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The Royal Navy's Battle Squadron: Harpoon is the largest and most famous Battle Squadron in the Royal Navy. It is comprised of approximately two dozen of the Royal Navy's most famous battlecruisers and battleships, and at one point even the Mighty Hood sailed with Battle Squadron: Harpoon.

The Battle Squadron, in company with a small force of destroyers and submarines, patrols Questarian interests worldwide - from Antarchon to South Africa to India to Singapore to the Pacific Assets to Canada - the Battle Squadron: Harpoon has, and does, show the flag in all corners of the globe.

The current flagship of the Battle Squadron is Her Majesty's Ship Nelson. Here you will be given posts, links, pictures, and historic accounts of the capital ships in the Royal Navy's Battle Squadron: Harpoon.

Ships:
Hood Class (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10926943&postcount=2)
Nelson
Renown Class
Renown
Prince of Wales Class
Prince of Wales
Duke of York
Glorious Class
Glorious
Grenadier
Glowworm
Sovereign Class
Dauntless Class
Daring
Defiance
Dangerous
Malaya Class
Malaya
Monarch
Magnificent
Centurion Class (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10926996&postcount=5)
Centurion
Chieftain
Challenger
Conquerer
Invincible Class (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10926953&postcount=3)
Invincible
Illustrious
Indefatigable
Indomitable
Vanguard Class (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showpost.php?p=10926972&postcount=4)
[i]Vanguard
Victory
Vanquisher
Valhallla
Bowman Class

[OOC: Little note here. If you think it's intelligent, witty, amusing, or just plain useful to whine about how you think that this ship couldn't float, or move, or whatever, or how it wouldn't fit in any RL port, then go cry a river. Somewhere else. I don't care about your moaning and your whining and your threat of ignore. And, I think, neither does anyone else.

Oh yeah, and if you even think of saying 'haha, I'll just nuke it' I will get seriously angry. I'm warning you, please do not say that. Or even hint at it.

Secondly, this was intended to be a large writeup with approximatly eight sections. However, I realised that 90% of the forum wouldn't even read that, let alone take it in, and that most people are only interested in OMG! Shiny picture!, so I figured leave it at the most important parts. The 'What you aren't told' part, is where I have included the weaknesses of the ship. You aren't supposed to know this, and you probably won't, but if one of your companies thinks of asking, don't bother, they won't get a response from QAE. Anyway, Enjoy a failed project.]

Ships in the Battle Squadron:
Nelson
Rodney

THE 'HOOD' PROJECT'

LINK TO PICTURE [PNG] (http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f16/MattShipwrighter/Questers/Hood/HMSHoodRebuilt6.png)
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SPECIFICATIONS
Length: 6,157 Feet / 1,877 Metres
Beam(Trimaran): 879 Feet / 268 Metres
Draught: 157 Feet / 48 metres
Displacement: 14,959,852 Metric Tons
Complement: 26,125 Full

PROPULSION AND AVIATION
Propulsion:
Type: Nuclear
Reactors:4 Questarian Atomfirm pressurised water reactor providing 1.5GW each
Propulsion:16 Shafts, 16 waterjets,
Steering: 2 Main ruddes, 1 backup
Speed: 29.5 knots max
Range: 18 Months (stores)
Service Life: 18 Years
Aviation:
Cranes: 6 Seaplane cranes
Hangar: 18 VTOL aircraft and 18 AWACS Seaplanes and 18 HELOs

ELECTRONICS
Sensors:
Type 10 Air Search RADAR
Type 20 Sea Search RADAR
Type 30 Bow-Mounted Sub-Search SONAR
Type 40 General Search LADAR
Type 45 General Search LIDAR
Type 50 Communications Array
Type 55 RADAR Sweep Jammer
Type 56 RADAR Barrage Jammer
Type 58 Sensory Interference Resistance Device
Type 60 GPS Array
Type 98A1 Gun Control
Type 98A2 Gun Control
Type 100 Over the Horizon Search RADAR
L105A1 Combined RADAR LADAR InfraRed Missile Director System
L106A1 Stand Off Missile Director System
L110A1 Mainmast Missile Director System

ARMAMENT
The Hood’s armament is based around its five gigantic turrets, large batteries of small DP guns, and long arrays of large VLS cells.

