Vedette-Class Cruiser

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Class overview
Name: Vedette-class cruiser
Builders: Royal Shipbuilders of Cacerta
Operators: CRNEnsign.png Cacertian Royal Navy
Preceded by: Minerva-class
In commission: 1990 – present
Planned: 20
Building: 2
Completed: 15
Active: 13
General characteristics
Type: Nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser
Displacement:
  • 8,256 tons standard
  • 9,785 tons fully loaded
Length: 173 meters
Beam: 18 meters
Draft: 7 meters
Propulsion:
  • 2 × CNRC Mk VI nuclear reactors
  • 2 × CNRC steam turbines
  • 2 × shafts driving five-bladed controllable-reversible pitch propellers
Speed: 32 knots (59 km/h)
Range: Unlimited
Complement: 300 officers and crew
Sensors and
processing systems:
  • RN-RMIX multi-function radar
  • RN-RRAVII air search radar
  • RN-RRSXV surface search radar
  • RN-RAXIII fire control radar
  • RN-RCFAX gun fire control radar
  • RN-SA9 sonar suite
Electronic warfare
& decoys:
  • RN-EWJS jamming system
  • RN-CL chaff countermeasures
  • RN-TD torpedo decoy dispensers
Armament:
  • Guns:
  • 4 × 130mm RN-SBIII guns (2 × 2)
  • Missiles:
  • 1 × 64-cell vertical launch system
  • Other:
  • 2 × Strozzino quadruple torpedo tubes
  • 4 × 30mm Custode II CIWS

The Vedette-class is a class of nuclear-powered guided missile cruisers in service with the Cacertian Royal Navy. It is the second cruiser class vessel to be designed to be nuclear-powered and another ship resulting from Cacerta's nuclear fleet initiative. The Vedette-class was initially armed with the supersonic Fiocina but has since been upgraded to carry the hypersonic Lancia. Twenty cruisers were ordered when the HMS Vedette entered service in 1990. As of 2019, thirteen units have been completed and are on active service with the Royal Navy, two have recently been completed and commencing their initial shakedown cruises, with another two undergoing construction.