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Many of the longer-tenured members know I've got a certain predilection for large silly stuff, handled (as best I can) in a vaguely rational way. Cost-no-object giant deathboats, things like that.

Welp, here we go again. The one constraint this time: new Panamax absolute lock dimensions: 1400 x 180.5 x 60 feet.





Springsharp was used in these loose calculations where appropriate. Note nice fat stern balances the generally aft-heavy superstructure, which is nice and narrow. Without actually doing any math, I am optimistic re: weight and balance. Nice deep hull, heavy reactors, lots of armor... and frankly not enough of the systems are publicly defined to really have a good guess.



BBGX-2015 (associated with -109 and later)
New Panamax, aim for say 1350ft LOA x 172.5ft BWL x 50ft D-DWL


Dimensions

• Length: ......................1379 ft OA / 1351 ft WL
• Beam: .........................168.5ft OA / 166.5ft WL
• Draught: .....................50ft normal / 46ft light / 53ft FL
• Displacement:............. 162400t normal

Machinery

• 2 reactors, 160 MWelec each
• SSTG: 5 LM1600 SSTG, 12MWelec each
• 4 screws, integrated electric propulsion, 335000 SHP, 32 knots FL
• Full propulsive power is 78% of total nominal nuclear plant
• 10 4000shp Voith-Schneider units, retractable

Electronics/Combat Systems
Radar

• X-band AESA (4x 12x12ft), beam narrowness 3x (vs. SPY-1A)
• ..........(6x 8x8ft), beam narrowness 2x (vs. SPY-1), four at 45deg elev.
• S-band AESA (4x 24x24ft), beam narrowness 2x
• 1.5m-λ AESA (4x 50x23ft, 20x9 element), beam narrowness 0.28x, 0.128x
• L-band AESA (4x2 15x2.5ft), common to EV-22 radar-dorito
• ..........Also serves as T/R for IFF
• Dispersed APG-81
• Stupid Mega Death Aegis combat system
• Distributed X/Ku-band EAPS search/track radar (PDF warning)

Electrooptic/Infrared

• Distributed Aperture System (AAQ-37 mod)
• Dispersed Argus IS
• Dispersed Sniper XR (AAQ-33 mod)

Sonar

• 21HS-3ER (notional 24'Dx10'H 3.5khz array extrapolated from St. Norman)
• SQQ-89 fixed panels (67'x12' (2x2-size) per side)
• 21HS-13 x5 (notional 3'Dx2'H 13khz array)
• HF Broadband Sonar Subsystem (three tall/wide bow out-facing)
• 3 towed array sonar ports with 6x winches (eg 3x SQR-TB-33 + 3x MFTA)
• 8x Nixie ready-stream ports with 8x winches
• Thrown A-size passive/active sonobuoys from 155mm glide-rocket, with a presumed range well in excess of 15nmi.

Comms

• Dispersed phased-array VHF/UHF comms and ESM (Thales ICAS (PDF warning))
• EHF/SHF/UHF phased-array SATCOM
• Paired CEC sets
• HF behind bandpass covers (14' AS-3771B/U, Tx/Rx 4-30 Mhz + Rx VLF/LF/MF)
• Extensible VHF/UHF/HF
• ..........HF and below
• ....................V-33070 74ft Whip (100 khz-30 Mhz) (3x)
• ..........VHF/UHF
• ....................VMB-3512-N 141” (30-512 Mhz) (6x)
• ....................VMB-11512-N 26” (115-512 Mhz) (4x)

ESM/ECM

• Classic Outboard/Combat DF (COBLU)
• ..........Passive rangefinding via curvature and/or bearing on 1050ft beam
• ....................baseline (sub-baselines 75ft, 75ft, 260ft)
• ..........Stern baseline 260ft
• New AIEWS (dispersed)
• Rx antennas 4x2ft, 5.5x3ft, 2.5x1.5ft, 1.5x1.5ft
• Dispersed wideband jammers (3x2.5ft)
• Dispersed L/P/UHF/VHF jammers (6.5x4.5ft)
• Dispersed DIRCM (AAQ-24 mod)
• 16 Ultra-RBOC blocks (8”x6 each)
• Jammers, etc. from 155mm rockets
• Big Nulka from small VLS

