Helsinki class ortillery ship
| Helsinki-class ortillery ship | |
|---|---|
| |
| Class Overview | |
| Class type: | Ortillery Ship |
| Class name: | The city of Helsinki |
| Preceded by: | Trebuchet class ortillery ship |
| Succeeded by: | N/A |
| Operated by: | Bryn Shander, New Haven |
| General Characteristics | |
| Mass: | 3,622,000 tons |
| Length: | 1,431 ft 6 in (436.32m) |
| Beam: | 512 ft 6 in (156.21m) |
| Height: | 276 ft 4 in (84.22m) |
| Complement: | 660 officers and men |
| Powerplant: | 12 546GW Minovsky-Ionscoe Supercompact Fusion Reactors |
| Drives: | -13 Particle Impulse Engines -One Hermes Mk. 21 Jump Capable Hyperdrive -One emergency solar sail system |
| Weapons: | -One 100GW spinal megapartical cannon -Two 3048mm/100 Mjolnir coilguns -20x 1GW megaparticle cannons in 10 twin turrets -72x 120mm autocannons in 36 twin mounts -10x 1000mm torpedo tubes (6 fore, 4 aft) |
| Shields: | 12 Aegis Mk. 32 4.8GW Shield Generators |
| Armor: | 3500mm multi layer Lunar Titanium-Ceramic composite |
| Auxillery Craft: | -Four mobile suits -Eight fighters -Two shuttles |
| Other systems: | -Minovsky Craft System |
The Helsinki class ortillery ships are part of Bryn Shander's Year 00 Rearmament Plan, and were designed to replace the old and far less capable Trebuchet class ortillery ships. The Helsinki class is heavily based on the Trondheim class destroyer, but has more conventional firepower and point defense guns to balance its much larger size.
Like the Trebuchet class before it, Helsinki's primary weapon is a large coilgun. Unlike Trebuchet, Helsinki is equipped with two full sized Mjolnir guns that are capable of planting a 3048mm*30480mm iridium rod into a planetary target at velocities from 30km/s to 60km/s and upwards. Though classified as an ortillery ship, Helsinki is just as capable of engaging warships as with the ground-based Mjolnir guns. In an anti-starship role, the Mjolnir guns increase the shot velocity to significant fractions of the speed of light.
