S.I.N Samantha
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| Built: | Shakal Imperial Naval Yards, Shakal City |
| Ordered: | 29 November 2002 |
| Laid down: | 1 December 2002 |
| Launched: | 22 May 2007 |
| Commissioned: | 1 June 2007 |
| Fate: | Remains In Service |
| General Characteristics | |
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| Displacement: | 21,196,765; 21,512,900 t Full Load |
| Length: | 1836.8 m waterline |
| Width: | 226.0 m |
| Draught: | 41.3 m |
| Armament: | 28 x 30"/70 Main Guns (4x7) All Central; 18 x Shakal MMLS (180 Missle Stations)= |
| Effective Protection: | 3200mm Tower & Turret Faces 2900mm Hull Boxes 1, 2, 3 |
| Aircraft: | 20 Helicopters, 6 Bn-VIN |
| Propulsion: | 12 x Shakal Naval Yards Nuclear Propulsion Drives;Providing 10,250,000 Shaft H.P 28.3 Knot Trials |
| Range: | Unlimited |
| Complement: | 23,700 (Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers, Enlisted Men And Prize Crew) |
S.I.N Samantha is the mighties vessel in the Shakal fleet. It dwarfs even the Titan Class Supercarriers. At over 1800m in length and well over 200m in Beam it is among the largest warships ever built. The idea for it came up just after the Ragnarok Class was ordered constructed. After construction on the Ragnarok class began the Hood was discovered and immediatly the Shakal began to design a vessel to at absolute minimum compete with it.
Protection
The Samantha has more armor than the entire force of Shakal carriers and Battleships combined, over 13 million tons. Since the ship is so large it was divided into six seperate armored boxes.
Boxes 1-3
Armor boxes 1 through 3 have the most protection, aside from the tower and turret faces. 2900mm of armor is assigned to these sectors of the ship. The armor is made from a Nickel and Titanium alloy infused with Shakal designed Red Steel(Chemical Formula:"Fe(CTi)"). This allows it to absorb considerable kinetic shock at any temperature allowing the vessel to tranverse any sea with no worry. The Red steel is medium wieght and provides more protectio than titanium, granted the cost is much more. In total the first three armored boxes carry roughlt 6 million tons of armor weight.
Boxes 4 & 5
These boxes are on the places of the ship most likely to be hit and therefore the less armor amount is reinforced with a stron setup of watertight compartments to contail flooding or any breakhrough. The NiTi armor provides ample protection against all guns smaller than 18". Larger guns cause only minimal damage. Behind this first layer is a second hull that is around the entire ship. It contains no of armor but supplements this with the air gap helping the ship stay afloat if the hull is breached.
Box 6
Armor Box 6 is the least protected of the entire vessel. It still boasts a 2.2m of armor, easily capable of handling all shells under 16" in caliber as they exist on most Battleships and other large gun vessels. Behind this first layer hides another of 50mm Red Steel. This amount can absorb a shock impact force of a 2000kg bomb.
Decking
The plate decking of the Samantha hasa minute layer of coarse rubber on the very outside to prevent accidents. Underneath this is the main bulk of the armor plating. Just under this resides a thin layer of Borazon (BN), the hardest known compound. Beneath the Borazon layer exists a 110mm layer of Red Steel. This helps to absorb shock forces of both bombs and shell hits. After the Red Steel layer is another of simple Titanium followed by a 50mm layer of Red Steel and finally the roof of the level below.
Armament
The Samantha boasts amazing weapons. She is capable of engaging over a hundred targets all at once with the advanced computer guidance systems. The main guns are 30" (762mm) / 70. This gives them good range and accuracy while maintaining a strong firing rate. They were designed by Wolke Industries and are also used as heavy coastal batteries and long range artillery. They have an average firing rate of 1.5 shots per minute and have a maximun range of 148 000m (148km). Each turret holds 10 of each shell type per gun. So 40 sheels per gun means that each turrets holds 160 rounds plus just under 7000 in the ammo box storage areas.
Projectiles
The main guns of the Samantha have four types of projectiles. The main and most used is the Wolke Industries HV Round. It was made to deliver maximum push to pierce heavy armor while maintaining a fair sized splash effect and damage ratio. They can knock out any vessel with under 1m of armor easily and are also capable of taking out the heavier armor of other Super Dreadnaughts, albeit with a closer range, they can just enter through 2m of armor. The reason these rounds are saved is because each is very expensive and more valuable than the basic HE rounds.
