Typhon Class Destroyer
Length – 682 Meters
Displacement – 620,000 tons
Crew complement – 329 including 25 Marines or Elementals.
The surviving destroyer type WarShips in Clan service were a mixture of the Lola III and Essex II which had departed with the SLDF during Operation EXODUS and were the survivors of the battles to retake the Hegemony and Sol System. Designed along standard SLDF lines, the ships were built to be cheap, easy to maintain and, in essence, expendable. As they could be easily replaced by the vast industrial strength of the Hegemony. But, the Clans lacked the industrial capabilities of the Hegemony and WarShips were not assets that could simply be thrown away without care. With this in mind, as part of the New WarShip Programme, the Scientists of Clan Snow Raven began development of a destroyer scale vessel that would incorporate all the lessons learned from the SLDF of the past and take advantage of the latest developments in technology.
Going through several iterations the final design called for a 620,000-ton vessel, putting her in the same weight as the older Essex II class, and considerably lighter than the 680,000 tons of the Lola III. Indeed, the design did feature some of the Essex’s hull features and the forwards hull was very reminiscent of the older vessel. But superficial similarities aside the new design was an entirely different ship. The bridge and sensor section were moved amidships with the ships CinC buried deeply in the hull, the traditional bridge section now more used as a meeting space and briefing room. Over eight hundred and sixty tons of Lamellor Ferro-Carbide armour was used to give the ship protection equal to a Black Lion II class Battlecruiser.
Like the older Lola and Essex classes the new destroyer, officially called the Typhon class by the Raven’s newest Khan, Lynn McKenna carried the standard two Stars of OmniFighters (20 fighters) as well as a quartet of small craft. But she also could carry a pair of DropShips to either deploy ground forces or support troops on the ground with additional Aerospace assets or the newly developed Roc class Assault DropShip.
The armament of the Typhon was designed for maximum flexibility, a pair of heavy naval autocannons in the bow provide the main forwards firepower whilst a mixture of 35 and 45cm naval lasers supported by medium Naval particle cannons provide the majority of the firepower. A pair of medium naval gauss rifles can also engage broadside targets.
Additional firepower is provided by ten AR-10 Maelstrom missile launchers with six firing into the forward and broadside arcs and four covering the stern quarters. Anti-fighter defences include the ships lasers and particle cannons as well as the missiles for long to extreme range engagements but at short range a mixture of large pulse lasers, ER PPC and LRM clusters can engage fighters or hostile DropShips whilst also providing cover for friendly craft. Finally, anti-missile batteries are installed for point and area defence against anti-ship and fighter scale missiles.
AeroTech 2 Vessel Technical Readout
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Class/Model/Name: Typhon-class Destroyer
Tech: Clan / 3067
Vessel Type: WarShip
Rules: Level 2, Standard design
Rules Set: AeroTech2
Mass: 620,000 tons
K-F Drive System: (Unknown)
Length: 682 meters
Sail Diameter: 1,068 meters
Power Plant: Standard
Safe Thrust: 4
Maximum Thrust: 6
Armor Type: Lamellor Ferro-carbide
Armament:
2 NAC/30
4 Medium N-Gauss
10 Medium NPPC
4 NL55
16 NL45
12 NL35
10 AR10 Launcher
16 ER PPC
24 Large Pulse Laser
32 LRM 20+ArtIV
28 AMS
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Class/Model/Name: Typhon-class Destroyer
Mass: 620,000 tons
Equipment: Mass
Power Plant, Drive & Control: 148,800.00
Thrust: Safe Thrust: 4
Maximum Thrust: 6
Kearny-Fuchida Hyperdrive: Compact (Integrity = 13) 280,550.00
Lithium Fusion Battery 6,200.00
Jump Sail: (Integrity = 4) 61.00
Structural Integrity: 70 43,400.00
Total Heat Sinks: 2,000 Double 1,410.00
Fuel & Fuel Pumps: 6,630.00
Bridge, Controls, Radar, Computer & Attitude Thrusters: 1,550.00
Fire Control Computers: .00
Armor Type: Lamellor Ferro-carbide (997 total armor pts) 868.00
Capital Scale Armor Pts
Location: L / R
Fore: 173
Fore-Left/Right: 166/166
Aft-Left/Right: 166/166
Aft: 160
Cargo:
Bay 1: Fighters (20) 3,000.00
Bay 2: Small Craft (4) 800.00
Bay 3: Cargo 30,963.00
DropShip Capacity: 2 Docking Hardpoints 2,000.00
Grav Deck #1: (90-meter diameter) 50.00
Crew and Passengers:
43 Officers (43 minimum) 430.00
126 Crew (126 minimum) 882.00
75 Gunners (75 minimum) 525.00
25 Marine Battle Armor Troopers/Elementals 175.00
60 Bay Personnel .00
Weapons and Equipment Loc SRV MRV LRV ERV Heat Mass
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2 NAC/30(120 rounds) Nose 60 60 60 -- 200 7,096.00
3 NL35 Nose 11 11 11 -- 156 2,100.00
3 NL35 Nose 11 11 11 -- 156 2,100.00
2 ER PPC Nose 3(30) 3(30) 3(30) -- 30 12.00
3 Large Pulse Laser Nose 3(30) 3(30) 3(30) -- 30 18.00
4 LRM 20+ArtIV(240 rounds) Nose 6(64) 6(64) 6(64) -- 24 64.00
3 AMS(2688 rounds) Nose -- -- -- -- 3 113.50
4 NL45 FL/R 18 18 18 18 560 7,200.00
3 AR10 (30 KW, 15 WS, 60 B)FL/R * * * * 120 9,300.00
2 ER PPC FL/R 3(30) 3(30) 3(30) -- 60 24.00
3 Large Pulse Laser FL/R 3(30) 3(30) 3(30) -- 60 36.00
4 LRM 20+ArtIV(240 rounds) FL/R 6(64) 6(64) 6(64) -- 48 128.00
4 AMS(3600 rounds) FL/R -- -- -- -- 8 304.00
3 Medium NPPC L/RBS 27 27 27 27 810 10,800.00
2 Medium N-Gauss(120 roundsL/RBS 50 50 50 50 60 22,096.00
3 NL35 L/RBS 11 11 11 -- 312 4,200.00
2 ER PPC L/RBS 3(30) 3(30) 3(30) -- 60 24.00
3 Large Pulse Laser L/RBS 3(30) 3(30) 3(30) -- 60 36.00
4 LRM 20+ArtIV(240 rounds) L/RBS 6(64) 6(64) 6(64) -- 48 128.00
3 AMS(2688 rounds) L/RBS -- -- -- -- 6 227.00
4 NL45 AL/R 18 18 18 18 560 7,200.00
2 AR10 (20 KW, 10 WS, 40 B)AL/R * * * * 80 6,200.00
2 ER PPC AL/R 3(30) 3(30) 3(30) -- 60 24.00
3 Large Pulse Laser AL/R 3(30) 3(30) 3(30) -- 60 36.00
4 LRM 20+ArtIV(240 rounds) AL/R 6(64) 6(64) 6(64) -- 48 128.00
4 AMS(3600 rounds) AL/R -- -- -- -- 8 304.00
2 NL55 Aft 11 11 11 11 170 2,200.00
4 Medium NPPC Aft 36 36 36 36 540 7,200.00
2 NL55 Aft 11 11 11 11 170 2,200.00
2 ER PPC Aft 3(30) 3(30) 3(30) -- 30 12.00
3 Large Pulse Laser Aft 3(30) 3(30) 3(30) -- 30 18.00
4 LRM 20+ArtIV(240 rounds) Aft 6(64) 6(64) 6(64) -- 24 64.00
3 AMS(2688 rounds) Aft -- -- -- -- 3 113.50
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TOTALS: Heat: 4,594 620,000.00
Tons Left: .00
Calculated Factors:
Total Cost: 10,085,946,000 C-Bills
Ship designed by Vition2.
