Description could actually updated sometimes

Either to fix up some typos, mistyping, lack of words, or adding some new components

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The badge of USS Supreme Dorian

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"One Of Us, One Of Us, One Of Us!"
-USS Supreme Dorian's motto

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Overview

The USS Supreme Dorian (Pennant Number LPD-77) is a San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock of the United States Federation Navy. It is one of the largest vessel in the US Federation Navy that incorporates stealth elements (The others being the Nemesis-class gigacarrier). The ship is equipped with missile and artillery weapons, as well as a powerful air defense system. Additionally, it serves as a carrier for surface and underwater strike and reconnaissance unmanned vehicles.

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Overview - San Antonio-class Amphibious Transport Dock

The San Antonio class is a class of amphibious transport docks, also called a "landing platform, dock" (LPD), used by the United States Navy. These warships replace the Austin-class LPDs (including Cleveland and Trenton sub-classes), as well as the Newport-class tank landing ships, the Anchorage-class dock landing ships, and the Charleston-class amphibious cargo ships that have already been retired.

• Wikipedia - San Antonio-class Amphibious Transport Dock
• Wikipedia - USS San Antonio (LPD-17)
  

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History

Jundroo lore

The San Antonio-class Landing ships were fielded for decades in the Jundroo universe but how far back their deployment goes is unknown.

The United States Federation Navy is the main operator of the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock. Another notable operator of the San Antonio-class landing ships are the Skypark Navy used by their Amphibious Landing Forces or their Invasion Fleet.

In other use

Skypark Navy is the other notable operators of the San Antonio-class amphibious transport docks. The data can be seen here.

USS Supreme Dorian (LPD-77)

The USS Supreme Dorian is an amphibious transport dock and the intelligence-gathering warship of the US Federation Beast Fleet. USS Supreme Dorian equipped with an array of transceivers and integrated RADAR system; she was capable of intercepting transmissions over a wide range of frequencies. Report has it that Supreme Dorian can detect range from up to 25 miles from her position, but outside that range she loses all range of detect (Joke aside).

As a vessel of the Beast Fleet, she is under the command of the USS Beast aircraft carrier. USS Supreme Dorian presumably accompanied and supported the USS Beast on various combat operations.

Young captain Jerry Altman, the captain of USS Supreme Dorian (Thx Artstorm for the picture cuz why not?)

She is captained by Captain Jerry Altman, a young seaman of the United States Federation Navy with extensive experience and many stories behind him.

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Features:

• Modern Warships-ish weapons.
• Launchable helicopters.
• Deployable weapon hovercrafts.

Disadvantages:

• Worse mobility and slow speed.
• The unmanned hovercrafts are not so great while moving on the ground. The hovercrafts would sometimes stuck at the rough terrain

Manual instruction:

• Throttle = Move forward.
• Brake = Brake.
• S = Reverse (set throttle to 0 first).
• A & D = Turn left & right.

Armaments

Main cannon

• 1x Mark 45 Mod 4 (127 mm)

Autocannon

• 3x Oerlikon Millennium (35 mm)
  

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Anti-ship missile

• CHAMP

Anti-air missile

• RIM-156A
  

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Air defense

• 2x Sea RAM (SAM launcher)
• 3x Phalanx CIWS (CIWS/Close In Weapon System)
  

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Helicopters

• 2x SV-22 Osprey (Single use)
  

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Special - Weapon Hovercraft

• 2x Wasp (UH-01) (can be used anytime, possible to be put back inside the well deck.)
  

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Controls

• AG3 = Deploy/turn on and control weapon hovercraft #1.
• AG4 = Deploy/turn on and control the weapon hovercraft #2.
• AG5 = Deploy SV-22 #1.
• AG6 = Deploy SV-22 #2.
• AG7 = Disable/enable the vessel system, toggle helicopter control, open bay door.
• AG8 = Enable RADAR rotation.

Missile controls

Anti-Ship Missile controls (CHAMP)

• Requires lock on target, fire and forget.
• LAlt = Launch missile

Anti-Air Missile controls (RIM-156A)

• Requires lock on target, radar-controlled, must be keep selected or locked to the target until hit.
• LAlt = Launch missile

Cannon controls:

• VTOL = Rotate left/right.
• Trim = Aim up/down.
• LAlt = Fire.

Autocannon controls:

• Autocannon is more effective in close-combat.
• Automatically aim at your target.
• LAlt = Fire.

CIWS controls

• CIWS may quite unprecision, but it will deal damage to anything who dare to come closer to it.
• Automatically aim at your target.
• Spacebar = Fire CIWS.

Sea RAM controls

• Sea RAM fires AA missiles and will automatically aims at target, but requires lock on target.
• Automatically aim at your target.
• LAlt = Launch Sea RAM missile (must lock-on target).

Helicopter control

• Helicopter is hard to control and having a weird, Modern Warships-like camera angle. Try to get used to the controls then you will be more comfortable with the controls

Helicopter armament - SV-22 Osprey

• The Osprey features the VTOL mode.
  Main gun = GAU-17 (Deals high damage to any ground targets).
  Secondary armaments = Depth charges (drops 2 projectiles with devastating damage to below, needs cooldown before can be used again).

Startup

• AG7 = Turn on engine, disable/enable the vessel system, control the aircraft.
• AG5 = Deploy SV-22 #1.
• AG6 = Deploy SV-22 #2.

