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I need some help with these designs.

Profit Buster Class Raider
Class type: Raider
Displacement: ?? tons (standard);
?? tons (full load)
Length: 230 meters
Beam: 60 meters
Draft: 18 meters
Propulsion and power: 2 screws (geared turbines) 1 x 12 Megawatt Peble Bed Nuclear reactor
Speed: 43 knot maximum
Complement: 863 officers and men
Armament:
2 x 240mm 60 cal
6 x 6 inch/ 55 cal dual turrets( retractable)
4 x 35 mm CIWS ( retracable)
16x VLS tubes( Hidden)
8x SAM Launchers (retractable)
4x 1200 mm underwater torpedoe launchers
Armor:
Belt: 15 cm
Bulkheads: 10 cm (bulk heads every 10 meters Goes from Keel to Deck)
Decks: 8 cm

The Profit Buster Class Raider is designed to cripple enemy shipping. The ship is hidden as neutral ship until its guns are raised. It moves near ports and waits for a target while moving at slow speeds, before pouncing at full speed. It can carry the Fist of Binaria ICBM in is main hold. It can raise the launcher, and fire and retract in 6 minutes.



Fist of Binaria Class ICBM
Length: (23.6 m)
Diameter: (3.2 m)
Total Fueled Weight: (68,486 kg)
Empty Weight: (12,221 kg)
Hydrazinium nitroformate (HNF) Weight: 68,760 lb (38,189 kg)
Triethylaluminium Weight: (13,796 kg) (20,432)
Thrust: 1500 kN
ISP: 334
Burning time: 4 min. 58 sec.
Range: (8,600 km)
Flight time: varibable
Reentry velocity: 7900 m/s
Acceleration: (74 m/s²)
Warhead: (1450 kg)
Fusing: Proximity and Impact
Guidance: GPS
CEP 12 meters

It should way 1.25x its standard weight maximum when fully loaded for the type of missions you're going for, hwen moderate speed its needed.

I'm not much with ICBM's, but the shape of your ship will dictate its block coefficient, which will dictate the weight of your ship. A ship with a low cB will be lighter, one with a high cB will be heavy and slow, one with a cB over 1 is physically impossible.

Generally for a faster ship you want a low cB, although that makes it less stable.

Er, well, technically, alot more things than block coefficient suggest the shape of a vessel, and the cB suggests the shape, not the other way round.

We already went over why this is a bad idea on MSN binary -_-