Nachmere
27-03-2009, 22:53
NPS has finished development of a missile boat for the Blackhelm Confederacy. The ship is currently only avilable for the BLackhelm Navy, but may become avilable for other customers.
Cost per unit: 250 million NS$
FAC-360 “Devil”
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Background:
The FAC-360 was developed to meet a requirement buy the Blackhelm Confederacy for a small, fast and heavily armed “missile boat”. The Confederacy asked for a craft capable of conducting shore protection operations with secondary AA capabilities.
NPS set to its first naval design with the concept of a ship relying on high tech stealth, active protection and a long reaching main weapon system. The result is the Fast Assault Craft 360 “Devil”. It is a cross between a corvette and a missile boat, capable of engaging bigger vessels at long ranges as well as fighting smaller ones at short ranges. The ship was built to lower its cross-section and its hull shape is somewhat un-conventional. The FAC-360 can also protect itself against aerial attack and has a viable anti-submarine capability.
Specifications:
Place of Origin: Armed Republic of Nachmere and the Protected Dictatorship of Anghele.
Designer: Nachmere Precision Systems | Naval Designs.
Manufacturer: NPS Precision Systems Anghele Complex.
Production Status: In Production.
Crew: 16 officers and 20 enlisted men.
Length: 49.6 meters.
Beam: 7.7 meters.
Draft: 2.5 meters.
Displacement: 320 tons.
Missiles: 8XASL-360 Surface to Surface missiles, 24XAAM-360 Surface to Air Missiles.
Gun: 40mm autocannon with 1000 rounds of ammunition.
Anti Submarine: 4 torpedoes and 10 depth charges.
Sensors: Air-Surface RADAR, Passive/Active Sonar, Others(see full text)
Propulsion: CODAG, combined to 14.4 MW output(see text)
Cruise speed: 20 knots.
Top speed: 40 knots.
Endurance: 8000km at 20 knots or 3250km at 40 knots. 4 weeks of rations and supplies.
Construction and structure:
The FAC-360 hull is made mainly of PVC, carbon fibers and vinyl laminates, and radar absorbent materials. The main weapon systems are located in the upper decks, with the bridge uppermost on the center of the hull. Crew rest, services and recreation are directly below the bridge. The engine rooms and fuel are located to the rear of the ship on the lower part of the hull.
Stealth/Low Cross Section:
The FAC-360 has a very low cross section due to the following features:
1)An angled radar deflecting and absorbing hull.
2)PVC construction with low magnetic cross-section.
3)Thermal cross-section reducing materials coating engines and other hot-spots.
4)Water-jet propulsion with covered blades giving reduced acoustic cross-section.
5)Passive Sensors allowing for low probability of interception by hostile warning systems.
Mobility and Maneuverability:
The FAC-360 uses a CODAG (Combined Diesel and Gas) propulsion system with 4 small gas turbines producing 3 MW each and 2 Diesel V-16 engines producing 1.2 MW each. The engines can be used separately for efficient long journeys, or all together for a very high top speed.
The engines power 2 water-jets that have steerable nozzles for thrust vectoring. This allows the FAC-360 to perform maneuvers that are impossible with other vessels of its size. The ship also has rudders and bow-thrusters for harbor maneuvering. The water-jets also create a SONAR cross section reduction.
Weaponry:
The FAC-360 is armed to engage sea, air and land targets at various ranges with hi-lethality and accuracy. The following weapon systems are carried onboard:
1) ASL-360: Developed especially for the FAC-360, this missile is a dual purpose, medium range missile capable of engaging land and sea targets with a HE warhead. The ASL-360 has a small RADAR cross section and low flight altitude allowing it to evade enemy countermeasure systems. The missile has two strike modes. The first is “Naval” in which the missile flies at sea skimming (5 meters) altitude and then hits the enemy vessel near the water line. The second is “Ground” in which the missile sea skims up to the shore line and then climbs to 40 meters and attacks its target from above. In both modes the missile is guided by several systems (see specifications). The ASL-360 fixed launchers are located on both sides of the hull, integrated into the hull itself. 4 missiles are ready to launch with four more on a reload system that takes 25 seconds to load from the time the first missiles were launched.
ASL-360 specifications:
Length: 4 meters
Weight: 420 kg
Warhead: 130 kg HE fragmentation
Engine: Solid fuel rocket at launch and a turbojet while cruising.
