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Stealth frigate

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Class: Stealth Frigate / Prototype

Description:

An arrow shaped spaceship, inspired by the old earthen Blackbird plane, with two larger engine compartments in its wings and cut down rudders on top of them for limited aeronautical purposes. The hull is painted in a mix of blue and black, which was chosen to limit its optical visibility, while soft curves scatter radar and other targeting techniques. It is quite large for a common stealth frigate, being almost 140 meters in length and sixty in width. Its height, at twenty-five meters, is lower than normal for frigates, while the wings measure two and a half meters in thickness and end with only less than half a meter at its tips

Crew:

Bridge: 4
Engine: 6
Medical: 2
Marines/Security: 5
Science: 3
Weapon: 6
Others/Guests: 2 + (4)

Engine:

Two graviton stealth engines which were modified to reduce the number of crew needed to operate them as efficiently as possible and automate the repair of larger parts. This in combination with several maneuver thrusters all around the ship provide this ship with greater agility than anything in its class, even smaller crafts.

It's FTL engine in the back of the main body allows travels of forty to forty two light years per jump, while masking it's exit and entry to a great degree.

Armor and countermeasures:

Armor was reduced below advised thickness, freeing space for increased load capacity and allowing larger crew quarters and other critical installations, such as the science lab or a larger arsenal. Countermeasures mostly are within the normal parameters with electronic baits for guided missiles and a medium graviton shield against incoming fire.

Weapons:

It features six forward facing rail guns and two missile bays which are able to deploy missiles in a window of ten seconds. The rail guns are able to fire in a burst of two to three rounds, allowing shoots every twelve seconds. Its possible damage through burst fire lays about the average possibility for most ships in the known galaxy, but below the average for constant fire rates.

Missiles are standard issued and widely available, with shield breakers on the one hand and normal laser missiles on the other. The rounds for the rail guns too are standard in size, but allow a faster velocity though a special material compound which increases their kinetic damage way above the possibilities of normal rail guns. The penetration is enough for cruisers and smaller battleships, though doesn't manage to penetrate through the thick hull of dreadnoughts or medium sized battleships.

Overall combat expectation and main field of operation:

Close combat is close to suicide for this ship. Even fighter sized rail guns are able to penetrate the armor after the shield is gone. Agility and hit and run maneuvers are the most promising tactics to attack an unsuspecting target, denying it the chance to react to the attack and reducing the time it can return fire. Stealth capacities allow it to sneak past most barriers and even allows low velocity landings on the surface of planets, making it an excellent long range scout.
A starship design I came up a while ago. Don't know why I never posted it before, though better late than never.
The idea for it came while I wrote down what I wanted to do with my new story at the beginning, which was quite different to what it is now and this was more or less the story ship and home of the main characters. Wouldn't work now naturally and I'm looking for what I could use it now.

And thanks again to :iconbes1919t: for error correction
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A good design, one that could have a closely knit crew type of story written for/about it.