Ruby Scarlett-class guided missile cruiser

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Ruby Scarlett class

Lead ship Ruby Scarlett underway
Class overview
Builders:	Alliance of Illuverendian Shipyards
Operators:	Royal Illuverendian Navy Royal Memesterian People's Navy Vusallan Navy
Preceded by:	Abydos class
Subclasses:	Cambryoniia class Damarques class
Planned:	4
Completed:	4
Active:	4
General characteristics
Type:	Guided-missile heavy cruiser
Displacement:	28,575 t (28,124 long tons)
Length:	256.53 m (841.6 ft) oa 248.47 m (815.2 ft) waterline
Beam:	29 m (95 ft)
Speed:	30.7 kn (56.9 km/h; 35.3 mph)
Armament:	Conventional weapons 9 × 254 mm (10 in) guns 16 × QF 152 mm (6 in) guns 6 × Stormbringer Mk-IV VLS 2 × 100-cell Mk 85 VLS (amidships) 1 × 40-cell Mk 85 VLS (aft)

The Ruby Scarlett-class guided missile cruiser is a class of four guided-missile heavy cruisers built and owned by the Royal Illuverendian Navy, built as part of the Cruiser Fleet Modernisation Program.

Like the preceding Abydos class, the Ruby Scarlett class comprised Phase IV of the Cruiser Fleet Modernisation Program. This phase of the program mandated for the introduction of 254 mm (10 in) naval gun calibres as a main battery. It succeeded the program's Phase II heavy cruiser guns which had a calibre of 234 mm (9.2 in) and effectively placed the heavy cruisers to be in borderline battlecruiser territory due to their huge calibre. However, the Royal Illuverendian Navy insisted to categorise it as a heavy cruiser.

Both the Abydos and Ruby Scarlett classes were built and designed together by the Alliance of Illuverendian Shipyards, under AIS Illusian Division. A lengthened version of its predecessor, the design team flagrantly violated limitations placed by the Navy in terms of main battery amount- with nine main guns in contrast to the Abydos class's six. The larger dimensions of the class meant that there were greater rooms for VLS cells, and schematic CAG-130/M.944c (r-2) was selected for construction. Upon their inception, the Ruby Scarlett class displaced the under construction Lycoris II class of battleships in number of VLS cells onboard, the former having 240 cells in contrast to the latter's 192.

Background

Main article: Cruiser Fleet Modernisation Program

Ships in class

Ship data

Ship name	Hull no.	Builder	Ordered	Laid down	Launched	Comm.	Status
Ruby Scarlett	CAG-130	Alliance of Illuverendian Shipyards	date ordered 1	date laid down 1	date launched 1	date commissioned 1	In service
Etna de Sarkaz	CAG-131
Lucia Bellerose (ex-Thazarus de Imperia, Stella de Allenes)	CAG-132		date ordered 3	date laid down 3
Isidore van Santhens	CAG-133

Ruby Scarlett

Main article: HIvMS Ruby Scarlett (CAG-130)

Etna de Sarkaz

Main article: HIvMS Etna de Sarkaz (CAG-131)

Lucia Bellerose

Main article: HIvMS Lucia Bellerose (CAG-132)

Isidore van Santhens

Main article: HIvMS Isidore van Santhens (CAG-133)