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Endurance-class DDG

147k Pilotmario  6.7 years ago

Credit to Dllama4 for the Mk 15 Phalanx guns, Mk 44 single-cell VLS tubes, and the Mk 45 Mod 4 5/62 cal guns.

VTOL + Trim for Mk 45. Throttle + Yaw to steer. Pitch + Yaw to aim Mk 15 Phalanx and Mk 46 autocannons. VTOL to aim Mk 32 torpedo tubes. (1) for Mk 45, (2-3) for Mk 15, (4-5) for Mk 46 autocannons, and (6-7) for Mk 32.

The Endurance-class DDG is a Paternian multimission destroyer, with extensive anti-ship, anti-aircraft, and anti-submarine capabilities. While the Paternian Navy was satisfied with the Kamehameha-class CG, they were less so with the California-class DDG. Simply put, they believed she was too big to be a destroyer. While the California is considered a potent and cost-effective multi-mission warship, the Paternian Navy wanted something more cost effective.

The solution came in the form of the Endurance-class DDG, a warship with much of the capabilities of the California, but with much reduced size and thus cost. Fast, agile, and powerfully-armed, the Endurance-class DDG promises to provide the Paternian Navy with unparalleled naval authority.

Her main armament is the 70 VLS tubes in two 35-tube magazines in the bow and amidships. These tubes can either be the single-cell Mk 44 VLS tube or the quad-cell Mk 56 VLS tube. The Mk 44 is capable of hosting large munitions such as the RIM-156A Standard (SM-2), RIM-161 Standard-3 (SM-3), and RIM-174 ERAM (SM-6) anti-aircraft missiles with secondary anti-ship capabilities, the RUM-139 VL-ASROC anti-submarine ballistic missiles, and the potent RGM-290C HSLAM, RGM-290D HSLAM-II, and RGM-335 HSLAM-III multi-mission surface strike missiles.

The Mk 56 is capable of hosting a respectable amount of munitions, such as the RIM-162 ESSM, RUM-168 VL-ATROC anti-torpedo ballistic missile, and the RGM-114O VL-Hellfire missile.

The warship also has a potent array of other ordnance, such as the Mk 32 triple torpedo launcher, capable of firing 3 Mk 46, Mk 50, or Mk 54 fire and forget anti-submarine torpedoes, the Mk 15 Phalanx CIWS, the Mk 46 pedestal-mounted 30mm revolver cannon for close-in defense against small craft, M2 Browning Machine Guns (not fitted to save on part count), and the 5-inch/62-caliber Mk 45 Mod 4 dual-purpose cannon.

Firepower is not her only attribute; she features the Aegis Combat System, whose electronics include the SPY-1 Radar, three AN/SPG-63 targeting radars, and the standard host of navigation and gun fire control radars. She also is fitted with a powerful active sonar array and a sensitive passive sonar system capable of picking up submerged diesel-electric submarines running on battery power. She is also fitted with various decoys to counter anti-ship missiles and torpedoes.

Her reach is furthered by the presence of hangar facilities for two SH-90A Lynx ASW helicopters and a helipad. The helicopters are capable of employing light anti-ship and anti-submarine weapons in addition to surface and air radar, magnetic anomaly detectors, and dipping sonar.

With a crew of 270 and a displacement of 9,000 tons, their size is modest for the firepower and capabilities she brings. And at the lean price of $715M per ship, they are certainly worthwhile investments, and a must-have for any naval power that wants to be relevant in both today's battlefield, and that of the future.

General Characteristics

  • Successors 1 airplane(s)
  • Created On Windows
  • Wingspan 78.7ft (24.0m)
  • Length 489.7ft (149.3m)
  • Height 154.3ft (47.0m)
  • Empty Weight 891,757lbs (404,494kg)
  • Loaded Weight 1,028,395lbs (466,472kg)

Performance

  • Horse Power/Weight Ratio 0.145
  • Wing Loading 20,657.6lbs/ft2 (100,859.0kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 49.8ft2 (4.6m2)
  • Drag Points 353943

Parts

  • Number of Parts 929
  • Control Surfaces 0
  • Performance Cost 3,241
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    @Pilotmario But the MK110 really can fire at an astounding 200 RPM. A possible BRRRT!

    6.5 years ago
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    147k Pilotmario

    We have the 76mm for that. @JoshEraDix2345

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    @Pilotmario Ok, what about building a boat class the if intent on making lots of holes on weak ships ranging from corvettes to FACs with the main gun being a MK110 57MM Bofors Gun, if it's possible?

    6.5 years ago
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    147k Pilotmario

    Perhaps. @JoshEraDix2345

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    @Pilotmario, can the Endurance-class DDG be able to launch Sea Skua ASMs?

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    5,001 CirrusX

    Its too complicated

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    147k Pilotmario

    @Tazziedevil04 lol still not changing my bio. Because I may have the motivation to make a 929 part warship, but the same cannot be said about changing my bio.

    6.7 years ago
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    @Pilotmario Hawaii finished Ethernet Australia coined the term Wi-Fi hahaa

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    147k Pilotmario

    @Tazziedevil04 I suppose we are both right.

    It was a pair of Aussie radioastronomers who built what would become Wi-Fi proper between 1992 and 1996. However, ALOHAnet, developed by the University of Hawaii in 1971, would lay the groundwork for what would become Ethernet and IEEE 802.11 protocols, which are the basis which Wi-Fi does operate under.

    6.7 years ago
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    147k Pilotmario

    @Patton2 Good point.

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    @Pilotmario Australia created it mate =)

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    147k Pilotmario

    @Tazziedevil04 See ALOHAnet.

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    1 problem with your biography Australians created Wi-Fi not Hawaiians sorry

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    147k Pilotmario

    @Patton2 Why reinvent the wheel?

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    147k Pilotmario

    Thanks! @Kaos

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    104k Dllama4

    Definitely. It is a very capable platform.

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    147k Pilotmario

    @Dllama4 Thanks! Is D. Corp interested in these ships?

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    104k Dllama4

    Very nice!

    6.7 years ago