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The Nike class

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A Nike-class battlecruiser.

HMS Musashi (BC-775), a Nike-class battlecruiser in the Royal Manticoran Navy, commissioned ca. 1919 PD

• Mass: about 2,500,000 tons
• Crew: 750
• Max Acceleration:
  • Normal: 540 gravities
  • Military: 700 gravities
• Armament:
  • Missiles: Mark 16 (two-stage MDM), total magazine capacity of 6,000 missiles
  • Broadside:
    • 14 grasers each port and starboard (28 total)
    • 25 missile tubes each port and starboard (50 total)
  • Defensive weapons:
    • Countermissile tubes: 60
    • Point-defense Laser clusters: 60



• Mark 16 Multi-Drive Missile:
  • The standard two-stage capital MDM (multi-drive missile), used by lighter units (such as Nike-class battlecruisers), 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

The Reliant class battlecruiser HMS Nike (BC-413), precursor to the Nike class battlecruiser HMS Nike (BC-562)