Alaska class cruiser
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 KMV Alaska |
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| Class overview | |
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| Name: | Alaska-Class |
| Builders: | Port Walreich Shipyards |
| Operators: |  Belkan Kaiserliche Marine Middle East Coalition Navy |
| Preceded by: | Capitol-Class CG |
| Succeeded by: | Prinz Eugen class heavy cruiser |
| Cost: | $2,300,000,000 USD |
| Building: | 4 |
| Planned: | 47 |
| Completed: | 18 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Heavy Cruiser |
| Length: | 242.8m |
| Beam: | 18.6m |
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| Speed: | 28 Knots |
| Range: | Unlimited |
| Complement: | 162 Officers & Sailors |
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| Aircraft carried: | 2 Helicopters & 1 Rotary UAV |
| Aviation facilities: | Stern Helipad |
Developed as part of Hypersphere Technologies Ltd.'s Stealth Fleet Initiative(SFI), the Alaska-Class Heavy Guided Missile Stealth Cruiser fills the Cruiser need in the SFI. It is currently used by the Belkan Kaiserliche Marine and the Birkainian-backed Middle East Coalition(MEC).
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Armament
The Alaska-Class is named after the famous WWII era Heavy Cruiser (or Battlecruiser depending on your source), and like its namesake, it’s big on bruising. With 272 Strike-Length Mk. 57 VLS Cells and a backup of 2 Twin Gun 11" Stealth Mounts, the Alaska-Class is a true Cruiser, unlike most modern Cruisers, which are just glorified Destroyers. Nor is it defenseless, using the 25mm Linebacker CIWS and ESSMs, the Alaska can fend off any missile or aircraft that comes close to the ship. And with its stealth design, missiles will have a harder time to lock on to the Alaska.
Sensors
To guide the missiles & aim the guns, the Alaska uses a special Phased Array Radar developed from the SPY-3 that is also used on the Alaska. It’s called the Long Range Detection & Attack Radar (LRDAR), its function is as the name states is to detect enemy forces and guide the weapons to the target at ultra long ranges, up to 350 to 400 miles away. Its resolution is very high for the ranges it sees with it being a ship-based radar; it has been used by the Belkan Kaiserliche Marine to detect ground targets during shore bombardment missions in Operation Round Hammer.
Power Source
Powering the Alaska is a Nuka-Tech Birkaine designed C3N Pressurized Water Reactor. Generating 115 Megawatts (MWs) of electricity, it has more than enough power to run all the power hungry electronics that the ship relies upon to fight, just the LRDAR by itself takes up 51 MWs of power to run. However, even with all the power hungry electronics, there’s enough power left to upgrade the ship with newer weapons in the future such as Directed Energy Weapons and Railguns.
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