Jötunn-class battleship

RAS Vingnir in 1943
Class overview
Name:	Jötunn-class battleship
Operators:	Royal Acrean Navy
Succeeded by:	Valmeyjar-class
Planned:	4
Completed:	4
Cancelled:	0
Lost:	0
Retired:	0
Preserved:	0
General characteristics
Type:	Battleship
Displacement:	73,000 tonnes fully loaded
Length:	263 m
Beam:	38.9 m
Draught:	10.4 m
Propulsion:	12 × water-boilers 318,000 shp
Speed:	30 knots (56 km/h)
Complement:	2,867 officers and crew
Armament:	9 × 46cm guns 12 × 15.5 cm guns 12 x 13 cm guns 80 x 40mm AA guns 49 x 20mm AA guns

The Jötunn-class battleships were a class of four battleships constructed for the Royal Acrean Navy in the late 1930s and early 1940s. Designed as capital ships with a displacement of over 70,000 tonnes when fully loaded, the Jötunn-class ships are some of the largest warships ever built by Acrea, second only to 200-series aircraft carriers which began construction in the early 1960s with the Type 221-class carriers. The Jötunn-class also remains the largest class of battleships built by any nation in Tyran.

Even at the time of their construction, the Jötunn-class was not intended to form the centerpiece of Acrean naval power, but were a key part of the the Vries Doctrine of then-Naval Inspector Admiral Michel de Vries which sought a powerful, combined force of both battleships and carriers as the center of Acrean naval power. The shift towards naval aviation that consumed much of Acrea's naval staff in the 1930s was quickly reversed by Acrean observations during the Siduri War. Engagements such as the Battle of the Sabri Sea reinforced the continued need for increasingly stronger battleships, leading to the construction of four additional Varde-class battleships by 1940 and the designing of both the Jötunn-class and its successor, the Valmeyjar-class.

Units

#	Hull	Name	Shipyard	Laid down	Launched	Commissioned	Fate
I	BB401	RAS Jötunn	Vänersköping Naval Yard	1937	1940	1941	Preserved as a museum ship
II	BB402	RAS Vingnir	Carcassonne Naval Yard	1938	1940	1941	Preserved as a museum ship
III	BB411	RAS Vidicus	Vänersköping Naval Yard	1938	1941	1942	Preserved as a museum ship
IV	BB412	RAS Aeron	Carcassonne Naval Yard	1938	1941	1942	Preserved as a museum ship