T'Vars Naval Forces

[Admiral T'Var]

I drew these upa while back the more complete and editable versions are on a HDD that may or may not be recoverable (Aceman I feel a bit of your pain ive had HDD issues as well)

anyway here they are

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http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/9758/uprstaipei1jp.gif

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[Meshfan]

Ooh. Sweet. I like the Republic and the Taipei deisngs the best.

[Admiral T'Var]

Thanks hopefully I can get the original and more complete ones off the other HDD to finish them

The ships were made for a Near Future fanfic U.P.R. stands for United Pacific Republics

[Aramanthus]

Those are some sweet ships! I'd love to use them for an RPG I run.

[Admiral T'Var]

what sort of RPG? My intention for these ships was for use in a fanfic I'm working on the were orginally fora RPG and Fanfic i was a member of but that collapsed. I decided to continue the fanfic aspect of it with some minor tweaks.

Wheras Im to busy to partcipate in another fanfic and RPG I would be interested in what you have in mind for my ships who knows perhaps your RPG is clsoe enough to my fanfic that it could bea Mirror or parallel universe :p

[Meshfan]

I play CNC Generals Zero Hour.............. wish those ships you designed were buildable. I WILL RULE THE WAVES!!!!!!

[Admiral T'Var]

not sure id want them in a Game unless they would have all there capabilities :p I dont like how a lot of games nix many of a ship, plane, tank, extcs abilites.

[Aramanthus]

I wanted to use them in my Rifts game. Would you mind if I did?

[Admiral T'Var]

sure no problem just holler back if you need to know whats what on the ships more than whats lableld here.

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[Aramanthus]

Actually that is a good idea. Please could you tell me the various stats of the ships you created and the weapons sizes and calibers.

[Admiral T'Var]

REPUBLIC-CLASS BATTLE CARRIER.

TYPE: Nuclear powered dreadnought-aircraft carrier hybrid (Battle-carrier).
DISPLACEMENT: 310’500 tons full load.
DIMENSIONS: Length; 500m, Beam: 42m, Width: 94m over outriggers, Draught: 12.2m
COMPLEMENT: 145+2’860, plus an air group of 120+1’340, a flag staff of 45+120, and 4+120 marines.
GUN ARMAMENT: Six 533-mm (21”) L/55 surface attack guns in two triple turrets, twelve 304-mm (12”) L/60 surface attack guns in four triple turrets, eighteen SHIELD-II 20-mm dual barrelled CIWS, ten 10-round launchers for Barrier 60-mm point defence anti-missile fragmentation grenade launchers, and provision for up to forty 7.62 and 12.7-mm machine guns.
MISSILE ARMAMENT: Thirty eight 8-cell Mk.5/6 vertical launch silos for 304 missiles, the usual mix being 130 RGM-127 Odin Extended Range SAM, 150 RGM-129 Fury land attack cruise missiles, and 24 RGM-93 Harpoon-II anti-ship missiles. Fourteen 20-cell launchers for RGM-211 Archer point defence SAM..
ASW ARMAMENT: Aircraft and helicopter launched weapons (see below).
AIRCRAFT: Twenty eight (two squadrons) of F/A-31 Panther-III multi role jets, eight SH-94C Sequoia helicopters (five ASW, three utility/SAR), and up to eighteen combat and reconnaissance UAVs.
PROPULSION: Four Westinghouse GVA-2-L2A pressurised liquid metal cooled nuclear reactors delivering a total of 418’400hp to eight impellor units. Back up propulsion is provided by ten fuel cells with a combined rating of 98’200hp.
PERFORMANCE: Maximum speed; 30kts (nuclear), 10kts (fuel cells). The reactor cores have an estimated life of 2.2 million kilometres.
ELECTRONICS: Four SPY-2AD enhanced Aegis phased array radars, two long range air/surface search radars, four SAM fire control radar, three navigation radar, two hull mounted passive search sonar, eighteen six-round SRBOC counter measure launchers, twelve 6-round acoustic torpedo decoy launchers, comprehensive ECM/ESM systems with passive detection and passive/active counter measure elements.
SHIPS IN CLASS: 2 built, 1 building, 1 ordered but on hold.
SERVICE HISTORY: Without a doubt the most massive, most complex piece of machinery ever built by humanity. The Republic-class of Battle-carrier represents the pinnacle of mans engineering capabilities. Costing as much as many nations entire fleets to build, let alone operate, the Republic-class will probably never be equalled. Even now with the class in service many within the U.P.R.s upper echelons continue to wonder if the massive investment was truly necessary. Some have described the class as a waste of resources, and called it a jack of all trades, master of none. Others have called these ships nothing more than a huge ego boost for an alliance already bloated with capital ships.

