Sevastopol Carrier

From Autonomicon Mk. II

Sevastopol-class carrier Production information Manufacturer Red October Interstellar Designs Ulyanovsk Shipbuilding, Izhevsk Mechanical Works Class Carrier Technical specifications Length 3485m Width 1488m Engine unit(s) ROI-8754a Ion Thrusters FTL Drive Sakharov Drive Armament 60 x AK-880 Defence Guns 25 x Makarov Flak 45mm Cannon 6 x 9K80 Anti-Fighter Missile Launchers 25 x SV-10 Torpedo Tubes 40 x 3M90 Anti-Ship Missiles Complement Carrier Fighter Aviation Regiment Carrier Bomber Aviation Regiment Crew 300 Officers 4000 Support Personnel 3200 Aerospace Aviation 1000 Marines(Minimum) 100 Spetznaz Guards(Minimum) Usage Year introduced 2269 Role(s) Fleet Carrier Fire Support Era(s) Post Colonization Period Affiliation Soviet Union

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Overview

Designed in 2271, the Sevastopol-class heavy capital carrier was the final Soviet capital design directly stemming from the New Century Initiative. Escalations with the Reich meant that cruisers were typically fielded in most skirmishes, most of which carried a small assortment of strike craft. Fielding capital ships was seen as unnecessary when their very existence was a deterrent, but nonetheless the Navy decided it needed a dedicated carrier.

The Sevastopol utilized its decks in a two-fold manner. The traditional arrangement was that each "runway" would lower inside the ship and be sealed. The fighters would then be rolled and sometimes carried onto the deck under reduced gravity, manned and fueled, and then all personnel evacuated and the deck raised into space.

In battle, Sevastopol class carriers would often keep the seals unlocked so that the deck could be lowered while still open to space, allowing squadrons to land on a piece of the runway, lowered, and rearmed and repaired via tracked robotic arms from a remote console, all without exposing any crew to vacuum or waiting for the seals to close and reopen.

This also had the added benefit of allowing the (thrust-vectored) strike craft to simply VTOL out of the deck: with the traditional model, the fighters' engines were exposed to highly oxygenated atmosphere and could not be activated until the seals were closed.

The Sevastopol served with distinction during the closing months of German-Soviet border wars.

Operational History

• Soviet-German Border Wars
• Third Scinfaxi War