Repair tender

Repair Tender

While the United Stars Spatial Navy has massive mobile ship yards and large repair ships, capable of repairing, upgrading all but the largest ships.

Active fleets are usually accompanied by smaller and faster Repair Tenders.

There are several classes and sizes in service. These ships are capable of providing repairs[1] and maintenance services to most ships,  Many of the repair ships, especially in "secondar fleets" are older ships or repurposed ships and are under the command of :  Union Spatial Navy Support Command

Repair Tenders are only light or not armed at all.

Shown is one of the 25,000 Attikan - battle ships that have been repurposed and refitted as Fleet support vessels. It is the 2000 m USNS Nagorma e, - A Repair Tender for  Small ships such as Destroyers.

[1] Repairs that do not require a dock but are more than a standard engineering department can handle.