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I haven't submitted any work for quite a while. Here's something I made with CorelDraw: a realistic interplanetary military spacecraft, which I think could be built and deployed within the next few centuries.

I actually made this work in around a week or two, shortly after I finished my last exam in my Biology Undergraduate course, with major and minor edits over the months afterwards. I did a bloody load of research in science-fiction websites like 'Atomic Rockets' and 'Rocketpunk Manifesto' to make sure that it is as realistic as possible, from the engines to the weaponry.

I refrained from designating it as either a cruiser, dreadnought, destroyer or any other kinds of title that ends with ship - this is because, contrary to what many science fiction would like you to believe, space is not an ocean, so many of the terminologies and other things related to a navy cannot apply in space. You can see that my military spacecraft does not in any way resemble Space Battleship Yamato; it looks more like a heavily-armed version of the International Space Station.

If you got any questions and criticism about the design, feel free to ask in the comments below.

Type:
Fusion-powered all-purpose interplanetary military missile craft

Length:
300 metres

Complement:
30

Propulsion:
- 2 X Helium^3-Deuterium fusion engines, 2 X thrusters per engine.
- 12 X Hydrogen fuel tanks

Thrust power: 192 GW
Thrust: 49000 N
Exhaust velocity: 7840000 m/s
Engine Mass: 1200 tonne/metric ton.

Sensors and Processing
- Radar/Lidar suite
- Advanced Quantum Computers

Armaments:
Primary:
1) 8 X Casaba-Howtizers self-propelled nuclear shape-charges.
2) 12 X Missile pods, 8 X missiles per pod, 96 X missiles in total.

Secondary:
1) 30 mm Point-defense turrets

Description
I haven't submitted any work for quite a while. Here's something I made with CorelDraw: a realistic interplanetary military spacecraft, which I think could be built and deployed within the next few centuries.

I actually made this work in around a week or two, shortly after I finished my last exam in my Biology Undergraduate course, with major and minor edits over the months afterwards. I did a bloody load of research in science-fiction websites like 'Atomic Rockets' and 'Rocketpunk Manifesto' to make sure that it is as realistic as possible, from the engines to the weaponry.

I refrained from designating it as either a cruiser, dreadnought, destroyer or any other kinds of title that ends with ship - this is because, contrary to what many science fiction would like you to believe, space is not an ocean, so many of the terminologies and other things related to a navy cannot apply in space. You can see that my military spacecraft does not in any way resemble Space Battleship Yamato; it looks more like a heavily-armed version of the International Space Station.

If you got any questions and criticism about the design, feel free to ask in the comments below.

Type:
Fusion-powered all-purpose interplanetary military missile craft

Length:
300 metres

Complement:
30

Propulsion:
- 2 X Helium^3-Deuterium fusion engines, 2 X thrusters per engine.
- 12 X Hydrogen fuel tanks

Thrust power: 192 GW
Thrust: 49000 N
Exhaust velocity: 7840000 m/s
Engine Mass: 1200 tonne/metric ton.

Sensors and Processing
- Radar/Lidar suite
- Advanced Quantum Computers

Armaments:
Primary:
1) 8 X Casaba-Howtizers self-propelled nuclear shape-charges.
2) 12 X Missile pods, 8 X missiles per pod, 96 X missiles in total.

Secondary:
1) 30 mm Point-defense turrets