Klingon Imperial Navy Vor'cha-Class Warship

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• INFORMATION CLASSIFICATION: TOP SECRET
• RELIABILITY CLASSIFICATION: A (multiple prolonged contacts by multiple friendly/Star Fleet/OSFI assets)

BASIC STATISTICS

Vor'cha-class cruiser, dorsal perspective

• Class Name  : Vor'cha-class Attack Cruiser.
• Classification  : Warship
• Typical Roles  : Strategic Front Line Attack.
• SFE Designation  : CA (Heavy Cruiser)
• Introduced  : 2345
• Model Number  : V3
• Number in service : 180
• Known Registries  : I.K.C. Bortas, I.K.C. Maht-H'a, I.K.C. Qu'Vat, I.K.C. Toh'Kaht.

PHYSICAL SPECIFICATIONS

• Length  : 555 m
• Span  : 230 m
• Draft  : 102 m
• Displacement  : 5,900,000 mt

COMPLEMENT

• Total Standard  : 1,160
• Officers  : 60
• Crew  : 600
• Troops  : 500 (1,200 Maximum non-stasis life support)

PROPULSION SYSTEMS

Warp Propulsion System

• Drive Type  : Vor'cha-Class Variant Grade 6.
  • Number  : 2
  • Main Reactor  : Vor'cha-Class Dilithium M/AM Reactor, Grade 12.

Impulse System

• Drive Type  : toQvo'wI'-Class Multiple-Vent Vector Type, Grade 3.
  • Number  : 3
  • Secondary Reactor : vor'chaghor-Class Generic Operations, Grade 9.

Velocity (V3 Refit only)

• Standard Cruise Speed  : 6.0
• Maximum Cruise Speed  : 9.0
• Sustainable for 12 hours : 9.3
• Maximum Emergency Speed  : 9.5
• Core Failure Imminent  : 9.65

ARMAMENT AND DEFENSE

Phase Disruptors, Pulse Type, Class 10 Power Output.

• Number : 6
• Range  : 250,000 km
• Arcs  : Aft hemispherical twin cannon turret, 2 port pylon forward firing, 50 degree conical arc, 2 starboard pylon forward firing, 50 degree conical arc.

Phase Disruptors, Omnidirectional Crystal Type, Class 10.

• Number : 10 banks.
• Range  : 300,000 km
• Arcs  : 8 'rapid-fire' arrays, port/starboard nose mounted, Aft port/starboard pylon trailing edge arrays.

Photon Torpedo Launchers

• Number : 10 tubes, 250 torpedoes.
• Range  : peng'otlh-Class Photon-Type  : 2,700,000 km
• Arcs  : 4 forward, 2 aft Port/starboard pylon forward, Port/starboard pylon aft.

Deflector System

• SurghwI'-Class Conformal Multiphasic type, Grade 13.

Cloaking Device

• ghomSo'wI'-Class Plasma Matrix Strategic type.

OTHER SYSTEMS

Transporters

• 6-person, small cargo  : 6
• 25-person, Troop movement  : 6
• Cargo, recovery  : 2

Cargo Bays

• 1, ventral access.

Embarked Craft

• Travelpod, 4 man  : 8
• Su'negh-Class 20 man Troop Carrier : 12
• Su'tep-Class Cargo Shuttle  : 2
• Mogh-Class Runabout  : 1 (V3 refit only.)

TACFLEET Notes:

When the decision has been made and a strike fleet is ordered to pounce, the first Klingon Defense Force 'Big Gun' to arrive on the scene is the Vor'cha-class attack cruiser.

For around thirty years the largest vessel in the KDF, the record of the Vor'cha is exemplary. It has matured into a strike vessel of great capability. Tough and compact, it is able to take tremendous punishment and even structural breaches, and yet still fight on, bestow honour on its crew and return home victorious.

The basic design of the Vor'cha is now, however, dated. The class is due for a refit, certainly to retrofit new torpedo systems. If not underpowered, the ship is slow, and the only glitch in the service record of the class is a poor warp-coil reliability, possibly due to impatient Captains wanting to run the vessels at higher and higher stillwarp velocities.

On the other hand, the ship is capable at sublight, and is well armed for her size, a match even for recent CA designs from SFE drawing boards. Tough to break at any point, the Vor'cha array of weaponry is well thought out, even though at first it seems random. The forward disruptor clusters are small yet have fast cycle times. The ship can bring to four of these clusters to bear on a ship anywhere in the forward hemisphere, and then rotate fire between them to 'dimple' a single point on an enemies shields. In its day, this was devastatingly effective, and now, the brand new DujHoH-class Battlecruiser is thought to apply similar tactical software with more powerful weapons.

Latest intelligence suggests heavy subspace sensor probing of the area at close range to a cloaked Vor'cha will reveal limitations of the strategic cloak. Similar probing of the same cloak in its Negh'var configuration suggests no such weak points. TACFLEET/SFE preliminary findings suggest this is a hull structure design flaw, but it is expected the V4 variant will be as invisible as its Negh'var cousin.