Achilles class heavy cruiser
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Achilles-class heavy cruiser | |
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Class Overview | |
Class type: | Heavy Cruiser |
Class name: | Achilles |
Preceded by: | Usagi class heavy cruiser |
Succeeded by: | N/A |
Operated by: | Bryn Shander, New Haven |
General Characteristics | |
Mass: | 34,800,000 tons |
Length: | 3,166 ft (965m) |
Beam: | 1,074 ft (327.35m) |
Height: | 546 ft 4 in (166.5m) |
Complement: | 5,504 officers and men |
Powerplant: | 12 1.65TW Minovsky-Ionscoe Supercompact Fusion Reactors |
Drives: | -16 Particle Impulse Engines -One Hermes Mk. 21 Jump Capable Hyperdrive -One emergency solar sail system |
Weapons: | -One 500GW spinal megapartical cannon -30x 5GW megaparticle cannons in ten triple turrets -160x 120mm autocannons in eighty twin mounts -14x 1000mm torpedo tubes (8 fore, 6 aft) |
Shields: | 14 Aegis Mk. 34 24GW Shield Generators |
Armor: | 10,000mm multi layer Lunar Titanium-Ceramic composite |
Auxillery Craft: | -144 mobile suits -288 fighters -16 shuttles |
Other systems: | -Minovsky Craft System -12 electromagnetic launch catapults with steam backups |
The Achilles class heavy cruiser is part of Bryn Shander's Year 00 Rearmament Plan, and is designed to replace the aging Usagi class heavy cruiser. Though it may appear to be little more than a resized Suiseiseki class light cruiser, the Achilles is much more heavily armed by comparison, and has much greater defensive capability.
Though there are high hopes for this new class, only time will tell if it will be a successful design.