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Military spaceships classes and types
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Tue, 6 Apr 2004 08:25:53 GMT
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I've wathed many military ships MOCs on brickshelf, and i wondered if
there was a standard set of category to classify designs, like the marine
navy.
There are the obvious Carrier, Fighter, Bomber and Troop transport, but
rarely have i seen a Cruiser, Destroyer, Battleship, Corvette, Minelayer,
Minesweeper etc.
Thus i made research and came up with some info on the navy ship classes,
hoping to help people create more diversified and/or accurate naming for
their MOCs.
These classes are ranged by order of ship size.
Carrier: transport small fighters, bombers and utility crafts. Armament
consist mostly of AA weapons (anti-aircraft). It is not a ship made for
combat and would lose easily if alone in a battle.
Size: 900 feet
Battleship: floating armored fortresses. They are slow, but they carry
enough big guns to sink even another ship of their kind. Some
battleships took days to sink, even after being hit by several torpedos.
Size: 600-800 feet
Cruiser: built for speed and used for reconnaissance. Weapons range from
medium artilery to missiles and AA turrets depending on the ship's
mission.
Size: 500-600 feet
Destroyer: fast support ship with light artilery cannons. Buitl mostly
for escorting other ships, its other armament varies on the mission
Size: 400 feet
Frigate: smaller version of the Destroyer with less armour.
Size: 300 feet
Corvette: really small ship armed with anti-personnel weapons.
Size: 100-200 feet
Minelayers and Minesweepers are subclasses of Frigates or Destroyers.
They are specialised with dealing with mines.
Here is how i name my space MOC depending on what it does:
Carrier: main fonction is to carry other ships. May or may not have
strong combat hability
Battleship: heavy armored and armed. may hold a few crafts inside for
support.
Cruiser: fast ship with medium armor and diversified weapons. Used for
reconnaissance and/or escort.
Destroyer: used for escort with specialised weaponry.
Frigate: Smaller destroyer with less armor/shields, but with increased
speed.
Corvette: armed to deal with fighters, bombers and the like.
Minelayers (place), Minesweepers (remove): because it takes someone to
place and remove those nasty minefields in space. Mines are usefull to
protect your asteroid hideout or slow down and advancing fleet or
anything else you can do with a mine.
If there is already another standard for naming military spaceships, i
would like to know it. Thanks.
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| (...) As far as concerns LEGO Spaceships - there is no standard. Mainly because the size restictions for even the smallest warship classification is larger than is really build-able in LEGO. A naval frigate is ~300 feet long. If we take 1 stud= 1 (...) (21 years ago, 6-Apr-04, to lugnet.space)
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