Range: 200km
Flight Altitude: Sea skimming (5 meters)/ Terrain Hugging (40 meters)
Speed: 0.85 Mach
Guidance: Combined Inertial/GPS + terrain reference/ electro-optical + IR
2) AAM-360: Also developed for the FAC-360, this is a Anti-Aircraft and Anti-Missile missile system. Launching bays are located at the front and rear of the upper hull. Each bay holds 12 AAM-360 missiles. The missile is vertically launched and then engages its target from above. A combined RADAR and IR-Electro-optical guidance allows it to engage even smaller threats like air launched anti-ship missiles, as well as aircraft.
AAM-360 Specifications:
Length: 2.8 meters
Weight: 120 kg
Warhead: 25 kg HE fragmentation
Engine: Solid fuel rocket
Range: 35 km
Service Ceiling: 7000 meters
3) 40mm L/70 Automatic Cannon: Housed in a turret at the front of the ship, the 40mm cannon fires at a rate of 200 rounds per minute. The HE rounds can reach distances of up to 7000 meters with accuracy. The turret is fully automated and operated by a crew located under the deck. The barrel can be retracted into the turret to reduce the RADAR cross-section of the ship. 200 rounds are held in each magazine, with 5 magazines held in the loading system altogether. The gun is fully stabilized and aimed by a RADAR or optics. The main purpose of the gun is use against smaller vessels and low flying aircraft at short ranges.
4) Torpedoes: Two fixed forward facing torpedo tubes are located at the front of the boat. The tubes are meant to be used with small torpedoes of up to 350mm, with two ready to fire and two carried in a loading system.
5) Depth Charges/Acoustic Decoys launchers: 3 launchers for standard size depth charges and are located at each side of rear hull. Up to 10 standard sized depth charges size charges can be carried in a loading system with 4 ready to launch. 2 acoustic decoys are ready to fire and 4 more held in the loading system. This gives the FAC-360 an ability to engage submarines at close ranges.
Sensors and fire control:
Most sensors aboard the FAC-360 are located on the integrated mast on top of the bridge area. The following systems are used to detect and engage targets:
1)An integrated fire control system guides both the ASL-360 and ASL-360 to their targets. The system processes information from the sensors for the ASL-360, giving the missile GPS data calculated by the RADAR or entered manually, target trajectory, ground imagery (if available), and target imagery(if available). When reaching the target the missile sensors use what data is available for terminal guidance. For the AAM-360 the system guides the missile to one second distance of the target using RADAR data, from which point sensors on the missile take over.
2)A multi-purpose air and surface passive electronically scanned RADAR system is used to detect and track targets at ranges of up to 200 kilometers and altitudes of up to 20 kilometers. The RADAR communicates information to an integrated fire control system for both missile systems.
3)A separate fire control system and short range RADAR is used for the 40mm autocannon. The system uses data from either the radar (with a range of up to 10 km) or the optical system with a laser range finder and TI. The optical system is mainly a backup and is very similar to the fire control and observation systems used on NPS made AFVs.
4)The FAC-360 carries a SONAR suite located in the front and rear of the ship. To the front is a hull integrated active/ passive variable depth SONAR array. The array is used to detect, track and classify underwater targets. The front SONAR array also has interception SONAR capable of identifying and classifying hostile SONAR systems. The rear towed passive SONAR array is used for enhanced ASW capabilities when the water is deep enough to allow towed SONAR use.
5)Incoming missile warning system which combines 4 small fire control radars and 4 IR and UV sensors to detect incoming missiles homing in on the ship. This system works with the ships HASK system to defeat incoming missiles and projectiles.
Counter Measures and Electronic Warfare:
The FAC-360 has a full countermeasures, early warning and electronic warfare suite to deal with all types of threats. Here are the main systems:
1)HASK- Hard and Soft Kill anti-missiles and projectile system combines two systems. The first is a soft kill system based on radio jamming and optical/IR decoys to defeat small guided missiles. The second is a hard kill system which is similar to the one on NPS AFVs, and is meant to defeat threats that were not defeated by soft-kill methods. The system defeats incoming missiles by launching HE projectiles at them and destroying the threat 100 meters from the FAC-360. The system has 85 projectiles ready for launch around the hull. The system classifies incoming threats by size, and those that are two large to safely destroy 100 meters away are dealt by use of the AAM-360 missile.
2)TOSK- Torpedo Soft Kill System- uses data from the SONAR arrays to detect incoming torpedoes. When a torpedo is located an acoustic decoy is launched and the ship’s crew is advised as to the best maneuver to avoid the incoming threat.
