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by The Unitary Technocracy of Etoile Arcture. . 308 reads.

New Corinth Class Amphibious Assault Ship

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Starboard inboard profile of the New Corinth (L-21) class amphibious assault ship

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Class overview

Name

New Corinth class amphibious
assault ship general purpose

Builders

Amoskeag Iron Works
Marine Steel Works
Vosselheim Nautical Industries
Hybalt Defence Industries

Operators

Etoile Arcture Maritime Forces
Korrodosian Imperial Navy
Xuande-Xiphoian Navy
Rocky canadaNavy
Langenian Revolutionary Navy
Slacarian Navy
Seorabeol Federation Navy
Royal Joseon Navy
Marinha Real do Brazil
Marina Caesariana
New Chinese Federation Navy

Preceded by

Wasp class amphibious assault
ship

Cost

US$5 billion

Planned

1,900

Completed

900

Active

800

General characteristics

Type

Landing helicopter deck

Displacement

33,280 metric tons light
50,390 metric tons full

Length

280 m

Beam

35.35m

Draught

9 m

Machinery

4 × Rolls-Royce MT30
gas turbines
2 × GEC/Alstom SGT-100
Typhoon gas turbines
2 × Wärtsilä 12V26 A2
diesel generators
4 × Genista Electrosystems
Permanent Magnet
Synchronous Motor
System
4 × Genista Electrosystems
Tractor Propulsion Pods
4 × Kamewa Ulstein TT
tunnel thrusters
190,425 shp (142 MW)

Speed

30 knots

Range

16,668 km (9,000 nm)
@ 20 knots

Boats &
landing
craft
carried

2 × Willard Marine Sea Force
11 m Standard Navy RIB
1 × Willard Marine Naval
Special Warfare RIB
2 × Willard Marine Sea Force
7 m Standard Navy RIB
1 × 10 m Personnel Boat MK 4
3 × CNIM L-Cat 200 Multi
Purpose Landing Catamaran
or Textron SSC LCAC-100
or Navantia LCM-1E
38 x SOLAS liferafts

Capacity

up to 60 armoured vehicles


Typical landing force:
26 × M35A2 Cataphract (MBT) and
42 × M34A3 Hoplite (HIFV), or
15 × M65CA7 Talon+ (IFV) and
90 × Oshkosh HEMTT A3 LHS

Complement

900 officers & enlisted
90 staff officers

Air detachment

1,100 officers & enlisted

Troop
accomodations

2-000-3,000 officers & enlisted

Sensors and
processing

Synergy Nucleus Combat
System
Raytheon AN/SPY-3 MFR
Raytheon AN/SPS-73(V)12 SSR
3 Phoenix Inc. AN/SPS-74(V)2
Marport TrailBlazer sonar

Electronic
warfare
& decoys

Lockheed Martin
AN/SLY-2(V) AIEWS
Lockheed Martin SHIELDS
Centurion Multi-Role
Trainable Naval Launcher
IDS300 corner reflector
inflatable missile decoy
AN/WSQ-11(V) Tripwire
Torpedo Defence System

Armament

2 × MK 56 8-cell VLS
5 × Xiphos Inner Layer Missile System
4 × Dory Close-In Gun System
4 × HITROLE NT weapon
stations with .50 cal
machine guns

Aircraft carried

up to 40 fixed-wing,
rotary wing and VTUAVs


Typical Air Wing:
6 × Aerodyne F/A-38B Sentinel
12 × Bell-Boeing MV-22B Osprey
4 × Aerdyne AH-79C Anaconda
8 × NHIndustries NH90-TTH
Caïman
2 × Northrop Grumman
MQ-8B Fire Scout

Aviation facilities

Flight deck with 12°
ski-jump, 1 jet-blast
collector, 9 in-line deck
landing spots

The New Corinth (L-21) class is a type of general-purpose amphibious assault ship designed to a core requirement of transporting a full-strength Combined Arms Battalion and delivering its personnel, equipment and supplies over-the-horizon by means of landing craft operated from a stern docking well. The L-21 class has been designed for maximum flexibility to quickly adapt to a number of roles including light aircraft carrier, sea control ship and joint command ship, and can perform power projection, mine countermeasures, and humanitarian and other contingency missions on short notice. While being capable of operating independently in these roles it will most commonly be deployed as part of a larger task force (TF) that includes an amphibious transport dock with well deck, a fast combat replenishment ship, two or more escorting destroyers, and an attack submarine. To this end the L-21 class is equipped with flag facilities that provide command, control and communications to coordinate air and amphibious operations.

