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ZNS Prince Archibald Class Heavy Cruiser

43.0k Thefrenchdude22  4.7 years ago

Story :

Work on the G5 program began to eventually replace the Hantonn class light cruisers, which were due to begin retiring in 1944. With the typically required year of design work and two to five years of build, preliminary design work began in the Spring of 1939 by the TSC (Technical Service of Construction). Z Navy officials in the late 1930s, in addition to their concern over the growth of dangerous threats coming from other navies, the admiralty was also influenced by the numerous debates on the fiability of the Z Navy, concerning their limited amount of heavy cruisers in the fleet.

As such, it was decided to build a powerful and massive ship class, created to counter any threat and deal with situations larger ships couldn't take part in due to their great size : The Prince Archibald Class was thus created. Counting 4 Ships in it's ranks, the Archibalds were large and powerful, aswell as being the very first Z Navy ships to include the quadruple turrets design.
Made to lead medium sized fleets, these ships served on every front and are the pinnacle of Z Navy Engineering.

Specifications :

Displacement: 17400 long tons
Length: 188 m
Beam: 21.64 m (72 ft)
draft : 5.55 m (18.2 ft)
Speed : 32.5 knots (37.4 mph; 60.2 km/h)
Complement: 42 officers 1,340 enlisted
Armement : 3 x 4 235mm Canons ; 8 x 2 100mm Secondary Guns ; 12 x 2 45mm Auto-Canons ; 14 x 2 25mm AA machine guns ; 5 × 2 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes

Sister-Ships of Prince Archibald Class

ZNS Prince Archibald
ZNS Duke Valdemar
ZNS Commodore Magus
ZNS Princess Josephine

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General Characteristics

  • Created On Windows
  • Wingspan 47.2ft (14.4m)
  • Length 449.0ft (136.9m)
  • Height 94.6ft (28.8m)
  • Empty Weight 1,216,264lbs (551,689kg)
  • Loaded Weight 1,358,335lbs (616,131kg)

Performance

  • Power/Weight Ratio 0.039
  • Wing Loading 37,390.7lbs/ft2 (182,557.4kg/m2)
  • Wing Area 36.3ft2 (3.4m2)
  • Drag Points 136108

Parts

  • Number of Parts 2567
  • Control Surfaces 0
  • Performance Cost 7,553
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    Can you make some mobile friendly ships please?

    +3 4.4 years ago
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    2,742 thecrusader

    @Thefrenchdude22 mobile friendly version

    4.6 years ago
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    @BogdanX i might do the Richelieu class battleships and the Roma class aswell. I’m actually on vacation so i can’t build anything for a week, but I’ll be back in a few days no worries ;)

    4.7 years ago
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    @Thefrenchdude22
    Can i give you a tip? Try to make superstructure less massive and large. (Just look for real ones)

    +2 4.7 years ago
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    899 BB8droid1

    You’re an incredible ship builder. Could do either the Kirov (WW2) HMS Belfast or HMS Hood?

    +2 4.7 years ago
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    34.7k WarHawk95

    Génial !!

    +1 4.7 years ago
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    @DimaKosheleFF it was a great dilemm for me too ^^, i chose to call them heavy cruisers because i didn't make a lot of em x)

    4.7 years ago
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    That's more BC then CA imho

    +1 4.7 years ago
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    3,804 Mmdben

    HOW the F* can this build work smoothly on my Pc, Please tell me your secrets.

    +1 4.7 years ago
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    13.9k ChrisPy

    @beligasub is flexing over here cause he’s one of the only ones who can spotlight this😂

    4.7 years ago
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    8,626 BeryllCorp

    beautiful!

    +1 4.7 years ago
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    wOw

    4.7 years ago
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    120k belugasub

    No problem! @Thefrenchdude22

    4.7 years ago
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    @DemXu @belugasub Thanks a lot !

    +1 4.7 years ago
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    120k belugasub

    Man that pretty neato!

    +1 4.7 years ago