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The Nike class


Nike Class Battlecruiser

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

Nike BC-413

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


 

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