Servagrad-Class Guided Missile Battlecruiser

The Servagrad-Class Guided Missile Battlecruiser is a class of Battlecruisers developed by the Kingdom of Dreimor and the Confederacy of Atreus, and in use with the Atreian Navy. Designed as a large surface combatant in an Anti-Ship role, with secondary capabilities in Air Defense and Land Attack.

Servagrad Class Servagrad-Class Guided Missile Battlecruiser
Guided Missile Battlecruiser
ANS Ballingrad (BCGN-02) on Sea Trials following her conversion for Atreian Service c.2193
National Origin		Kingdom of Dreimor Confederacy of Atreus
Production History
Designed
2151 - 2153
Produced
2154 - 2156
Designer		Kalvatka Naval Yard
Unit Cost		tba(√)
Number Built		2
Service History
In Service
2162 - N/A
Used By		Confederacy of Atreus
Vessel Characteristics
Displacement		6,395 tons
Length		199.4 m
Beam		23.6 m
Height		35.1 m
Propulsion		2 P-530 Sturgeon Propellers 2 G-14 Gymno Gas Turbines
Max Speed		32.5 kn (16.72 m/s)
Operational Range		unlimited km
Complement		700
Sensors and Processing Systems		2 SIMPSON Multi-Function Radar 1 SMART-S Multi-purpose Radar 1 Large Detection Radar 1 SNOOP-R(V)4 Mobile Phased Array Radar 2 Track-While-Scan Fire Control 3 STIR Tracking Radars
Armament		32 RIM-66D Missile 8 Mark 15 Phalanx Close In Weapon System 2 Mark 75 76mm/62 Caliber Naval Gun 48 RIM-162 Enhanced Sea Sparrow Missile 24 3M54-1 Kalibr AShM or BGM-109 Tomahawk Block AShM
Aircraft Carried		3 Rotary-Wing Aircraft

Design and Development

Picked up from the failures of the Belkan Navy's large surface combatants such as the Orion-Class and Eminent Domain-Class Battleships, the Servagrad-Class Guided Missile Battlecruiser shed the heavy guns preferred by the Belkan Navy and similar to her counterpart, the Pheonix-Class Guided Missile Cruiser, focused on a missile-heavy loadout, only retaining two 127mm Naval Guns for self-defense.

Following the terrible outcome of the Battle of North Point and the collapse of the Belkan Navy at the hands of the Stalhsieg, the Belkan Navy was all but desperate in precuring a new class of cheaper, but still capable large surface combatant to counter the threat of Battleships and Cruisers such as the Morser-Class using Long Range Missiles such as the BGM-109 Tomahawk Land Attack Missile Block V, or 3M54-1 Kalibr Anti-Ship and Land Attack Missiles.

Air Defense

The Servagrad-Class lacks the full fledged air-defense suites offered by other capital ships as the Battlecruisers were expected to operate with escorts alongside their own personal defenses.

Short-range air defense (SHORAD) is handled by two, twin-arm launchers equipped with RIM-162 Enhanced Sea Sparrow Missiles primarily to engage and destroy enemy aircraft at close ranges, and protecting against anti-ship missiles. Additionally, the Servagrad-Class was designed under Belkan skepticism of modern missiles, and features eight independent CIWS systems, with 4 on each side of the hull.

As well as her compliment of ESSM's, the Servagrad-Class has 32 VLS-launched RIM-66D long-range missiles to defend against supersonic and hypersonic missiles in eight, 4-cell launchers.

Anti-Ship Weapons

The Servagrad-Class Battlecruiser is built around its 24 launch-tubes for large cruise missiles. Each tube is mounted at a 30-degree angle to decrease the amount of time each missile is spent turning to increase forward motion.

Two 76mm/62 Caliber Mark 75 Naval guns are mounted sternward of the ship's superstructure, with their primary role being the final line of defense of the vessel against missiles, small boats, or even other naval vessels if needed, as well as aircraft.

Service History

Being laid down in Kalvatka Naval Yard in the city of her namesake, Servagrad, both Servagrad and Ballingrad were not finished by the collapse of the Principality of Belka and the events of Red Wednesday, but with the rise of House Dreimor and the capture of the coast from scattered Belkan Army units