Main Guns
The main armament is the six gun turrets on the ship. Each turret is fitted with five Type 95 L82 rifled 76.25cm naval cannons with 120 grooves per barrel. Each cannon is 62.52 metres long and has a maximum declination of -2 degrees and a maximum inclination of 42 degrees. The shell velocity is 810 M/S. The maximum weight for each turret is around 13,000 tons – turrets measuring over 13200 tons will not be fitted on the ship. Each gun is provided with 80 shells, of which 38 are stored in the turret. This adds to a grand total of 190 shells to a turret. The other 42 shells are located in the magazine: each turrets magazine can hold 210 shells and weighs approximately 1900 tons. In total, this makes the main weapon system weigh approximately 54,500 tons - .331% of the entire ships weight. Each turret is mounted in an 8m deep barbette with an armour layer of 800mm – 50% steel and 50% aluminium oxide alloy. The magazine feeder descends 18m down into the magazine, which is surrounded by its own box with a 130mm armour – 90% steel and 10% aluminium oxide alloy. Four opening and closing bulkheads act like ‘wet and dry’ doors for the magazine – should the magazine be detonated, it is the possible that the bulkheads can hold in an explosion until damage control kicks in – and, if the turret explodes, the magazine below will not be harmed.

Without assistance, each gun’s maximum range is approximately 120 kilometres – the highest marked number is 134 km in tests before the shells were fitted to the ship. Note that this number may be significantly disproportionate because of the stability differences of a land firing platform and a naval firing platform. Using the Type 95A2 Advanced Rocket Assisted Round [ARAR], the Questarian equivalent of the US ERGM, the shell can fire to approximately 800km – the longest shot being 821.3km, again fired from land. The standard shell, the Type 95A1(A3 for HE, A4 for AP), is a 7,400 kilogram projectile, with either a high explosive core or armour piercing cap. The HE core shell is designed to be fired on shore targets – it has a higher charge and more explosives. The AP cap is designed to be fired on other vessels. It weighs 7,600kg. The projectile nose is of a hydrodynamic shape – this helps the trajectory stay constant. Because of the high inclination of the guns at maximum range, and the design of the AP shell, it will achieve a plunging shot at most distances.

Using automated loaders and advanced crew training, Royal Navy personnel can reload and fire a Type 95 L80 cannon at 42 degrees to 120km within 83 seconds – the most lengthy portion is elevating the gun to that level, and secondly, to allow the recoil-assisters to stabilise themselves. It should be noted that the Royal Navy Heavy Artillery Division spends over 3 million pounds on training each gunner that is qualified to fire a 600mm or higher cannon.

The 20m rangefinder for the main guns is located on either side of the turret and a backup 15m rangefinder underneath each gun. In coordination with satellite links from the sensors array and with the 50m Advanced Heavy Naval Rangefinder [AHNR] the Hood can accurately project heavy fire within a 30m circle up to 60km. The gun is accurate up to 90m circle at full, unassisted range – and 130m circle at full ARAR range. The guns are controlled by a pair of Type 98A1 Gun Control Sensors.

The blast pressure relative to gun distance is extremely high – the blast pressure within 300m of a gun going off is approximately .65 kilograms.

Secondary Guns
The secondary armament of the Hood class is 8 dual 38 cm rifled naval cannons. There are 4 turrets starboard and 4 aft. The bow turrets are placed adjacent to No 2 and No 3 guns, and the rear turrets are placed below the boat deck. The guns are controlled by the secondary Type 98A1 Gun Control Sensors. Each turret has 280 shells which can shoot to a maximum range of 40km. The turrets feature a scaled down version of the main gun fire control with 350mm of steel armour for the barbette. The guns can also fire the 380mm variant of AA shell, known as the Type 30L1 ‘Lampare’, named after the firework. Each shell acts like a shotgun, fitted with 750 incendiary tubes constructed from rubber thermite and 350 steel stays. Fuses are set to go off at a specific distance and height forming a 20 degrees cone of flame with the incendiary cap, which contains about 200 tubes. A split second later the remaining incendiaries detonate and create a wall of flame approximately 5m out, burning at 9 seconds for approximately 3000 degrees centigrade.

D/P Guns
The Hood is fitted with a generous number of dual purpose guns. 30 fittings for the Type 98A1 L50 smoothbore dual 155mm turrets are installed in total around the ship - 15 turrets port and 15 starboard. There are four Type 98A2 sensor array systems installed, again, 2 port and 2 starboard. Each sensor array has significantly high powered RADAR, LADAR, and IR systems, and is capable of routing each gun to track a different target in .843 of a second. The guns themselves have a ROF of 1 round every 16 seconds each – giving each side of the vessel a combined ROF of 83 155mm rounds per second. Each gun has 200 rounds – 20 of these are standard HE shells with a maximum range of 11km, but the remaining are Type 30L2 pattern anti air shells, the official name being ‘Firecracker’, nicknamed ‘Catherine wheels’ by the crew manning them. A direct copy of the ‘Lampare’ but with 300 incendiary tubes and only 150 steel stays. In addition it burns for 4 seconds shorter.

