Talk:AFOH/@comment-14850713-20171101165641

OOC: I'm back here until things get going in Galaxies.

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Old Hybrid City

With the success of Operation Rubicon, the Earth Defense Force (EDF) has been given the green light by High Command to commence development of new weapons systems. While the ones assigned to the Southern African Union (SAU) have performed adequately, they are deemed to light or lacking in firepower to missions defined as necessary by the EDF.

Aerospace Ships

With production in the Zeus super-factories in full-swing, the Aerospace Fleet has again reorganized the ship designations. As more Rocrois are commissioned, they are redesignated as aerospace destroyers, finally replacing the aging Themis and Scimitar frigates and Venom destroyers.

Surface Ships

Due to the area it has to defend and the vast distance from the Home Planet, the EDF Navy emphasized multi-mission capabilities for it's new ships, thus going back to AFOH's hybrid warship roots. The new Fontenoy stealth battlecruisers and Strasbourg large cruisers bear this out.

The Fontenoys are trimarans armed with 9 x 46cm guns in 3 triple turrets, 8 VLS with 128 Hyperion ASMs, 2 x 127mm Mk 90 DP guns and 4 x 40mm Bofors CIWS. They embark up to 24multi-role fighters or support craft. The embark the latest AFOH multi-faceted detection system dubbed Tiger Eye. (Tiger Eye was the old designation of AFOH's land-based radar system, which became Tiger Arc after it was combined with the sea and aerospace-based Advanced Air & Missile Defense Radar. With the integration of the Dragon Eye anti-cloak system, the High Command has simplified the name back to Tiger Eye.)

The Strasbourgs provide the same offensive capabilities as the Fontenoys in a more conventional and lightly armored package. It embarks a similar-sized air wing, and is armed with 8 x 38cm guns in 2 quadruple turrets, 8 VLS in a central cluster with 128 Hyperions, 8 x 203cm DP guns and 3 x 76mm Oto Melara Ultra Rapid CIWS. These ships are designed to perform multiple cruiser roles currently filled by different types, like AAW (Lysander and La Motte-Picquet classes), multi-role guided missile escort (Type 81 and Project 25 classes) and general purpose (Panzerschiff series), using a more austere version of Tiger Eye.

To perform littoral combat missions and frigate roles, High Command chose to revive an old but reliable design, using the Independence/La Fayette as basis for the Prairal trimaran escorts. Unlike the La Fayettes with their primary escort/attack armament load out, the Prairals harken back to the original LCS concept. Lightly armored and designed for cheap mass production, they are nevertheless heavily-armed for their size, with 1 VLS with 16 Harpoon ASMs, 1 x 127mm Mk 90 DP gun, 1 X 76mm Oto Melara and 2 x 40mm Bofors CIWS. They can embark up to 2 Super Chinooks, 2 Cormorant VTOL planes, 2 Falken VTOL gunships or 4 Shadow drones, and can fit an Air Cushion Assault Craft (ACAC) in the well deck.