Valízeno-Class Cruiser

Valízeno-Class Cruiser
Class overview
Name:	IC-144
Builders:	Marivál Sailing Co. Seratto Defense
Operators:	Inyurstan Navy
Built:	2008 - 2020
In service:	2012 - Present
In commission:	2012
Planned:	6
Completed:	3
Active:	3
Lost:	0
Retired:	0
General characteristics
Type:	Cruiser
Displacement:	11,350 Standard
Length:	193 m (633 ft)
Beam:	23.8 m (78 ft)
Draught:	7.7 m (25 ft)
Propulsion:	4 x gas turbines
Speed:	32 knots (59 km/h)
Range:	Over 4,000 nautical miles
Boats & landing craft carried:	x2 Éscualido-Class Interceptor
Sensors and processing systems:	V-81SA Multi-Purpose Radar V-40SMv2 Multi-Band Air-Search Radar ESQ/SS-G71 Surface Search Radar SIREN Infra-Red Tracking & Targeting SEQ/FC-1.4 Integrated Fire Control Radar AN/SQS-53C Sonar System SEA SENTOR Towed Passive Array
Electronic warfare & decoys:	VE-42SM-J Electronic Warfare suite SLQ-32A(V)4 Countermeasures suite MK36 SRBOC E-7 Decoy Launcher SHATSI Counter-Measure System
Armament:	x1 RK-35 "Disruptor" 35mm CIWS x3 ADM-116 Corsair (RIM-116) x32 SSL-09K Launch Tubes x32 SSM-4 Leviathan AShM x82 SSU-12 VLS Cells ADM-162 Fanatic (RIM-162 ESSM) SHORADS ADM-140B Sea Liberator LRADS/ABM SSM-158 Sirèna AShM SSM-109 Hjachète (BGM-109) or SSM-5 Agítadairé Cruise Missile ACS-22-su Manta Anti-Sub missile Other x2 Arm-launched ADM-114M Caçador x1 ROTOR Anti-Submarine Turret x2 324mm torpedo tubes x1 Entengo Auto-57 "Enforcer" 57mm autocannon x4 .50 caliber MG's
Aircraft carried:	2-3 helicopters or UAV's
Aviation facilities:	Single helicopter hanger

The Valízeno-Class Cruiser is a Guided Missile Cruiser in service with the Inyurstan Navy. It is built primarily as a dual-specialty air-defense and anti-ship cruiser, but can take on a wide variety of combat and support missions. To date, it is the third-largest indigenous vessel built in Inyursta behind the De'Calero Class Aircraft Carrier and Nuveau-Lyon Class Aviation Cruiser.

Design

Being the largest non-aviation vessel in service, the Valízeno is envisioned to take on the role as command flagship in the "post-carrier maritime environment" (PCME), wherein both friendly and hostile carriers are either sunk, forced to retreat or willfully withdrawn from combat. To accomplish this mission, the Valízeno is equipped with an impressive array of systems and capabilities - primarily oriented for anti-ship and anti-air mission roles.

Electronics & Sensors

Defensive

Leading the "soft" defenses of the Valízeno class is the VE-42SM-J Electronic Warfare suite, a long-range and powerful jammer capable of interrupting missile tracking and airborne radar, defeating tracking & targeting by low-earth-orbit (LEO) radar satellites, as well as potentially severing control of drones. The system consists of a powerful, broadband multifunctional jamming radar with an additional anti-VHF/UHF communications radar array. This same system was later adopted for terrestrial use as the "Crízamèl-M", though on land this system requires multiple vehicles to operate.

Multiple defensive counter-measures are stored and deployed from a number of 6-barrelled Mk-36 SRBOC mortar-style launchers stationed around the sides of the ship. Generic counter-measures such as chaff and infrared flares/dazzlers are stored, while specialized ODEPA-II hovering radar decoys and [INSERT COOL TECHNAME HERE] floating radar decoys can also be fired from the system.

Armament

Anti-Ship

The underpinning anti-ship armament of the Valízeno-Class is the 32 SSL-09K special launch tubes, capable of launching the SSM-4 Leviathan. Arranged with twelve launchers facing forward-port, twelve facing forward-starboard, six facing straight port and six facing straight starboard, a total of 24 supersonic anti-ship missiles can be reliably launched at a forward target, and a total of 18 at either a port or starboard target. Seratto Defense claims that in a quote "desperate, do-or-die situation" the missiles can be fired "up and around", though performing such a maneuver wastes precious flight time & initial energy.

Launched from a number of VLS cells, the SSM-158 Sirèna AShM is a long-range low-observable cruise missile optimized to pick out a specific target and follow the path of least resistance. The extremely low-altitude, low-observable munitions give the Valízeno a "quieter" option to attack enemy vessels lacking proper reconnaissance assets, or to perform a lethal timed-launch attack with the louder SSM-4 missile. While the "LRASM" is a favorite among air-launched munitions for its long range, it's range when launched from surface vessels is significantly reduced (due to the energy lost in launch and inability to "glide" down to cruising altitude), meaning the Valízeno still has to be within typical attack distance for its SSM-4 missiles to utilize the LRASM.

Typical Loadout

x30 VLS cells ADM-140b SeaLiberator
x8 VLS cells SyCMAT
x18 VLS cells ADM-162 (72 missiles total)
x16 VLS cells SSM-158 Sirena
x12 VLS cells ACS-22 Manta