In addition, the ship boasts 80 Type 97A1 quad 76mm smoothbore autocannons – a total of 320 76mm guns in all, if you can’t count. There are two previously mentioned Type 98A2 sensor arrays to every 40 gun turrets. Each cannon is capable of 40 rounds per minute – the combined total of a side being 400 76mm shells per minute. Each turret has 80 shells. None of these shells are HE – all are the Type 30L3 anti air shell ‘Firestarter’. This is a direct copy of the Type 30L1 ‘Lampare’, again except with a smaller payload of 120 incendiary tubes in the shell and 20 in the cap, each shell burning out to 5 metres for 3 seconds at approximately 1600 degrees centigrade.

Missiles
The Hood has an absurd amount of missiles. Five large vertical launch blocks are the main armament, two fore, two stern, and one centre, on a raised platform. Each block has a hundred missiles in rows of a hundred, essentially creating a 10,000 cell block. Each block is a metre wide and a metre long and twelve metres deep. It is highly possible to split off a cell so two missiles can be stored. Because of the nature of the VL blocks, each missile is specially padded with a small layer of foam and 200mm blow out cover aluminium armour. Another layer of unclassified steel armour lies below and around the VLS cells, effectively stopping damage of internal systems should the VL cells be detonated. The missiles are directed by ten L105A1 missile CRLIR (Combined RADAR LADAR and Infrared) Director System. In addition three L106A1 SOMD (Stand Off Missile Director) systems are mounted on the fore, stern, and centre of the ship, for the long range direction of heavy ASUMs. Finally, the L110A1 MAMD (Main mAst Missile Direction) is mounted on the mainmast for the direction of the SAMs.

Furthermore, thirty two sextuple rolling airframe missile launchers are dotted around the ship for missile CIWS. The ‘Culloden’ class missiles they fire are a short, manevourable, and fast, anti missile missile with a range of just 18km.

No ‘Culloden’ in Questarian service has ever missed its target.

In addition to this, the Type 56 and 55 RADAR Jammers, Barrage and Sweep respectively, are mounted on the mainmast to try and electronically disable enemy RADAR. The Type 58 Sensory Interference Resistance Device is a separate device from the main RADAR that operates to try and defend the main sensors from being jammed.

What You’re Not Told:
The 76.25cm main cannons are extremely prone to overheating and ruining barrels. Although the barrel has been protected by various insulators and sleeves, none are particularly effective at stopping this, only delaying it. As such, the main guns only have a lifetime of about three hundred shells before they will become effectively useless.

The secondary 38cm guns are mounted on the side of the ship, and although gratings and CIWS guns have been placed, they are fairly vulnerable to a shell hitting the space behind them. They also have low firing angles.

PROTECTION
The Hood’s armour protection covers the entire belt of the warship, the deck, and the rear. Unlike future capital ships, the Hood has little bulge armour, relying instead on its construction for defence.

Armour
The armour accounts for 34% of the entire ships displacement: 5,086,350 tons in all. The main armour section is a sort of giant armoured box. The main hull’s box is 998.82 metres long – a hefty 62% of the vessels length. The belt armour ,by comparison, is 1,261 tons per millimetre of armour – giving the belt armour a thickness of millimetres 2419.

This gives the:
Belt armour (59.97%) a weight of; 3,050,359 tons and a length of 2,419 millimetres
Deck armour (35.03%) a weight of 1,796,481 tons and a length of 1,412 millimetres
Torpedo bulges (5%) a weight of: 254,317.5 tons

The belt armour stretch is angled at 10 degrees for ten metres, before splitting off at 19 degrees. This has been design specifically so that any shell hitting at belt angle will deflect off the main belt and down.

Belt Armour Types
The Hood’s armour is layered – this prevents the armour from simply falling off under stress, as is possible with battleships where the armour is simply applied on an unlayered basis.

The first type – Stockford Hardened Cemented [SHC] – makes up only 5% (120.59mm, 152,517.95 tons) of the armour. It is attached last, on the outside of the entire armour layer. The SHC armour hardens the hull and protects it from natural damage while providing a hard, non brittle, outer layer that is impenetrable to anything smaller than a 105mm gun.

The second type – Stockford Hardened [SH]- makes up 40% (967.6mm, 1,220,143 tons) of the armour: this is HSLA steel (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSLA_Steel) .

The third type – Stockford Advanced Naval Composite [SANC] – makes up 35% (846mm, 1,067,625 tons) of the armour. The composite is a mix of ceramics and, and the two carbides silicon and boron. Foam is layered on either side of the Advanced Naval Composite.

The fourth type – Stockford Titanium [ST] makes up the final 20% of the armour (483mm, 610,071 tons). ST is formed from titanium boron alloy, laced with carbon fibre composites.