Design


The L-21 class are of all-steel construction using corrosion-resistant super-austenitic stainless steel (SASS) in the hull and HY-80 steel in the superstructure, with HY-100 steel plate armouring the flight deck. Extensive sloping and use of non-magnetic steels and composite materials ensure a low radar cross-section (RCS), low infrared (IR) signature and low magnetic field. The structure incorporates passive countermeasures including hull sides inclined at 10° to reduce radar cross-section, and epoxy-bonded Amitto carboxy-terminated butadiene nitrile (CTBN) anechoic tiles below the waterline to reduce acoustic signature. In common with all modern vessels of the Etoile Arcture Maritime Forces and Korrodosian Imperial Navy the L-21 class is pre-assembled in modular sections that are fitted out before final assembly.
The superstructure features a flush-deck with island offset to starboard, a full-length axial flight deck with ramp (ski jump), aft deck jump jet landing area with jet blast collector, folding port and starboard deck-edge elevators, a full-length aviation hangar, ~4,000 lane metre capacity vehicle and cargo storage areas, berthing for c.2,000-3,000 troops, and a rear landing craft docking well. The latter features an inclined ramp above the waterline which is flooded by the ship's ballasting system allowing launch and recovery of landing craft through a large stern gate. Ramps and cargo/weapon elevators internally connect the hangar, vehicle and well deck, and staging areas for loading cargo on to landing craft. A material handling system transports palletised stores and equipment by continuous roller conveyors and monorails running the full length of the ship.
Both the combat information centre (CIC) and joint intelligence centre (JIC) for directing operations are located in armoured enclaves underneath the island for maximum protection. Medical facilities include an 18-bed intensive care ward, 4-bed isolation ward, 48-bed primary care ward, 8 operating rooms, X-ray and MRI scanner wards, two dental surgeries and a laboratory, with facilities for four casualty overflow wards with up to 400 beds by converting passenger berthing.

Machinery


Propulsion

The propulsion system consists of four streamlined podded tractor propulsors of high hydrodynamic efficiency that locate machinery outside the hull saving volume that would otherwise be taken up by bulky inboard motors, fixed shafts and steering gear. Each pod is based around two contrarotating five-blade fixed-pitch propellers driven by a water-cooled, constant speed, transverse-flux electric motor and contrarotating reduction gear. These podded units can be operated at low power levels for high fuel economy, offer low noise and vibration for quieter operation, and have superior cavitation performance to deliver high cruise speeds with minimal wake.
The propeller blades are of a stainless steel highly skewed design and are bolted at the leading edge of the pod for easy repair or replacement. Forward and reverse thrust is provided by simple reversion of propeller rotational direction. The two inboard pods are fixed (non-azimuthing) while the two outboard pods pivot through 360° (azimuth) for rudderless steering on electric steering motors driven through a slip-ring assembly. The pods can be operated independently or together for improved manoeuvrability, and being externally mounted can be repaired or replaced without a lengthy and expensive drydock stay.
At low speeds, while berthing and during emergencies bow and stern thrusters provide steering control. The thrusters are of the reinforced tunnel type with four-blade fixed-pitch propellers and retracting butterfly-type doors that reduce underwater drag when not in use.

