Krait class Frigate

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Krait class Frigate
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Fleet Escort
Type: CH Frigate
Category ACS
Size 1,000 Tons
Hull Configuration Close Structure Hull
Streamlining Partially Streamlined Hull
Tech Level TL–11
Engineering
Computer Model/2
Jump J-2
Maneuver 3 G
Armaments
Hardpoints 10
Accommodations
Staterooms 0
Personnel
Crew 27
    Officers 2
    Enlisted 25
    Marines 13
High/Mid Passengers 0
Payload
Cargo 1 Tons
Fuel tank 0 Tons
Construction
Origin Distant Fringe
Year Operational Unknown
End of Service Still in active service.
Price
Cost MCr847.833 (base)
MCr678.266 (qty)
Architect fee MCrRonald B. Kline, Jr.
Statistics
Quick Ship Profile CH-TBD
Images
Blueprint No
Illustration No
Source
Also see Frigate
Canon Published, fan design
Era 1105
Reference Fan: Ronald B. Kline, Jr.
Starships are designed with the Classic Traveller format, using High Guard Shipyard v1.13 written by Andrea Vallance.

The Krait class Frigate is a warship.

Description (Specifications)

The Krait class Frigate is a new design, built under contract for the Ras Tennol Forces. So far the trials and crew reactions have been less than enthusiastic. The partially streamlined close structure hull is very lightly armored. The weapon package is underwhelming. One of their only redeeming features, is their ability to be carried in place of the much more vicious Punisher class Light Battle Riders, aboard the Oni class Fleet Tenders, thus providing an extended range strike ability. This tactical concept is widely viewed as hopeful at best.

Image Repository

No information yet available.

General Description & Deck Plans

No information yet available.

Basic Ship Characteristics

Following the Imperial Navy and IISS Universal Ship Profile and data, additional information is presented in the format shown here. The small craft factor indicates the number of squadrons (...of ten subcraft) carried on the ship. Tonnage on the universal ship profile is shown in kilotons (...thousands of tons) where necessary. [1]

Basic Ship Characteristics [2]
No. Category Remarks
1. Tonnage The Krait class is constructed using a 1,000 Ton hull built in a close structure configuration. The hull is partially streamlined, allowing wilderness gas giant refueling which is a fleet requirement.
  • There are four airlocks located around the vessel. There is a 1 ton ship's locker.
2. Crew x27 personnel which includes the command pilot, navigator, 9 engineers, 1 medic, 2 gunners, and a section of 13 marines lead by a senior, non-commissioned officer.
  • x2 Officers, the commander and the XO.
  • x25 Enlisted, including 13 marines.

Accommodations

  • There are 14.5 Staterooms. All quarters except the captain's cabin are double occupancy.

Accessible areas of the hull are fitted with grav plates and inertial compensators and have full life support and environmental systems.

  • There are internal monitoring and security systems throughout the vessel. Individual sections of the hull can be sealed off.
  • There is a single ship's locker.
3. Performance The vessel mounts a Jump-2 drive, a Maneuver-3 drive, and a Power Plant-6, giving performance of Jump-2 and 3-G acceleration. The ship has an agility rating of 3. The internal fuel tankage is sufficient for two Jump-2s and gives the power plant 4 weeks duration.
  • The engineering section has a main control room.
    • Ladders, gantries and platforms give access to the machinery.
  • The jump drive utilizes a hull grid.
  • The jump drive is fitted with a jump governor.
4. Electronics Adjacent to the bridge is a Model/2 computer: no backup computer is installed.
  • There are multiple workstations and control points throughout the vessel.
  • The vessel is fitted with communications equipment, an advanced sensor array, and has an avionics suite.
  • It has a transponder unit that can be deactivated on command.
  • It is equipped with a rudimentary ECM package with decoys and counter-measures.
5. Hardpoints x10 hardpoints.
6. Armament The normal weapons fit-out for a Krait class is:
7. Defenses The hull is lightly plated, structurally reinforced, and built with secure bulkheads and compartments that give it a High Guard armor rating of 2.
8. Craft Flight Section
  • 2 x 6T Speeders which are housed in two small dedicated hangers: the hangers can be sealed and have a total volume of 12 Tons.
9. Fuel Treatment The vessel has internal fuel tankage of 460 Tons.
  • The hull is fitted with fuel scoops.
  • The vessel is equipped with a fuel purification plant that can refine all onboard fuel in a few hours: the plant is operated and maintained by the engineering crew.
10. Cost The basic cost of the vessel is MCr847.833
  • Architects Fee: MCr8.478
11. Construction Time 120 weeks as standard.
  • Build times can be reduced by mass production and the efficiencies such processes generate, by increased financing, and by allotting additional yard resources and facilities to the construction contract.
12. Comments Standard cargo capacity amounts to 1 Ton.

History & Background (Dossier)

The contract for the Krait class was to provide an inexpensive way to protect commerce, and to serve as an escort for merchant vessels. It is intended to discourage enemy commerce raiders and pirates. They are relatively inexpensive when purchased in bulk and are optimized for hunting small fast targets. The boarding party has no small craft and a pair of speeders can't really take and hold land. The particle accelerator bay is undersized and under powered, and struggles to penetrate armored hulls. The hull armor does little to reduce critical internal damage against vital systems, and only serves to provide a thinly veiled illusion of security. Procurement also failed to deliver a military grade software package, coupled with a civilian computer architecture, fire control sensor integration is often referred to as best guess tracking. The engineers, however rave that the mil spec power plant is a work of art, easily the best part of the whole ship. Critics counter that its contemporary, the much smaller Draper class Frigate is more than its match.

Class Naming Practice/s & Peculiarities

Vessel Peculiarities: No information yet available.

Class Naming Practice/s: No information yet available.

Selected Variant Types & Classes

Military Vessel - Escort - Frigate:

  1. Type EF class Frigate
    1. Accel class Light Frigate
    2. Chaiik class Frigate
    3. Dead Sun class Frigate
    4. Draper class Frigate
    5. Eraser class Frigate
    6. Ghost class Frigate
    7. Hazard class Frigate
    8. Idris class Frigate
    9. KE11 Ancestor class Frigate
    10. Kinunir class Vanguard Cruiser
    11. Krivak class Frigate
    12. Last Armada class Fast Escort
    13. Leedos class Frigate
    14. Mangle class Frigate
    15. Maurus class Frigate
    16. Montgomery class Frigate
    17. Musuna class Frigate
    18. Naga class Frigate
    19. Nevato class Frigate
    20. Nonsuch class Patrol Frigate
    21. Nowa Sol class Frigate
    22. Oorlog Jacht class Frigate
    23. Pilum class Frigate
    24. Plasma Storm class Frigate
    25. Revenge War Sloop class Corvette
    26. Rr'xighik'ker class Frigate
    27. S-17r class Frigate
    28. Sardis class Frigate
    29. Se Koez class Frigate
    30. Surprise class Light Frigate
    31. Taranil class Patrol Frigate
    32. TC10 Kalsop class Frigate
    33. Type 053H Xiamen class Frigate
    34. Type G class Frigate
    35. Type VF class Frigate
    36. Uxkoong class Frigate
    37. Yubari class Frigate


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