VEHICLE TYPE:

Submersible aircraft carrier.

CREW:

196 ships' officers, 2800 ships' men, 500 airgroup. Total crew 3496 men. Life support capability for an additional 2500 men in an emergency.

MECHA COMPLEMENT:

RDF (multi-purpose configuration):

8 Defender 23 Tomahawk 35 Spartan 6 Phalanx 39 VF-1 (all types) 30 Dragon/UF-14 jet fighters 15 Avenger attack aircraft 3 Cat's Eye or VF-1E reconnaissance craft 10 QF-3000 Drone fighters 15 Commanchero assault helicopters 11 Sea Sergeant ASW helicopters

RDF (aircraft carrier configuration):

26 Spartan 130 VF-1 (all types) 15 Cat's Eye or VF-1E reconnaissance craft 10 QF-3000 Drone fighters 11 Sea Sergeant ASW helicopters

PROPULSION:

6 Westinghouse geared turbines on six shafts. Total shaft hp: 650,000.

PERFORMANCE:

40 knots maximum speed on the surface. 14 knots maximum speed submerged. Maximum operational depth 250 meters. Maximum emergency depth 300 meters.

MAXIMUM RANGE:

Nuclear generators will function for 25 years. Stores and life support available for 14 months.

DIMENSIONS:

LENGTH: 512 meter (oa). HEIGHT: 70 meter. WIDTH : 91 meter. DISPLACEMENT: Surfaced displacement: 263,000 tons. Submerged displacement: 377,000 tons.

MAIN ENGINE:

3 Rolls-Royce PWR-8 or General Electric D19W nuclear fission reactors, 250,000 hp. each.

WEAPON SYSTEMS:

12 Bofors RLT-2 twin barreled laser turrets line the deck edges. They can shoot pulses of 15 MJ laser energy every 3.75 seconds, or can fire 300 kJ pulses at 800 rounds/minute. Fully automatic control. 12 missile launchers for General Dynamics and Euromissile Warhawk cruise missiles. Each missile is a long range (5 km to 2800 km) Mach 3.0 combined multi-spectrum imager and active radar homing Reflex missile. Each launcher has 10 missiles ready for fire, and 4 reloads in the storage bunkers below decks. Total of 600 missiles. Launchers can fire under water. 12 missile bins for Bae Rapier IV quick-reaction missiles. Each bin contains 8 high-explosive, short range (15m to 3.2 km) Mach 3.0 combined infra-red imager and active radar homing 120 mm missiles. There are 37 reloads for each missile bin, for 3648 missiles. 8 76.2 cm forward torpedo tubes. Can fire Honeywell mk48 series 8 torpedoes. Storage capacity for 88 torpedoes maximum.

SPECIAL EQUIPMENT:

2 two man minisubs. 2 six man minisubs. 2 Searcher underwater salvage craft. 24 one person underwater cycles.