Phobos Class Destroyer

Phobos Class Destroyer

The Phobos Class is a modern Heavy Destroyer in the United Stars Navy with the first units coming into service in 5007. The Union Navy currently has nine Heavy Destroyer types (Classes) in service. From the old workhorse, the Harrow Class a 100 year old design with several hundred ships still in service, but earmarked for permanent decommission; to the fast and well armed Barracuda Class that is currently updated and refitted to ADCAP Barracudas, and it was originally decided to reduce the number of classes to three or four types. However, DeNoir Industries introduced a new Destroyer design in 5006 to the Vessel Procurement Department, the Phobos Class.

DeNoir is a relative small Corporation and is well known for its superb battle suits and robotic systems but had previously not manufactured capital ships. Their first entry being the Phobos Class outperformed all current Destroyers in service and is at least as good as the ADCAP Barracudas from SII or the Coyote Class from Enroe Industries. The Navy ordered 5000 Phobos after very satisfactory trials.

Phobos Destroyers carry only one Translocator Cannon, but 12 Heavy Quon Plasma-Tunnel Cannons and 24 DeNoir-Mirage Anti Ship Missile silos. DeNoir had put considerable research and development efforts in the Quon Plasma Cannons and delivered a very reliable, very destructive weapon system that combined with their needle focus targeting punched through even the best shields in short notice. While most Union Officers and ship experts won't even consider anything else than TL Cannons as the ultimate answer. The DeNoir approach is seen as a unique approach that has its advantages such as no ammunition storage needed and complete elimination of TL Premature explosion accidents. (DeNoir added one TL Cannon after the Navy would not even evaluate their entry without one.)

The ship is well shielded and uses a Crystalline Ceramic Nano Wave combined with Ultronit as Armor, that is 80 percent lighter than the Neutronium vapor approach SII uses.

Length : 350 meters Propulsion: 4 x IV ISAH Pods Shields: Triple TransDim Compliment: 12 Officers, 450 Crew Sensors: SII – Sensor Suite ARGUS IX

Armament: ■ 2 × Loki Torpedo Launchers, ■24 Mirage Anti Ship Missile Silos – With 10 reloads ■2 x Orbital Bombardment dispensers, ■2 x Mine dispensers ■12 x FTL QP Cannons 12000TW/sec2 ■1 x Long range 5 kg TL Sniper cannons ■2 x Multi Beam – Paralysator P9 ■2 x Tech Stop – T9 ■12 Paladin Robots Deep Space Enabled ■Auxiliary craft carried: 21 x Mini Bison, 2 x All terrain Rovers ■2 Cargo Sleds