Ship/Smallcraft Code/Type SDE Escort Superdreadnought
Service/Source Royal Manticoran Navy/Grayson Space Navy
Class Name Draco
Mass/Displacement (Tons) 8,500,000
Length Overall (Meters) 4,750
Maximum Beam (Meters) 700
Maximum Height (Meters) 500
Maximum Acceleration (G) 498.5 in Normal-Space 4,812.7 in Hyper-Space
Complement 5,000 (379 Officers + 4,621 Warrant/Enlisted) Plus Flag/Flag Staff
Core Crew 4,500 (350 + 4,150)
Marine Complement 500 (29 + 471)
Flag/Flag Staff 100 (19 + 81) When Serving As Squadron Flagship
Armament Mounted Weapon Mount Placement
Type/Number Broadside Mounts P/S Chase Mounts F/A
Launcher Mod 73 x80 30/30 10/10
Graser 675cm x70 35/35 0/0
Graser 750cm x16 0/0 8/8
Energy Torpedo 500cm x20 10/10 0/0
Launcher Mod 3CM x100 35/35 15/15
PD Laser Cluster x160 60/60 20/20
Grav Lance Yes No
Missile(s) Used GSN/RMN Mk42 VLR
GSN/RMN Mk7 Countermissile Cannister
RMN Standard Countermissile (GSN Mk2 Countermissile)
Parasite Complement LCL x4 / LCMA x8 / LCMC x1 / LCMT x1 / LCS x2 / LKL x2 / YM x2 / YMO x2 / YMM x4 (Specific models vary by constructing service)
Designer/Creator K. Knopf for RMN/GSN Joint Ship Development Office
RMN BuShips Weapons Design Board/GSN Office of Shipbuilding
Notes This ship is designed to serve as an escort/consort for the Honor Harrington-class SDP. It does not have any integral missile pod launch facilities, but the fire control systems are designed to control up to 150 pods after they are put into space by a Harrington SDP. The missile armament is relatively light, but the energy armament is correspondingly heavy (fortress-grade) to provide a “close-in punch” in the clean-up role. The grav lance has a complete back-up system installed to reduce the cyclic recharge time.
In order to increase the ship’s survivability in pointblank-range combat, the normal SD armor protection is doubled over the ship’s sides, and the top and underside carry armor equivalent to the flank armor of an RMN Bellerophon-class DN. Sidewall generators and radiation and particle shielding are approximately 15% stronger than the normal outfit of the GSN Benjamin the Great-class SD.
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