Orbital Airship

(I decided to go ahead and post the specs and origins of the craft I have in mind - while they're in my mind.)

The twenty second century on Carrenthia heralded several large scale conflicts, one threatened to involve an entire continent. The first began in the last year of the twenty first century and carried over two years into the twenty second, between one of the larger nations on the continent known as Terra One, Alsen-Kir, and one of the smallest nations of the same continent, Nolia, a confederation of seven clans. Alsen-Kir came close to defeating the Nolian confederation several times, but the defensive tactics used by the clan based nation eventually won out. Following the conflict, and victory of Nolia, Nolia offered an alliance with Alsen-Kir. Alsen-Kir accepted, and the two nations signed a treaty that included sharing of technology and tactics to the benefit of both nations.

Directly south on Terra One, another conflict raged, although completely unrelated to the Alsen-Kir-Nolian war, it is detailed in the same section of the history books. Three small unions were attacked by a number of nations, who banded together and became known as the Respian Coalition of Nations. The three unions formed one union, the Federation of River States, the nations all bordering the great Sengol river, and successfully defeated the RCN, forcing a treaty of non-violence upon them. The FRS accepted several nations into the federation in the next twenty five years, the RCN assimilated roughly fifteen smaller, third-world countries, and one larger nation.

The technology sharing in the Alliance, comprising solely of Nolia and Alsen-Kir, bore small fruit for the first twenty years, but in 2224 a new type of power core was developed, and used in aircraft, the the effects were slow, but within six years a viable propulsion system had been created that provided roughly a hundred times the power of the conventional fossil-fuel jet engine, it also had limited "space" capabilities, which were in reality merely extremely low orbit capabilities, but the breakthrough gave the Alliance a high edge of other air powers.

Fifteen years later Nolia held a clan summit, in light of the RCN's recent advances in technology and growth, it was decided that they needed air power to match, or exceed, that of they're neighbors to the south, the FRS. Soon after the summit, the national government put out a request for an aircraft capable of sustaining flight for a minimum of ninety days, large enough to hold two full fighter squadrons, and a compliment of three fully functional ground combat units. The request was revised soon after, it included a requirement for aerial bombardment, and smaller aircraft capable of delivering the troops on board to any battle zone while the mother-craft stayed out of enemy range, as well as any equipment or vehicles they might need. Alsen-Kir based Sanheil Heavy Industries requested a hold on the contract while they attempted to build a 128 scale model of a craft they were already trying to develop. After nearly a year the company unveiled an airship with capabilities that exceeded Nolia's request, Alsen-Kir order seven, and Nolia ordered three of the craft that soon became known as the Class 1 Orbital Airships. The full scale craft would take two years to build, first deliveries was estimated ten years after the original order, as a full scale prototype had yet to be built and tested.

It took twelve years for the first full production Class 1 Orbital Airship to roll off the assembly line, it was capable of far more than the original requirement placed by the Nolian Defense committee. It could stay airborne for one hundred twenty days, had three fighter squadron compliment, and quarters for five fully functional combat units, drop-ships for all five units, and enough room to store vehicles to equip one of the units as a fully mechanized unit. The first Class 1 OA went to Alsen-Kir, Nolia received their first craft thirteen years after the requirement had been set forth, and was assigned to the Eagle clan, at the capitol city Ariel. Over the next six years Nolia received the second and third Class 1 OAs, which were assigned to the Viper capitol Nayely, and Badger capitol Kalina. After the third OA was delivered, the conference decided to order a fourth, which would be assigned to Raven's capitol, Cora.

Specifacations:

Main power unit:

six Manohar Flight Solutions Class 2 Mk 7 counter-gravity generators
four Sehgal Propulsion Delta Class 5 Flash-turbines.

Weapons:

Primary: six eight inch railguns.
Secondary: sixteen two inch conventional cannon.
Secondary: three hundred fifty air-to-air medium range missiles.
Tertiary: eight 30 millimeter, seven barrel gatling guns, close range missile and aircraft defense.

Compliment:

Crew: three hundred seven.
Combat units: five, average fifty soldiers per unit; two hundred fifty.
Pilots: fighter pilots; fifty. Drop-ship pilots; seventy four.
(Capacity is rated at seven hundred)

Aircraft:

Fighters: twenty one.
Drop-ships: twenty seven.

Ground Vehicles:

Puma (heavy armored vehicle, six seats, one gun): two.
Lynx (medium armored vehicle, four seats, one gun): six.
Panther (light armored vehicle, two seats, one gun): nine.
Cheetah (all terrain vehicle, two seats, no gun): fourteen.