Deck Armour Types
The deck armour is drastically different to the belt armour of the Hood. It is still, however, layered like the belt. The deck armour was designed to withstand plunging shots from a 700mm projectile moving at approximately 900m/sec, weighing around 6,000 kilograms. The deck armour still employs the same type of armour as the belt – except in different proportions.

The SHC is 2.5%, making it 35.3mm thick and weighs 44,912 toms. The SHC is, again, entirely layered on top with a 5cm gap between the next layer of armour: this creates a “decapper” for AP shells, attempting to halt armour piercing caps from penetrating the entire deck.
The SH is 47.5%, making it 670mm thick and weighs 853,328 tons.
The SANC is 37.5%, making it 529mm thick and weighs 673,680 tons.
The ST is 35.3mm thick and weighs 44,912 tons.

Beneath this is a 25mm layer of HSLA steel(not included in previous armour values or weight) that stops armour bolts and rivets splintering and ruining sections of armour when the deck is hit by a large plunging shell, an air to surface missile, or a large bomb.

A layer of Hinoki cypress wood coats the top of the armour.

Other
Beneath all armour layers lies a padding of foam and other various non flammable materials. The belt armour is backed up traditionally by a series of honeycomb rods, but the deck armour looks something like this.

CIWS and Point Defnece
There are approximately 25 different CIWS stations onboard the ship – the system used is the “Sea Guardian” Close In Weapons System (Type 95), which consists of a tracking system that can track up to 20 individual targets and a six barrelled 40mm autocannon with a range of 1700m and a ROF of 900 RPM per gun. This allows a single “Sea Guardian” CIWS system to engage a missile almost 2 kilometres away with extreme precision, spitting out 5400 rounds per minute.

There are also a hundred “Sea Wall” quad 20mm flak autocannon emplacements (Type 92) dotted around the ship: these are remote controlled by crew and are capable of 500 RPM and an engagement range of 1250m. This allows them to take out helicopters, small boats, and concentrations of missiles with a total ROF of 2000 rounds per minute.

There are twenty “Sea Shield” decoys (Type 92) dotted on many decks. These decoy systems can launch up to 20 decoys each out to 1000m from the launcher. Each decoy is sufficient to confuse basic missiles like Harpoon or Tomahawk.

Finally, the class is fitted with a 528 14.5x160mm L60A1 guns in dual mountings. The guns are fitted into batteries of four dual guns each. The batteries are open topped with a layer of 10mm steel surrounding the guns as a shield. The guns have a maximum depression of 10 degrees and a maximum inclination of 75 degrees. Each gun has a ROF of 150 RPM and can effectively fire up to 500m. This gives a battery a total ROF of 1200 rounds per minute.

What You’re Not Told:
These numbers are averages – because a proportionally gigantic number of the ships’ VLS is mounted at the front of the vessel, extra armour was placed above the waterline for the first 400 metres. This already placed the Hood front heavy, and so less subsurface armour was placed at the front. This design was carried over with the other ships of the Hood class and is still a feature of the export edition today. The heavy bow can occasionally cause the ship to list forwards to angles of up to 3 degrees in bad weather.

Because of the heavy pressure put on sections the ship, bulkheads in the last part of the stern and the front of the bow – and occasionally in the secondary hulls – have been known to crack. This problem was partially solved by swapping the original two-part bulkhead for a single metal wall/door – but in some places this is still a constant problem. On average, fourteen bulkheads were replaced each time an Hood ship docked in port.

In addition, the armour around the 1.5gw nuclear reactors has been known to warp – although the special tungsten walling around the reactors prevented any serious damage, occasionally the heat is enough to bend armour and render some parts of the stern VLS useless. The reactors may also damage critical parts of Y guns reloading systems.

Ammunition handling for the Type 92 20mm flak autocannons is extremely ineffective – in some cases, about 3 out of10 times, crew are tasked with carrying ammunition boxes from storepoints to the guns themselves. Some guns are situated in areas of little use, for example right next to CIWS systems or on random deck points.

INVINCIBLE CLASS BATTLESHIP
PICTURE (http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f16/MattShipwrighter/Questers/Ships/HMSIllustrious.png)

Overview
The ‘Invincible’ class battleship was created when the Royal Navy asked QAE Marine designers to create a design for a lineship designed to engage other battleships at long range with gun and missile fire. Eight different designs, labelled A-H where set forth and eventually F was chosen because of its high armour value. The first ‘Invincible’ was laid down in early 2006 and launched in March 06. After sea trials where a blade was thrown (and promptly replaced) she was commissioned by HM the Queen on the 1st of May as HMS Invincible. Her pennant number was B 142. Her Captain, John Wilkinson RN, DSC, took her from Portsmouth to Singapore where ‘Invincible’ was sworn into the Pacific Fleet and began her first patrol to Port Royal. ‘Royal Navy Monthly’ recalled a large number of the magazines most recent copies to print a picture of the Invincible on the front, and renamed that issue ‘INVINCIBLE!’