3)RADAR warning Receiver is located in the mast and detects hostile RADAR emissions to alert the fire control and countermeasures systems of possible threats. The receiver locates and ranges hostile systems allowing the ship to evade or engage threats.
Command Control and Communications:
The bridge is fully digitized, and is managed by the FACC3 system. The system collects and displays information from all the ships sensors and system to the four main stations of the bridge: command, propulsion and navigation, fire control and EW, and communications. The system allows each station to access information needed from any part of the ship, share it instantly with the other stations or other vessels or other parts of the ship.
External communications include satellite communications, and radio transmitters/receivers in all standard military frequencies. The communication system allows for voice, data and visual communications. Internal communications comprise of an internal audio, data and loud speaker systems in every critical part of the ship.
Navigation systems are based on GPS navigation, with inertial systems as a backup. The GPS system is ready to integrate into any existing battle management system, and has very flexible code.
Safety and Emergency:
The FAC-360 has many systems to assure crew survival and safety in emergency and routine situations. These are the main systems and features:
1)A fire detection and suppression system which detects fire using heat/light sensors and uses BCF canisters to suppress the fire. The ship also has hoses using seawater for use on the upper deck and manually operated BCF canisters for use in the lower decks.
2)All ammo and fuel stores are designed to direct an explosion out of the ship and to seal off to prevent water flooding the ship.
3)4 inflatable life rafts with water tight survival equipment and supplies are located on the bridge and upper deck, and can be deployed in less than a minute to allow the crew to abandon ship.
4)A sick bay with 6 beds and equipment to deal with up to 15 wounded (using the sleeping area for extra beds) is located on the ship. The sickbay is equipped to deal with major trauma and routine injuries. It has full access to external communications allowing the ships medic/doctor to communicate with other ship or shore based medical facilities by audio and visual communications.
Crew quarters and amenities:
Located under the bridge is the crew sleeping and amenities area. This are includes:
1)A quarter’s area with 9 bunk beds (enough for half the ship at one time), personal storage compartments, 2 toilets, and 2 showers.
2)A kitchen, Mess, and R&R area. This holds the ships kitchen and mess, a TV/DVD set, a PC with a satellite connection to the internet, and a satellite phone.
Cost per unit: 250 million NS$
FAC-360 “Devil”
Image:http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/3392/devilclassfac.png
Background:
The FAC-360 was developed to meet a requirement buy the Blackhelm Confederacy for a small, fast and heavily armed “missile boat”. The Confederacy asked for a craft capable of conducting shore protection operations with secondary AA capabilities.
NPS set to its first naval design with the concept of a ship relying on high tech stealth, active protection and a long reaching main weapon system. The result is the Fast Assault Craft 360 “Devil”. It is a cross between a corvette and a missile boat, capable of engaging bigger vessels at long ranges as well as fighting smaller ones at short ranges. The ship was built to lower its cross-section and its hull shape is somewhat un-conventional. The FAC-360 can also protect itself against aerial attack and has a viable anti-submarine capability.
Specifications:
Place of Origin: Armed Republic of Nachmere and the Protected Dictatorship of Anghele.
Designer: Nachmere Precision Systems | Naval Designs.
Manufacturer: NPS Precision Systems Anghele Complex.
Production Status: In Production.
Crew: 16 officers and 20 enlisted men.
Length: 49.6 meters.
Beam: 7.7 meters.
Draft: 2.5 meters.
Displacement: 320 tons.
Missiles: 8XASL-360 Surface to Surface missiles, 24XAAM-360 Surface to Air Missiles.
Gun: 40mm autocannon with 1000 rounds of ammunition.
Anti Submarine: 4 torpedoes and 10 depth charges.
Sensors: Air-Surface RADAR, Passive/Active Sonar, Others(see full text)
Propulsion: CODAG, combined to 14.4 MW output(see text)
Cruise speed: 20 knots.
Top speed: 40 knots.
Endurance: 8000km at 20 knots or 3250km at 40 knots. 4 weeks of rations and supplies.
Construction and structure:
The FAC-360 hull is made mainly of PVC, carbon fibers and vinyl laminates, and radar absorbent materials. The main weapon systems are located in the upper decks, with the bridge uppermost on the center of the hull. Crew rest, services and recreation are directly below the bridge. The engine rooms and fuel are located to the rear of the ship on the lower part of the hull.
