>>Note that these are mostly just suggestions. If you wish to command a vessel not listed, go ahead and make your ship that class.<<

Dreadnought - The Dreadnought is a massive ship, typically 1-2 Kilometers long, with a crew numbering at least two to three thousand, and sometimes used as a Flagship in a fleet. The DN, in sublight speeds, is amongst the slowest in the entire Alliance navy. Due to its sheer mass and inertia, it’s often difficult to pull complex maneuvers in this type of vessel. However, due to it’s sheer amount of guns and armor, a common tactic is to just park it in front of an opposing fleet and have a slugfest, throwing heavy hits and receiving heavy hits, tying down the opposing fleet, and allowing more maneuverable vessels to flank around. DN’s are a type of ship that has not been developed in a long time, many DN’s currently in service are very old, from an age of war long ago, refitted with modern technology. Recently, Alliance shipyards have relearned how to recreate these massive vessels, and have only made a few so far. Most Dreadnoughts contain hangers.

Battleship - A type of ship that has not been constructed in a long time. Most Battleships in service today were originally classified as Heavy Cruisers, filling the roles of exploration ships. However, they have been gutted and refitted with more weapons, more armor, and more shielding. Like the tremendous Dreadnought, Alliance Shipyards have relearned how to make proper Battleships, and several has already been constructed, and are in service. Although usually constructed with long range, anti-capital ship weaponry in mind, variations do exist. Many Battleships contain a hanger. Typical crew sizes range from 800-1,200 people.

Carrier - The Carrier was brought back thanks to an Alliance insectoid race, in the form of space-hives. Then the Carrier was reintroduced to the Alliance Navy thanks to Humanity, although some were hesitant to allow the production of a dedicated Carrier, since most Cruisers had hangers, they eventually allowed it due to continuous pressure from the Humans. Carriers can range from smaller sizes to larger sizes, so there is no 'typical' crew size.

Cruiser - The most common ship prior to the war. Many variations exist. Light Cruisers, Heavy Cruisers, Exploration Cruisers, Science Cruisers, Medical Cruisers. Thanks to the war, more militarized versions exist now as well, such as Battlecruisers, Missile Cruisers, Railgun Cruisers, to name a few. The Cruiser is the backbone of the Alliance Navy, with many Cruisers having their own shuttlebay, doubling as a hanger. Typical cruiser crew sizes can range from the 400-800's.

Destroyer - Destroyers are less common than Cruisers, the age of the Destroyers was fading, as technology allowed faster, lighter Cruisers to be built. However, since the beginning of the war, retrofitted and refitted Destroyers have found a new purpose, in wolfpacks. Small teams of multiple Destroyers would be deployed as escorts, or as a wolfpack, hounding cut off enemy vessels and destroying them. Typical crew sizes can range from 100-400's.

Frigate - Although Frigates had a small role in the Alliance Navy before the war, they are now used as escorts. Boasting the most powerful engines in the Navy, they can get in, scan a location, and get out before anyone can get within weapons range. Typical crew sizes can range from 50-100.

Bomber - A large, multicrew ‘bomber’. Harkening back to the bombers of WW2, the crew of a bomber would likely consist of a pilot, bombardier, navigator, and several gunners.

Fighterbomber - Fighterbombers are smaller than normal Bombers, and only consist of a pilot and navigator/copilot. As a result, they carry a smaller load, but are maneuverable enough to fly without an escort.

Interceptor - Interceptors are extremely fast, extremely maneuverable, often single seat fighters designed to take out other Interceptors, Fighterbombers, or bombers.

>>Note that these are mostly just suggestions. If you wish to use a weapon not listed, go ahead and give your ship that weapon.<<

Particle Beam - Both jokingly and affectionately called Phasers, these weapons have the best power expended-to-damage inflicted ratio. Although the damage isn’t tremendous, it’s often enough to disable or severely cripple enemy ship systems. A skilled gunner could target fuel tanks, or munition stores to cause secondary explosions, taking down an enemy ship in less hits. Particle Beam emitters are often laid out in a strip, allowing a single strip to cover a large arc of the ship, and be able to fire from different points from the strip. Particle Beams are both capable anti-ship and point-defense weapons.