The second type of ammuntion is the Heavy Engagement round, the HE round. It weighs some 11000 kg and carriers 1800kg of expolsive power. Its sheer size and payload make it easily possible to destroy cruisers and other smaller vessels with ease. It proved useful against gground based targets also, but the AG round surpasses it in this use.
AG rounds simply stand for Anti-Groun rounds.They are only less weighty than the HE rounds at just over 10 000 kg. In the trial runs they devastated the targets with very good accuracy that compensates for the lack of heavy payload these deliver. There role is that of shore bombardment. The Samantha has never used these shells yet but they are also utilized by the Ragnarok Class Super Dreadnaughts and have proven themselves.
The final type of ammuntion used by the Samantha's main guns is the UHVF round. This is also known as the Ultra High Velocity Flak. Each shell is a capsule that is shot high in the air over either coastal positions or at low flying aircraft. It can be set to explode at diffrent altitudes and unleashes thousands of Flak bits at whatever was targeted. This is used against aircraft very rarly and proved more useful against trenched coastal defence units.
MMLS System
The Shakal MMLS has proved extremly useful. In the war with the Ungarnes Riech the Shakal forces set up these systems to guard against aircraft landing in behind them. They can fire almost any missle known today with the exception of larger ICBMS and other similar sized warheads. The 810 Superiotiry missles are there prime weapons. They can be used to engage any target that moves. Seeking and GPS guided they prove very accurate to make up for smaller payload capcity. The 4790 Anti-Air Shock missles are useful against ariborne targets as the name may imply. They deliver a hefty payload with deadly accuracy and long range. Missles can also be targeted by these and are deemed to perform more than admirably knocking out 80% of there target missles before impact.
S.C.M.U.A.G System
The S.C.M.U.A.G (Small Caliber Multiple Use Assult Guns) system is the a good chunk of the armorment of the Samantha. The name rightfully describes the guns. They can be used against aircraft or vessels that manage to get close to the Samantha. The guns caiber is only 4" and almost all Shakal capital ships have at least some of these versatile weapons on them. The S.C.U.M.A.G gun system has 2 different shell types. The first is the HV round meant for use against ships. The second is a lighter but still deadly 101.6mm cannons for anti-air use.
9" Guns
The 9" guns of the Samantha are used for ships that get in close enough proximity to the Samantha to cause damage. They deliver enough punch to take out Destroyers and Frigates being just slightly less effective against Cruisers. Each gun has 200 rounds stored in it and remain effective to a range of 8 100m.
85 Caliber Machine Guns
The Shakal Imperial Navy Samantha also boasts over 200 of these powerful and very useful AA guns. They can deliver 700 RPM with enough power to take down incoming missles. Enough ammuntion is stored for 10 minutes of continous fire. (Although at this fire rate they would heat up and become ineffective after just 1.5 minutes of lasting fire) They are computer guided with a small gun crew of 3 just for good measure. The computer guids the weapon and picks the target. The crew confirms the target and this is used mostly to stop collateral damage in the case of a computer malfuction.
VLS Missle Stations
Located all over the vessel are the VLS missle systems. Thye provide heavy missle cover for the Shakal vessels as they charge ahead. The T.I.D.A.F missles are very powerful warheads used against heavier warships. They cause severe damage and can also be utilized as a shore bombardment weapon. THe nuclear warheads are also computer guided and accrute to within 100m of the taget matters little since the principle of the Nukelear weapon calls for massive damage rather than perfect accuracy. The Nebelcrange anti-submarine missles are among the best weapons in the Shakal arsenal. They use the same principle as the Tomahawk missle only reversed. They burn high into the air then dive down at the submarine from directly above where any of its defence would be greatly lessened. It can dive to just under 600ft. This makes it capable of destroying most submarines before they can use there torpedoes to hit the Samantha.
Accomadations
The SIN Samantha carries the equivalent to a small city on board. In total 23 700 peaople are on board at any one time. When the vessel is charges with troop tansport it can carry an additional 1 300 with ease.
Quarters
Each crew member shares a room with 3 others in to bunks. Usually at least one woman is assigned to each room. Co-ed sharing increases morale while out to sea for very long journies. The officer quarters are no better than the ones of the average crew except that they are private. The high levels of the tower also contain several dozen large enthouse styled rooms for the Grand Admiral and other V.I.P personell that come aboard.
Halls
The ship hass four seperate halls hat vary in size. The largest can host a group of 300 guests. The rooms are also capable of total conversion into any look the event requires. The higher officers also have a much smaller hall to hold smaller less formal gatherings.
