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The Kearsarge class Battlecruiser was developed by the RNEC at the time of great tension before the coming of the Post-Modern era and is similar to a few unusual ideas from the later part of the Twentieth Century. The Kearsarge class ships were developed for the main purposes of Command and Control and Carrier Missile Defense. In theses roles, the ship is unmatched by any other ship. While the ship is capable in both anti-submarine warfare and shore bombardment, these were not primary purposes in the ship class.
In the late part of the Twentieth Century, the RNEC worked on the development of a ship known as the Arsenal ship. It would have been a huge ship filled with vertical launchers but would have used the guidance systems from other ships. Unlike the Arsenal Ship, the Kearsarge class Battlecruiser has a sophisticated and powerful fire control and carries weapons other than vertical launch missile systems and in this was much like the earlier Russian Kirov class. The Kirov class had been scrapped years prior to the Roman Battlecruiser and there were no vessels similar to the Kearsarge at the time of commissioning. Like the Arsenal Ship, the main weapon systems of the Kearsarge class are a large number of missile vertical launch systems.
The Kearsarge was constructed with a single hull like the Delaware class cruiser but has double bulkheads to resist damage. Some other ship classes were designed with two or three hulls for greater speed and stability. The tough alloys and composites the ship's hull is constructed from are capable of withstanding several hits from very heavy weapons and the Kearsarge was designed for battle survivability. Even though the ship is large, it was designed with stealth characteristics and the superstructure in many ways looks like that from the Burke class destroyer without the exhaust stacks. The superstructure is also constructed using radar absorbing materials to further increase the ship's stealth. Coming back into favor during the development of the Kearsarge Battlecruiser, the ship is powered by four nuclear reactors. Fusion reactors were made viable by the middle of the twenty first century and were far less expensive and more efficient that the previous fission reactors. The propellers were adapted from designs used on larger gas turbine vessels and have variable pitch blades. These make the ship maneuver far better than might be expected for a ship its size, has the ability to change from forward to reverse very quickly, and can be changed for greater speed or power as needed. While the ship is large, it is designed to be as quiet as possible and the hull and propellers have a special bubble system that both masks the ships hull and propellers to enable the ship to operate quietly. For radar, the ship uses an advanced derivative of the Aegis radar and fire control system. This system is identical to that carried on the Delaware class. The ship has an advanced hull sonar but unlike the Delaware class does not have a towed array sonar.
The main weapons of the ship are the multiple long range missile launchers. The ship is outfitted with a total of twelve 96 cell vertical launch systems with four in front of the superstructure and eight behind the superstructure which makes for an incredible number of missiles. Each cell is capable of carrying one long range missile or two medium range missiles. The launchers are fitted side by side. Each launcher has an automatic reload system than increases the number of missiles the ship carries. The ship has the ability to engage aircraft, missiles, surface targets, and ground targets with these launchers. The ship has one eight inch gun for engaging surface and ground targets at close range, reduced from two on the Delaware class. This mount is relatively light and actually was developed in the 1970's although fire control additions would also allow the gun to be fired at air targets. This mount is simple, accurate, rapid firing, and powerful. While a good weapon system, it was planned to replace the standard naval gun with a powerful rail gun. The removal of propellant would have increased the number of projectiles the ship could carry. The Kearsarge carries the same point defense systems that was designed for the Delaware class but the ship carries six mounts instead of four. One was mounted on the front of the superstructure, one was mounted on the back of the superstructure, and two were mounted on either side of the superstructure. The system is a combination of a rapid fire rail gun and a short range missile launcher. The idea is that missiles that leak through the main defense are first engaged by the short range missile launchers and when they get within range will be engaged by the rail guns. The ship has torpedo tubes to engage submarines and also has anti-missile chaff to confuse incoming missiles not destroyed by the other defense systems.
