Sidewinder Refuges Factbook

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Sidewinder Refuges
Nation Age: 0 years
Independence: 14 July 2010 Earth Calendar

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Vital Statistics:

Population: 709,000,000
GDP: $4,216,029,879,919.20 USD
GDP Per Capita: $5,946.45 USD
Government Budget: $3,375,013,804,260.00 USD
Defense Budget: $745,203,047,980.61 USD (24% of Government Budget)

"Meta-Gaming" Information:

Political Situation: Dictatorship (In transition to Democracy)
After several years since the founding of Sidewinder Refuges, the leadership believes that the population is mature enough to govern itself. The country is now in the fragile process of ensuring a smooth transfer of power to the people.

Cabinet:

Head of State and Government: Aigre-Excalibur
- Jingoistic Political Structure, with the military as the centerpiece of the state.

Minister of Foreign Affairs: Jonathan Archer (Adapted from Star-Trek Enterprise)
- Actively seeks out new races and cultures
- Interventionist

Armaments Minister:


Major Industries:

GDP Composition by Sector:

Exports - Commodities:

Imports - Commodities:

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OOC: Nation re-activated as of 14/02/2011.

I'll be re-organising my factbook and financial information.

Hopefully, I'll be fit for war in a few weeks.

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Military Budget

Available annual funds: $745,203,047,980.61

Expenditure: $6,149,000,000.00

Wastage:

Weapon Stockpiles:

None at the moment.
Orders:
Carrier Group from Jailpuren Defence Industries for $3,489,000,000 (Confirmed)
Aerocraft and Bulk National Re-Armament Package from Haruspex International Armaments (Pending)
Small Arms order from Jailpuren Defence Industries (Pending)

Active Military Divisions:

First Expeditionary Carrier Air Group

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Military Doctrines
In Development

Manpower Policy:

All personnel are signed on with a contract amounting to $250,000.00 Universal Standard Dollars a year. This is equivalent to modern mid-level or journeyman mercenary pay.

Salary Packages in the Sidewinder Refuges military does not scale upwards with rank. Promotion and the in-statement of office is based on performance in training and in the battlefield

Our Military Bases also provide comfortable accommodations, services and schools for our military personnel and their families.

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First Expeditionary Carrier Air Group

Acquisition Orders:
Hardware from Jalipur Industries ($3,489,000,000)

Total Manpower: 10640
Costs: $2,660,000,000.00 (At 250,000.00 Per Man Contract)

Additional Weapon Systems:

Total Costs: $6,149,000,000.00

7 Capital ships consisting of:

3 Naseby Class Carriers

Displacement: 65,600 metric tons (72,300 short tons) (full load)

Length: 284 metres (932 ft)
Beam: 39 metres (waterline)
73 metres overall
[Draught: 11 metres
Decks: 16,000 square metres
Speed: 25+ knots
Range: 10,000 nautical miles (18,520 km)

4 Plessey Class Multi Role Cruisers

General characteristics
Class and type: Plessey Class Air Defence, Reliance Class Land Attack
Type: Multi-mission Cruiser, emphasis on land attack
Displacement: 14,564 long tons (14,798 t)[2]
Length: 900 ft (180 m)
Beam: 110.7 ft (24.6 m)
Draft: 51.6 ft (8.4 m)
Propulsion: 2 xNuclear reactors powering gas turbines and emergency diesel generators, 78 MW (105,000 shp)
Speed: In excess of 30 kn (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Complement: 140
Sensors and
processing systems: AN/SPY-3 Multi-Function Radar (MFR) (X-band, scanned array)[3]
Armament: • 40 × MK 57 VLS modules, comprising a total of 160 missiles
Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile (ESSM)
Tactical Tomahawk Vertical Launch Anti-Submarine Rocket (ASROC)
• 2 × 155 mm Advanced Gun System
920 × 155 mm rounds total; 600 in automated store + Auxiliary store room with up to 320 rounds (non-automatic)
70–100 LRLAP rounds planned as of 2010 of total
• 2 × Mk 110 57 mm gun (CIGS)
Aircraft carried: • One UH-77 Sea Vixen • Three MQ-8 Fire Scout VT-UAV[2]
Aviation facilities: Flight deck and enclosed hangar for up to two medium-lift helicopter

