Coventry statistics Mark I
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BASIC STATISTICS Class Name: COVENTRY-class Classification: DD Type: Destroyer, multi-mission Model Number: I PHYSICAL SPECIFICATIONS Length: 311 m Beam: 208m Draft: 66 m Displacement: 801,669 mt COMPLEMENT Total Standard: 140 Officers: 11 Crew: 94 Marines: 35 Passengers: 10 maximum PROPULSION SYSTEMS Warp Propulsion System Drive Type: ILN-517 Mark IX Number: 1 set, 2 nacelles Main Reactor: FRAM-922 Number: 1 Impulse System Drive Type: CAN Number: 2 Secondary Reactor: FRIF-470 EPS Distribution Network Dimensional Warp Drive Drive Type: Dim-IV-Cov1i Number: 1 Velocity Standard Cruise Speed: 7.00 Maximum Cruise Speed: 9.40 Sustainable for 12 hours: 9.70 Maximum Emergency Speed: 9.89 Core Failure Imminent: 9.96 ARMAMENT Phaser, Type X Number: 5 banks Range: 300,000 km Arcs --saucer, dorsal (f/p) 1 (split, one EPS tap) --saucer, dorsal (f/s) 1 (split, one EPS tap) --saucer, ventral (f/p/s) 1 --nacelle pylon (a/s) 1 --nacelle pylon (a/p) 1 Flux Torpedo, Mk III Seeking/Direct Number: 3 tubes Range: 3,500,000 km (flux) 3,000,000 (photon) Arcs forward bow launchers (f/s/p) 2 aft launcher (aft quarters) 1 DEFENSIVE SYSTEMS Point Defense Lasers, type III Number: 14 (7 turrets of 2 lasers each) Range: 250,000 km Arcs mid saucer, dorsal (f/p) 1 mid-saucer, dorsal (f/s) 1 mid-pontoon (f/s/a) 1 mid-pontoon (f/p/a) 1 secondary hull, fantail(a) 1 secondary hull, ventral(f/s/a)1 secondary hull, ventral(f/p/a)1 Defensive Shield System Type: FD-8e "Carapace" cocoon-multiphasic deflector system Number of generators: 6 Augmentation: Enhanced Metaphasic, rapid EM re-modulation Passive Defensive System(s) Type: Ablative armor plating additions to key locations of outer hull DEFLECTOR ARRAY Navigational Deflector Type: FNDA-9 Number: 1 OTHER SYSTEMS Transporters --Standard, 6-person: 4 --Emergency, 16-person: 3 --Combat, 12-person: 2 --Cargo: 4 Shuttle Bays : 1 General-use shuttle bay (saucer section, aft) Embarked Craft (Standard, specific ships may vary) 3 Shuttlepods 3 Personnel Shuttle, Large 1 Shuttle, D-Warp 1 Cargo Shuttle Historical Notes COVENTRY is the representation of a new push by the Federation to work under the premise of smaller can be more. Originally designed as a replacement for the AKRIA/MONTU-class light cruisers, the COVENTRY was returned to the design phase twice once Starfleet planners opted to retain the present light cruiser design and plan for a series of refits to bring that light cruiser planform up to date. The COVENTRY was redesigned as an augmentation to the AKRIA/MONTU-class but it was later decided that the new planform should be a based on a destroyer platform, even though little was done to adjust the planform dimensions. Given the AKRIA/MONTU-class design and its success, the scaled down planform was approved with one major departure: the lengthening of the secondary hull to a more traditional design seen in the SOVENRIEGN-class heavy cruiser or in the earlier INTERPID-class frigates. Designers, however, discovered in simulations that the vessel would be “tail heavy" and would place a large amount of hull stress on the pontoon support strongpoints on the saucer section and at the primary/secondary hull junction point. Designers and engineers finally fell upon the addition of smaller secondary pylons, angled inboard and anchored near the traditional strongback points on other Federation starships. It also allowed for the builders to move forward with the larger impulse engine type they had first envisioned for the new destroyer. The final design encompassed the speed and agility of a destroyer class with the hull mass and armament similar to a rather small light cruiser. Later designs and refits would see the COVENTRY- class being better suited for multi-role duties: addition of a MMP for scientific roles, a version that incorporated a larger number of torpedo launchers for a torpedo boat" variant, and a current refit of the design for an escort carrier variant, the KRONSHDTAT-class CVE. To date, one KRONSHDTAT-class hull has been put into service. The COVENTRY is meant to fill a niche that has long been under represented in Starfleet. Starfleet has usually assigned a smaller light cruiser class or a frigate class to cover the role of a destroyer. This was accomplished either by simply informing the commander of said vessel that he was part of a escort or a screen or was to report to the nearest starbase for re-fit and re-supply. COVENTRY represents the first design to slide down the ways as a true destroyer, which is a vessel designed to cover the roles of a destroyer class. Sporting a pair of large impulse engines, an enhanced navigational array and guidance system, and enhanced inertial compensators, the vessel portrays the destroyer in a sleek and swift response role. Armed with type X phasers and flux-torpedoes, she has more than enough teeth to perform her primary duty: Fleet escort and screening missions. Given the adaptability and mass of the vessel (a small light cruiser), the COVENTRY-class hull has been envisioned as a medium range explorer, a missile boat or DDG, and even a stealth version for covert recon based missions. It is hoped that the COVENTRY will augment the aging HOOD-class and outdated MIRANDA-class light cruisers in the multi-mission role as well as eventually replace the FEYMAN-class destroyer in the classic role of destroyer. Class mantra: "Duty First!" Currently Vessel contract assignments: USS COVENTRY NCC-81420 GREEN on mission, TACRON 49 USS MANCHESTER NCC-81423 GOLD on mission, attached to the USS CIRCE USS BRYANT NCC-81424 INDIGO on mission USS BLACK NCC-81426 under construction, phase II USS SINGH NCC-81429 under construction, final planning phase USS LISTER NCC-81443 under construction, phase I USS CUTCHALL NCC-81444 under construction, phase II The COVENTRY-class destroyer is currently being built at the Europa Fleet Yards, Jupiter, Sol system.