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The Roland class

HMS Gawain in the novels

Pearls of Wisdom Weber about the Roland class

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A Chanson-class destroyer. This is an older and much smaller Manticoran destroyer class.

HMS Gawain (DD-480), a Roland-class destroyer in the Royal Manticoran Navy, commissioned 1921 PD

• Mass: 188,560 tons
• Crew: 62
• Max Acceleration:
  • Normal: 590 gravities
  • Military: 780 gravities
• Armament:
  • Missiles: Mark 16 (two-stage MDM)
  • Chase:
    • 2 grasers each fore and aft (4 total)
    • 6 missile tubes each fore and aft (12 total), with capacity of 240 missiles
  • Broadside:
    • 5 lasers each port and starboard (10 total)
  • Defensive weapons:
    • Countermissile tubes: 20, with capacity of 800 missiles
    • Point-defense Laser clusters: 30



• Mark 16 Multi-Drive Missile:
  • The standard two-stage capital MDM (multi-drive missile), used by light units (such as Roland-class destroyers), that are too small to launch the larger Mark 23, three-stage, missiles.
  • Typical warhead: Laser head
  • Mass: 94 tons
  • Terminal velocity: 0.83c

  • 	Acceleration	Maximum Powered Missile Envelope
    Maximum Acceleration	96,000 G	15 million km
    Half Acceleration	48,000 G	63 million km