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The Shallow Bay class, named after the area where the first amphibious assault in Imperial Marine history was conducted, is the answer to the need of the assault fleets for an amphibious ship that is cheap and small enough to sail into mostly secured enemy ports and offload critical secondary (non-combat) equipment for the Marine divisions conducting an assault. Although it cannot by any means be confused with a hardened assault ship like the Masada class, which are built more like a warship to withstand multiple hits from shore defenses, the ship is no weakling and will take hits from medium artillery (although not many) and still be capable of carrying out the assigned task.

The class is to be built in a single flight of 288 ships, with each ship costing one billion one hundred million and the unlimited production liscence costing fifty-five billion. Total construction time is to be twelve years for all ships, with the cost per year equalling roughly 30.98 billion per year.

Shallow Bay class Amphibious Support Ship
Displacement: 27,500 tons
Dimensions: 204m L x 33m W x 9.2m D
Propulsion:
1 x Pebblebed reactor rated at 75Mw
2 x Water jets
Speed: 24 knots (top speed)
Crew: 360
Endurance: Limited to crew endurance only.
Radar:
AS-22 Corus Dual-array NPI Long-range Air/Surface Search
Falltech AS-20 LPI Short-range Air Search
LIDAR/SONAR:
Falltech SS-24A Bow-Mounted SONAR
G04 Navigation
Fire Control:
Mk1B GSTDC with AACS Modules
EW:
Mk605 ECM/ESM suite
Universal Towed Decoy System
4 x Mk7 Decoy Launchers
Aviation: 1800m2 helipad with "Beartrap" helo securing system, 2 x medium helicopters
Carrying Capacity: 945 Marines, plus up to 1200 tons of equipment
Armament:
2 x 12-Cell Mk72 Tactical Single-Length VLS
3 x Mk45 CAMDS
4 x 12-Cell Mk2A ASW Mortar
Armour: Hardened reinforced steel hull with L2 TV4A6 armour panelling around critical areas. Lightweight TV4A6 honeycomb supplements bulkheads

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v195/The_Freethinkers/BayLPD.png

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"Excellent design, as usual, however I suggest the following modifications.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v293/grunt74/modifylol.jpg
replace the front turret with a single 1,000mm cannon, and chop off the top radar junk and put 2 ICBM's
also reduce the overall displacment by 10,000 tons, and put speed holes in the hull"

--
William Johnson
Seaman Second Class
TPM Navy

"Excellent design, as usual, however I suggest the following modifications.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v293/grunt74/modifylol.jpg
replace the front turret with a single 1,000mm cannon, and chop off the top radar junk and put 2 ICBM's
also reduce the overall displacment by 10,000 tons, and put speed holes in the hull"

--
William Johnson
Seaman Second Class
TPM Navy
OMG, joo is so funneh!!!111!!!!

SS, you wanna give props to Freethinker for that picture?

[Right, thanks for reminding me. As always, the presented ship, picture and most of the stats, is a Freethinkers production. I'm just lucky enough to be on excellent terms with Jim.]

"Excellent design, as usual, however I suggest the following modifications.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v293/grunt74/modifylol.jpg
replace the front turret with a single 1,000mm cannon, and chop off the top radar junk and put 2 ICBM's
also reduce the overall displacment by 10,000 tons, and put speed holes in the hull"

--
William Johnson
Seaman Second Class
TPM Navy


[*twitches* This is an transport ship, not a warship. If I wanted big guns and ballistic missiles, I'd bring out my Gehenna class SDs.]