Armament

• 36 8x75' VLS (LGM-118 inclusive)
• 512 PVLS (32”x27.5', up to 13500lb, 8-cell launcher 192”x144”x32'). One imagines a full-bore SM-3, a full-bore large Tomahawk replacement, a scramjet AShM, a Super-Sea-Lance, a long-and-narrow quadpack SM-ER, nine-pack PAC-3 and ESSM.... these are intentionally not well defined.
• 320 10”x150” PVLS (sized for Big Nulka, ESSM, RAM-II, etc)
• 2 1.8m laser directors
• 4 1.2m laser directors
• 2x2 280mm/50 Big-AGS
• 4x1 5/62 medium-weight (40rpm) with 2x155mm rocket (180RPM, drum of sonobuoy/chaff/flare/HE-frag). Note similar 5" rocket-gun was tested on A1D Skyraider in the 1950s.
• 8x CIWS (4x 57mm + 24x RAM-II/cmd + EAPS search/track + EO/IR)
• 8x6 retractable Polyphem-S with on-mount EO/IR
• 6x2 GAU-12U with own search/track/gunlay
• 6x crew-served positions (eg 15.5mm+Mk19)
• 2x3 60x20” Limbothings (1500lb, vertical load)
• 8x3 30”x30' TT for long torpedoes (6000kg, 30”x25', 750kg warhead), 5' long 2000kg DCs (DIE, WAKES)
• 10x12 8x120” TT for Anti-Torpedo Torpedo
• 12 x 100 QUICK KILL active protective system. Bigger, say 4.5”x4" in a 6”-on-center matrix

Craft

• Aircraft: 370x115x25ft hangar, 140x60x16ft hangar, deck strengthened for most arbitrary of Joint Heavy Lift
• Various spares, etc: 220x115x9ft space
• Well deck: (220x60x31ft) (2 LCAC or one LCU)
• Vehicle deck: (400x115x16ft)
• Cargo spaces: (80x115x9ft, five decks)
• Aviation Magazine: (15x100x9ft x6, three decks)
• 4 beam launch derricks (up to 9m RHIB or RMS)
• 2 stern boat ramps (up to 11m RHIB)
• 1 stern Mark V ramp
• 4 50ft utility boats from beam davits

Notional Aircraft

• 12 FAV-22
• 4 V-22
• 4 EV-22
• 12 A160T
• This fully populates dedicated aircraft hangars without intruding on vehicle spaces

Passive Defenses

• Citadel: 845' L
• Main Belt: 20' high, top edge 11' above DWL, 10” thick, 7.5deg roll to expose lower edge at FL, 5.5deg roll to expose at DWL
• Lower Belt: 15' high, Top edge 5' below DWL, 5” thick
• Splinter Belt: 50' high, 845' L, 3” thick
• Deck: 6” thick
• TDS: 21.5-28' deep (liquid-loaded with JP5)
• Multiple Bottom: 6' thick
• LO backangle: 10deg back from vertical below gunwale (61' above DWL), 15deg back from vertical above gunwale
• Total armor weight: ~25% from Springsharp

One more note (thanks Timothy) - if I see any of these (non-factual) parts or pieces or anything else used without permission in any NationStates inanity, or hear about someone doing such, I will banhammer the ever-living shit out of them. So don't do that. You may feel free to ask permission. Expect the answer to be 'no'.

Very impressive Erik, very impressive.

And ... He's ... back!

I remember first time I saw one of his megas ship! I was like Wow, I have to try that one day!

But the work and know how that have been put in this one is impressive.

Mighty impressive, goes without saying.

While I'm at it I'm formally requesting permission to use parts. I don't know what kind of parts I'm going to use right now - except, believe it or not, the basketball court.

Fantastic drawing... of an awful ship.
Magnificent work!

Impressive and nicely drawn (comprehensive multi-views), but its leaving me feeling rather flat.

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Crazy as it is, I really like it!

It's certainly impressive, but I can't quite figure out what it's for.

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the only thing I find very funny about this ship, or shall I say, a downgrade on what here capacity and the era she must have been build for. She is carrying Harpoon missile, on this ship it's like equipping a F-35 with hand dropped bombs. I would rather used NSM since USA are hard in the JSM program for developing a Fighter launched variant of the NSM, so why not use NSM on this ship then.

actually, IIRC, the USN is developing an follow on for the harpoon, but we are not certain what she will look like.

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