CAUTION! When flying, do not turn off the engine at the mid-air or your helicopter will lose control and falling down.

Take-off

• Full throttle.
• Once it is high enough, set the throttle below 60 or 50.
• Your helicopter should go airborne now, if the heli keeps going up you'll have to play with the throttle as well to create some balance (for hovering).

Controls

• Normal flight control.
• Throttle 50 = Fly low/hover.
• Throttle 20 below = Go down.
• Full throttle = Go up.
• Spacebar = Fire guns.

Special

• Landing Gear = SV-22 VTOL

VTOL controls

• Landing Gear up = Disable VTOL.
• Landing Gear down = Enable VTOL

DISCLAIMER! The usage of all of the aircraft is SINGLE USE. It is not possible to land your aircraft back to the ship. Once you're done with it, you have to either leave them away or "sacrifice" it.

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Weapon Hovercraft controls

• A prototype unmanned hovercraft designed for reconnaissance and enemy target detection. The Wasp (UH-01) is capable of conducting combat operations independently using anti-ship missiles and a multiple launch rocket system. The craft moves much faster and (a little bit) capable to move on dry land.
  
  
  
  • Weapon: M-122 (122 mm) - A 122 mm multiple launch rocket system capable of close quarter battle.
  
  

Startup

• AG7 = Open bay door, disable/enable the vessel system.
• AG3 = Deploy hovercraft 1, activate weapon hovercraft control #1
• AG4 = Deploy hovercraft 2, activate weapon hovercraft control #2

Controls

• Throttle = Move forward.
• Brake = Brake.
• S = Reverse (set throttle to 0 first).
• A & D = Turn left & right.

Deploy

• Move in reverse until fully comes out
• Set throttle to 100% to go forward
• Control like normal
  

Attack

• Comes with grenade launcher. But lack of reticle and HUD makes it harder to navigate it's target.
• Manually controlled, will be delay for few seconds once fully fired.
• VTOL = Rotate left/right.
• Trim = Aim up/down.
• Spacebar = Fire.
  

It is actually possible to recall and put the weapon hovercraft back inside the well deck again, but it is really hard to do due to the hovercraft always drifting around the water. The hovercraft can be used anytime, unlike the helicopters that can only be used for single use.

Recall

• You can see the green glowing magnet thing inside the well deck.
  
• Make sure both AG3/or AG4 & AG7 is still active.
• Get inside the well deck. It is not as easy as you think literally.
  
• Adjust your hovercraft with the glowing object
  
• If it feels right, immediately press AG3/or AG4 (depending which number your hovercraft is) to "catch" the hovercraft. The weapon hovercraft will be attached to the magnet or the glowing object and the weapon hovercraft control is no longer active.
  
• Close the bay door by pressing AG7. The weapon hovercraft will remains inside and completely disabled, enabling back the main vessel control.
  
• It can be released again anytime by repeating the process. press AG7 and AG3/or AG4 again and control the hovercraft like normal.
  

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Gallery

Preview

On voyage with the US Federation Beast Fleet. Featuring USS Philip Tarpley (Arleigh Burke-class destroyer) and USS Beast (Nimitz-class aircraft carrier).

Assisting the Tiny Fleet. In frame with USS Wee Baby (Fletcher-class destroyer) and USS Tiny Two (Modified Bogue-class light carrier/helicopter carrier).

Firing anti-ship missile.

Firing anti-air missile.

Firing cannon.

Two SV-22 Ospreys on the landing pad

SV-22 taking-off

SV-22 in flight.

Weapon hovercraft.

"If you believe such things, there's a beast does the bidding of Davy Jones. A fearsome creature with giant tentacles that'll suction your face clean off, and drag an entire ship down to the crushing darkness."

SP2 Shot (Thanks to Andrew Garrison the developer)

SP2 shot - on voyage

SP2 shot - front quarter view

SP2 shot - top quarter view

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Trivia

• The ship namesake was named after the former SimplePlanes site moderator with the same name.
• The ship motto is also derived from that user's catchphrase.
• The weapon hovercraft seems to be non-existence, it's probably a fictional unmanned hovercraft, originally from Artstorm FZE's Modern Warships Naval Battle.
• The United States Federation is an allegory or the fictional counterpart of the real world United States of America but in SimplePlanes universe. So it is a theorical reason why the ship prefix in the game is USS (example: USS Beast). United States Federation can also inspired or referencing United Federation from the border inspector simulation game, Papers Please.
• As the captain of the amphibious transport dock, Junior Officer Misaki Sakai might be the Monarchii counterpart of Captain Jerry Altman.
• The ship might shares a same trait to her Ace Combat "Strangereal" counterpart, the OFS Andromeda.
• Unlike the Andromeda, The Supreme Dorian is a San Antonio-class landing ship, while the Andromada herself is a Raleigh-class landing ship.
  

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Credits

• WHNineTripleOne for the helicopters. More of his choppers can be seen here
• Monarchii for the new funky trees code for the air defense and autocannon which has more extended range from before. Codes are derived from this build.
• AndrewGarrison (Dev) for the SP2 screenshoot. Didn't expecting that by the way, but I'm really glad they noticed my work! <3
  

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Creator's note:

• This is the third batch of my Assault Landing Ship class on my collection.
• This also the second batch of my warship from United States Federation.
• Thanks to Monarchii for providing the new funky trees code for the air defense and autocannon which has more extended range from before.
  

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