Shipbucket

1050 ft oal
1000 ft wl
130 ft 6 in beam
two nuke plants/280,000 shp on 4 screws
goddamn steam cats
2.5 mn gallons of jet fuel
1800 tons of ordnance majority is bombs obviously
75 tons of nuclear weapons (typical: 100x 500 lbs bombs (B57-type small tactical bomb); 50x 750 lbs tactical-strategic bombs (B61-type); 25x 2500 lbs strategic bombs (B83-type megaton city killer))
top speed is Top Secret(TM) [it's about 32 and change knots in good water]

two turbines for aux power generation and they consume fuel from the aviation bunkers

combat system is replicated to a more or less equivalent extent between the islands but the rear island has way better air control facilities (full ACLS setup, a TACAN, more SATCOMs, and a proper air control central) while the fore island is better equipped for AAW and general flag control (has a flag plot, the primary CIC elevator, captain's cabin, the AAW combat radars, and primary ESM and IFF masts, and the pilot house)

there are two CICs and the backup CIC acts as damage control central in normal situations; it has fewer AAW consoles but an equal number of sonar consoles, and it lacks a Big Board view so you need to take the elevator or something to see outside i guess

shipboard armament is:
- 32x VLS cells, usually packed with 96-128 PAC-3 type missiles
- 4x Mk 29 launchers with ESSM and RAM
- 4x Phalanx guns (port/starboard fore quarters; two on bridge amidships
- 2x SeaRAM (fantail)
- 2x Mk 16 "matchbox" with no reloads carried (typical is 4x "LR-ASROC" [HAAWC wingkit on a bigger booster or a turbojet stack for ~30 km surface launch range]; 4x Harpoon Blk II+ ER)
- 6x .50 caliber machine guns
- a few hundred sailors armed with M16s, recoilless rifles, and Stinger missiles

Habitation for ~4850 crew (3050 ship + 1800 airwing [this is because the billet manning is equivalent to CVW-9 surge + some extras in the V-2 division] or so abouts) comfortably (triple bunks for OR, double bunks for jr officers and warrants, and cabins for senior officers); there are about 200 bunk spots for masters-at-arms and a few BMs who serve as the ship's landing party (one rifle company + landing/shore control team); they can be landed in 1 waves using the ship's ~2 50' motor boats and the RHIB, with another motor boat as escort and a fourth as delivery vehicle for the swimmer platoon because each carrier has a swimmer platoon of 15 men aboard for landing reconnaissance

the extra 50 accounts for the Boy rates because real navies have cabin boys who fetch coffee and Boys who help the boatswains swab the deck and paint UNREP signs on the side of the ship

about 1% of a given crew is between the age of 16-18 and considered Boys

nominal air wing is 24x VAL; 24x VF; 12x VAM; 12x ASW/Tanker; and several detachments from jamming, ELINT, helicopter, and maybe a COD plane
carrier copter is H-3 sea king because of high fuel and long endurance plane guard + ASW w/ dipping sonar
frigate copter is H-60 because high speed for long range intercept of subs

there are 11 active cvws and one reserve/training wing that tends to be used to rotate crews when their ships are in RCOH

for the strategic (atomic/thermonuclear) attack it can trade 24x VALs for 14x VAMs but only two carriers have this kind of wing

tl;dr it's kitty hawk sized CVN and armed like it too

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The Chinese people are not to be cowed by U.S. atomic blackmail. Our country has a population of 600 million and an area of 9.6 [million sq. km]. The United States cannot annihilate the Chinese nation with its small stack of atom bombs. Even if the U.S. atom bombs were so powerful that, when dropped on China, they would make a hole right through the earth, or even blow it up, that would hardly mean anything to the universe as a whole, though it might be a major event for the solar system.

Looks great brah!