Just for the heck of it

I was guessing I should make a new post, but I don't have any designs on hand to post, although I do have several "blueprints" back home that I'll be putting up. Two are fighters, two or three drop-ships I'm working on, and an airship, or as it's designated, an orbital airship, it has some low orbit capabilities, max ceiling would be somewhere in the area of three hundred miles, all craft operating from it would have the same or greater altitude capabilities. Probably going to be looking at adding ground units as well, moving away from the strictly "Space defense" to a more broad "Planetary defense," that would open up the options of adding non-orbital aerial combat craft, any naval craft, and other surface units that would be used.

In fact, I may go ahead and change this into a database for the technology from my story, Vertical Ridge: Fusion, that would be rather convenient, having pictures and specifications of my vehicles, and perhaps personal weapons also, literally on hand whenever, and wherever, I need to access them.

The F/I-12 Slayer

Presumably the best fighter ever designed for Space and in atmosphere combat, the Slayer has outmanuvered EVERYTHING it's been pitted against. In the hands of the best fighter pilots in the galaxy it is a dangerous craft, even against ships ten times its size. While larger ships can pack punches much heavier than its own, it can outmanuever the very shot fired at it, and with a pair of "Pocket Launchers" for double Quantum torpedos, a swarm could easily tear any heavy cruiser apart.

Specs
Power plant:
2 Pulse Ion engines

Weapons:
2 Tridon XXIV Pulse Lasers
2 Korunami Double Quantum torpedo launchers 2 torpedos per tube

Armor:
10 millimeters Arian Heat plating

Shielding:
none

Electronics:
Radon communication system
Radon sensor array

Complement:
Pilot: 1
Co-Pilot/Navigator: 1

AC-28 Rino

The Rino has been the workhorse of the Space fleet for years. Although it was inttroduced fifty years ago, all AC-28s have gone through so many upgrades, their age does not count against them. As a gunship, it is used effectivly against pirates and muaraders. As a transport, it can be used to either carry three ACT(Armored Combat Troops) companies, or four Regular Companies, or up to 2,000 tons of cargo.


Specs
Power plant:
2 Ion reactors

Weapon systems:
2 36in railguns/Tsunami torpedo launchers
7 Tridon VIII mini Pulse lasers
14 Tsunami torpedos

Armor:
5 centemeters Araien Glance plating

Shielding:
Class 4 Ion absorbtion arrays

Electronics:
CLASSIFIED

Complement:
Crew: 60
Marines: 40

The Iroh Class

The NCC Iroh, lead ship in her class, will be the new flagship for the URS Space Defense Fleet, replacing the CC+ Sozen, last of the Combatent class Command cruisers.

Specs
Power plant:
3 Series IX Ion Fusion reactors

Weapons systems:
3 72in railguns
8 Tridon XII Pulse lasers
20 Tridon V Laser cannons
12 Radon Composite laser beams
3 Tsunami torpedo launchers, 30 Tsunami IX torpedos each

Armor:
8 decimeters of Araien Glance plating

Sheilding:
Class 13 Ion absorbtion arrays

Electronics:
Complience VIII ECM emitters (3)
Yuconium V9 ECCM emitters (3)
Yuconium S2 passive radar, (4) 14,000 kilometer range
Radon Sharps comunications (1)
Radon Ion tractor beams (6)

Fighters/assualt/shuttle craft:
50 F/I-12 Slayer
4 AC-7 Eagle.
4 C-2 Shuttle

Complement:
Crew: 800
Marines: 80
100 F/I-12 pilots
4 AC-7 crews (3 men each).

The Sozen

The Sozen is the current flagship of the Space Defence Fleet. The last of three ships in the Combatent class, it is far more advanced than it's sisters.

Specs
Power plant:
2 Series V Ion fusion reactors

Weapon systems:
3 79in railguns
7 Tridon IX Pulse lasers
18 Tridon IV Laser cannons
9 Korunami Compsite Laser beams
4 Quantum torpedo tubes, 35 Quantum torpedos per tube

Armor:
13 centameters of Araien Glance plating

Sheilding:
Class 8 Ion absorbtion array

Electronics:
Yuconium ECM system
Radon ECCM system
Radon Comunications systems
Korunami sensor arrays
Korunami nuclear tractor beams

Shuttle bay:
55 F/I-12 Slayer
5 AC-7 Eagle
5 C-2 Shuttle

Complement:
Crew: 769
Marines: 94
110 F/I-12 pilots
5 AC-7 crews (3 each)