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The Republic Navy's history of designing dreadnaughts and other powerful warships is a brief one, and the Navy suffered a devastating loss of prestige when the Chuck Norris-class super dreadnaught was destroyed in battle with the Kraven Navy in the defense of Jagada.

Subsequent naval doctrine favored the use of lighter warships such as the Praetonian Royal Sovereign-class warships, but in the end, nationalism and the desire for warships without the political furor of dealing with a nation the centrist parties had derided as imperialist and the communists had criticized as too capitalistic won out. While the five Royal Sovereigns purchased would remain in service, future energies and funds were to be devoted to designing a smaller battleship in terms of overall tonnage, so more could be produced and the loss of any one would not devastate the fleet.

Historically, Republic Navy battleships relied on their heavy guns for protection, which led to devastating losses when the Navy faced enemies with keelbreaker torpedoes that outranged their heavy naval guns. That, in addition to the cheap monohulled designs favored in the Republic Navy, led to the sinking of hundreds of warships by the Freekish, Pwnage, and Doomani navies in separate military engagements.

The class leader, RKS Emmanuel Goldstein, is a reference to the Democratic Soviet Republic of Kahanistan's history of fighting Orwellian regimes such as Kravania and The Kraven Corporation. It is intended to represent freedom from repression and a formidable opponent to imperialist aspirations everywhere.

General Specifications:

Emmanuel Goldstein-class trimaran heavy battleship

Type: Heavy battleship
Displacement: 780,000 metric tons empty, 850,000 metric tons loaded
Length: 600 meters
Beam: 100 meters
Draft: 20 meters
Propulsion: Twelve A4W nuclear reactors (1.248 GW total)
Speed: 50 km/h (27 knots)
Range: Limited by crew fatigue and morale
Complement: 1,200 officers, 8,400 enlisted, 1,800 marines
Armament:
AAW: 8-cell ESSM launcher x 10, 2-cell MDBA Meteor LRAAM launcher x 12
ASHW: 640mm ETC three-gun turret x 3, 155mm ETC three-gun turret x 4, 8-cell BrahMos ASM launcher x 6 (also capable of using Praetonian Lance ASM's), 533mm torpedo cell x 20, 8-cell HARM launcher x 4
ASUW: 8-cell ASROC launcher x 4
CIWS: KMI Mk.32 40mm ETC x 20, RAMICS 30mm UW autocannon x 12
Protection: SLQ-25 Nixie torpedo decoy
Armor:
Hull: 1,000mm niobium-cobalt
Belt: 800mm titanium-cobalt modular, slanted 30 degrees
Bulkheads: 200mm steel
Barbette: 1,500mm tantalum
Turrets: 1,800mm tantalum-cobalt
Deck: 800mm titanium-cobalt
Aircraft: Ten Sikorsky SH-60 helicopters
Operators:Kahanistan Republic Navy, Wanderjarian Navy

Production cost: 150 billion USD
Export cost: 190 billion USD
Maintenance cost: 1 billion USD

[OOC: What are Nixies?]

OOC: Nice name. 1984 fan?

Nautical speed is usually measured in knots, and wow, 44kmh is slow.

The Socialist Commonwealth of Wanderjar wishes to purchase one of these ships.

SEA: All you want to know about Nixies. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SLQ-25_Nixie)
Errikland: Been fighting too many Orwellian regimes, e.g. Kraven, Kravania. I'm kind of the enemy to the Orwellian state as a concept.
Questers: Yes, it is. I tend to stay away from knots because the conversion to measurements I can actually understand is too complex, I can't remember the conversion to metric for the life of me. Yes, it's slow, it's a heavy battleship, not a hydrofoil. I think it's slightly faster than your Hood, though, and it's far smaller.

Wanderjar: Your human rights record checks out. The battleship will arrive in a port of your choosing as soon as the $155 billion is wired.

OCC:so you have to have a good human rights record to buy one?\

Wel that went don the drain.

SEA: All you want to know about Nixies. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SLQ-25_Nixie)
Errikland: Been fighting too many Orwellian regimes, e.g. Kraven, Kravania. I'm kind of the enemy to the Orwellian state as a concept.
Questers: Yes, it is. I tend to stay away from knots because the conversion to measurements I can actually understand is too complex, I can't remember the conversion to metric for the life of me. Yes, it's slow, it's a heavy battleship, not a hydrofoil. I think it's slightly faster than your Hood, though, and it's far smaller.

Wanderjar: Your human rights record checks out. The battleship will arrive in a port of your choosing as soon as the $155 billion is wired.

No, seriously. 22 knots is the standard rate of a dreadnought in 1915. The Yamato was 27 and that was considered slow.

1 knot = 1 nautical mile per hour = 6,086 ft/hr

6,086 ft = 1,855 m (length of the CCS Vistula is how I remember it)

1 knot = ~1.86 km/hr

thus, 44 km/hr = ~24 knots

It's actually not a particularly complicated conversion, and you can use this post as a reference if you can't remember it.