Stealth/Low Cross Section:
The FAC-360 has a very low cross section due to the following features:
1)An angled radar deflecting and absorbing hull.
2)PVC construction with low magnetic cross-section.
3)Thermal cross-section reducing materials coating engines and other hot-spots.
4)Water-jet propulsion with covered blades giving reduced acoustic cross-section.
5)Passive Sensors allowing for low probability of interception by hostile warning systems.
Mobility and Maneuverability:
The FAC-360 uses a CODAG (Combined Diesel and Gas) propulsion system with 4 small gas turbines producing 3 MW each and 2 Diesel V-16 engines producing 1.2 MW each. The engines can be used separately for efficient long journeys, or all together for a very high top speed.
The engines power 2 water-jets that have steerable nozzles for thrust vectoring. This allows the FAC-360 to perform maneuvers that are impossible with other vessels of its size. The ship also has rudders and bow-thrusters for harbor maneuvering. The water-jets also create a SONAR cross section reduction.
Weaponry:
The FAC-360 is armed to engage sea, air and land targets at various ranges with hi-lethality and accuracy. The following weapon systems are carried onboard:
1) ASL-360: Developed especially for the FAC-360, this missile is a dual purpose, medium range missile capable of engaging land and sea targets with a HE warhead. The ASL-360 has a small RADAR cross section and low flight altitude allowing it to evade enemy countermeasure systems. The missile has two strike modes. The first is “Naval” in which the missile flies at sea skimming (5 meters) altitude and then hits the enemy vessel near the water line. The second is “Ground” in which the missile sea skims up to the shore line and then climbs to 40 meters and attacks its target from above. In both modes the missile is guided by several systems (see specifications). The ASL-360 fixed launchers are located on both sides of the hull, integrated into the hull itself. 4 missiles are ready to launch with four more on a reload system that takes 25 seconds to load from the time the first missiles were launched.
ASL-360 specifications:
Length: 4 meters
Weight: 420 kg
Warhead: 130 kg HE fragmentation
Engine: Solid fuel rocket at launch and a turbojet while cruising.
Range: 200km
Flight Altitude: Sea skimming (5 meters)/ Terrain Hugging (40 meters)
Speed: 0.85 Mach
Guidance: Combined Inertial/GPS + terrain reference/ electro-optical + IR
2) AAM-360: Also developed for the FAC-360, this is a Anti-Aircraft and Anti-Missile missile system. Launching bays are located at the front and rear of the upper hull. Each bay holds 12 AAM-360 missiles. The missile is vertically launched and then engages its target from above. A combined RADAR and IR-Electro-optical guidance allows it to engage even smaller threats like air launched anti-ship missiles, as well as aircraft.
AAM-360 Specifications:
Length: 2.8 meters
Weight: 120 kg
Warhead: 25 kg HE fragmentation
Engine: Solid fuel rocket
Range: 35 km
Service Ceiling: 7000 meters
3) 40mm L/70 Automatic Cannon: Housed in a turret at the front of the ship, the 40mm cannon fires at a rate of 200 rounds per minute. The HE rounds can reach distances of up to 7000 meters with accuracy. The turret is fully automated and operated by a crew located under the deck. The barrel can be retracted into the turret to reduce the RADAR cross-section of the ship. 200 rounds are held in each magazine, with 5 magazines held in the loading system altogether. The gun is fully stabilized and aimed by a RADAR or optics. The main purpose of the gun is use against smaller vessels and low flying aircraft at short ranges.
4) Torpedoes: Two fixed forward facing torpedo tubes are located at the front of the boat. The tubes are meant to be used with small torpedoes of up to 350mm, with two ready to fire and two carried in a loading system.
5) Depth Charges/Acoustic Decoys launchers: 3 launchers for standard size depth charges and are located at each side of rear hull. Up to 10 standard sized depth charges size charges can be carried in a loading system with 4 ready to launch. 2 acoustic decoys are ready to fire and 4 more held in the loading system. This gives the FAC-360 an ability to engage submarines at close ranges.
Sensors and fire control:
Most sensors aboard the FAC-360 are located on the integrated mast on top of the bridge area. The following systems are used to detect and engage targets:
1)An integrated fire control system guides both the ASL-360 and ASL-360 to their targets. The system processes information from the sensors for the ASL-360, giving the missile GPS data calculated by the RADAR or entered manually, target trajectory, ground imagery (if available), and target imagery(if available). When reaching the target the missile sensors use what data is available for terminal guidance. For the AAM-360 the system guides the missile to one second distance of the target using RADAR data, from which point sensors on the missile take over.
