Battleship Sale: Standard (per the Anunia Convention)

[Austi_Scot]

Standard Battleship = 5,000 Strength (per the Anunia Convention based on the USS Iowa)
Full Complement = 2,788 (151 officers, 2637 enlisted) (additional)
Standard Battleship with full complement: per the The Anunia Convention - 7,800 strength including air personnel (no helicopters)
Helicopters are additional: 60 strength each.
The standard Battleship can carry 4 multi-purpose helicopters, for an additional 240 strength.
Helicopters are configured for logistical support and search and rescue missions.

Usual Crew: 134 officers and 2,400 enlisted

[col=#40FF00]Note: Other battleships are rated higher or lower according to this standard.[/color]

Statistics: 5,000 strength Battleship
Based on (USS Iowa, with moderate anti-air defences and conventionally powered)
Displacement - Standard: 45,000 Long tons
Displacement - full load: 58,000 Long Tons
Length: 887'3"
Beam: 108'2"
Draft: 37'9"
Speed: 33 knots
Mean Draught: 28 Feet 11 Inches
Max. Draught: 36 Feet 2 Inches
Original Engine Manufacturer: General Electric Geared Turbines
Designed Shaft Torque: 212,000 Horsepower
Propulsion system: eight boilers, four geared turbines
Propellers: four
Original Fuel: Oil (2,121,900 Gallons)
Maximum Armor Thickness: 18" At Turret Face Plates
Armor:
Belt: 12.1 in (307 mm)
Bulkheads: 11.3 in (287 mm)
Barbettes: 11.6 to 17.3 in (295 to 439 mm)
Turrets: 19.7 in (500 mm)
Decks: 7.5 in (190 mm)

Armament:(Main Battery): (3 turrets - crew of 77-94 men per turret to operate)
The Mark 38 Gun Fire Control System (GFCS) is the primary Fire Control System.
Nine 16" (406 mm) 50cal. Mark 7 guns - (3 guns per turret - barrel life of roughly 290-350 rounds)
(hit targets nearly 20 miles (32 km) away) (designed for anti-ship or bombardment work)
They fire projectiles weighing from 1,900 to 2,700 pounds (850 to 1,200 kg) at a maximum speed of 2,690 ft/s (820 m/s) up to 20 (39 km). At maximum range the projectile spends almost 1½ minutes in flight.

Armament: (Secondary Guns):
Mark 37 Gun Fire Control Systems (GFCS) is the primary Fire Control System for the Secondary Battery.
(12) 5" (127 mm) 38 Cal. Twin Mounts, Mark 12 guns :
(hit targets nearly 9 miles (14 km) away with solid projectiles or proximity fused shells, and are equally adept in an anti-aircraft role and for damaging smaller ships)
(15) 40mm Quadruple Mounts:
(60) 20mm Single Mounts
Up to twelve 50 caliber machine guns can be mounted.

Land Attack Missiles:
(32) BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missiles (2 platforms)
(8) MK 143 Armoured Box Launcher System (ABLS):
Each Armored Box Launcher carries four missiles, and each battleship is outfitted with eight canisters, enabling the Iowa-class to carry and fire a total of 32 Tomahawk missiles.
(80)40 mm 56 cal. anti-aircraft guns:


Anti-air defenses:
(4) 20 mm/76 cal. Phalanx CIWS mounts, (Phalanx Close in Weapon System) "see-whiz"
See-Whiz utilizes a 20 mm M61 Vulcan gatling gun to destroy enemy missiles and aircraft that manage to escape anti-missile and anti-aircraft missiles fired from friendly ships. The Phalanx guns work by using a search radar and a tracking radar to follow targets that come within 1 to 1.5 nautical miles (2.8 km).

(20) quad Bofors 40 mm gun mounts for Bofors 40 mm anti-aircraft gun:
Interchangeable ammunition, which simplifies the logistics, and coupled with electric-hydraulic drives for greater speed and the Mark 51 Director for improved accuracy.

Anti-ship missile:
(16) RGM-84 Harpoon Anti-Ship missiles (4 Harpoon missile magazines)
The system consists of four Mk 141 "shock-hardened" quad cell launchers designed to carry and fire the McDonnell Douglas RGM-84 Harpoon anti-ship missile. Each Harpoon is placed in one of four Mk 141 launchecated alongside the aft stack; eight per side, in two pods of four. The weight of the Harpoon at firing is 1,530 lb (690 kg), which includes a booster weighing about 362 lb (164 kg). The cruising speed is 0.87 Mach and the maximum range is 64 nautical miles (nm) in Range and Bearing Launch mode and 85 nm in Bearing Only Launch mode. Uses the AN/SWG-1 Harpoon Fire Control System.

Electronic warfare suites. (EW)
Involves the use of EM or directed energy (DE) to control the EMS or to attack the enemy. EW includes three major subdivisions: electronic attack (EA), Electronic Protect (EP), and electronic warfare support (ES). The purpose of EW is to deny the opponent an advantage in the EM spectrum and ensure friendly unimpeded access to the EM spectrum portion of the information environment.

Aircraft carried:
No hangar, but parking area for four multi-purpose helicopters (optional and additional)

[Aurangzeb Khan]

The MK 143 refers to the Armoured Box Launcher System (ABLS) and not the BGM-109 Tomahawk, which has no anti-air capability and neither has the MK 141 Harpoon Launcher which fires the AGM-84D Harpoon, an anti-ship missile. These are offensive not defensive weapons systems and should be labelled accordingly.

[Austi_Scot]

Thank you - I'll look again at my resources and make the necessary corrections.

Would you consider a position as a consultant?

[Aurangzeb Khan]

Well its a quiet week/month/year (delete as appropriate) - so why not. Will there be remuneration?