Shipbucket

Hereis a Very late and a bit rushed submission of mine

Lainekea Class Guided Missile Cruiser



nb : further stats and info will be added later

Displacement : 26.000 t
Dimension : 240 m x 25 m x 7 m
Machinery : 2 shafts , 2 CG Westinghouse Reactor (Licensed Built) , Helvette-Rulo Gas Turbine @ 31 knots Range 10000nm
@ 16 knot
Armament : 4x 155mm Mod 65 in 2x Mod 66 Turret
2x AAM-12 Tyfon LR
2X AAM-13 Tyfon Klag MR
1X ASROC Klever
8x SSN-5 Samette Surface Missile in 8 tubes

Ships in Class : SNS Lainekea - scrapped 1995

Aaand thats all folks!

Entries after this point are appreciated, but won't count for the competition!

Tomorrow I'll contact Colo, Hood, and Golly. We'll set up a google doc to put our comments in, and with any luck we'll have a winner within the week. After all, Christmas is in the way, and I don't expect anyone to do much work the coming few days!

Thank you all for participating!

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Would you please not eat my gun...

Crap, I was going to fix a little railing error

Well, a small error is fine. Just don't put an entire new radar system on it, hmmkay?

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Would you please not eat my gun...

Much obliged. Already fixed

https://i.imgur.com/NAtfCGB.png, I will not edit this post so it's clear no further changes were made in the main submission post (which is up to like seven edits)

Ahem. Window color. It's back to the yuck purple?

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Would you please not eat my gun...

Grrr... damnit. I changed those on the work computer and didn't bring the change home.

Changed again, https://i.imgur.com/VBI4BXw.png

This is something I threw together because I thought it would be funny:

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𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐇𝐍𝐄𝐓- 𝑻𝒐 𝑪𝒐𝒈𝒊𝒕𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒐 𝑺𝒐𝒍𝒗𝒆

The original use was to silence diesel submarines in the Guppy series entering service around 1961 I believe, though it might be a couple years earlier. They replaced an entire diesel with an electrically driven compressor for both the Parrier and Masker functions, and that was just to make the submarine's own sonar work while snorkeling. They also installed an AC unit in some of this space. But the Guppy III went and added a hull plug that let them add that equipment without ditching a diesel, and solving a lot of other problems in the process.
Plans of this win here
www.hnsa.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/ss350.pdf

I believe the reason the Knox had problems with the Masker was basically non ideal placement of certain pipework, rather then any fundamental issues with (what I would guess) was probably a steam driven compressor. I've heard if you changed speed suddenly you could end up disabling the ships engines by sucking air into the condenser intakes. Which is a pretty awesome reason on the list of reasons why steam is amazingly terrible for shipboard power. Though the gas turbine driven systems are no magic, since you need a serious seawater driven chiller to cool down the air enough to be useful. Air tapped off a dedicated compressor comes out at the desired relatively low pressure and has less water to separate out. Obviously the actual turbine doesn't care about water in the intake air until we hit a force 17 typhoon, but everything using bleed air sure does.

In any case, if you have anything resembling working Typhon you are well past having the top secret bubble generators in service.

Wow, there's a blast from the past! Haven't seen you around these parts recently.

I've been tinkering with my Long Beach further, and will fit Masker belts to the revision once the challenge judging has ended.