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USN components, camouflage colors, & reference links (World War II only)

minus all the little things

CVE will probably be done today or tomorrow

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The Chinese people are not to be cowed by U.S. atomic blackmail. Our country has a population of 600 million and an area of 9.6 [million sq. km]. The United States cannot annihilate the Chinese nation with its small stack of atom bombs. Even if the U.S. atom bombs were so powerful that, when dropped on China, they would make a hole right through the earth, or even blow it up, that would hardly mean anything to the universe as a whole, though it might be a major event for the solar system.

this is called "DEH" now

600 ship crew
200 air wing
surge of 950 (royal marines company)

air wing:
12x H-3 ASW
3x V-22 AEW
3x P.1216 (not shown)

organized as a composite aviation squadron (VC)

operates in convoy escort groups with 1x DEH, 3-4x DEGs, and 5-6x DEKs

can also operate as independent HUK but it's less efficient at this than the DLK/DLG/DLH equipped groups

launches:
2x 40' launch
1x RHIB (port davit)

armament:
2x Mk 29 fore and aft island
3x Mk 15 (two aft quarter, one starboard fore quarter, on island)
1x Mk 41 (8-cell) (amidships on the island)
2x Mk 32 SVTT (port and starboard fore quarters)

8x2 ESSM (no reloads carried)
8x VL-ASROC in the mk 41

2x 2-cell Mk 53 canisters (aft island deckhouse)
4x Mk 36 chaff launchers (2x aft island, 2x fore island deckhouses)

Mk 23M TAS provides air surveillance (L-band)
boxes on aft deckhouse and fantail provide ILS like SPN-41 but smaller/better phased arrays
4x panels for C-band (baby MPQ-65) air surveillance radar
4x panels for X-Band (APAR expy) missile guidance radar
1x SPQ-9B provides sea search for TAS air surv
2x SLQ-32(v)4 for ESM/ECM
1x TACAN beacon for finding the thing
some number of SATCOMs for talking to people/White Cloud datalink/SBIRS datalink for real time air/ship warning
has an SQS-53 in the bow for CZs and SQS-56 is too awful to have been made by gayla
there's a SLQ-25B on the fantail too
TACTAS is omitted because it makes maneuvering hard for the carrier and it's expensive
Prairie Masker is installed for acoustic damping and deception (as is the case on basically every ship that doesnt head for the reserve fleets)

rear deckhouse may receive a crane at some point but that requires moving the aft mk 29 to the fantail like Wasp OTOH that will let it carry tanks on the deck for purpose of being a company landing ship

it has a similar island to CVS/DLH but it is smaller with a radar fit suitable for convoy air defense

sadly it's two screws so it's not much cheaper than the CVS/DLH

there is a m-day/austere version that probably lacks pretty much everything in terms of sensor fit except the basic ATC stuff and basically all the anti-missiles except chaff launchers, SLQ-32(V)6, and rubber ducks, and reduces armament to 2x Phalanx only, and propulsion to two LM2500s vice four

probably about a billion or so spondoolies

m-day version is probably 2/3rds to 3/5ths that for the same displacement and air wing size and can be produced slightly faster since it has less bottleneck in machinery

the m-day ship is now called "CVE" or maybe "DTH"

the CVS is now "DLH"

DLs are bigger than DEs of all types

there are also "DDEs" which accompany the "CVE" but they are literally just floating helicopter pads and towed arrays with a phalanx gun

and then there are "DLEs" which are literally just Spruance weapons fits (ASROC/sonars/helipad/hangar/Harpoon/Phalanx/ESSM) on a more stable hull

DDE/DLE/"DTH" sits in the reserve mothball fleet waiting for the Final War to begin and requires of convoy escort so frontline fleet units like DE/DL/CV can fight

more reasonably theyre activated as Reserve Fleet ships are brought out of mothballs and mobilized for major regional wars al a Desert Storm or Falklands or Vietnam that stretch the peacetime sealift capacity and escort ability

gallaverse is like ace combat except instead of airplanes everyone and their dog has a hunter-killer SS and stealth mine laying capability

