Dreadnought-class battlecruisers
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Dreadnought-Class Battlecruiser | |
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Class Overview | |
Class type: | Battlecruiser |
Class name: | Dreadnought |
Preceded by: | Drake class cruiser |
Succeeded by: | N/A |
Operated by: | British Londinium |
General Characteristics | |
Mass: | 3,205,000 metric tons |
Length: | 685 metres |
Beam: | 240 metres |
Height: | 90 metres |
Decks: | 29 metres |
Complement: | 750 officers and men |
Powerplant: | Three 300GW Rolls-Royce Supercompact Fusion Reactors |
Drives: | Impulse drive (augmented fusion engines), ram-augmented interstellar rockets, Helicon Double-layer thrusters, emergency solar sail system |
Weapons: | 16 Type XII Ion Cannon arrays, four forward quantum torpedo launchers, six aft quantum torpedo launchers, five SBBM (space based ballistic missile) tubes |
Shields: | Plasma shielding. |
Armor: | 1200mm Multi-Layer Lunar Titanium composite, ablative hull armour |
Auxillery Craft: | 4 shuttlecraft |
Other systems: | -None |
Overview
The Dreadnought class is the latest starship class designed by The Royal Armoury Manufacturing Company. There are currently seven Dreadnought-class vessels in service.