These ships carry a large amount of automation allowing for a fairly small crew and the Kearsarge class Battlecruiser class is almost the size of an Iowa class battleship. As a result, the Battlecruiser is quite comfortable for their crews. Like the Delaware class cruisers, it was decided that instead of relying on just the crew that a small number of marines would be carried as well. These serve to prevent the boarding of the ship but weapons and body armor are also kept for the entire ship's crew. As previously stated, these ships were designed as command ships and have special command facilities and flag officer staterooms. The ships do not have facilities or a hanger for maintaining aircraft for a long period but do have a landing pad near the rear of the vessel.
Vessel Designation: CBGN-1 class Battle Cruiser
Vessel Type: Ocean, Guided Missile Battle Cruiser
Crew: 280; 28 officers, 25 Chief Petty officers, and 237 enlisted (Has a high degree of automation)
Speed: 40.3 mph (35 knots/ 64.8 kph)
Range: Unlimited due to fusion engines. Ship carries six months of supplies on board.
Length: 840 feet (258.5 meters)
Draft: 35.5 feet (10.8 meters)
Width: 95 feet (29.0 meters)
Displacement: 25,350 tons standard and 30,100 tons fully loaded
Cargo: 1,200 tons of nonessential equipment and supplies. Each enlisted crew member has a small locker for personal items and uniforms. Ships officers have more space for personal items. Most of the ship's spaces are taken up by extra ammo, armor, troops, weapons, and engines.
Power System: 4 Nuclear Reactors, average life span is 20 years
Weapon Systems:
One (1) MK 71-D Single Barrel Rapid Fire Eight Inch (203 mm) Naval Gun: The cannon is mounted in a turret is the front forward of the ship missile launchers. This gun design was original designed to be used on the late twentieth century Spruance destroyer class but was never actually into military service until much later. The gun was adopted for the Kearsarge class for expediency and was as effective as rail guns in most ways. The last two members of the class were to have replaced the cannon with a rail gun. The cannons fire more rapidly than the eight cannons on the Sea King class and use a fixed powder charge. The eight inch guns can be used against aircraft as well as against surface ships and ground targets. Maximum Effective Range: 30 miles (26 nm/48.2 km) Rate of Fire: Four shots per minute Payload: 400 rounds Six (6) Mk 44 "Sea Sabre" Combination Anti-Missile Defense Systems: One system is on the front of the superstructure, one system on the rear of the superstructure, and two are on either side of the superstructure. This anti-missile defense system combines both a rapid fire rail gun and a short range missile launcher. While mounted in one system, both defense system have separate tracking systems. The short range missile launchers can target up four targets and can fire a volley of a maximum of 4 up to twice per minute. The rail gun is capable of destroying any missile or inflicting serious damage on aircraft. The rail gun can fire on automatic at up to six targets at a time. The system also can be used against other ships and ground targets. The system has a 360 degree rotation and can elevate up to 90 degrees to fire at targets directly overhead. Maximum Effective Range: Rail Guns - 11,000 feet (2 miles/3.2 km); Short Range Missiles: depends on missile being used. Rate of Fire: Rail Gun - 6,000 rounds per minute; Payload: 96 missile cells in each launcher with reload systems for each cell in each launcher (1152 missiles cells total with 1 reload for each cell). One long range missile or two medium range missiles may be carried per cell but reload must be the same load out as well. The ship will often carry 24 cells in each launcher (288 cells total) with two medium range missiles each and the other cells loaded with one long range missile each. Two (2) Medium Torpedo Launchers: Mainly design for anti-submarine warfare but can be used against surface targets. There is one launcher on each side of the ship with four tubes each. The tubes have an automatic reloading system and can be fired quickly. The ships carries a total of 80 torpedoes for reloads. By Medium torpedo warhead type. Maximum Effective Range: 20 miles (32 km) Rate of Fire: One at a time or in volleys of 2 or 4 per side Payload: has 80 torpedos for reloads pending size Chaff Launchers (4): Located on the superstructure of the ship, they are designed to confuse incoming missiles. All four launchers must be operated or effects will be reduced. Advanced Towed Decoys (4): The vessel carries four advanced towed decoy drones. They are each a small automated vehicle that creates a false sonar image designed to mimic the vessels. The decoy is dragged behind the submarine using a cable. If decoys are not destroyed, they can be recovered and repaired. The decoy has an 80% chance of fooling ordinary non military sonars and non smart guided torpedoes, a 50% chance of fooling military level sonars, and a 25% chance of fooling advanced military sonars and smart torpedoes.