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The Chinese people are not to be cowed by U.S. atomic blackmail. Our country has a population of 600 million and an area of 9.6 [million sq. km]. The United States cannot annihilate the Chinese nation with its small stack of atom bombs. Even if the U.S. atom bombs were so powerful that, when dropped on China, they would make a hole right through the earth, or even blow it up, that would hardly mean anything to the universe as a whole, though it might be a major event for the solar system.

redrawn ddg and ddk

it's the old DEG/DEK that follows the "DEH" which is now DDH

because i realized that "DT" was dumb so the low end is DE now

DL is burke and ASW burke

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The Chinese people are not to be cowed by U.S. atomic blackmail. Our country has a population of 600 million and an area of 9.6 [million sq. km]. The United States cannot annihilate the Chinese nation with its small stack of atom bombs. Even if the U.S. atom bombs were so powerful that, when dropped on China, they would make a hole right through the earth, or even blow it up, that would hardly mean anything to the universe as a whole, though it might be a major event for the solar system.

These are very impressive drawings. Keep it up!

missing: bow anchor on the DEs, ballast/bilge pump hole thingies, Rubber Duck installations on all fantails, nothing else (afaik)

ABLs were yeeten cos no room to reload they will go on the DLG

e: i decided the radar fit on the DEs is too similar to DDs so im changing the DEK to a single SPQ-9B and a SPQ-9B and a single illuminator on the DEG

clockwise from top: DDG, DDK, DEK, DEG

small sonar is a CAPTAS sort of towed array
big sonar is SQR-20 MFTA
big missile is Penguin

little helicopter is a bigger MQ-8B with coaxial rotors that lets it carry a torpedo and some sonobuoys, or a pair of torpedoes, or a eight-pack of Hellfires (assuming a DEK ever carries Hellfires)

DLK is either going to be a Asahi clone or a Flt IIA Burke with a FCS-3 expy fit

DLG is basically a Atago with more VLS for ESSMs I suppose so sejong the great but one chopper instead of two like the KDX

then i will draw the DLH/Izumo expy

after that i should be able to draw a few different types of HUKs and convoy support groups

ill need to draw a CGN before i can draw the CVN battlegroup

then it's onto submarines

OR i return to the pain agony that is amphibious shipping

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The Chinese people are not to be cowed by U.S. atomic blackmail. Our country has a population of 600 million and an area of 9.6 [million sq. km]. The United States cannot annihilate the Chinese nation with its small stack of atom bombs. Even if the U.S. atom bombs were so powerful that, when dropped on China, they would make a hole right through the earth, or even blow it up, that would hardly mean anything to the universe as a whole, though it might be a major event for the solar system.

wip DLG

looks like a burke but it's the size of maya except it's not all empty space and useless COGLAG

it has a 100 lbs armor belt of HY80 across the waterline protecting the CIC, Damage Control Central, MR/AMRs, two main pumping rooms, and the primary computer room; upper deck is a 50 lbs plating; transverse bulkheads within the raft are 80 lbs but comprise two 40 lbs plates with a kevlar sandwich/spall liner between them

secondary computer rooms, missile magazines, and the pilot house are protected by 30 lbs steel boxes, and bulletproof alumina windows for the pilothouse because galla's ceramics industry is even stronger than its grasp of steel and turbine engines and it can produce ALON monoliths nearly a square meter in size

this should be adequate to stop air launched exocets/harpoons/otomats/NSMs from punching through the ship vitals either in airbursts or in direct impacts on the vital spaces; only big hardcore guys like Styx and maybe TASM stand a serious chance of killing the ship; of course it wont save the radars, the ship library, or chiefs' mess but who cares about useless shit like that when youre really only needing to protect the machinery spaces, steering gear, and CIC/DCC; it'll also maybe keep a magazine hit from detonating the whole bow off since it just blows the top of the box off and vents all the burning rocket fuel and exploding warheads into the sky i guess

hopefully at least, that's the idea

rest of the ship has 20-30 lbs HY80 for structure and bullet/fragment protection

this adds about 1200 +/- 100 tons of structure to the ship but it's all concentrated fairly middle and low in teh ship so it shouldn't seriously affect stability too much given it's approximately Maya sized the displacement will probably be about similar to Maya or the original Flt III burke with the big hull plug; it shouldnt be too bad

