An arsenal ship was a type of warship used by humans in the Diaspora era, basically a floating missile platform with launch bays for missiles and missile pods. It was used to provide pod-laying capability to a force lacking proper pod-laying battlecruisers or superdreadnoughts. The first arsenal ship design was the Masquerade-class, built for the Solarian League Navy's Maya Sector Detachment. It was adapted from a freighter, and had minimal defenses and no built-in fire control. Three ships of this type were deployed in the Battle of Torch. (CS2)
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| - An arsenal ship was a type of warship used by humans in the Diaspora era, basically a floating missile platform with launch bays for missiles and missile pods. It was used to provide pod-laying capability to a force lacking proper pod-laying battlecruisers or superdreadnoughts. The first arsenal ship design was the Masquerade-class, built for the Solarian League Navy's Maya Sector Detachment. It was adapted from a freighter, and had minimal defenses and no built-in fire control. Three ships of this type were deployed in the Battle of Torch. (CS2)
- An arsenal ship is a concept for a floating missile platform intended to have as many as five hundred vertical launch bays for mid-sized missiles, most likely cruise missiles. In current US naval thinking, such a ship would initially be controlled remotely by an Aegis Cruiser, although plans include control by AWACS aircraft such as the E-2 Hawkeye and E-3 Sentry.
- During combat, arsenal ships present their broadsides to the enemy in order to fire the greatest number of missiles at the target at once. However, this massive enhancement of the ships' first strike capabilities comes at a cost, as the hollow-core design reduces the ship's hull strength compared to similarly-sized conventional warships, and the need to mount doors through which to flush the pods forces designers to sacrifice aft chase weapons and defences, as well as requiring a different engine layout. Furthermore, arsenal ships are not equipped with Magnetic Accelerator Cannons, thus denying them the one-hit-kill power of conventional ships, although their sheer number of missiles, their increased range and ability to home in on targets more than offset this disadvantage.
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| - An arsenal ship was a type of warship used by humans in the Diaspora era, basically a floating missile platform with launch bays for missiles and missile pods. It was used to provide pod-laying capability to a force lacking proper pod-laying battlecruisers or superdreadnoughts. The first arsenal ship design was the Masquerade-class, built for the Solarian League Navy's Maya Sector Detachment. It was adapted from a freighter, and had minimal defenses and no built-in fire control. Three ships of this type were deployed in the Battle of Torch. (CS2)
- During combat, arsenal ships present their broadsides to the enemy in order to fire the greatest number of missiles at the target at once. However, this massive enhancement of the ships' first strike capabilities comes at a cost, as the hollow-core design reduces the ship's hull strength compared to similarly-sized conventional warships, and the need to mount doors through which to flush the pods forces designers to sacrifice aft chase weapons and defences, as well as requiring a different engine layout. Furthermore, arsenal ships are not equipped with Magnetic Accelerator Cannons, thus denying them the one-hit-kill power of conventional ships, although their sheer number of missiles, their increased range and ability to home in on targets more than offset this disadvantage. As well as their long-ranged missile armament, arsenal ships also carry short-range Plasma Turrets, typically only used if the main armament has been exhausted. They also carry astoundingly heavy defences for their size, in the form of metres-thick armour, backed up by under-armour layers of ice used as engine reaction mass and Solid Light Barrier generators, as well as hundreds of point-defence guns and thousands of countermissiles.
- An arsenal ship is a concept for a floating missile platform intended to have as many as five hundred vertical launch bays for mid-sized missiles, most likely cruise missiles. In current US naval thinking, such a ship would initially be controlled remotely by an Aegis Cruiser, although plans include control by AWACS aircraft such as the E-2 Hawkeye and E-3 Sentry.
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