Special Systems:
SPY-5D Three Dimensional Search Radar System An incredibly advanced radar and computer system first developed before the end of the twentieth century and upgraded continuously until the coming of the Rifts. Powerful and flexible radar system that is comprised of four panels that each emit radar waves. If allowed by the horizon, the system can track out to 800 miles (1280 km) and can simultaneously track and identify up to 1152 targets at one time. The system controls missile launched from the long range missile launchers and the system track and guide each individual missile to an individual target for up to 288 targets. If a target is eliminated, missiles are automatically guided to a new target. The system can also control missiles launched from other linked vessels as well and can also act as fire control for gun mounts.
Advanced Hull Sonar: Mounted under the bow of the ship. Range of 25 miles (21.7 nm / 40.2 km). This hull sonar system has both a passive and active system built in. Sonar system can track up to 32 targets at one time Command and Control Facilities: The battlecruiser carries extra communications equipment and command facilities, to enable the ship to operate as the flagship for a flotilla. Sonar Masking System: The Ship uses water bubbles to form a barrier against sonar as well. Gives a 10% fault to any Read Sensory Instrument rolls to detect this ship using sonar. Radar Defeating Profile & Radar Absorbing Materials: The ship superstructure is designed so that the radar profile of the ship is reduced and the ship is covered with radar absorbing materials. Because of this, attempts to detect the ship using radar are made with a 30% fault to read sensor rolls when attempting to detect this ship. Jamming System: Combination of radar detection system (ESM) and an active jamming system. The system can detect another radar system at 125% of the range of the transmitting radar pending allowance by horizon.
Market Cost: $5 billion
The Kearsarge class Battlecruiser was developed by the RNEC at the time of great tension before the coming of the Post-Modern era and is similar to a few unusual ideas from the later part of the Twentieth Century. The Kearsarge class ships were developed for the main purposes of Command and Control and Carrier Missile Defense. In theses roles, the ship is unmatched by any other ship. While the ship is capable in both anti-submarine warfare and shore bombardment, these were not primary purposes in the ship class.
In the late part of the Twentieth Century, the RNEC worked on the development of a ship known as the Arsenal ship. It would have been a huge ship filled with vertical launchers but would have used the guidance systems from other ships. Unlike the Arsenal Ship, the Kearsarge class Battlecruiser has a sophisticated and powerful fire control and carries weapons other than vertical launch missile systems and in this was much like the earlier Russian Kirov class. The Kirov class had been scrapped years prior to the Roman Battlecruiser and there were no vessels similar to the Kearsarge at the time of commissioning. Like the Arsenal Ship, the main weapon systems of the Kearsarge class are a large number of missile vertical launch systems.
The Kearsarge was constructed with a single hull like the Delaware class cruiser but has double bulkheads to resist damage. Some other ship classes were designed with two or three hulls for greater speed and stability. The tough alloys and composites the ship's hull is constructed from are capable of withstanding several hits from very heavy weapons and the Kearsarge was designed for battle survivability. Even though the ship is large, it was designed with stealth characteristics and the superstructure in many ways looks like that from the Burke class destroyer without the exhaust stacks. The superstructure is also constructed using radar absorbing materials to further increase the ship's stealth. Coming back into favor during the development of the Kearsarge Battlecruiser, the ship is powered by four nuclear reactors. Fusion reactors were made viable by the middle of the twenty first century and were far less expensive and more efficient that the previous fission reactors. The propellers were adapted from designs used on larger gas turbine vessels and have variable pitch blades. These make the ship maneuver far better than might be expected for a ship its size, has the ability to change from forward to reverse very quickly, and can be changed for greater speed or power as needed. While the ship is large, it is designed to be as quiet as possible and the hull and propellers have a special bubble system that both masks the ships hull and propellers to enable the ship to operate quietly. For radar, the ship uses an advanced derivative of the Aegis radar and fire control system. This system is identical to that carried on the Delaware class. The ship has an advanced hull sonar but unlike the Delaware class does not have a towed array sonar.