2)A multi-purpose air and surface passive electronically scanned RADAR system is used to detect and track targets at ranges of up to 200 kilometers and altitudes of up to 20 kilometers. The RADAR communicates information to an integrated fire control system for both missile systems.
3)A separate fire control system and short range RADAR is used for the 40mm autocannon. The system uses data from either the radar (with a range of up to 10 km) or the optical system with a laser range finder and TI. The optical system is mainly a backup and is very similar to the fire control and observation systems used on NPS made AFVs.
4)The FAC-360 carries a SONAR suite located in the front and rear of the ship. To the front is a hull integrated active/ passive variable depth SONAR array. The array is used to detect, track and classify underwater targets. The front SONAR array also has interception SONAR capable of identifying and classifying hostile SONAR systems. The rear towed passive SONAR array is used for enhanced ASW capabilities when the water is deep enough to allow towed SONAR use.
5)Incoming missile warning system which combines 4 small fire control radars and 4 IR and UV sensors to detect incoming missiles homing in on the ship. This system works with the ships HASK system to defeat incoming missiles and projectiles.
Counter Measures and Electronic Warfare:
The FAC-360 has a full countermeasures, early warning and electronic warfare suite to deal with all types of threats. Here are the main systems:
1)HASK- Hard and Soft Kill anti-missiles and projectile system combines two systems. The first is a soft kill system based on radio jamming and optical/IR decoys to defeat small guided missiles. The second is a hard kill system which is similar to the one on NPS AFVs, and is meant to defeat threats that were not defeated by soft-kill methods. The system defeats incoming missiles by launching HE projectiles at them and destroying the threat 100 meters from the FAC-360. The system has 85 projectiles ready for launch around the hull. The system classifies incoming threats by size, and those that are two large to safely destroy 100 meters away are dealt by use of the AAM-360 missile.
2)TOSK- Torpedo Soft Kill System- uses data from the SONAR arrays to detect incoming torpedoes. When a torpedo is located an acoustic decoy is launched and the ship’s crew is advised as to the best maneuver to avoid the incoming threat.
3)RADAR warning Receiver is located in the mast and detects hostile RADAR emissions to alert the fire control and countermeasures systems of possible threats. The receiver locates and ranges hostile systems allowing the ship to evade or engage threats.
Command Control and Communications:
The bridge is fully digitized, and is managed by the FACC3 system. The system collects and displays information from all the ships sensors and system to the four main stations of the bridge: command, propulsion and navigation, fire control and EW, and communications. The system allows each station to access information needed from any part of the ship, share it instantly with the other stations or other vessels or other parts of the ship.
External communications include satellite communications, and radio transmitters/receivers in all standard military frequencies. The communication system allows for voice, data and visual communications. Internal communications comprise of an internal audio, data and loud speaker systems in every critical part of the ship.
Navigation systems are based on GPS navigation, with inertial systems as a backup. The GPS system is ready to integrate into any existing battle management system, and has very flexible code.
Safety and Emergency:
The FAC-360 has many systems to assure crew survival and safety in emergency and routine situations. These are the main systems and features:
1)A fire detection and suppression system which detects fire using heat/light sensors and uses BCF canisters to suppress the fire. The ship also has hoses using seawater for use on the upper deck and manually operated BCF canisters for use in the lower decks.
2)All ammo and fuel stores are designed to direct an explosion out of the ship and to seal off to prevent water flooding the ship.
3)4 inflatable life rafts with water tight survival equipment and supplies are located on the bridge and upper deck, and can be deployed in less than a minute to allow the crew to abandon ship.
4)A sick bay with 6 beds and equipment to deal with up to 15 wounded (using the sleeping area for extra beds) is located on the ship. The sickbay is equipped to deal with major trauma and routine injuries. It has full access to external communications allowing the ships medic/doctor to communicate with other ship or shore based medical facilities by audio and visual communications.
Crew quarters and amenities:
Located under the bridge is the crew sleeping and amenities area. This are includes:
1)A quarter’s area with 9 bunk beds (enough for half the ship at one time), personal storage compartments, 2 toilets, and 2 showers.
2)A kitchen, Mess, and R&R area. This holds the ships kitchen and mess, a TV/DVD set, a PC with a satellite connection to the internet, and a satellite phone.