28 Screen Ships consisting of:

8 Tiger Class Destroyers

General characteristics
Type: Guided missile destroyer
Displacement: 7,500 tonnes[4]
(8,100 tonnes Full load)
(both figures are 'start of life')
Length: 152.4 m (500 ft)
Beam: 21.2 m (69.5 ft)
Draught: 7.4 m (16.4 ft)
Propulsion: 2 shafts Integrated Electric Propulsion;
2 Rolls-Royce WR-21 gas turbines (21.5 MW each)
2 Wärtsilä V12 VASA32 diesel generators (2 MW each)
2 Converteam electric motors (20 MW each)

Speed: 29+ knots
Range: 7,000 nautical miles (13,000 km) at 18 kn (33 km/h)
Complement: 190 (accommodation for up to 235)
Sensors and
processing systems: SAMPSON multi-function air tracking radar
S1850M 3-D air surveillance radar
2 x Raytheon I-band Radar
(Type 1047)
1 x Raytheon E/F-band Radar
(Type 1048)[6]
SML Technologies radar tracking system
MFS-7000 sonar

Armament: Provision for and fitted with;
1 x PAAMS Air Defence System SYLVER VLS of 48; (total of 48 anti air aster missiles)
Aster 15 missiles - short to medium range. (2-30kms)
Aster 30 missiles - long range missile. (3-120kms) Also anti ballistic capable.
1 x BAE Systems 4.5 inch Mk 8 Mod. 1 gun
2 x 30 mm guns
2 x Miniguns and up to 6 x General Purpose Machine Guns
Provision for but not fitted with;
2 x Quad Boeing AGM-84 Harpoon launchers (total of 8 harpoon missiles)
2 x Phalanx CIWS (to be fitted by 2011-2015)
BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missiles in VLS

Aircraft carried: 2x ASW tiltrotors

4 x anti ship missiles
2 x anti submarine torpedoes

Aviation facilities: Hangar & flightdeck

16 Orpheus Class Patrol Frigates

General characteristics
Type: command and support ships
Displacement: 6,600 tons full load
Length: 137.6 m (451 ft 5 in)
Beam: 19.5 m (64 ft 0 in)
Draft: 6.3 m (20 ft 8 in)
Propulsion: 2 x JDI 8000 M70 diesel engines
two shafts
22,300 brake horsepower (1.66×1010 mW)
Speed: Less than 24 kn (44 km/h)
Range: 9,000 nmi (17,000 km) at 15 kn (28 km/h)
Boats and landing
craft carried: 2 x RHIBs, 2 x Striker FAC
Complement: 100, plus aircrew and transients (accommodation for up to 300 in total)
Sensors and
processing systems: Thales SMART-S Mk2 3D volume search radar
Terma Scanter 2100 surface search radar
Atlas ASO 94 sonar
4 × Saab CEROS 200 fire control radars
ES-3701 Tactical Radar Electronic Support Measures (ESM)
Electronic warfare
and decoys: 4 × 12-barrelled Terma DL-12T 130 mm decoy launchers
2 × 6-barrelled Terma DL-6T 130 mm decoy launchers
Armament: 1 × 5"/62 caliber Mark 45 mod 4 gun
2 × Oerlikon Millennium 35 mm Naval Revolver Gun Systems CIWS
6 × 12.7 mm Heavy machine guns
MU90 Impact ASW torpedoes
VLS with up to 36 RIM-162 ESSM/RIM-7 Sea Sparrow (Mk 56/Mk 48 VLS)
3 x 2 × Stinger Point-defence SAM
8-16 × Harpoon Block II SSM
Aircraft carried: 2 × UH-77 helicopters
Aviation facilities: Aft helicopter deck and hangars

4 Centaur Class Very Fast Corvettes

General characteristics
Class and type: Centaur Class Very fast Corvette
Displacement: 2,176 tons light, 2,784 tons full, 608 tons deadweight
Length: 127.4 m (418 ft)
Beam: 31.6 m (104 ft)
Draft: 13 ft (3.96 m]
Propulsion: 2× JDI Power 20V 8000 Series diesel engines, 2x JDI Power LM2500 gas turbines, 2x JDI Power light weight multiple-section carbon fiber propulsion shaftlines, 4x Wärtsilä waterjets, retractable bow-mounted azimuth thruster, 4× diesel generators
Speed: 44 knots (51 mph; 81 km/h)
Range: 4,300 nm at 18 knots
Capacity: 210 metric tons (206 long tons, 231 short tons)
Complement: 40 core crew (8 officers, 32 enlisted) plus up to 35 mission crew
Sensors and
processing systems: JDI Electonics 3D air and surface search radar
Sperry Marine BridgeMaster E navigational radar
AN/KAX-2 electro-optical sensor with TV and FLIR
Integrated Combat Management System

