KSS Sudwart is an aircraft cruiser and the lead ship of her class. She served for the former Royal Crystal Navy between 2060 to 2090 and currently in service for the Royal Sovereign Navy.

History

Countries served: RCN as KKS Sudwart =====> RSN as KSS Sudwart
Name: KSS Sudwart
Namesake: City of Sudwart
Builder: Eisiger Norden Industries
Laid Down: 2057
Launched: 2059
Commissioned: 2060
Homeport: Weit im Norden
Motto: "Ich werde die Unterdrücker schlagen"
Status: In Active Service
Badge: (Soon)

General Characteristics

Class and type: Sudwart-class aircraft cruiser
Displacement: 55,000 tons
Length: 336.8 meters
Beam: 73.2 meters
Draught: 9.35 meters
Installed Power: 4x Konig K7633 Generators (4,450 hp each)
Propulsion: CODAG Scheme, 4x Konig K6900 Gas Turbines (34,000 hp each), Konig K8700 maxima engines (67,000 hp)
Speed: 30 knots
Range: 15,400 mi at 20 knots
Complement:
Ship: 50 Officers and 700 Men
Air Crew: 600

Sensors and processing systems:
Includes 2d and 3d Air search radars, multi-purpose radars, air traffic radars, target acquisition radars, early warning radars and guidance radars, all under the Koloss Combat Systems

Electronic warfare and decoys:
2x Type 55 Schiffsschützer
Type 77 Countermeasure torpedoes (not included)

Armament/s:
Guns:
2x SFK 150mm
4x Smaragd CIWS
Missiles:
MK45 VLS;
Anti-Air:
- FAR 45K
- FAR 55K
Anti-Ship:
12x SAR 90K in Triple Missile Launchers
ASW:
2x U-Boot-Abwehrwaffe 5000

Aircraft carried: 28 - 32 fixed wing and helicopters

Development

The development of the ship was dated back to 2049 and were intended as a replacement for the Königlicher Hafen amphibious assault ships. However, further reconsideration was made and the intended design were changed from being a replacement into a complimenting new carriers or flagship of a certain strike group. The design was finished in 2054 and construction begun on 2057. The first ship, Sudwart, was launched in 2059 and was completed the same year. She was commissioned in 2060.

Aircraft Cruisers are unique type of warships. they were a mixture of cruiser or a battleship and an aircraft carrier. They begin to be experimented in the early 1930s with floatplanes. In WW2, the Japanese successfully rebuilt their Ise-class battleships into a hybrid carriers by replacing the rear pair guns with a flight deck with 3 floatplanes. Forward to the Cold War Era, Nations developed a variant of Aircraft Cruisers known as Helicopter Cruisers and served throughout the Cold War era.

In Great Country, Aircraft Cruisers continued to serve in certain Nations. They were known as the Ultimate All-Around Warships because of their capability as an Aircraft Carrier and capability of a Surface Warship. However, only the Crystal Navy was known for using Aircraft Cruisers since 1940s till the present day.

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Controls

• Standard ship controls
• VTOL for ASW controls
• Press the corresponding Ags to activate ship features
  
  
  
  • Ag1: Raise anti-ship missile launchers (also activates anti-ship missiles)
  
  
  • Ag2: Activate ASW Rockets
  
  
  • Ag7: Lights
  
  

• All Guns, CIWS and anti-air missiles are independent

  Note*

  • If you want to put aircrafts on it, you'll have to twitch the buoyancy distribution for yourself.