In truth the design is flexible, powerful, and highly capable. True it is neither a dreadnought or a carrier, but it does not suffer greatly from mixing the two role, thanks in part to its great size which allows the carriage of both a decent sized air wing and a massive amount of large calibre guns and missiles. The preceding Musashi-class suffered because it only carried a single fighter squadron and a few helicopters, the Republic has two squadrons of fighters plus space for a substantial number of large UAVs as well as eight helicopters.

The original requirement which led to the development of the Republic-class was a desire by the Republic’s top brass for a new class of super dreadnought to enter service in around 2050 to supplement the Musashi-class and eventually replace the older examples of the Missouri and Montana classes of dreadnought. The first concept designs called for simply stretching the Musashi-class and adding more guns, but this idea quickly fell out of favour and a totally new design was developed.

Design work for the Republic-class was completed in 2044 and it created a monster of a ship. At 500 metres long and close to 100 metres wide there were no construction facilities any where in the alliance capable of building one of these ships without massive re-engineering. Fortunately for the U.P.R. Navy two ship yards had foreseen the eventual final size of the new ships and both had began developing their yards. The two yards were Bath Iron Works in Maine, USA, and the Kawasaki Ship yards at Kobe in Japan. Both yards were each awarded contracts for one example with the possibility of further orders to come. Bath Iron Works completed its rebuilding project three months both the Japanese yard and began work on the U.P.R.S. Republic on August 12th 2045, the U.P.R.S. Shinano was laid down on 9th December 2045.

The U.P.R.S. Republic was commissioned in to the navy on 11th June 2050 and the Yamato on 19th September of that year. The third hull, the U.P.R.S. Constellation, was ordered from Bath Iron Works in the 4th July 2051, and laid down on the 15th of October for completion some time in 2055. Such had been the massive amount of resources needed for the Republic-class, that the Alliance Senate have so far refused to allocate any more funding for examples of the class. Kawasaki Ship Yards were awarded the contract for the first two Panama-class fast dreadnoughts as compensation for losing out on the fourth Republic hull.

[Admiral T'Var]

Ive lost the specs for the others I gota talk to some mates to see if they might have them laying about.

[Aramanthus]

Cool! Looks pretty good!

[magyareagle]

Yes, We do want more ships, yes we do... my precious...

[Admiral T'Var]

ok I suppose I can start on some new ones oh p.S. if your expecting top views umm ive tried and cant get them to look as they should...

[Pleiades]

what incredible ships these are, I love em. :)

[Admiral T'Var]

I've started on the Panama class that was mentioned in the Republic class Specs. right now its a spot less than 300 meters long. its a very early WIP so im not ready to post any pics yet.

[Admiral T'Var]

Havent had much time to work on it but heres a Early WIP shot. Just to see if its worth contuniung or if I should scrap it and start over

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[Aramanthus]

I like the new addition! Cool! Keep it up!

[Admiral T'Var]

made a bit of progress on it its starting to look likea viable naval vessel now

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[Lord Ravensburg]

looks very good..cant wait to see more.

[Admiral T'Var]

a bit more progress on the Panama

http://img507.imageshack.us/img507/1048/bb80rr4.th.gif (http://img507.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bb80rr4.gif)

[Lord Ravensburg]

comming along nicly...:D

[Admiral T'Var]

ok guys I could use some help with my scaling and proportions this beasty is a bit under 300 meters long the Iowa class is 270.66 meters long so I either need some assurance I have things scaled right such as the hatches and the guns or a Pic of the Iowa in the same scale im working with for a comparason

[Lord Ravensburg]

the refs for the montana i sent you should be close in scale...:)

[Lord Ravensburg]

Any updates :D (bump)

[Admiral T'Var]

other than this wich is a bit old not sure if i posted it beofre or not Ive had to swtich gears to focus on a Trek ship ive ben putting off for to long that needs to get done then i can shift back to my naval ships

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[Lord Ravensburg]

very cool..:cool:

[Challenger2090]

Very nice ships, T'Var. :cool:

And just a quick question: Are these ship trimarans?

[Admiral T'Var]

Sorry its been so long but yes all my Ships are trimarans at least down to Destroyer sizes.