Laser - Lasers are a weapon of extremes. It is either low-powered, and thus used as point-defense, or high-powered, used as large lance like weapons. Medium sized lasers are not used as much, as Particle Beams fill this role pretty well.

Kinetic - Kinetics cover a very large variety of weaponry. From small caliber flak, working as point defense, to larger caliber anti-ship weaponry, to massive anti-Capital Ship railguns.

Torpedo - Torpedoes are a popular way of delivering a highly destructive payload to the enemy ship. Torpedoes are often fired out of torpedo tubes, and are somewhat tracking. Although they don’t have the maneuverability to hit smaller targets like fast Frigates, or small craft. Different kinds of Torpedoes do exist, although standard issue torpedoes are the most common.

Missile - Missiles are similar to Torpedoes, but typically carry a smaller warhead and are much more agile. Allowing them to track and destroy smaller ships that would normally out-fly a torpedo.

>>Note that these are mostly just suggestions. If you wish to use a technology not listed, go ahead and give your ship that technology.<<

Replicators - An advancement of 3D printers, Replicators use some advanced technology mumbo jumbo to create anything from food, to water, to building material. Making scarcity a non-issue, as long as there’s power fed into the Replicators. However, the natural equivalent of said things are always slightly better, in most peoples opinions. Such as food.

Transporters - Transporters are a relatively new, relatively safe technology, where it’s basically teleporting. The Transporters have a limited range, and some don’t trust Transporters. So most ships carry shuttles. Transporters are useful for emergency extractions, moving large cargo, and stuff like that.

AI Technology - Many ships come with some sort of AI, some play a more active role, others don’t. The AI is primarily used for calculations, that sort of thing.

FTL Drive - There are many types of FTL drive. Such as the Warp Drive, Hyperspace Drive, and more. All are similar, and have slightly different variations to each other.

Sublight Engines - Like FTL technology, there are many types of sublight engines available. Such as the Ion Engines, or Impulse Engines. And like the FTL Drives, they are all similar, with slightly different variations.

Shielding - No need to explain.

Radar Systems - No need to explain.

Experimental Systems - Quantum technology, Dark Matter/Dark Energy technology, stuff like that.

Human
COMING SOON

Ansulian
Possessing a physiology similar to that of amphibians, Ansulians are adept at both low light vision and swimming. Most stand at an average of 1.8 meters, have either smooth green or brown skin, and large pink eyes with lids that are seldom used. They're capable of breathing both in and out of water and face little difficult with functioning on land. Their most notable feature is likely their head-tresses, which grant them exceptional olfactory and pheromone-sensing skills. These tendrils are used to detect the emotional state of another being, and are most effective underwater. Within Ansulian culture, the ability to sense pheromone changes is an essential part of the communication process. All Ansulians have fourteen sensory tentacles and multiple hearts, which are capable of beating separately. Like their sense of smell, Nautolan language is also maximized for use underwater and not fully pronounceable in a gaseous atmosphere. Because of this loss in linguistic detail, most Ansulians rarely speak when traveling outside of their home-world. In addition, Ansulians often use communicative cues when submerged, such as reading the swirls in other Ansulians' large eyes.

Little is known about Ansulian culture, as few Ansulians leave their home planet due to its remote location. However, their music is often found amongst savvy music collectors, which is solely composed of sustained notes held in irregular patterns with occasional pauses. These pauses were considered the most important part of the music to the Ansulians, causing non-Ansulian listeners to misunderstand their artistic intent.

Etisa
The people of the planet Metix are descended from birds. Despite standing at 2 meters tall, and having no wings, much to their dismay, they are a rather fragile species. They have several hollow bones in their body, and low muscle mass. Regardless they are capable warriors, and almost all of them are natural pilots. They are also often sensitive to certain matters pertaining to their lineage. Such as, their wings. They have none, even though they are an avian race.

The Etisa are a warrior-race, their homeplanet was very mountainous and had few flatlands. They evolved on these flatlands, losing their wings as they didn’t need them anymore. Eventually, as their number grew, they were forced to live on more steep lands. Because of the sparse amount of flatland, wars over territory and accessible resources were very common.