Specifications:
The ‘Invincible’ class is 542m long on the waterline, and 551m long overall. She has a beam of 58m and a draught of 22.3. Empty, she displaces 480,000 tonnes, with Low stores (brown water and ammunition) she displaces 498,000 tonnes, and with Full displacement (full ammo, long range stores and fuel) she displaces 532,000 tonnes. Her effective complement is 4,600 crewmen with a bunk for every four men and a room for every senior officer. Four large mess rooms, a gymn, and a cybercafé give the crew a means to relax when not in combat or on manoeuvres. Space is provided for 40 marines.The cost of production for the ‘Invincible’ class is 180 billion universal standard dollars – 100 billion, 286 million, and 533 thousand Questarian Pounds.

Weaponry
Guns
The ‘Invincible’s’ Main Armament are 12 686mm/62 rifled cannons. Each cannon is 41.91metres long and there are four turrets (A,B,X,Y) each with three cannons. Each turret is equipped with a pair of 40cm optical gunnery rangefinders running at 325 MHz that can scan and effectively engage targets up to 38,250m metres away. Using RADAR guidance from the Mark 94A gunnery directors the cannons can engage targets up to 121,241m away without rocket assist and 644,341m with rocket assist. Each cannon can be elevated from -3 degrees to +45 degrees. Each cannon is provided with 80 shells.Each turret is mounted on a barbette protected by 800mm of HSLA steel and the front face of each turret is protected by a layer of 650mm HSLA steel.

The secondary armament of the ‘Invincible’ class is 24 155mm dual purpose cannons, in dual turrets mounted equally port and starboard. These guns can be elavated from -5 degrees to +80 degrees and are used to shoot down missiles and aircraft using specialist airburst rounds. Each turret holds 240 shells in its magazine. The shells range from airburst rounds to armour piercing shells for anti shipping work. They are controlled by the Mark 97B Gun Control.

Furthermore, eight 'Sea Shield' class six-barreled-35mm close-in-weapons-system chainguns are located around the ship. They can track twenty targets at a time at engage at ranges around 1300m. Each gun can kill a pair of missiles before impact. They are controlled by the CPDC RADAR sensor and can shoot at up to 4000 RPM total. Alongside this sixty mounts for quad 40mm cannons are dotted around the ship for further anti air firepower.

Missiles
Missile firepower is provided in the form of three VLS boxes - 3 96 cell boxes. This provides the 'Invicible' with 288 vertical launch cells capable of handling anti air, anti submarine, and anti shipping missiles. Each cell is 9m deep, and 1 metre long and 1 metre wide. The missiles are controlled by the Mark105A Combined RADAR LADAR InfraRed Missile Director System that can track up to 2,500 different missiles and sixty different ships simultaenously. For short range air defence, twelve Hastings sextuple barrelled short range rolling airframe missiles are fitted around the ship. The Hastings is a fast, manoeuvrable missile that can reach ranges of 30km to hit incoming missiles and aircraft. They can be fired almost instantly at a moments notice as long as a target is available.

Armour
The 'Invincible' Class uses the Mark A Armour Scheme, [Link] (http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f16/MattShipwrighter/Questers/ArmourSchemeA.png), capable of defeating shell sizes up to and including 600mm and even withstanding the infamous 635mm shell. During tests the Mark B Armour Scheme resisted 11 762mm AP shells to the vertical and 5 762mm AP shells to the horizontal. Protection against subsurface threats is provided in the form of six 'Sea Serpent' anti submarine/torpedo decoys launched from the ship and twelve 533mm CIWS TT. The 'Invincible' is full NBC protected and sealed.
The armour values are as follows:
Horizontal
-425mm HSLA steel
-200mm Titanium/Tungsten layered mix
-200mm Ceramic/Boron/Silicon Composite
-Honeycomb network frame to add extra support for the deck armour and a 55mm thick DS steel layer on top and below to serve as a decapper and a support for snapping bolts, respectively.
Vertical
-600mm HSLA steel
-2x 150mm Titanium/Tungsten layered mix
-300mm Ceramic/Boron/Silicon Composite
-Foam layer
-250mm of HSLA steel behind the main armour layer to serve as extra added support for both structure and armour.

Propulsion and Sensors
The 'Invincible' uses the CODNAS propulsion system – Combined Diesel, Nuclear, and Steam. Four nuclear pressurised heavy water reactors alongside 8 steam turbines linked to two pairs of boilers operating smokestacks amidships supported by 4 12,000KW turbo GT generators provide a total of 2 GW of power to motivate the ships 4 shafts. Each shaft drives a pair of bladed props which move the ship to speeds of up to 36 knots maximum.

The sensors included on the 'Invincible' are:
Type 10 Air Search RADAR
Type 20 Sea Search RADAR
Type 30 Bow-Mounted Sub-Search SONAR
Type 40 General Search LADAR
Type 45 General Search LIDAR
Type 50 Communications Array
Type 55 RADAR Sweep Jammer
Type 56 RADAR Barrage Jammer
Type 58 Sensory Interference Resistance Device
Type 60 GPS Array
Mark 94A Gun Control
Mark 97A Gun Control
Mark 100 Over the Horizon Search RADAR
Mark105A Combined RADAR LADAR InfraRed Missile Director System
Mark106A Stand Off Missile Director System
Mark110A Mainmast Missile Director System

Specifications:
Length: 551 oa - 542m wl
Beam: 58m
Draught: 22.1m
Displacement Empty: 480,000 T
Displacement Low: 498,000 T
Displacement Full: 532,000 T
Complement: 4,640
Armament:
-4x3 686mm guns
-12x2 155mm guns
-8 CIWS 35mm chainguns
-240 40mm autocannons
-240VLS cells
-12 6 barrel RAM missiles
Armour:
-1050mm horizontal
-1450mm vertical
Propulsion:
-four PWR reactors
-8 steam turbines
-4 12,000Kw turbo GT generators
-4 shafts driving 8 bladed propellers
Performance
-30 knots cruise
-34 max
-36 dash

VANGUARD CLASS BATTLESHIP

Displacement:
487,226 t light; 520,122 t standard; 619,147 t normal; 698,366 t full load

Dimensions: Length overall / water x beam x draught
1,951.38 ft / 1,922.57 ft x 213.25 ft x 98.43 ft (normal load)
594.78 m / 586.00 m x 65.00 m x 30.00 m

Armament:
16 - 26.57" / 675 mm guns (4x4 guns), 9,383.83lbs / 4,256.44kg shells
ETC rifled guns in turrets (on barbettes)
on centreline ends, evenly spread, 3 raised mounts - superfiring
24 - 6.10" / 155 mm guns (12x2 guns), 113.62lbs / 51.54kg shells
Dual purpose guns in turrets (on barbettes)
on side, all amidships, all raised mounts - superfiring
160 - 1.57" / 40.0 mm guns (80x2 guns), 1.95lbs / 0.89kg shells
Anti-aircraft guns in deck mounts
on side, evenly spread, 70 raised mounts
20 guns in hull casemates - Limited use in heavy seas
8 - 1.57" / 40.0 mm guns in single mounts, 1.95lbs / 0.89kg shells
Breech loading guns in deck mounts
on side, evenly spread
Weight of broadside 153,196 lbs / 69,489 kg
Shells per gun, main battery: 240
-8 RAM Mounts
-10 x 96 Cell VLS
Armour:
Armour is made from primarly HLSA steel with titanium strengthener. Small amounts of tungsten and DU rods support the HSLA honeycomb network. Composites of boron and silicon carbide and various ceramics are interlaced with the primarily armour for extra strength and two 65mm layers of armour (comprised from the deck armour) cover the deck to form a decapper and to support any snapping bolts.
Belts:
Main: 35.4" / 900 mm
Ends: 11.8" / 300 mm
Upper: 11.8" / 300 mm
Anti Torpedo:
Torpedo Bulkhead:
17.7" / 450 mm
Gun armour:Face (max):23.6" / 600 mm
Barbette/hoist(max):t 31.5" / 800 mm
Armour deck: 21.65" / 550 mm

Machinery:
Oil fired boilers, reciprocating steam engines plus steam turbines and diesel motors,
Electric cruising motors plus geared drives, 16 shafts, 1,071,690 ihp / 799,480 Kw = 35.00 kts
Range 15,000nm at 28.00 kts
Bunker at max displacement = 178,244 tons

Electronics
Mark 10 Air Search RADAR
Mark 20 Sea Search RADAR
Mark 30 Bow-Mounted Sub-Search SONAR
Mark 40 General Search LADAR
Mark 45 General Search LIDAR
Mark 50 Communications Array
Mark 55 RADAR Sweep Jammer
Mark 56 RADAR Barrage Jammer
Mark 58 Sensory Interference Resistance Device
Mark 60 GPS Array
Mark 96 Gun Control
Mark 94 Gun Control
Mark 100 Over the Horizon Search RADAR
Mark 150 Combined RADAR LADAR InfraRed Missile Director System
Mark 170 Stand Off Missile Director System

Complement:
11,034
Flies Rear Admiral's Flag

Distribution of weights at normal displacement:
Armament: 19,150 tons, 3.1 %
Armour: 232,512 tons, 37.6 %
- Belts: 38,082 tons, 6.2 %
- Torpedo bulkhead: 44,805 tons, 7.2 %
- Armament: 36,388 tons, 5.9 %
- Armour Deck: 113,236 tons, 18.3 %
- Conning Tower: 0 tons, 0.0 %
Machinery: 46,653 tons, 7.5 %
Hull, fittings & equipment: 188,912 tons, 30.5 %
Fuel, ammunition & stores: 131,921 tons, 21.3 %
Miscellaneous weights: 0 tons, 0.0 %

Overall survivability and seakeeping ability:
Survivability (Non-critical penetrating hits needed to sink ship):
992,089 lbs / 450,004 Kg = 105.7 x 26.6 " / 675 mm shells or 387.3 torpedoes
Stability (Unstable if below 1.00): 1.01
Metacentric height 16.0 ft / 4.9 m
Roll period: 22.4 seconds
Steadiness - As gun platform (Average = 50 %): 83 %
- Recoil effect (Restricted arc if above 1.00): 0.86
Seaboat quality (Average = 1.00): 1.54

Hull form characteristics:
Hull has raised forecastle
Block coefficient: 0.537
Length to Beam Ratio: 9.02 : 1
'Natural speed' for length: 43.85 kts
Power going to wave formation at top speed: 36 %
Trim (Max stability = 0, Max steadiness = 100): 54
Bow angle (Positive = bow angles forward): 26.00 degrees
Stern overhang: 0.00 ft / 0.00 m
Freeboard (% = measuring location as a percentage of overall length):
- Stem: 59.06 ft / 18.00 m
- Forecastle (22 %): 55.77 ft / 17.00 m (52.49 ft / 16.00 m aft of break)
- Mid (45 %): 45.93 ft / 14.00 m
- Quarterdeck (20 %): 45.93 ft / 14.00 m
- Stern: 45.93 ft / 14.00 m
- Average freeboard: 49.14 ft / 14.98 m

Ship space, strength and comments:
Space - Hull below water (magazines/engines, low = better): 56.0 %
- Above water (accommodation/working, high = better): 230.5 %
Waterplane Area: 282,673 Square feet or 26,261 Square metres
Displacement factor (Displacement / loading): 129 %
Structure weight / hull surface area: 418 lbs/sq ft or 2,039 Kg/sq metre
Hull strength (Relative):
- Cross-sectional: 1.00
- Longitudinal: 1.30
- Overall: 1.02
Hull space for machinery, storage, compartmentation is excellent
Room for accommodation and workspaces is excellent
Ship has slow, easy roll, a good, steady gun platform
Excellent seaboat, comfortable, can fire her guns in the heaviest weather

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CENTURION CLASS BATTLESHIP
The 'Centurion' class is a ship built for the QRN after the original C Class was decomissioned. The 'Centurion' class is a well sized, well rounded ship for the Royal Navy that will serve for many decades and will easily blow any Hatarian vessel out the water that it cares to encounter.

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Displacement:
1,035,666 t light; 1,084,872 t standard; 1,173,770 t normal; 1,244,889 t full load

Dimensions: Length overall / water x beam x draught
2,643.99 ft / 2,604.99 ft x 275.59 ft x 88.58 ft (normal load)
805.89 m oa / 794.00 m wl x 84.00 m x 27.00 m

Armament:
20 - 26.57" / 675 mm guns (5 mounts), 9,383.83lbs / 5,256.44kg shells
ETC rifled guns in turrets (on barbettes)
on centreline ends, majority forward, 20 raised guns - superfiring
40 - 6.10" / 155 mm guns (20x2 guns), 113.62lbs / 51.54kg shells
Dual purpose guns in turrets (on barbettes)
on side, all amidships
96 - 2.95" / 75.0 mm guns (24x4 guns), 12.87lbs / 5.84kg shells
Anti-aircraft guns in deck mounts with hoists
on side, evenly spread
140 - 1.57" / 40.0 mm guns (70x2 guns), 1.95lbs / 0.89kg shells
Automatic rapid fire guns in deck mounts
on side, evenly spread
8 - 1.57" / 40.0 mm CIWS guns in single mounts, 1.95lbs / 0.89kg shells
Anti-aircraft guns in deck mounts
on side, evenly spread
Weight of broadside 193,746 lbs / 87,881 kg
Shells per gun, main battery: 240
8 x 144 1m1 VLS cells
8 x RAM missile mounts

Armour:
Armour is made from primarly HLSA steel with titanium strengthener. Small amounts of tungsten and DU rods support the HSLA honeycomb network. Composites of boron and silicon carbide and various ceramics are interlaced with the primarily armour for extra strength and two 65mm layers of armour (comprised from the deck armour) cover the deck to form a decapper and to support any snapping bolts.
Belts:
Main: 49.2" / 1,250 mm
Ends: 17.7" / 450 mm
Upper: 23.6" / 600 mm
Gun armour:Face (max)::31.5" / 800 mm
Barbette/hoist:35.4" / 900 mm

Armour deck:27.56" / 700 mm
Conning tower:11.81" / 300 mm

Machinery:
Oil fired boilers, steam turbines plus diesel motors,
Electric cruising motors plus geared drives, 14 shafts, 1,194,445 shp / 891,056 Kw = 33.00 kts
Range 15,000nm at 25.00 kts
Bunker at max displacement = 160,017 tons

Electronics
Mark 10 Air Search RADAR
Mark 20 Sea Search RADAR
Mark 30 Bow-Mounted Sub-Search SONAR
Mark 40 General Search LADAR
Mark 45 General Search LIDAR
Mark 50 Communications Array
Mark 55 RADAR Sweep Jammer
Mark 56 RADAR Barrage Jammer
Mark 58 Sensory Interference Resistance Device
Mark 60 GPS Array
Mark 96 Gun Control
Mark 94 Gun Control
Mark 100 Over the Horizon Search RADAR
Mark 150 Combined RADAR LADAR InfraRed Missile Director System
Mark 170 Stand Off Missile Director System

Complement:
17,829
Flies a Vice Admiral's flag

Distribution of weights at normal displacement:
Armament: 23,998 tons, 2.0 %
Armour: 670,064 tons, 57.1 %
- Belts: 314,354 tons, 26.8 %
- Torpedo bulkhead: 0 tons, 0.0 %
- Armament: 61,442 tons, 5.2 %
- Armour Deck: 291,436 tons, 24.8 %
- Conning Tower: 2,831 tons, 0.2 %
Machinery: 28,575 tons, 2.4 %
Hull, fittings & equipment: 313,030 tons, 26.7 %
Fuel, ammunition & stores: 138,104 tons, 11.8 %
Miscellaneous weights: 0 tons, 0.0 %

Overall survivability and seakeeping ability:
Survivability (Non-critical penetrating hits needed to sink ship):
3,467,514 lbs / 1,572,838 Kg = 369.5 x 26.6 " / 675 mm shells or 71.0 torpedoes
Stability (Unstable if below 1.00): 1.12
Metacentric height 28.3 ft / 8.6 m
Roll period: 21.7 seconds
Steadiness - As gun platform (Average = 50 %): 91 %
- Recoil effect (Restricted arc if above 1.00): 0.48
Seaboat quality (Average = 1.00): 1.74

Hull form characteristics:
Hull has raised forecastle, rise forward of midbreak
and transom stern
Block coefficient: 0.646
Length to Beam Ratio: 9.45 : 1
'Natural speed' for length: 57.66 kts
Power going to wave formation at top speed: 27 %
Trim (Max stability = 0, Max steadiness = 100): 52
Bow angle (Positive = bow angles forward): 22.00 degrees
Stern overhang: 9.84 ft / 3.00 m
Freeboard (% = measuring location as a percentage of overall length):
- Stem: 72.18 ft / 22.00 m
- Forecastle (25 %): 72.18 ft / 22.00 m (70.54 ft / 21.50 m aft of break)
- Mid (60 %): 62.34 ft / 19.00 m (59.06 ft / 18.00 m aft of break)
- Quarterdeck (15 %): 59.06 ft / 18.00 m
- Stern: 59.06 ft / 18.00 m
- Average freeboard: 64.92 ft / 19.79 m

Ship space, strength and comments:
Space - Hull below water (magazines/engines, low = better): 26.1 %
- Above water (accommodation/working, high = better): 386.9 %
Waterplane Area: 571,620 Square feet or 53,105 Square metres
Displacement factor (Displacement / loading): 128 %
Structure weight / hull surface area: 397 lbs/sq ft or 1,939 Kg/sq metre
Hull strength (Relative):
- Cross-sectional: 0.92
- Longitudinal: 0.73
- Overall: 0.78
Caution: Hull subject to strain in open-sea
Hull space for machinery, storage, compartmentation is excellent
Room for accommodation and workspaces is excellent
Ship has slow, easy roll, a good, steady gun platform
Excellent seaboat, comfortable, can fire her guns in the heaviest weather