The Xar'zith class was the RIRN’s first home-built medium/heavy carrier design. All RIRN fighters are capable of being deployed from Xar'zith class HCSNs, from the ageing but still effective Tempest, to the large Nota'Man submarine superiority fighter. This makes the Xar'zith a flexible carrier asset, although it predominantly uses these forces in a supporting role.
The Xar'Zith are commonly equipped with purpose-built weapons bays that house either a single eight-tube rotary launcher or a larger, fourteen-round torpedo rack. These bays are fully capable of launching any HQLT 24-inch munitions, including SM-14/AF ‘Spine’ anti-fighter torpedoes, SM-9/ASW 'Elghinn Zotreth' (Death Strike) torpedoes, or even SSC-30 Qu'mados Barra (Sea Shadow) Cruise Missiles.
What sets the Xar'Zith class apart from its shared hull contemporaries, is its set of twin Sub-duction particle cannons. A weapon that can eat away at the molecular bonds of enemy hulls and delivered via a pulse type detonation that results in an impressive and devastating shockwave.
General Specifics
Class: Xar'zith (Ice) Class Submarine Heavy Cruiser
Acronym: HCSN
Keel Laid: Xar'zith HCSN-01: 1994
Launched: Xar'zith HCSN-01: 1995
Crew Complement: Approximately 300 (Includes approximately 50 officers and 250 enlisted.)
Submerged Displacement: 34,500 Tonnes
Crush Depth: 2,965 meters
Computer System:HQLT VII-Network
Hull Composition:
Titanium double hull supported by a reinforced composite steel frame, hull covered by an HQLT Type-2 hull skin and ceramic armour.
Type 2 Hull Skin:
The effects and advantages of this type of the type 2 hull skin are diverse. The skin is not smooth, and is covered in many almost microscopic cells that create vorticies in the water surrounding a ship at speed, much like the skin of sharks. This has the cumulative result of reducing drag at high speeds, and protects the hull from the effects of cavitation. Additionally, the skin is sound-attenuating in much the same fashion as acoustic tiles used in earlier vessels, helping to reduce the visibility of the submarine through typical sonar-based sensors.
Despite these advantages, the skin does not share the same remarkable regenerative traits of the more advanced genetically engineered hull skins on vessels constructed after it. While the later hull skins of are designed to rapidly regrow from wear and tear (and does so with a minimal of scarring and lasting damage) The Type 2 grow only at a 'standard' rate of what might be expected from normal flesh. (And is thus almost useless as a damage control measure.) A side-effect of this is that Type 2 hull skins tend to damage fairly easily when exposed to marine evironments - barnacles and weapons fire alike mean that the skins develop callous, uneven surfaces that have to be periodically re-grafted if the ship is to remain at peak performance.
Sensors:
Internal: Hypersonar; active and passive sensor suites
Effective Range : Approximately 350 nautical miles
External Sensors: Towed passive sonar array
(Range dependant on ocean condtions)
- Standard Armaments
(20) 24-inch forwards firing tubes (fwd & midships)
(2) variable weapons bays (Forward)
(SSC-30) Qu'mados Barra (Sea Shadow) Cruise Missiles can be launched from weapon bays.
- Sub-Duction Cannon Systems
Mode: discharges of 0.6"-1.2"
Power/Feeding requirements: 1980 Terawatts (1980 e12 Watt) for the twin barrels
Range(effective): 3,000 km
Rate of fire: Maximum, 4 discharge/minute, standard 2 discharge/minute
Nominal bore: 6 meters (barrel bore, 9 meters)
Energy for each shot/discharge: 51,510 Terajoules (51510e12 joule, 12.3 Megatons)
Defensive Systems:
Limited stocks of Spine Anti-fighter torpedoes
ECM Packages and Noise Makers
Propulsion:
1 RVC PFR-3 Reactor, powering 4 Aqua-return drives.
Maximum Speed: 55 knots
Cruising Speed: 33 knots
Dimensions:
Length: 230 meters (754.6 feet)
Beam: 58 meters (190.3 feet)
Height: 23 meters (75.4 feet)
EVA Assets:
36 fighters (various)
8 other vessels
(April 2000 deployment: 12 kiynteyh heavy subfighters, 12 Nota'Man subfighters, 12 Dasbacd subfighters, 1 Mk2 DSRV, 5 kiynteyh gunships, 2 Dauphin troop transport shuttles)
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