Fukiya-class Air-Droppable XLUUV
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Dimensions:
Length: 16/26 meters
Height: 2.6 meters to roof
Weight: 35/45 tons
Crush depth: 3 km
Speed: 3 knots cruise, 8 knots max
Range: Total range 10,500 km
Sensors: SONAR, EO/IR when surfaced, SATCOM when surfaced
Armament: A variable load package 10 or 20 m long
Propulsion: Hybride LiPo batteries + diesel engine
Price: $10 million
DPR: 10 billion
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Background: Due to the continuous need for long-range submarine operations, vastly exceeding the capability of the Sovereign Duchy of Snoghosia to maintain submarines, Eirin Maritime Shipyards worked to develop a cheap, ultra-long-range, stealthy UUV platform. The resulting platform made use of recycled lithium and electronics to produce, while not requiring the use of Eirin Maritime Shipyards’ limited platforms.
The solution was, in the end, simple: a small, unmanned, drone submarine, equipped with a hybrid air-independent propulsion system, which made use of advances in battery technology and fuel efficiency to achieve a true interregional range. Most of the Fukiya’s body is a compartment for modular systems that can be installed at the user’s choice - advanced sensors, mines, cruise missiles or torpedoes - or alternately cargo meant for clandestine or discrete delivery, or even fold-out manipulators for complex sea-floor missions.
Lacking the need for life support functions for human beings, and being extremely small compared to most manned platforms (by comparison, the submersibles used in the First World War were more than 20 times heavier than the Fukiya), the Fukiya has been engineered to be extremely pressure-tolerant, capable of diving down to 3,000 meters.
An advanced computer system enables the Fukiya to receive complex instructions, either by programming that is offloaded to its systems before launch, updated during brief SATCOM communications sessions or received by sonar transmissions.
A substantial limitation of using the Fukiya is that it achieves its fuel efficiency by being comparatively slow (less than 10% the speed of an aircraft carrier, about 1/8 of the speed of a cruise liner). As such, we recommend deploying the ship by means of a mothership - a larger submarine, a surface mothership, or by aircraft.
Layout: The main version of the Fukiya comes with a compartment that is 20 meters long, while the compact version (Fukiya-C) houses a 10-meter long weapons compartment. Like in most other UUVs and submarines, the nose of the Fukiya is equipped with a passive/active sonar.
Fukiya-S: (Strike Fukiya) - In this configuration, the payload compartment on Fukiya is filled entirely with aluminized RDX. The robot submarine then uses its active sonar, or its navigation systems, to steer itself towards the target and detonate its payload, acting essentially as an enormous (albeit slow) torpedo.
Airdropping: The signature delivery method (advertised at the start of this document!) is by airdropping. The Fukiya and Fukiya-C make use of specialized Tsubasa airdrop platform, which is a combination of a multi-dome extracting parachute system and a series of braking SRBs. In this mission profile, the aircraft carrying the submarine flies as low and possible and opens its rear ramp (or, in the case of the rare aircraft capable of carrying the Fukiya externally, detaches the cargo), at which point the submarine is rapidly extracted from the aircraft, the parachutes open and the solid rocket boosters fire. The platform is design to detach upon successful descent.
The solution was, in the end, simple: a small, unmanned, drone submarine, equipped with a hybrid air-independent propulsion system, which made use of advances in battery technology and fuel efficiency to achieve a true interregional range. Most of the Fukiya’s body is a compartment for modular systems that can be installed at the user’s choice - advanced sensors, mines, cruise missiles or torpedoes - or alternately cargo meant for clandestine or discrete delivery, or even fold-out manipulators for complex sea-floor missions.
Lacking the need for life support functions for human beings, and being extremely small compared to most manned platforms (by comparison, the submersibles used in the First World War were more than 20 times heavier than the Fukiya), the Fukiya has been engineered to be extremely pressure-tolerant, capable of diving down to 3,000 meters.
An advanced computer system enables the Fukiya to receive complex instructions, either by programming that is offloaded to its systems before launch, updated during brief SATCOM communications sessions or received by sonar transmissions.
A substantial limitation of using the Fukiya is that it achieves its fuel efficiency by being comparatively slow (less than 10% the speed of an aircraft carrier, about 1/8 of the speed of a cruise liner). As such, we recommend deploying the ship by means of a mothership - a larger submarine, a surface mothership, or by aircraft.
Layout: The main version of the Fukiya comes with a compartment that is 20 meters long, while the compact version (Fukiya-C) houses a 10-meter long weapons compartment. Like in most other UUVs and submarines, the nose of the Fukiya is equipped with a passive/active sonar.
Fukiya-S: (Strike Fukiya) - In this configuration, the payload compartment on Fukiya is filled entirely with aluminized RDX. The robot submarine then uses its active sonar, or its navigation systems, to steer itself towards the target and detonate its payload, acting essentially as an enormous (albeit slow) torpedo.
Airdropping: The signature delivery method (advertised at the start of this document!) is by airdropping. The Fukiya and Fukiya-C make use of specialized Tsubasa airdrop platform, which is a combination of a multi-dome extracting parachute system and a series of braking SRBs. In this mission profile, the aircraft carrying the submarine flies as low and possible and opens its rear ramp (or, in the case of the rare aircraft capable of carrying the Fukiya externally, detaches the cargo), at which point the submarine is rapidly extracted from the aircraft, the parachutes open and the solid rocket boosters fire. The platform is design to detach upon successful descent.
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