Talk:AFOH/@comment-14850713-20170211111928

IC:

The Fleet has commissioned a new class of surface combatant, the Austerlitz-class stealth battleships. Armed with 3 triple 46cm guns, 2 Mk 14 triple 203mm DP guns, 3 Mk 19 mod 2 laser CIWS and 288 Hyperion missiles in 12 Mk 72 VLS clusters. An upgrade from the Mk 70 and now replacing it throughout the fleet (depending on available vessel space), the Mk 72 has a revolving magazine per tube each with 6 reloads, allowing for greater missile capacity. They are equipped with the Tiger Arc detection system, and embark 3 Falken gunships or 6 Shadow drones as ASW/ASuW/recon platforms. The ships' heavy armor enables them to remain with the battle line, something which cannot be done with the Lysander large AAW cruisers.

The Austerlitz and its sister-ships will be built in large numbers (with up to 60 planned) and will carry the brunt of the anti-aerospace ship mission, replacing or supplementing the ''Normandie'-class battlecruisers. To lower the cost per vessel, the steel/composite deckhouse is unarmored and non-load-bearing, with all systems housed in the armored superstructure within. The Tiger Arc arrays, for example, are not mounted on the deckhouse like the Lysanders but are instead mounted on 2 spherical antennae. This enables the superstructure to be fully enclosed in Next Phantom advanced stealth/near cloak panels. The hull has alternating straight and tumble home sides to scatter radio and electro-magnetic waves. In any case, the Austerlitz are not designed to be near-invisible like the Lysanders and Courbet stealth destroyers but just to be inconspicuous in the battle line.