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| + | Due to the needs of three-dimensional combat, the ''Portanova'' Class generally has its weapons arranged in three 'rows' of weapons, each rotated sixty degrees around its centerline from each other. Defensive armament is placed somewhat differently to ensure full coverage, both in line with the main battery 'rows' and on utility masts separating the forward and aft mountings. | ||
| − | ;Main: | + | ;Main: 36 x 16"/40 01MC G/FACM-N/001 Forced Annihilation Canister Munition (FACM) cannon in twelve triple mountings (27 fore, 9 aft). |
| + | The FACM cannon fires a self-contained, self-annihilating canister of about 50% antimatter efficiency to generate a high energy (115 EJ) gamma-ray laser. The waste energy consists mostly of plasma bloom from the barrel (vaporized matter), waste heat primarily removed with said bloom using open-cycle cooling, and neutrino radiation. | ||
| − | ;Missiles: | + | ;Missiles: 60 x 01MC ML-S/305 Block F strategic (50 tons or less) missile launcher tubes in six blocks of ten tubes (two by five, oriented with short axis along the longitudinal). |
| + | These missile tubes were originally intended to launch 01MC M-S/305 fifty-ton strategic missiles but have been modified to accept almost any strategic missile under 50 tons and within volume restrictions of 20 m in length and 3 m in diameter. | ||
| − | ;Self Defence: | + | ;Self Defence: 20 x 01MC L-BB/1G 1GW point defense broadband lasers in 5m diameter effective-lens domed housings, 420 x 01MC D/L-BB/300 "Brilliant Pebbles" expendable bomb-pumped laser drones |
| + | These active defensive systems are primarily designed for use against light craft and missile interception, with an emphasis on multipurpose operation. The broadband lasers can be used at extended ranges to dazzle the homing heads of infrared, microwave, and radar guided missiles and thus mission-kill them, or burn through them at x-ray frequencies at closer range. They are mounted in dome-like adaptive optic housings for hemispherical fire arcs and powered by six beam engines ensconced under the internal armor layer. The "Brilliant Pebbles" laser drones are essentially five-ton medium delta-V flying high-megaton atomic weapons with multiple peripheral emitters (for anti-fighter use) and one core emitter (for anti-capital use). They may be seeded as mines or deployed in an extended point-defense 'cloud,' and are mounted as clusters of blisters clamped to the outside of the outer spaced armor baffles. They can be retrieved, assuming sufficient delta-V, but are generally intended to be expendable and reproducable inside the [[Freethinker Commonwealth]]'s native technological base (outside of the logic cores, which are provided by extended [[Zero-One]] MonoCorporation contract). | ||
===Electronics=== | ===Electronics=== | ||
Revision as of 22:48, 19 October 2006
Contents
Statistics
Dimensions
- Length
- 688 Metres
- Beam
- 256 Metres
- Height
- 223 Metres
- Mass
- 2,221,000 Metric Tons
- Crew Complement
- 454 (135 Officers/319 Enlisted)
Armament
Due to the needs of three-dimensional combat, the Portanova Class generally has its weapons arranged in three 'rows' of weapons, each rotated sixty degrees around its centerline from each other. Defensive armament is placed somewhat differently to ensure full coverage, both in line with the main battery 'rows' and on utility masts separating the forward and aft mountings.
- Main
- 36 x 16"/40 01MC G/FACM-N/001 Forced Annihilation Canister Munition (FACM) cannon in twelve triple mountings (27 fore, 9 aft).
The FACM cannon fires a self-contained, self-annihilating canister of about 50% antimatter efficiency to generate a high energy (115 EJ) gamma-ray laser. The waste energy consists mostly of plasma bloom from the barrel (vaporized matter), waste heat primarily removed with said bloom using open-cycle cooling, and neutrino radiation.
- Missiles
- 60 x 01MC ML-S/305 Block F strategic (50 tons or less) missile launcher tubes in six blocks of ten tubes (two by five, oriented with short axis along the longitudinal).
These missile tubes were originally intended to launch 01MC M-S/305 fifty-ton strategic missiles but have been modified to accept almost any strategic missile under 50 tons and within volume restrictions of 20 m in length and 3 m in diameter.
- Self Defence
- 20 x 01MC L-BB/1G 1GW point defense broadband lasers in 5m diameter effective-lens domed housings, 420 x 01MC D/L-BB/300 "Brilliant Pebbles" expendable bomb-pumped laser drones
These active defensive systems are primarily designed for use against light craft and missile interception, with an emphasis on multipurpose operation. The broadband lasers can be used at extended ranges to dazzle the homing heads of infrared, microwave, and radar guided missiles and thus mission-kill them, or burn through them at x-ray frequencies at closer range. They are mounted in dome-like adaptive optic housings for hemispherical fire arcs and powered by six beam engines ensconced under the internal armor layer. The "Brilliant Pebbles" laser drones are essentially five-ton medium delta-V flying high-megaton atomic weapons with multiple peripheral emitters (for anti-fighter use) and one core emitter (for anti-capital use). They may be seeded as mines or deployed in an extended point-defense 'cloud,' and are mounted as clusters of blisters clamped to the outside of the outer spaced armor baffles. They can be retrieved, assuming sufficient delta-V, but are generally intended to be expendable and reproducable inside the Freethinker Commonwealth's native technological base (outside of the logic cores, which are provided by extended Zero-One MonoCorporation contract).
Electronics
- Sensor systems
- Command/Control
- Electronic Warfare
Propulsion
- Engines
- Performance
Armour & Protection
- Basic Composition