Hull, mechanical & electrical systems

The generator plant is located above the waterline in a machinery house beneath infra-red suppressing side stacks on the superstructure to minimise ducting. The generator sets (gensets) are indirectly coupled to the pod propulsors by flexible space-efficient power linkages via transformers that match the voltage, frequency and power needs of the motors.
The prime movers are six gas turbine generators coupled by bearings to alternator drives, consisting of four aero-engine-derived Rolls-Royce MT30 twin-spool, high-pressure ratio gas turbine generators rated at 36 megawatts each, augmented by two GEC/Alstom SGT-100 Typhoon simple-cycle gas turbine generators rated at 5.7 megawatts to provide boost power. The total installed power is 142 megawatts, sufficient to propel the ship at 30 knots when steaming and supply all hotel services. To conserve fuel only two MT30 gas turbine alternators can provide a cruise speed of 20 knots, with all six engines being used when high speeds are required.
A full authority digital control (FADC) system monitors the engines and switchboards, generators and transformers controlled by an electronic power management system that divides and distributes the power flows between the propulsion system and hotel services. In case of a prime mover casualty the smaller SGT-100 gensets along with battery packs provide minimum power (10% of installed power) to propel the ship at a 10-knot emergency speed.
A partial-collective overpressure protection system provides a nuclear, biological and chemical (NBC) protected citadel in all interior spaces. The system monitors air quality and filters contaminants and toxic gasses from ship air with STANAG 4447 clean air filters integrated into the heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) plants. Automated damage control systems provide detection of fire, blast, smoke and flooding, and operate automatic flood control systems to maintain buoyancy and stability by closing watertight hatches and doors, and automated fire suppression systems with water mist sprinklers and clean agent extinguishers to control and extinguish fires.

Aviation Facilities



Overhead deck plan of New Corinth Class (L-21) amphibious assault ship

The L-21 class is designed to operate a composite air wing that can include medium-size to large helicopters, V-22B Osprey tilrotors, and multi-role vertical/short takeoff and landing (VSTOL) aircraft. There are nine landing spots for rotary-wing aircraft, with a maximum of 23 metres of deck space for a rolling takeoff or landing of helos or V-tiltrotors, and 140 metres of deck provided for takeoff and landing runs by VSTOL aircraft. The flight deck terminates in a steep 12° angle ramp (ski jump) to provide additional lift for aircraft at full load.

Amphibious Operations


The L-21 class vessel can carry 3-4 landing craft in its well deck for the over-the-horizon landing, recovery and redeployment of assault forces ashore. The well deck can either be flooded for float-on/float-out (FLO-FLO) of landing craft such as the Navantia LCM-1E or CNIM L-Cat 200 Multi Purpose Landing Catamara, or kept dry for fly-in/fly-out operation of air cushion landing craft such as Textron's Ship-to-Shore Connector Landing Craft Air Cushion (SSC LCAC-100).

Armament


The L-21 class has a purely defensive weapon suite based around the Manticore Multi-Role Gun and Missile System and RIM-191B Sea Krait surface-to-air missile, and relies on the air wing to provide all its organic offensive firepower.

Sensors


Electronic Warfare


Combat System


The combat management system is based around supercomputer clusters, hypervisor hardware virtualization, highly redundant high speed fibre channel networking, satellite communications (SATCOM), tactical datalinks and cooperative engagement capability (CEC) protocols to fully integrate on- and off-board sensors, missile launchers, decoy launchers, electronic warfare systems, communications, processing and display systems.

Operators


Etoile Arcture

  • Etoile Arcture Maritime Forces

Korrodos

  • Imperial Navy

Xuande-Xiphoi

  • Xuande-Xiphoian Navy

Rocky canada

  • Rocky Canadian Navy

Langenia

  • Revolutionary Navy

Slacaria

  • Slacarian Navy

Seorabeol Federation

  • Seorabeol Federation Navy (Sampo Class)

The Great state of Joseon

  • Royal Joseon Navy (Wando Class)

Reino do Brazil

  • Marinha Real do Brazil

Awesome Imperium

  • Marine Caesarensis

New Chinese Federation

  • New Chinese Federation Navy

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