Feng Huang Class Nuclear Aircraft Carrier

Feng Huang Class Nuclear Carrier
Class information
Origin	Firehelper
Builder	Firehelper Shipyards
Preceding class	NCVC-3321
Ships Planned but not built:	0
General characteristics
Class Type	Nuclear Aircraft Carrier
Displacement	100,000 tonnes
beam	45m
length	350m
height	85m
Draught	26 m
Power	2x ASP-4 nuclear Reactors
Speed	36+ knts
Complement	4,240
Armament	10x LRSAM-4 launchers 5x MRSSM 30x CWIS Class-I (bullets) 10x CWIS class-II (proximity missile)
Aircraft complement:	80 standard 90 max
Flight Deck	350mx85m

The Feng Huang, or Phoenix, class carrier is the primary carrier of the Firehelper Navy. They are routinely used in diplomatic incidents where the Empire of Firehelper wishes to exert its influence.

History

The Feng Huang class originated with the naval renewal act in 1992. This act created new designs for almost every type of ship including the carrier. Then known as the NCVCX3322, the carrier originated from a Nimitz like deign. Slowly and over time the design was refined until it became what it is today. During the design period that lasted four years additions such as the radar reduction of the island was added, These numerous design changes were mostly suggested by the air force, which had taken an interest in the carrier to help project Firehelper air power over the globe. At the conclusion of the four year design period Firehelper shipyards began the construction of the first ship. This first ship was quickly built in another two years. The ship undertook an entire year of shakedowns where errors were recorded and changed in the ships still under construction. Now these ships form the core of the Firehelper task forces projecting their power over the globe.

Design

Flight Deck

The 350m flight deck is several football fields worth of area of floating firehelper territory. This territory is one of the most dangerous and hazardous places in firehelper. This floating territory will serve firehelper and help defend it. To do that the flight deck must be properly designed to accommodate its uses. The use of the flight deck is the landing and launching of the planes. While empty this deck might seem long and overly spacious. However, with a maximum of over 20 fighters or other aircraft stored on the deck this area becomes exceedingly small. With this seemingly small area steps must be taken to ensure the usefulness of the space. The flight deck of the ship is angled to allow for landing and takeoff operations at the same time. This angled tech is a British invention that has allowed for many more fighters in the air in a shorter span. The twenty fighters are liked to be kept on deck due to the fact that captains like the use of elevators. These elevators take up valuable space and are of great value to the crews on the deck. The flight deck has four catapults, however only two can be used when a plane is landing. The two at the front are the ones most used and also require the most mantinance due to the fact that it is used most often. These catapults are new electromagnetic ones these catapults require more energy however they save money in the form of less maintainance on aircraft. The carrier has a maximum launch capacity of eight to twelve aircraft a minute.

Hull

The Hull of a ship is its most important part. Without this part a ship couldn't float. This is further compounded by the Use of metal, the use of which many ancient races would have found to be magic. The ship uses a tripple hull bottom an double sides. The hull of the carrier is full of compartments that range from bulkheads to fuel. This amounts to a large amount of torpedo protection. This system is effective both against contact and under the keel hits. The gouter hull is formed from carbonised steel as a light armor. The ship is not fitted with major armor due to the fact that the purpose of a carrier is long rage first strike capability. Should a ship get in gun range a carrier is next to useless and tis escorts must defend it and try and fend off the attacker. However, the hull of the carrier can take a beating as 1/3 of it must flood before it can sink. The outer hull also has multiple places both inside and out for entering the ship hull. While these areas are not connected to prevent borders from entering the ship too easily they can still be used to service and reload internally mounted CWIS systems. These systems are all prjectile base unlike the RAM on the flight deck. However, the multiple arcs of the CWIS systems.

endurance

Endurance is the ability for a ship to operate for extended periods of time. To accomplish unlimited endurance a ship must beable to run constantly without refueling. To accomplish this the ship uses two pebble bed reactors. These reactors are clean and powerful and allow the ship to circle the world many times. The ship can operate constantly at maximum efficiency for five years. At that point the fuel contains enough fissile material for a maximum of one year of 100% efficency. However, at five years the ship is normally taken in for refitting and refueling. The ship can still however be able to circle the globe multiple times in those five years with the help of resupply ships.

Command Redundancy

The command center of any ship is the bridge. It is from this point that captains and officers command a ship during the normal operations of a ship. However, this bridge also accounts for 90% of the radar return from a normal carrier. Even with the stealth properties of the ship missiles may still target this bridge. For this reason the designers of the carrier have designed a command redundancy. Should the bridge be destroyed the redundant command systems would be used. Most of these are in a single room in the core of the ship. Orientation in that room is provided by wrap around screens that show all directions of the sea. However, it does not control or show the flight deck. In that room the flight deck is represented by a computer display with the locations of all planes and people on the deck. To control the flights the command redundancy for the flight deck is on the flight deck itself. There are multiple locations around the deck from which operations may be controlled.

Hanger

The hanger is one of the most important areas of the carrier. This is due to the fact that the sword and shield of the carrier are stored here. The hanger is an intricate dance of planes, men, and machines during battle. This area must be carefully regulated as to prevent injuries and destruction of machinery. To facilitate this need the floor of the deck is lined with sensor strips that record the location of all men and machinery on the deck. With this several operators conduct the movement of men and machines around the deck. This with computer help dramatically reduces delays in getting aircraft to the flight deck and also makes the hander deck safer and easier to work on.

Power

Power is what is needed to run a ship. This is provided in the form of efficient steam engines. The steam on the ship is provided by the two pebble bed water reactors. These two reactors each produce 200 MW for a total of 400 MW. This power runs multiple systems of the ship from distillation plants to the catapults that launch aircraft. the wide use of power on the ship makes these pieces of equipment the most important on the ship.

Speed

The Feng Huang has a top speed of 38 knts but has a max cruise of 33 knts.

Weapons

The Feng Huang carries Several SAM and SSM missile launcher assemblies and the missiles to reload them four times. It also carries a very large amount of CWIS for defense. Of all these CWIS 8 are located on the deck and the rest are in the double hull.

Other

• Passive jet blast deflector: Redesigns and new materials mean reduced maintenance costs.
• Island designs: Improve flight deck access and reduce signature and electronic self-interference.
• Signature reduction: Curved flight deck edges smaller islands and internal aircraft elevators add up to maximum stealth.
• Aircraft pit stop: Semi-automated refueling and servicing in a new configuration and deck location provides faster, more efficient airwing pit stops and requires fewer people.
• Manpower reductions: Technology, space rearrangement, operational procedure changes, advanced sensor technologies and condition-based maintenance systems all allow for a smaller, specially-trained crew.
• Reconfigurable spaces: Life-of-the-ship modular construction designs provide flexibility and reduce cost.
• Expanded bandwidth: More onboard and offboard capability gives the ship a communications edge.
• Zonal electrical distribution systems: Isolate the potential for problems and minimizes the effect on the rest of the ship.
• Automation insertion: Material movement devices, semi-autonomous, gravity compensated weapons handling devices, damage control automation systems and components will reduce the ship's crew and costs.