The main weapons of the ship are the multiple long range missile launchers. The ship is outfitted with a total of twelve 96 cell vertical launch systems with four in front of the superstructure and eight behind the superstructure which makes for an incredible number of missiles. Each cell is capable of carrying one long range missile or two medium range missiles. The launchers are fitted side by side. Each launcher has an automatic reload system than increases the number of missiles the ship carries. The ship has the ability to engage aircraft, missiles, surface targets, and ground targets with these launchers. The ship has one eight inch gun for engaging surface and ground targets at close range, reduced from two on the Delaware class. This mount is relatively light and actually was developed in the 1970's although fire control additions would also allow the gun to be fired at air targets. This mount is simple, accurate, rapid firing, and powerful. While a good weapon system, it was planned to replace the standard naval gun with a powerful rail gun. The removal of propellant would have increased the number of projectiles the ship could carry. The Kearsarge carries the same point defense systems that was designed for the Delaware class but the ship carries six mounts instead of four. One was mounted on the front of the superstructure, one was mounted on the back of the superstructure, and two were mounted on either side of the superstructure. The system is a combination of a rapid fire rail gun and a short range missile launcher. The idea is that missiles that leak through the main defense are first engaged by the short range missile launchers and when they get within range will be engaged by the rail guns. The ship has torpedo tubes to engage submarines and also has anti-missile chaff to confuse incoming missiles not destroyed by the other defense systems.
These ships carry a large amount of automation allowing for a fairly small crew and the Kearsarge class Battlecruiser class is almost the size of an Iowa class battleship. As a result, the Battlecruiser is quite comfortable for their crews. Like the Delaware class cruisers, it was decided that instead of relying on just the crew that a small number of marines would be carried as well. These serve to prevent the boarding of the ship but weapons and body armor are also kept for the entire ship's crew. As previously stated, these ships were designed as command ships and have special command facilities and flag officer staterooms. The ships do not have facilities or a hanger for maintaining aircraft for a long period but do have a landing pad near the rear of the vessel.
Vessel Designation: CBGN-1 class Battle Cruiser
Vessel Type: Ocean, Guided Missile Battle Cruiser
Crew: 280; 28 officers, 25 Chief Petty officers, and 237 enlisted (Has a high degree of automation)
Speed: 40.3 mph (35 knots/ 64.8 kph)
Range: Unlimited due to fusion engines. Ship carries six months of supplies on board.
Length: 840 feet (258.5 meters)
Draft: 35.5 feet (10.8 meters)
Width: 95 feet (29.0 meters)
Displacement: 25,350 tons standard and 30,100 tons fully loaded
Cargo: 1,200 tons of nonessential equipment and supplies. Each enlisted crew member has a small locker for personal items and uniforms. Ships officers have more space for personal items. Most of the ship's spaces are taken up by extra ammo, armor, troops, weapons, and engines.
