Blodspjut class destroyer drone carrier
| Blodspjut class destroyer drone carrier | |
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| Designed in: | File:Imerian flag.png Imeriata |
| Class overview | |
| builders: | The royal merchant guild (Sjavarga bolaget) |
| Operators: |  The royal and federal navy
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| Preceded by: | None |
| Succeeded by: | No ship planned |
| active: | Yes |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Destroyer |
| Displacement: | 13,000 tonnes |
| Length: | 185 m |
| Beam: | 20 m |
| Draft: | 10 m |
| Propulsion: | 4 × gas turbine engines, 80,000 shaft horsepower 2 × Waterjets |
| Speed: | 32.5 knots (60 km/h) |
| Range: | 22,000 km |
| Complement: | 550 |
| Sensor and processing system: | multi purpose, air search, surface search, gun control, sonar setup consisting of both a passive and active sonar |
| Electronic warfare
& decoys: |
Decoy mortars (intended to fire chaff or infrared decoys) and a off ship torpedo decoy |
| Armament: | 4 * 250 mm missile defence towers 6 * CIW cannon towers. |
| Aeroplanes carried: | 20 * Unmanned drones 2 * geting autogyros or 1* larger autogyro |
The idea of the Blodspjut was to modify a Sjavarg class destroyer into a drone carrier to quickly hunt down enemy targets for formations of destroyers to allow the ships to quickly engage their targets with missile fire and destroy them before they have been able to spot the Imerian ships.
The idea of the drone carrier however is a new one and the ship only went into production 2001 so the destroyers of this class is rare and far between and the few ships that exists are employed beside friendly Imerian ships but never alone due to it's lack of offensive capacities.
Design
Communications & Radar
Being originally a modified Sjavarg so does the blodspjut carry the same radar array as it's sisterclass does. As such is it outfitted with the same surface, both 2D and 3D air, multi-purpose and fire control radars and the same sonars. However it also has a more effective communication array to allow it to keep more drones up in the air at the same time.
Unmanned aeroplanes
The main advantage of the bloodspjut and it's main contribution to federal war efforts is it's hangars and the drones carried within it. Within the blodspjut so is 20 drones kept for scouting duties and even attack runs would need be as the drones are not only outfitted with radars but also carries missiles and machine guns for attacks would need be.
Autogyros
Just like the sjavarg so does the Blodspjut carry autogyros, either one larger one capable of transporting troops and laying mines or two smaller ones armed with attack abilities. Either version is however designed to carry radar and sonar equipment to find and allow the ships around them to engage hostile forces.
Weapons
Guntowers
To aid it further in short range engagement so is the Blodspjut armed with a duo of 250 mm double cannon towers.
Defences
The defences of the Blodspjut are numerous and it is armed with three 250 mm missile launchers designed to target incoming missiles and take them out with anti-ballistic missiles. To further build up it's missile shield so is it also defended by 6 radar linked automatic cannon towers to intercept incoming missiles.
As if this would not be enough so is the ship also protected by mortars able to shoot infrared decoys and clouds of chaff clouds to confuse and direct incoming missiles away from the ship. However it is also defended from torpedoes so can it deploy torpedo decoys from it's mortars but it also carries an offship decoy to confuse incoming torpedoes even further.