Description
Notes: The Champion was the first ship to be built from the Project K-Class, though she was the only ship built she remains the heaviest warship in the world. She was sold to the Caesulen Empire very recently and now she sits in port waiting to be used by the Caesulens.
Overview
Name: The Champion (Model 1)
Builders: Helkvertlance and Harvard Shipyard
Operators:
Cost: 25 Million A/M Per-Ship (1937 Earth Cycle)
Built: 1937 - 1941
In-Commission: 1941 - Present
General Characteristics
Class/Type: Project K-Class/Battleship
Displacement: 90,000 t (89,000 long tons; 99,000 short tons)
Length: 291 m (954 ft 9 in)
Beam: 42.8 m (140 ft 5 in)
Draft: 11.8 m (38 ft 9 in
Propulsion: 12 × Wagner 9Zu65/95 9-cylinder diesel engines (durable 12500 SHP / 256 rpm)
Speed: 32.2 knots (59.6 km/h)
Range: 20,000 nautical miles (37,000 km) at 19 knots (35 km/h)
Complement:
- 130 officers
- 1,950 enlisted men
Sensors and processing systems: FjMI 24
Armament:
- As built:
- 8 × 48 cm (18.9 in) guns
- 12 × 15 cm (5.9 in) guns
- 16 × 10.5 cm (4.1 in) guns
- 28 × 3.7 cm (1.5 in)
- 40 × 2 cm (0.8 in) guns
- 6 × 53.3 cm (21.0 in) torpedo tubes
Armor:
- Belt: 360 mm (14 in)
- Turrets: 360 mm (14 in)
- Main deck: 100 to 120 mm (3.9 to 4.7 in)
- Upper deck: 50 mm (2.0 in)
Aircraft carried: 5 × Airritter Ak 104
Aviation facilities: 1 double-ended catapult
Service Record
Awards: 2 references in the Durmacht
The Champion and all of the Aerah Empire belongs to me .