powerplant is COGAG with two LM6000s for main propulsion and a pair of diesel generators

there are four illuminators vice three on burke which i havent drawn

it serves as an anti-aircraft primary escort for DDH/DLH HUKs and CAV armored carrier groups, and as a secondary AAW escort for CVNs

the air combat system uses ERINTs as the primary long range AAM and ESSM for short range, for a total of 64 and 32 volleys in the image; there's a medium range SAM using high maneuver stage like the ERINT also, also with 32 volleys

underwater combat system uses the single LAMPS frigate helicopter (H-60), a Sea Lance expy with a range of 100 nmi, amidships torpedo tubes, and ASROC

surface combat system has 25mm gatling guns, a 6.1"/58 long range naval rifle firing guided shells similar to Copperhead II, a 150 nmi range ASCM similar to Klub, and typical Harpoon/TASM

only 16 cells in the aft section are 8 meters "super" deep cells, so they are usually loaded with the big missile; the rest are strike length

mulling whether or not the fantail will contain ABLs or a boat ramp for deploying sacrificial towed decoy sleds that follow in the wake

also debating whether or not the DLK should have similar amounts of protection

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The Chinese people are not to be cowed by U.S. atomic blackmail. Our country has a population of 600 million and an area of 9.6 [million sq. km]. The United States cannot annihilate the Chinese nation with its small stack of atom bombs. Even if the U.S. atom bombs were so powerful that, when dropped on China, they would make a hole right through the earth, or even blow it up, that would hardly mean anything to the universe as a whole, though it might be a major event for the solar system.

no really it's final this time

CVN: The stupid thing at the top of this page. P/L/C/S/X-bands all live together in peace and harmony. Four shafts.
CGN: High speed (CVN) nuclear escort with the same fire control as the CVN and ASW suite as the DLK, with a pair of 6.1" automatics, and 128 cells. "Might as well be infinite" quantity of fire control channels because it will never have the quantity of rockets or targets needed to overwhelm the something like ~256 unique fire control channels it can operate in ideal conditions. Probably costs somewhere around $5-8 bn a pop and is the reason Galla has like 30 FARS ships and two dozen Mayas instead of just like 75 armored Mayas. Only two shafts and two copters, though. Sad.

CVL/"DLV": An armored carrier similar in displacement to LHA-6 (but in size to MEU) with an airwing of maybe a dozen P.1216s and half a dozen H-3s that is supposed to bully Kuznetsovs. Fights the great northern cruiser war with the other armored DLs. L/S/X band probably. 32-128 VLS cells I guess, depending on how I feel. Probably towards the lower end (32 strike; 16 "deep" for Klubs).

DLH: Izumo thing with full FCS-3-esque thing.
DDH: The Hyuga ripoff I drew minus FCS-3 and adding SPS-48 and SPS-49 instead.

DLG: Armored Maya. 128 cells. 4 channels. 2 copters. Big Squish and TACTAS. "Deep" VLS in the rear for firing hypersonic missiles and Klub-alikes. The fantail has a boat ramp for dropping USVs and stuff because it has so many fucking VLS cells I don't need ABLs. L/S/X-bands.
DLK: Armored Maya but with the full up Asahi-type FCS and big flank sonar + TACTAS + VDS + 4 copters because it eats the aft VLS system for a massive ASW capability improvement. He "only" has 64 cells and no "deep" cells, but he can carry the supersonic ASW rocket. Can carry 8 drones if it really needs to be laying down the scunion. L/C/X-bands.

DDG: NAVSEA FMS FFG but it's 150m length so a Burke with a FARS instead of -1D. One copter and a rack of ESSM Mk 48s in the aft superstructure. 48 VLS cells fore and a 5"/62 automatic. SQS-56 and TACTAS. 2-3 channels. Twin shaft.
DDK: DDG hull but a Takanami-type superstructure, SPS-49, with a SPQ-9B for warning/gunfire/MFR and a SQS-53 (Big Squish) + TACTAS. Two copters. Still only has 32 cells. Also has a 5" gun for telling boat people to go home. Twin shaft.