Electronic warfare
and decoys: ITT Corporation ES-3601 ESM system
4× SRBOC decoy launchers for chaff and infrared decoys
BAE Systems NULKA active radar decoy system

Armament: 1x BAE Systems Mk 110 57 mm gun
VLS with up to 36 RIM-162 ESSM/RIM-7 Sea Sparrow (Mk 56/Mk 48 VLS) or Harpoon SSM
2x Mk44 Bushmaster II 30mm chain guns
1x SeaMantis CIWS
Other weapons as part of mission modules

Aircraft carried: 2× Tilt Rotor
MQ-8 Fire Scout

Carrier Air Group:

20 FA-21A Wyvern
(Modern High-Performance Strike-Fighter)

Crew: 2
Length: 62 ft 1 in (18.90 m)
Wingspan: 44 ft 6 in (13.56 m)
Height: 16 ft 8 in (5.08 m)
Wing area: 840 ft² (78.04 m²)
Airfoil: NACA 64A?05.92 root, NACA 64A?04.29 tip
Empty weight: 43,430 lb (19,700 kg)
Loaded weight: 64,460 lb (29,300 kg)
Max takeoff weight: 83,500 lb (38,000 kg)
Powerplant: 2× JDI Power F119-PW-100 Pitch Thrust vectoring turbofans
Dry thrust: 23,500 lb[190] (104 kN) each
Thrust with afterburner: 35,000+ lb[2][190] (156+ kN) each
Fuel capacity: 18,000 lb (8,200 kg) internally,or 26,000 lb (11,900 kg) with two external fuel tanks
Performance

Maximum speed:

At altitude: Mach 2.25 (1,500 mph, 2,410 km/h)[87]
Supercruise: Mach 1.82 (1,220 mph, 1,963 km/h)[87]
Range: 1,600 nmi (1,840 mi, 2,960 km) with 2 external fuel tanks
Combat radius: 410 nmi[187] (471 mi, 759 km)
Ferry range: 2,000 mi (1,738 nmi, 3,219 km)
Service ceiling: 65,000 ft (19,812 m)
Wing loading: 77 lb/ft² (375 kg/m²)
Thrust/weight: 1.08 (1.26 with loaded weight & 50% fuel)
Maximum design g-load: -3.0/+9.0 g[87]

Armament
Guns: 1× 20 mm (0.787 in) M61A2 Vulcan gatling gun in starboard wing root, 480 rounds
Air to air loadout:
6× AIM-120 AMRAAM
2× AIM-9 Sidewinder
Air to ground loadout:
2× AIM-120 AMRAAM and
2× AIM-9 Sidewinder for self-protection, and one of the following:
4× 1,000 lb (450 kg) JDAM or
12× 250 lb (110 kg) GBU-39 Small Diameter Bombs
Hardpoints: 4× under-wing pylon stations can be fitted to carry 600 US gallon drop tanks or weapons, each with a capacity of 5,000 lb (2,268 kg).[191][192]
Avionics


RWR (Radar warning receiver): 250 nmi (463 km) or more[96]
Radar: 125-150 miles (200-240 km) against 1 m2 (11 sq ft) targets (estimated range)[94]
Chemring MJU-39/40 flares for protection against IR missiles

40 GR-32 Sea Venom
(Vertical Take-Off Carrier Based Fighter)

General characteristics

Crew: 1/2
Length: 50.77 ft (15.47 m)
Wingspan: 36 ft (10.97 m)
Height: (5.28 m)
Wing area: 590 ft² (54.8 m²)
Max takeoff weight: 38,000 lb (17,200 kg)
Powerplant: 1× JDI Power F119-PW-100 Pitch Thrust vectoring turbofan
Dry thrust: 28,000 lbf (125 kN)
Thrust with afterburner: 43,000 lbf [8] (191 kN)
Performance

Maximum speed: Mach 1.6 (1,200 mph, 1,931 km/h) at altitude
Range on Land Based C/TOL: 850 NM (1,575 km)
Range on Carrier based C/TOL profile: 750 NM (1,390 km)
Range on V/STOL profile: 594 NM (1,100 km)
Armament


20 mm M61A2 cannon, or 27 mm Mauser BK-27 cannon
Internal: 6 AMRAAM air-air missiles or 2 AMRAAM air-air missiles and 2 x 2,000 lb (900 kg) class guided bombs
External: Approx. 15,000 lb (6,800 kg) of full range of external stores including guided weapons, anti-radiation missile, air-to-surface weapons, auxiliary fuel tanks