They only got to a Medieval age state of technology before being thrust into the galactic community. While normally the Alliance would wait until a race reaches basic FTL before contacting them, the Alliance was forced to step in when a Thresh armada began to invade Metix. The smaller Alliance fleet was only able to evacuate a couple thousand before being forced back. While most of the survivors are looking for a new colony to rebuild their race from, a great number of Etisa swore loyalty to the Alliance, to fight against the Thresh. Although only a few was accepted, the rest was told to ensure the survival of their race and culture. The fate of the rest of the Etisa people is unknown.

Not much is known about the Thresh Empire, or even the Thresh People. Nobody in the Alliance has seen a Thresh. They use a tremendous amount of slaves of varying race in their ground military. What we do know is that the Tresh warships are a mix of metal and biomatter. It appears that they lay out a skeleton made of a metallic alloy, then grow the ship around that skeleton. Their weapons fire bioplasma, most commonly fired as bolts. Although beams and large spheres have been seen in combat.
It's difficult to identify Thresh ships by our type of ship classification, as most ships are unique in varying ways. However, most people have settled on calling them "Light", "Medium", or "Heavy", class ships. Other types include "Very Light" and "Very Heavy".

Skyeye is a mysterious figure. Or multiple mysterious figures. Nobody honestly knows, but for the purposes of this briefing we're assuming he's male. Skyeye is at the top of Alliance Intelligence, one of their top Operatives. Or he might not, again, nobody really knows. But we're assuming he's Alliance Intelligence since he's helping us. The shady bastards.
He seems to take an interest in particularly gifted people and provide them with on the spot intel and assistance. Since nobody has actually seen him, we have no idea how he gets this intel, and how he provides this assistance. He's been reported to have been in vastly different parts of Alliance territory, even in the vast unexplored regions of space. He is just as mysterious as the Thresh we're fighting.

Location - Earth
Current Status - Under Siege // +7 Hours
Objectives
>Defend Gaia Station
>Re-establish contact with the Moon.
>Rescue Marines and trapped civilians.
>Fight back the Thresh Armada

Note that personality is something we will explore in-RP. Do not include this in the Character Sheet.

Name:
Age:
Race:
Rank: (Mostly everyone will be a Captain. If you wish to make another sheet for important crew members in your ship, that is also acceptable.)
Skills: (If you want to list specific skills.)
Away Mission Equipment: (If your character will ever get off the ship on an 'away' mission, on a hostile world.)
Appearance:
Quick-Bio: (This is a quick bio. A paragraph is acceptable)

Ship Designation: (Most prefixes will be ANS, Alliance Navy Ship.
Ship Registry: (Normal ships will have the NS prefix, Experimental ships will have the NX prefix. Typically ship registry numbers are in the thousands.
Ship Class:
Ship Size: (Length size is enough. Gives me a better idea of how to picture the vessel.)
Ship Crew: (The typical amount of crewmen.)
Ship Weapons:
Other: (The other things about the ship. Such as experimental technologies, etc.)
Ship Appearance:

These are for your shuttles and fighters in your shuttle bay, if you wish to have stuff in your shuttle.

Ship Designation: (Sometimes just called Shuttle 1, Shuttle 2, etc. If you want to give it a special name, you can.)
Ship Class:
Ship Crew:
Ship Weapons:
Other:
Ship Appearance:

Name: Otto Gralius

Age: 37

Rank: Admiral

Skills:
-Leadership Skills
-Pianist
-Cooking
-Sharpshooter
-Navigation
-Strategist
-Comedic

Away Mission Equipment:
-Scanner
-Communication Device(Watch)
-M41A PULSE RIFLE

-Light Weight Tactical Armor


Appearance:

Quick-Bio: Otto was born into a military family on earth. He was just like any other kid, he had a loving family, friends, and everything he wanted, and his mother was a Captain in the military. Unfortunately, Otto lost his mother when he was only in middle school. Because of this, Otto's father felt overwhelmed with the responsibility of having to raise Otto by himself, so he sent his son to a boarding school miles away from home. After he finished high school, he was finally able to see his father, who had not visited him all throughout his stay at the school. When he met his father, he had already remarried. Otto hated his father for this, so he joined the military, seeing as it was the only way to honor his dead mother, unlike his father had. After many years of loyal service, Otto was promoted to Admiral, were he now continues to serve in honor of his mother, and in sacred service to his homeland and people.

