Hayreniky-class battleship

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Design sketch
Class overview
Name: Hayreniky-class battleship
Builders: Breeze Builders
Operators: SyaranRepublicNavy.jpg Navy of the Syaran Republic
Preceded by: Zovahr-class
Succeeded by: None
In commission: Never commissioned
Planned: 8
Completed: 0
Cancelled: 8
General characteristics
Type: Battleship
Displacement:
  • 43,200 Tons Standard
  • 47,800 Tons Fully Loaded
Length: 256 meters
Beam: 35.5 meters
Draft: 9.9 meters
Propulsion:
  • 4 shafts
  • 4 geared steam turbines
  • 12 boilers
Speed: 32 knots
Armament:
  • 3 x triple 406 mm (16 in) guns
  • 3 x triple 152 mm guns
  • 12 x twin 100 mm anti-aircraft guns
  • 24 x 737 mm AA guns
  • 38 x 25 mm anti-aircraft guns

The Hayreniky-class was a class of battleships intended to be built for the Navy of the Syaran Republic. The Hayreniky-class was intended to be an answer to the Amika Carpio-Class Battleship fielded by the Cacertian Royal Navy. In many ways the class was also a revision of the older cancelled Scitaria-class, intended to be a large, powerful warship capable of taking on other capital ships fielded by navies across Tyran.

The class was first proposed in 1931 following news that the Amika Carpio-class had been laid down, with the final draft proposed in early 1933. While the class was seen as necessary in order to ensure that the Republic of Syara could maintain force parity on the open seas, the class faced many of the same issues as the Scitaria-class had years earlier; the ships large size, heavy armament, and machinery were heavy demands on a Syaran shipbuilding industry that had just become comfortable constructing large warships. Debates over whether to pursue the development of battleships, or aircraft carriers led to further delays. By the time the Siduri War broke out the class had been approved for construction, but no hulls were ever laid down and the project was cancelled in 1937. The Hayreniky-class would be the last battleship design ever created by Syara.