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The Republic of Hard Rock Beyond is pulling the veil on it's newest class of carrier.

DTC-1, Advantage-class, Dreadnought-carrier

15+ knots
500 fighters and 50 bombers
--or--
650 fighters

More to come in the morning
not for sale


Specifications
Builder - Super-ship Yard, Hard Rock Beyond
Power Plant - Ten Nuclear Power Plant (A4W Pressurized Water Reactor)
Twenty shafts, twenty propellers, with five blades each
Length - overall 3,281 feet (1000 meters)
Flight Deck Width - 314 feet (120 meters)
Beam - 262 feet (80 meters)
Displacement - ? 2,000,000 tons ?
Speed 15+ knots
Aircraft - 500-ish fighters plus 50-ish bombers
Aircraft elevators Fourteen
Catapults Twelve
Crew Ship's Company: 32,000
Air Wing: 24,800

Armament 30 Mk41 VLS batteries
40 "Goalkeeper" CIWS 20mm mounts
Combat Systems SPS-48E 3-D air search radar
SPS-49(V)5 2-D air search radar
30 Mk91 Fire Control

AN/SLQ-32(V)4 active jamming/deception
AN/WLR-1H ESM
Service Life 60 years

OOC- It is Spelled Dreadnought, not Dreadnaught.

I hope everyone approves of my new dreadnought!

it looks kinda like more a carrier than a SD to me...a very big carrier; what type of Aircraft does it service? SVTOL, VTOL?, is it only Fixed wing or are Movable wing craft? 500 is a big number AND 50 bombers? how big are the bombers it can launch?

I'm not a naval specialist, aircraft being my thing but, from what I've seen around NS, you might wanna increase the beam, with most ships that large having between 6-1, 8-1 Length to beam ratio if I remember correctly, but throw this around in the draftroom, there are more qualified people than me there...

it looks kinda like more a carrier than a SD to me...a very big carrier; what type of Aircraft does it service? SVTOL, VTOL?, is it only Fixed wing or are Movable wing craft? 500 is a big number AND 50 bombers? how big are the bombers it can launch?
Yes this is basically a large carrier. It's not even the largest class of dreadnought-carrier that I am building. Expect anywhere between two and five more sizes of DC's in the future.

The length of the deck is 1 kilometer. Extremely large!

This was the building process:

1-Planning
2-Refinement of the most pure titanium and steel
3-12 segments (each about the size of a nimitz-class carrier) moved to the main shipyard
4-Construction of much of the hull and the beginning of the deck
5-Towed by about 20 aircraft carriers more open seas; each carrier carries a nuclear reactor or shaft/propeller
6-When constructed, pre-tests conducted; replacement of engines or reactors if necessary
7-Towed back to main shipyard and rest of ship fabricated
8-Decks and other components of aircraft-system fabricated and tested
9-Preliminary tests at sea without weaponry or airplanes
10-Construction of the bridge and preperation of crew quarters
11-Fabrication of weaponry, defense, and radars
12-Loading of munitions for the ship
13-Full testing of weaponry, defense systems, and radars
14-Completion of the deck and loading of planes and fuel
15-Sea Trials
16-Return to shipyard for the naming


So, that is the basic process for the building of this carrier. It services all types of aircraft. The extended deck (about 1km) allows for the launch of lighter airplanes and larger bombers. It supports my standard (slightly modified) version of the F-22. It also allows for the launch of the B-52 bomber. The munitions carried on this ship allow for up to 12 months of non-stop work. There is a two-level deck, with the side opposite the bridge having a raised platform for VTOL aircraft.

What have you got 2 apparently different versions of Phalanx or is that supposed to be a note about different fits on different vessels in the class?

Perosnally i would apgrade the CIWS to at least goalkeeper and ditch all the sea sparrow launchers in favour of a couple of Mk41 VLS batteries (each cell can fire 4 Evolved Sea Sparrow Missiles (ESSMs) or missiles from the SM-2 and 3 series).
Plus a few RAm launchers wouldn't go admiss.

Not bad! However, you say the flight deck width is 150m and the beam 80 - that doesn't make much sense, the beam should only ever be like 5m less than flight deck~ you should decrease flight deck to 120 and increase beam to that, too. Displacement.. about 2,000,000 tonnes. Otherwise, good ship, good start ^_^

Actually, don't use phalanx, its the worst CIWS for NS, use Goalkeeper instead.

Thank you. Building and testing time is approximately 8 years. Of it, 6 is purely in shipyards. About 6mo. is preliminary testing, and the other 18mo is sea trials.