Ship Designation: ANS Bermuda

Ship Registry: NX 523,846

Ship Class: Dreadnought

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Ship Crew: 2,342
Communications
-Warrant Officer Briggs
-Warrant Officer Manzel

Navigation
-Lieutenant Chalmers
-Private Mendoza

-Pilot
Captain Jonathan

Head Technician
-James Jaquariaus

Co.Pilot
-Miranda Mcadams

Head Cook
Liam Willson

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Ship Weapons:
- 2x Particle Beams
-Torpedos
-Missile
(24 Barrel Homing Missiles)
-2x Anti Personal Kinetic railguns

Size: 2.2 Kilometers

Other: This is one of the few ships that were newly made, it is out fitted with all the new technology available at the moment.

Ship Appearance:

Name: Alexandra LeFores
Age:40
Race:Human
Rank: Captain
Skills:
Statistical analysis, land navigation, navigation, astronavigation, zero-g combat, survival, EVA, EVA combat, oxygen conservation (pretty much standard to most military pilots)
Navy History (ground and space), Naval & Aerospace combat tactics and strategy, gambling (cardsharp), combat sports (boxing/kickboxing), hand to hand: advanced (Navy combatives, supplemental civilian training)

Away Mission Equipment: (In the unlikely event)
Standard Aliance Combat Hardsuit
Standard Alliance Battle Rifle
Multispectrum handheld scanner
vibro-knife
any other equipment necessary for the mission

Appearance:


Quick-Bio:
Alexandria, or Alex to friends, or those that know her well joined the Alliance Navy, originally as a candidate for combat flight school, and officer candidate training. Soon after she made the decision to be a career officer. She's worked her way through the ranks over the decades of service, distinguishing herself as a fighter jock, before being 'grounded' as she put it, after several years as CAG. She was brought into the position of an apprentice command officer, where her expertise was useful, but often was expected to watch and learn. Being something of a gambler, and with the killer instinct of a fighter, she was able to offer insight into opponents now and again, when to bluff, when to call the other's bluff. With a good head for statistical analysis, reading people, being something of a gambler, understanding chance and probability, and having the mentality of a street fighter, she was able to roll these all together, becoming a young commander with a solid head for strategy and tactics, and while tough in discipline, has often proved to be amenable to crew, viewing them as family. As such she is often well liked by her subordinates, and this has followed her into the later years of her command, now a seasoned captain.

Name: Gabriel "Icebox" Danvers
Age:27
Race:Human
Rank: Lieutenant
Skills:
Away Mission Equipment: pilot soft suit, pilot sidearm, comlink, survival pack and ejection pod (in the case of actually ejecting)
Appearance:

Quick-Bio: Joined the military just out of primary education, to get away from home. Wanted to be a pilot, and entered into flight officers school as a Marine, transferred to the navy, and is now CAG and Squadron Leader for Angel Squadron.

The Delphi Battleship was designed to fill the gap between cruiser and dreadnought. It is meant to be nimble (for it's size), with the ability to handle a good amount of punishment and deal out withering amounts of firepower against single or multiple targets. It was given enough interceptors to keep it from being too weak against lighter craft. The designers favored the use of energy weapons, as the cost for their operation would be minimal, and would require less support crew, reducing operations cost overall. The Delphi class protects itself at short and midrange with Gatling railguns and particle beams against fighters and torpedos. Particle beam may be used at much longer ranges and in an anti-ship capacity, due to their variable power output. With a matter/anti-mater reaction system, it produces plenty of power for the ship in heavy combat operations, while needing little fuel space. There have been some talks about putting magnetic ramscoups on some designs to harvest matter and anti-matter while on long cruises to supplement fuel resources. This is still being discussed in committee.

These ships are relatively simple in design, allowing them to be built quickly, as capital ships go. They are often built at one of three shipyards, Terra-Luna Drive Yards, a floating space assembly near Earth and it's moon, Olympus Station, near Jupiter and it's moons, and Ares Drydock, near the asteroid belt, making use of the materials mined from the nearby belt and :Mars. Others may be in production elsewhere, but currently there are a few in the works in the Sol system.