Power System: 4 Nuclear Reactors, average life span is 20 years
Weapon Systems:
One (1) MK 71-D Single Barrel Rapid Fire Eight Inch (203 mm) Naval Gun: The cannon is mounted in a turret is the front forward of the ship missile launchers. This gun design was original designed to be used on the late twentieth century Spruance destroyer class but was never actually into military service until much later. The gun was adopted for the Kearsarge class for expediency and was as effective as rail guns in most ways. The last two members of the class were to have replaced the cannon with a rail gun. The cannons fire more rapidly than the eight cannons on the Sea King class and use a fixed powder charge. The eight inch guns can be used against aircraft as well as against surface ships and ground targets. Maximum Effective Range: 30 miles (26 nm/48.2 km) Rate of Fire: Four shots per minute Payload: 400 rounds Six (6) Mk 44 "Sea Sabre" Combination Anti-Missile Defense Systems: One system is on the front of the superstructure, one system on the rear of the superstructure, and two are on either side of the superstructure. This anti-missile defense system combines both a rapid fire rail gun and a short range missile launcher. While mounted in one system, both defense system have separate tracking systems. The short range missile launchers can target up four targets and can fire a volley of a maximum of 4 up to twice per minute. The rail gun is capable of destroying any missile or inflicting serious damage on aircraft. The rail gun can fire on automatic at up to six targets at a time. The system also can be used against other ships and ground targets. The system has a 360 degree rotation and can elevate up to 90 degrees to fire at targets directly overhead. Maximum Effective Range: Rail Guns - 11,000 feet (2 miles/3.2 km); Short Range Missiles: depends on missile being used. Rate of Fire: Rail Gun - 6,000 rounds per minute; Payload: 96 missile cells in each launcher with reload systems for each cell in each launcher (1152 missiles cells total with 1 reload for each cell). One long range missile or two medium range missiles may be carried per cell but reload must be the same load out as well. The ship will often carry 24 cells in each launcher (288 cells total) with two medium range missiles each and the other cells loaded with one long range missile each. Two (2) Medium Torpedo Launchers: Mainly design for anti-submarine warfare but can be used against surface targets. There is one launcher on each side of the ship with four tubes each. The tubes have an automatic reloading system and can be fired quickly. The ships carries a total of 80 torpedoes for reloads. By Medium torpedo warhead type. Maximum Effective Range: 20 miles (32 km) Rate of Fire: One at a time or in volleys of 2 or 4 per side Payload: has 80 torpedos for reloads pending size Chaff Launchers (4): Located on the superstructure of the ship, they are designed to confuse incoming missiles. All four launchers must be operated or effects will be reduced. Advanced Towed Decoys (4): The vessel carries four advanced towed decoy drones. They are each a small automated vehicle that creates a false sonar image designed to mimic the vessels. The decoy is dragged behind the submarine using a cable. If decoys are not destroyed, they can be recovered and repaired. The decoy has an 80% chance of fooling ordinary non military sonars and non smart guided torpedoes, a 50% chance of fooling military level sonars, and a 25% chance of fooling advanced military sonars and smart torpedoes.
Special Systems:
SPY-5D Three Dimensional Search Radar System An incredibly advanced radar and computer system first developed before the end of the twentieth century and upgraded continuously until the coming of the Rifts. Powerful and flexible radar system that is comprised of four panels that each emit radar waves. If allowed by the horizon, the system can track out to 800 miles (1280 km) and can simultaneously track and identify up to 1152 targets at one time. The system controls missile launched from the long range missile launchers and the system track and guide each individual missile to an individual target for up to 288 targets. If a target is eliminated, missiles are automatically guided to a new target. The system can also control missiles launched from other linked vessels as well and can also act as fire control for gun mounts.
Advanced Hull Sonar: Mounted under the bow of the ship. Range of 25 miles (21.7 nm / 40.2 km). This hull sonar system has both a passive and active system built in. Sonar system can track up to 32 targets at one time Command and Control Facilities: The battlecruiser carries extra communications equipment and command facilities, to enable the ship to operate as the flagship for a flotilla. Sonar Masking System: The Ship uses water bubbles to form a barrier against sonar as well. Gives a 10% fault to any Read Sensory Instrument rolls to detect this ship using sonar. Radar Defeating Profile & Radar Absorbing Materials: The ship superstructure is designed so that the radar profile of the ship is reduced and the ship is covered with radar absorbing materials. Because of this, attempts to detect the ship using radar are made with a 30% fault to read sensor rolls when attempting to detect this ship. Jamming System: Combination of radar detection system (ESM) and an active jamming system. The system can detect another radar system at 125% of the range of the transmitting radar pending allowance by horizon.
Market Cost: $5 billion