weakness and vulnerability in combat, the Ostrogoth is a compound helicopter, giving it a high speed and heavier payload, though with the trade-off of poor hover capability. Rather than use a traditional tail rotor, the Ostrogoth uses a vectored thrust ducted propeller, enabling high maneuverability.

The Ostrogoth is armed even more heavily than its feared namesake. The chin turret is armed with a 30mm cannon capable of firing at 200 rounds a minute and the wings can carry up to 24 Hellfires, 90 70mm rockets, 30 air-launched Vespe missiles, or a mix, depending on the mission.

A heavy amount of attention is paid to pilot survival as well. While most of the helicopter is only armored against rifle caliber rounds, the cockpit is armored sufficiently to withstand heavy machine gun fire. A belly mounted laser IR jammer and flare launchers aid in defending against shoulder-launched surface-to-air missiles. In the event that the helicopter suffers a critical hit, the crew is able to eject. Prior to the firing of the rocket in the ejection seats, the rotor is jettisoned.

Specifications:
Crew: 2
Length: 19m
Height: 4.3m
Rotor diameter: 16m
Wingspan: 8m
Maximum takeoff weight: 16500kg
Engine: 2x 2600hp turbine
Max speed: 415km/h
Max climb: 20 m/s
Ceiling: 8,000m
Range: 1500km
Armament:
30mm cannon with 1200 rounds
Up to 24 Hellfires, 90 70mm rockets, 30 air-launched Wespe or a mixture.
Cost: $30 million

Civitas Americae-class assault carrier (CVAN)

Length: 1,231 feet
Beam: 160 feet
Displacement: 120,000 tons
Draft: 43 feet
Crew: 5,280
Powerplant: 2 A5W nuclear reactors
Speed: 33 knots
Armament:
6x Rolling Airframe Missile Launchers with 21 missiles each
6x triple Mark 56 Anti-Torpedo Torpedo launchers
5x catapults
Standard Air Wing:
36 BF14J fighter-interceptors
48 A9W bombers
4 E-2C Hawkeye
8 PB5W patrol aircraft
12 A9W-1 electronics warfare
4 SH-60F
2 HH-60H


Cost: $8.7 billion

Civitas Americae-class assault carrier (CVAN)

Length: 1,231 feet
Beam: 160 feet
Displacement: 120,000 tons
Draft: 43 feet
Crew: 5,280
Powerplant: 2 A5W nuclear reactors
Speed: 33 knots
Armament:
6x Rolling Airframe Missile Launchers with 21 missiles each
6x triple Mark 56 Anti-Torpedo Torpedo launchers
5x catapults
Standard Air Wing:
36 BF14J fighter-interceptors
48 A9W bombers
4 E-2C Hawkeye
8 PB5W patrol aircraft
12 A9W-1 electronics warfare
4 SH-60F
2 HH-60H


Cost: $8.7 billion

We would like to buy 20 of these fine ships. How much for the air package with it?

$174,000,000,000 to be wired upon conformation

Thank you for your order. Each ship's air complement, using a standard Civitas Americae Navy complement, is $11 billion. Your ships are now being constructed, and the first four will be available in three and a half years time, with six following the next year and the rest over the next three years.

take $220,000,000,000 from goverment waste to cover the aircraft.

OOC: if you're gonna go off NSTracker/thirdgeek, you cant use government waste. its gotta be defence.

damn good storefront, that man, but you might want to put some of the info in other threads and link to those, or put it offsite. just a suggestion.
also, your ships are low on defensive systems, apart from RAM and Vulcans. at least mount SRBOC and give the option of the better GoalKeeper CIWS in place of the vulcans, and the RAMs, which some people (like me) dont like to use. anyway, I would buy from you, but all my defence aquisitions are internal, so i cant.