Ship Designation: ANS Typhoon
Ship Registry - NS 2187
Class: Delphi Class Battleship
Role: Multiple roles

Size
Tonnage: 1000 tons
Length: 950 meters (roughly), Beam (width): 273 meters, Height: 178 meters

Propulsion
Matter/Anti-Matter reactor
Top Speed: Classified
Sublight: Impulse Thrust

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Armaments:
Particle Batteries (phaser strips) - (9) - Arranged along the long axis of the ship, fore, mid, aft, three strips each section, 120 degrees apart, like points of a triangle, creating 360 degree coverage on all sides with converging fields of fire. Typically favors muon particles, largest, heaviest, which provide optimal materials destruction as well as 50% pass-through in many cases.
Range: 500 kilometers +/- 50

LBX Gatlin Railguns - (27)
Type: Hybrid Turret
RoF: Cyclic (2500-4200 rounds per minute, variable)
Range: 10-20 km
Primary Purpose: Anti-Interceptor
Secondary: Anti-missile
Payload: 2000 (Combat mix - explosive and armor piercing)
Operation: Central Fire Control, Bridge Fire Control, manual backup, One gunner per weapon, or may operate fire-linked and in clusters, overlapping interlinked fields of fire
Location, Covering hangar bays, nose section, engines, and along central axis to supplement particle batteries.

Name: Photon/Particle Lance (1)
Location: Axial mounted
Purpose: Anti-ship, anti-planetary
Range: 2000 km+
Operation: Bridge Firecontrol and Engineering
Payload: NA
Rate of Fire: Slow, (may fire at most 1 shot every fifteen seconds, but risks serious damage and overheating, or even catastrophic explosion. Optimally 1 shot per minute, still runs 'hot' but not dangerously so)
Operation: MARA (Matter/Anti-Matter Reactor Assembly) begins to ramp up power as if preparing to transfer to FTL travel, but instead focuses the energy through magnetic constrictors, creating a release of a mixture of photons and subatomic particles. The beam is roughly one-hundred feet wide in the core, and travels two thousand or more kilometers. Is unlikely to hit anything less than capital ships, due to time required to fire, The weapon does have a secondary corona along the main beam, and is likely to also distort and ionize electronics. Near misses may still destroy armor and damage materials. The discharge lasts a few moments, up to fifteen seconds. A common tactic that might be used for such a weapon is to sweep an area, using attitude/reaction thrusters. Damage to each target is reduced, but may still be significant. Often used as a scare tactic, or to try to catch smaller targets off-guard, boil off armor and weapons, sensors, and blind enemy ships. Maneuver is difficult and requires precise timing between navigation, fire-control, engineering, and of course commanding officer. Takes a bit of prep. Recovery from such maneuver can take a minute or more between main engines and RCS.

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Armor & Defense Systems
Armor: 2000 MM nano ferro ceramics, covering main hull
Turrets: 40 mm carbon-ceramic nanoweave composite (light, tough, strong)

Magnetic Shields - Designed to deflect micrometeorites, space dust, and may offer some protection against kinetic/ballistic weaponry. More effective against ion, plasma, and some particle weaponry, but not terribly so against particle weapons.

Gravitonic Shields - Using a shell of gravitons, will deflect objects, and will disperse the energy of incoming directed energy weapons into space and along the surface of the shield. Some pass-through is possible.

Shield Maximum Graviton Load (Continuous)
1865 MegaWatts
Shield Maximum Energy Dissipation Rate
3.5x10^4 kilowatts

Electronics Warfare Package - Provides electronic countermeasures against enemy combatants, namely against missile locks, and helping to prevent electronic/digital intrusions. Not impossible, but just more difficult.

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Sensors, Systems, Computers & Programs
Basic Operations - All the typical needs to operate a ship of the class, including a 100,000 km comms system
Advanced Sensor Package - A full suite of optics and sensors in all common spectrums, includes laser and radio telescopes, able to survey out to roughly four lightyears. Roughly 90% of ship is covered with cameras
Motion Perimeter & Collision Warning System - Primarily used for docking, and port maneuvers, tight spaces.
Military Sensor Array & Combat Computer - Pretty self explanatory, includes analysis and coordination, allowing a single communications officer to coordinate multiple combat elements, May not be used if working with Con-Com ship, but is a ready-backup.
Targeting & Combat Computer - Can track 120 targets at 1000 kilometers, and can ident an additional 80 at roughly, 1400 kilometers.
SARA - Stastical Analysis & Reactive Assistant. Ship's AI - Designed to help with tactical analysis, navigation, coordination, and more. Personality develops individually to each ship, captain, and crew.