DEG: Slightly longer PF4923 with a Mk 48 16-cell for 32 ESSM and a box launcher for Standards on the bow, with a 3" automatic. Two copters. SQS-56 and VDS. Single shaft.
DEK: The same but with a ASROC instead of a Mk 48 and a ESSM launcher instead of a Standard slinging Mk 25 thingy. Two copters. SQS-56 and TACTAS. Single shaft.

The two other ships I drew are probably just sitting in mothballs fleets, and are basically Bertholfs with pure diesel engines to keep speed with the 12 kts Victory ships that Galla keeps making so it can ship Ontario GDLS MBT-70s to the frontlines (and less important things, like food) of the hyper war. OTOH they might not work properly because the Coast Guard uses the same ship and their job is similar, except the Kustvakt has gas turbine setups on their boats, and is twin shaft instead of single with azipods.

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The Chinese people are not to be cowed by U.S. atomic blackmail. Our country has a population of 600 million and an area of 9.6 [million sq. km]. The United States cannot annihilate the Chinese nation with its small stack of atom bombs. Even if the U.S. atom bombs were so powerful that, when dropped on China, they would make a hole right through the earth, or even blow it up, that would hardly mean anything to the universe as a whole, though it might be a major event for the solar system.

Hsun Hai-class Guided Missile Destroyer



The Swift Sea-class DDG was developed in the early 2000's for the Celestial Republic of Oumeiguo's Federal Navy.

Designed to fight near to shore and provide fire support to landing troops, 28 ships were constructed for each of Oumeiguo's four naval infantry divisions. With a reduced RCS compared to conventional surface escorts, the Hsun Hai is able to maximize its use of jammers, decoys, and close to "near visual" range to provide gunfire support even in the face of radar guided anti-ship missile batteries and anti-landing missiles. Armed with 80 peripheral VLS cells, a dozen large-caliber missile cells, and a double 5.5-ts'un (~175mm) smoothbore gun mount firing out to 300 li (~185 km), the Swift Sea carries a similar armament to the Gallic Admiral-class and Battle-class destroyers but in a more survivable and modern hull.

The present 28 ships are assigned on a basis of landing force requirements. Oumeiguo maintains four Marine divisions, and has a landing capacity of four regiments (approx. 16 battalions), each of which requires a specified amount of naval gunfire support to conduct an opposed amphibious landing. Based on the Celestial War requirements (A.D. 1946-1951) and the Directorate War (1983) each Marine Division necessitates between three and four gunfire support ships to be available at all times, to provide one "152-mm battery equivalent" to each landing battalion during the initial assault operation, and was considered adequate until the 1980's. Prior to the 21st century, this was provided by small frigates and destroyers, often operating close to shore, and at long-range large amounts of vertical take-off aviation and assault helicopters were used. Since the 2000's, this gunfire requirement now includes airmobile tasked Marine battalions, which often cannot bring their heavy howitzers into combat, and typically fight many miles inland.

Intended to provide "152-mm battery equivalency" for Marine vertical assault elements, each double gun mount fires at a combined 18 rounds per minute, fed by 360 round magazines (180 rpg). An additional 360 rounds is stored in a reserve stockroom, which must be manually accessed by the ship's crew when the initial magazine is expended. This provides a combined 40 minutes of fire from the ship, which is less than preceding designs, but the effectiveness of the gun itself can compensate for this. The rate of fire of the double gun mount combined with its larger capacity shells is considered to be slightly superior to a 152-mm battery in fire support capability. A pair of Gallic-built North Alarian Military Munitions (NAMMo) 3"/62 guns in Federal-designed zero-penetration deck mounts sit above the helicopter hangar and is the same gun mount design as used on the Snow Petrel-class gunboat.

With their novel design (similar to a tank cannon) the 175mm cannons can provide fire support out to the maximum extent of the air landing battalion (50 nautical miles inland) from 30 to 40 nautical miles off shore, beyond the range of the visual horizon. When staged near the assault helicopter carriers and amphibious transport docks, the destroyer also provides both anti-missile/aircraft defense and anti-submarine protection for the amphibious task force, freeing more conventional surface escorts to protect convoys. During transit, conventionally designed frigates and destroyers of the Escort Force of the Federal Navy provide protection against air attack and submarines. Each Marine Division's assigned Amphibious Task Force of a combined dozen LPDs/LHAs/LSDs has been allocated seven Swift Sea-class DDGs. They are organized into a combined fire support division which, when allowing for inevitable maintenance concerns, provides a consistent availability of the necessary three or four destroyers.

During the Alarian War, the Federal Navy's 2 MARDIV made extensive use of the Swift Sea-class to destroy several Frisian bunker complexes in support of Operation Adrenaline's assault landing in Frisian Gurinoko by the 27th Marine Regiment (cf. Operation KNUCKLE DUSTER) in 2050. The Alarian War marks the Swift Sea class's most notable main combat actions, which were performed near the ships' end-of-life, and their only combat actions against a "near-peer" enemy. Two Swift Sea-class destroyers were lost during anti-submarine operations between 2049 and 2051 to Frisian Walrus III-class fast attack submarines. 2 MARDIV also participated in Operation ANVIL as part of the Gallic 1st Field Army, under command of the generals Joachim Llewellyn De Vers and Gilles de Patrik, where the Swift Sea's powerful naval fire support capabilities were directly acknowledged in post-war interviews as contributing to the runaway success of the southern landing operations.

Similar ship designs of the Federal Navy include the smaller Snow Petrel-class of stealth gunboats, an 800 ton guided missile corvette based on the Gallic-designed Ysby-class corvette, and the Luoyang-class guided missile destroyer, which replaces the 175-mm guns with an additional 28 VLS cells. The former had 24 hulls completed for the "inshore division" of the Marine Division while the latter had 56 hulls built for eight ultracarrier battlegroups and their replenishment groups.

Name: Swift Sea-class (Type 077) guided missile destroyer
Type: Fire Support/Escort Ship
Builders: Shimen Heavy Industries
Operators: Oumeiguo Federal Navy
Preceded By: -
Succeeded By: Sharp Sword-class (Type 088) fire support frigate
Built: 2012 - 2027
In Service: 2017 - 2072
Planned: 28
Completed: 28
Lost: 2
Canceled: 0
Retired: 0

Displacement (light): ~15,000 tons
Displacement (full load): ~17,000 tons

Length (w/l): 190 meters
Length (o/a): 195 meters
Beam (w/l): 26 meters
Draught (full load): 8.5 meters

Powerplant: 2x Yantey YR40 sprint turbines (40 MW ea.), 4x Alarian Motors Corporation (AMC) 20V4150 diesel generators (3 MWe ea.)
Propulsion: 2x superconducting electric motors (40 MW ea.)
Speed: >30 knots
Complement: 220 (250 surge)
Aircraft carried: 2 light helicopters, 1 medium-heavy helicopter, and 2-4 drones
Armament: 2x 175mm smoothbore howitzers; 80x 27" VLS cells; 12x 34.5" VLS cells; 2x 3"/62 automatic CIWS; 24x torpedoes/missiles/depth bombs for helicopter magazine
Boats carried: 3 (2x RHIBs, 1x enclosed personnel boat)

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The Chinese people are not to be cowed by U.S. atomic blackmail. Our country has a population of 600 million and an area of 9.6 [million sq. km]. The United States cannot annihilate the Chinese nation with its small stack of atom bombs. Even if the U.S. atom bombs were so powerful that, when dropped on China, they would make a hole right through the earth, or even blow it up, that would hardly mean anything to the universe as a whole, though it might be a major event for the solar system.