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141 NPV: 587 (618 with Chinnook) Classification: Escort Carrier (CVE) Crew: 93; 12 Officers, 81 Enlisted, plus 72 air wing crew Crew Factor: 6 Hull Integrity: 20 (5/5/5/5) Armor: 5 Main Drive Thrust: 3 (21.3 TW) Drive Auto-Detection Range: 6.156 AU ∆V (Combat): 49.241 km/sec ∆V (Cruise): 984.818 km/sec Thrust Points: 98 (1633 tons propellant) Propellant Tanks: 4 Thrust Points per Tank: 2x25; 2x24 FTL: Yes (Long Jump – 10 parsec range) Auxiliary Systems: 10-MASS Hangar Bay for Chinnook CSAR craft plus landers; 6-MASS Cargo Bay; 18-MASS Fighter Bay (Typically 3 squadrons of Fighters); Level-I Hull Stealthing; 0.7 G Spin Habitat for 155 Combat Systems: 1x Fire Control Weapons: 4x Point Defense Battery; 2x Class-1 Battery (All Arcs); 2x Class-2 Battery (All Arcs) |
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| The Ark
Royal class escort carrier was a mainstay of the British Royal
Starfleet until roughly 2249, when the Ministry of Defense began to
look at larger carriers, and eventually settled on the American Leyte Gulf
class rather than spend research and development monies to produce a
new type of warship. One of the reasons why the British wanted a
new carrier was that the Ark Royal,
while a solid design for its displacement, simply could not bring
enough fighters to bear for anything other than the smallest of
engagements, and as a result Ark
Royals were often deployed in pairs or squadrons of three.
Analysts in the Ministry of Defense pointed out that it was less
expensive to man and operate a single larger carrier than it was to
operate several smaller ships in order to deliver the same number of
fighters to the combat zone. The Ark Royal’s principal duty in the Royal Starfleet was to provide escort and screening for the fleet, and to provide a tactical assault capability for surface actions. When deployed for surface actions, the British, like the Americans, deployed dedicated interface fighters aboard their carriers, and when atmospheric operations were not expected used purely vacuum capable fighters. In any event, the British doctrine of employing carriers and starfighters is considered secondary to the Admiralty’s Line of Battle doctrine, where cruisers and battleships are the principal combat vessels. The SDC is studying a proposal to build and operate one or more Ark Royal carriers in Sagittarius in the wake of the Stargate collapse. Like the Oberon versus Manhattan debate, it is clear for the moment that any defense of human colonies in Sagittarius will rely on large numbers of smaller warships covering more systems at one time rather than concentrating the SDC’s military strength in a small flotilla of large capital ships. A lack of trained starfighter pilots is a major obstacle to the deployment of the Ark Royal, and no ships are expected to deploy for at least two years. |
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