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Auxiliary & Support Systems
Crew Quarters - Several barracks style quarters in place, a number of two or four person dorms. Officers have individual quarters.
Crew Recreation Facilities - Weight room, exercise room (open space, gymnastics, self defense, dance, and so on), mess hall, officers mess, running track, gaming/recreation room. Dining facilities have access to 'replicators' and protein resequences, but a small staff is on hand in the officers mess for the 'real deal'.
Armory & Shooting Range
Hangars:- 2 - Each hangar contains 2 shuttles and twelve interceptors, giving limited but decent intercept capability. (Angel Squadron and Wraith Squadron)
Hard Suits & Soft Suits available on every deck, combat protocol all crew or as many crew as possible are expected to be suited up.
Hull Breach Sealing System - Activates in the event of most breaches, but everyone is to be suited up, just in case they get sucked out.
Atmosphere recyclers/scrubbers - self explanatory
Atmosphere tanks - enough to last a few days in an emergency for the entire crew, most often used for helping cycle airlocks and refill suit tanks and the like
FTL Accellerators - Allow rapid deployment into FTL travel, usually used for combat/emergency jumps.
Escape pods and lifeboats - pretty self explanatory, short range, not meant for long term, varies based on how many are crammed into each.
Self Destruct - Just overload the engines already... or have a containment failure on the antimatter bottles

Ship/Craft: SA-43 "Hammerhead"
Type: Endo-Exo Trans-atmospheric Attack Jet
Primary Function : Deployment in combat missions (Combat Space Patrol), interception, Close Air Support (CAS) and Colonial Defense, but can also be adapted for SAR (Search and Rescue).
Manufacturer: AeroTech Space Division
Length : 11.5 m
Height : 1.7 m
Wingspan : 12.5 m

Ferry range: Over 2,000 mega statue kilometres (1.242 million miles, roughly)
Combat radius: N/A
Fighter mission: N/A
Attack mission: N/A
Maneuverability:
Propulsion : He3 fueled SCRAMjet (Supersonic Combustion RAMjet)
Engines : SCRAMjet - enabling the SA-43 to fly from inside an atmosperic envelope to a transorbital fase right into ACM (Air Combat Manoevring, i.e. dogfighting), in the (almost complete) vacuum of space

Armament :
1 x frontal, sub-nose gimbal-mounted electro-magnetic railgun (capable of covering a 50° kill-zone)
1 x dual-barrel aft-mounted railgun, mounted in a turret, capable of auto-target seeking and tracking
Existing hardpoint configuration : 6 x hardpoints, capable of carrying:
- a. Missiles : Spartan space-to-space missile
- b. Bombs
- c. Pods : for carrying special electronic Eqt or instrument modules

Features: The SA-43 has various modular components, easily replaced in case of malfunction.
The canopies are detachable, enabling the craft not only to dock on board carriers, but also on various types of space stations. The cockpit usually is lifted up to the flightdeck (hence smaller decks are possible). It also doubles as an escape pod in case of midair emergency.
LIDAR : Laser Infrared Detection And Ranging. Long Range, configurable. Can track and engage up to 100 independent targets.
HUD : Heads-Up Display. Mainly used for displaying flight parameters, navigational information and overall combat intelligence.
ODP : Optical Disk Playback. Used for mission data recordings. Can be used lateron for mission evaluation.
Crew: 1
Introduction date: N/A
Unit Replacement Cost: N/A

Mission: Specific SA-43 tasks include:
- Intercept and destroy enemy craft in conjunction with ground or airborne fighter control under all-endo/exo conditions.
- Conduct day and night close air support.
- Conduct day and night deep air support. Deep air support consists of LIDAR search and attack, interdiction, and strikes against enemy installations using all types of weapons compatible with assigned craft.
- Conduct armed escort of friendly craft.
- Be able to operate from spacecraft carriers, advanced bases, and expeditionary airfields.
- Be able to deploy or conduct extended range operations employing aerial refueling.
Ship Appearance: