Type-81DD/Type-92DD Class Destroyer

SPECIFICATIONS

GOVERNMENT: Alpha Centauri Protectorate (USSR)
TYPE: Interstellar Astro-Space Destroyer (Sentinel class refit)
MODEL: Type-81DD (Ironclad Mark-IV) & Type-92DD (Ironclad Mark V)
DATE INTRODUCED: 2181 AD (refit 2192)
LENGTH: 850 feet (259 meters)
WIDTH: 236.2 feet (72 meters)
HEIGHT: 115.5 feet (35.2 meters)
MATERIAL: Crystal Composite
POWER PLANT: x7 Hensai Energy Fusion Reactor HEFR-5000B Fusion Reactor
OUTPUT: 5000 megawatts each, (25,000 megawatts total)
ARMOR TYPE: Crystal Composite
ARMOR THICKNESS: 2 inches
DISPLACEMENT: 12,000 tons
CREW: 184 (12 Operators, 51 Gunners, 16 Officers, 30 Engineers, 12 Technicians, 12 Electricians, 9 Medical, Science 6, plus 36 Pilots.)

PROPULSION

   (TYPE-81DD)
   FASTER THAN LIGHT DRIVE :
   1x Pluto Industrial PIID-T4-2000 Type-4-Mark-IV intersection drive unit
SPEED: 0.47 light-year per hour maximum warp

   (TYPE-92DD)
   FASTER THAN LIGHT DRIVE :
   1x Alpha Centauri Industrial ACI-SLV-200 Type-1 Super Luminal Velocity Drive unit
SPEED: 1.1 light-years per hour maximum warp

   (BOTH)
SUBLIGHT DRIVE::
   4x Centauri Aerospace AC-IPFE-600 Ion Plasma Fusion Engines
SPEED: kiloMACH 16.7 or 3525.6 miles per second each (KM 66.8 or 14,102 miles per second total for all four engines combined)

WEAPONS:

   (BOTH)
   PRIMARY (OFFENSIVE):
4x Lighgear LG-EMPAC-2003 200-megawatt triple EMPAC turrets; Effective Range: 1000 miles; Payload: unlimited with nuclear battery clutch system; ROF: 1 triple blast every ten seconds with a cyclic rate of 6 triple blasts per minute.

SECONDARY (OFFENSIVE):
3x Lithgear LG-CML-5004 16-shot cruise missile launcher; Missile Type: UN-SRT-5000A short-range 5000-pound computer-guided cruise missile/space torpedo; Effective Range: 35.1 miles; Payload: 16 cruise missiles each in a vertical launch missile silo; ROF: 1-4 torpedo per two seconds.

PRIMARY (ASSAULT):
2x Lithgear LG-ASML-10K3 cruise missile launcher; Missile Type: ASM-10K 10,000-pound computer-guided cruise missile/space torpedo (50 megaton nuclear warhead); Effective Range: 1161.1 miles; Payload: 3 cruise missiles each in a forward facing missile launcher; ROF: 1-3 torpedoes each.

SECONDARY (ASSAULT):
2x Lithgear LG-EMPAC-500 500-megawatt electromagnetic particle accelerator cannon turrets; Effective Range: 2500 miles; Payload: unlimited with nuclear battery clutch recharged from the vessel's main reactor; ROF: up to 6 blasts per minute in cycles of 1 blast per 10 seconds.

PRIMARY (DEFENSIVE):
5x Lithgear LG-RFL-502 dual 50-megawatt rapid-fire laser cannon turrets; Effective Range: 500 miles; Payload: unlimited with a 1000-megawatt nuclear battery clutch recharged from the vessel's main reactor; ROF: up to 60 blasts per minute in cycles of 10 blasts per 10 seconds.

ELECTRONICS:
   (BOTH)
1x Microwave Radio Communications array with a 100,000 miles range.
1x Laser Radio Communications array with a 1000 AU range.
1x Super Luminal Velocity Communications Suite with a range of 10 light years.
1x RADAR array with a 100,000 miles range.
1x LADAR array with a range of 220,000 miles.
1x Passive EMS array with a range of 1,000,000 miles.
1x Active EMS array with a range of 100,000 miles.
1x Super Luminal Velocity Sensor Suite with a range of 80 parsec (260.8 light years).
2x Gravitational/Antigravity Control Unit; Effect: Provides artificial lift, g-force compensation, and enhanced maneuverability. One for Intersection Drive.

DEFENSIVE SYSTEMS:
   (Type-81DE)
6x Cydonia Research CR-DF-1000 omnidirectional LEVEL-1 Gravitonic deflector field generator; Range: 1000 feet from hull; Power Requirement: 1000 megawatts each; Output: 180 terajoules with a regeneration of 18 terajoules every ten seconds.

   (Type-92DE)
6x Pluta Dynamics PD-DF-1000A omnidirectional LEVEL-2 Gravitonic deflector field generator; Range: 1000 feet from hull; Power Requirement: 1000 megawatts each; Output: 216 terajoules with a regeneration of 21.6 terajoules every ten seconds.

HANGAR BAYS:
1x 7,000-yd³ space fighter hangar that holds up to thirty-six PS-35J AstroDrakens (3 squadrons).

Description/Overview:
        The Sentinel class was originally part of the emergency rearmament program of the Jovian Defense Forces started in 2178 and completed in 2181, however, the design never fit into the war strategy of Supreme Commander Edric VonStalin of the Pluto Republic. It was his design tems of the former United Nations Solar Empire that had designed and produced the Harpy class of heavy cruisers that the Sentinel class ships were derived from. While the Sentinel class was adequate to fill the needs of the Colonization fleets being sent out into the Local Group of Stars around Sol, they were not up to the standards that VonStalin required for his future plans regarding the Union of Solar Republics and Principality of Altair. The warp speed, weapons, and defenses of the Sentinel class were too weak and underclassed for his liking. Therefore in 2180 he commissioned a design group to redesign the Sentinel class into a vessel more suitable to his needs. The Type-81DD destroyer was the result. The main emphasis VanStalin wanted was removal of the six Lithgear LG-PC-300 PHELAC beam barbettes at the bow of the Sentinel with six ASM-10K anti-ship cruise missiles. He wanted true capital ship destroyer as the main fighting spacecraft of his fleets. The refit of his also allowed all of the existing Harpy class ships in the ex-Solar Empire fleet Pluto and the other Colonial Confederacy nations had to be quickly refit to the newer Type-81DD. With upgraded warp drives, deflector shield generators, and greatly improved weaponry, the Type-81DD was a formidable ship for its size. It served with distinction in the Ceres Conflict and Outer Sphere War, but was showing its age by the end of that conflict. In early 2190, VonStalin ordered the Type-81DD fleet to be upgraded. By 2192 the upgrade program to the destroyers were in full swing with more advanced weapons, shields, and warp drive.