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Sovereign Class DN (Flight II)

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Overview

Designed as the heavily armed and armoured punch of a Praetonian battlefleet as well as a vessel able to operate in packs at the centre of large battlefleets including the Grand Fleet itself, the Sovereign Class is the most powerful non-superdreadnought design in Praetonian service. The vessel is fast enough to keep up with a battlefleet, and is capable of most taking and dishing out a great deal of firepower at a price affordable for widespread deployment. Recently classified a 'Dreadnought' as opposed to a 'Battleship', the Sovereign sits towards the lower end of super-capitals.


General Specifications

Dimensions: (length:) 412m; (beam:) 87m; (draught:) 18m
Complement: 1,634 Officers and Ratings
Propulsion: 3x Imperial Atomworks 125MW AGCR; 2x Imperial Oil & Gas 25MW COGAD Turbines powering four internal IPS Mk.12 Waterjets
Maximum Speed: 35kts
Cruising Speed: 31kts
Armour / Construction: Ballistic ceramics and high-tensile strength steel alloys backed by a titanium superstructure and spectra fibre spalling layer. Void spaces around engines and magazines. Advanced fire-control systems throughout vessel. Double bottomed and equipped with reinforced keel for torpedo protection.
Armament:
16x 20"/72 PS-ETC Naval Guns in four quad turrets (pos. A, B, Y and Z) (2,200 shells)
16x 6" PS-ETC Naval Guns in eight dual turrets (8,000 shells)
12x Testudo C(ombined)G(un)R(ocket)CIWS (72,000 shells; 72 rockets)
6x Testudo-S S(upercavitating)G(un)CIWS (24,000 shells)
12x 7.7mm caseless chainguns
Missiles
8x 64 (8x8) cell Ballista VLS (512 missiles)
24x 32 cell Wellington AMMS (768 missiles)
Torpedoes
16x 25" (635mm) Torpedo Tubes (200 weapons)
Aviation: 4x Helicopter or VTOL aircraft (hangar space); 6x Helicopter or VTOL aircraft (maximum stowage)
Endurance: (fuel:) 16 years' continuous; (consumables:) 18 months' standard
Displacement: 253,959 metric tonnes
Electronics: ImpElec P-111 Surface-Search Radar; ImpElec P-211 Air-Search Radar; ImpElec A-111 SubSurface-Search Sonar; ImpElec A-722 Surface Countermeasure Co-ordination Radar & Systems; ImpElec A-711 SubSurface-Search Countermeasure Co-ordination Radar & Systems; ImpElec G-101 SCG Naval Fire Control Radar; ImpOrd CS-230 Surface Countermeasures Suite; ImpOrd CC-450 SubSurface Countermeasures Suite

Operating Costs: $616,000,000
Build Cost: $12,320,000,000
Purchase Cost: $13,500,000,000

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Looks cool.. although the Title and the ship shown are different........ :S

[OOC: Damn... ok, when I wrote the title for the pic I was thinking of my Duke Class BCN. Just a mo.

EDIT: Fixed. If you refresh then it should show the new pic.]

OOC: Perhaps someone should edit the title...

[OOC: Yeah I messed up. I don't even have a "Dragoon Class BCN". I have a Dragoon Class CAN and a Duke Class BCN, but...

Probably best just to let the topic fall to the bottom.]

To:The Government of Praetonia
From: Commodore Anton Dever-Smithe
The Grand Duchy of Tarlag Naval Procurement Office
Subject: query to purchase

The Grand Duchy of Tarlag's government is interested in buying four of your
Sovereign Class DNs. If these fine vessels are for sale how long would it take for delivery of the four unit order?

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Order Confirmation Invoice

1)
i) The sale of vessels to Tarlag has been approved.
ii) The sale of 4 Sovereign class DNs has been approved.
iii) The commencement of construction has been authorised.

Estimated Time to Completion: 4 NS years

For more of our fine ships, see the Imperial Praetonian Shipyards mainpage (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=469451).

You know, I'm starting to kick myself for not equipping my navy with you're ships.... I like Sarz specialisation more than you, but at least you always respond with in a few hours.

**Try's to think of an IC way to justify purchasing from you**

(SEA, I guess you were right...)

[OOC: Thanks for the compliment. Of course, there's no reason why you can't use both PIW and IPS ships. There's nothing to stop you from fitting Sarzonian guns, VLS and other systems to Praetonian-built ships, or indeed vice-versa.]

[Thats a good point... oh, and by the way, I should tel you that I'm using your sig. You've since changed it, but I thought I might as well thank you anyway... I kinda figured it was one of these "If you support this..... add it to your sig" things. Being from the UK, and watching the EU screw us, the FCS seems like a real good idea.]

The money has been wired.

[Thats a good point... oh, and by the way, I should tel you that I'm using your sig. You've since changed it, but I thought I might as well thank you anyway... I kinda figured it was one of these "If you support this..... add it to your sig" things. Being from the UK, and watching the EU screw us, the FCS seems like a real good idea.]
[OOC: Hogsweat made it originally, so the credit should go to him. Thanks anyway, and nice to see you support the FCS against the EU - the more people whod eclare their support, the better.]

[Yep, I agree. It won't happen, mind you: We're too far gone.... Best scenario, I think, would be to jump into bed with the Americans, and the rest of NAFTA.... anyway, I'll shut up. You probably don't want me cluttering you're thread about ships. P.s, I'm shrinking all my text in my other posts now]

[OOC: Sadly I think that's true. Most of the Commonwealth is now in the Americanosphere. Oh well.]

I'm not sure if I've ever mentioned it to you (I can't actually recall talking to you much before this thread), but check out the Bruges Group: http://www.brugesgroup.com/index.live. They are an anti-EU think-tank. I don't know what your views are on free trade, but they did a rather interesting article about a Global Free Trade association. If you read what they are proposing, it seems rather more attractive than joining NAFTA, the EU-superstate, of even the FCS (The FCS's idea of regional governments in England isn't really my thing). Anyway, check it out when you have a chance. I'm definatly going to stop cluttering you're thread now. Heck, Telegram's were made for these kinda conversations.

[OOC: Thanks for the link, looks interesting. Anyway yes, thread-cluttering is bad, but not many people are buying ships right now so I don't really mind.]

OOC: I think you forgot to change the crew complement on the Sovereign class in your initial write-up. And I think you can get a Mod to change the title of this thread without too much hassle.

[OOC: Ah, thanks for reminding me Sarz. I changed it on IPS.]

nice pic.

[OOC: Thanks.]