I'd noticed that the existing V class were wrongly scaled, that plus the realisation that 16 horrendously expensive SSNs was just too much of an unjustifiable number. So, now. Now there are
six boats.
As before the interesting points are
• Comprehensive non-acoustic sensor suite
• All-round sonar coverage
• EM and IR signature reduction and management systems
• Fly-By-Light control surfaces
• Deep-submergence rescue suits and capsule
Agasaya Class Submarine
Type: Agasaya Class Fleet SSN
- Double-hulled Ti Boat
- Contemporary to Seawolf and Yasen Classes
Displacement:
- Nominally 8,000t - 8,550t
Length:
- 106.7m
Beam:
- 13.75m
Draught:
- 9.1m
Propulsion:
- Nuclear (Emergency AIP)
- Fourth Generation Pb-Bi LMFR for ~200MW (Thermal) - 35MW Steam Turbine -
- 12x PEMFC Fuel-cell arrays producing up-to 1,620kW
- 750kW Manoeuvring / emergency-propulsion device.
Speed:
- 5 Knots on emergency propulsion
- 20 Knots surfaced
- 28 Knots submerged silent
- >35 Knots operational maximum
Test Depth
- 600m
Operating Depth
- 500m
Crush Depth
- >1000m
Range:
- Essentially unlimited - No refueling expected during life of class
Endurance:
-120 days
Complement:
- 72 (28 officers and 44 enlisted)
Accommodation
- 90
Armament:
- Six 660 mm torpedo tubes and eight multipurpose silos for the following:
• MBDA Spearfish wire-guided heavyweight torpedoes
• Boeing TseTse Fly Hypersonic Multi-Role Missile
• Boeing Sea Lance Anti-Submarine Missile
• Boeing LRCSW LO Cruise Missiles
*50 Weapons (Torpedo Room)
*32-40 Weapons (Silos)
* 4 of 6 660mm tubes are usually lined to 533mm.
Countermeasures:
• Elbit Systems SHADE suite (Torbuster - Subscut - Scutter)
• Towed acoustic decoy (2x)
• Mast Mounted ECM + ESM
Sensors:
- Thales Underwater Systems Integrated Sonar Suite (Type 2076 hybridised with S-Cube)
• Spherical Bow Array
• Chin Array
• Sail Arrays (Front and Rear)
• Planar Flank Array
• Distributed Array (Ranging)
• Thin-Line Towed Array
• Self-Noise Monitoring Hydrophones
• Non-Acoustic Sensor System
- Non-Penetrating Sensor + COMMO Masts
• Photonics Mast 1 (ESM Atop)
• Photonics Mast 2 (MAWS Atop)
• COMMO Mast 1 (SATCOM - Secure Datalinks)
• Radar Mast (Sharpeye X Submarine Radar)
• COMMO Mast 2 (Secure Datalinks)
• COMMO Mast 3 (Secure Communications)
• Snorkel Mast
That's all for now. Carry on.
~Mark.