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Description
My first "properly calculated" spaceship. Submitted after countless hours of fighting with numbers and my concept of space battles.
If picture appears to be blurry click for full view. Scale: 1 pixel is 0.25 m.

Hare class general purpose frigate. Serving under Planets of Sol Federation.

Crew: 35

Total weight: 5508 tons (including 3933 tons of methane used as propellant)
length: 140 m
front shield diameter: 31 m

Main propulsion: fusion engine,
Delta V budget: 500 km/s

Main armament:
huge long range laser embedded into front shield (shooting three 0.5 s pulses every half minute with peak power of 320 MW), depending on target it can engage at ranges up to 6500 km (or more if target is really squishy)

Secondary armament (mounted on the edge of front shield)
2x 4 MW lasers in turrets
4x 25mm railguns (around 10000 rounds each)

Additional armament:
8x 5mm railguns (around 10000 rounds each)
almost 100 tons of missiles, torpedoes, drones, reconnaissance satellites and Combat Reconnaissance Missiles (hybrid of unmanned scout vehicle and armed missile) - chosen accordingly to mission profile, located behind weapons radiators

Heat dissipation:
weapons radiators mounted behind front shield forming parts of short cylinder with nominal temperature of 1000 K
main radiators (mainly reactor cooling) mounted on stern in shape of flat wings with nominal temperature of 800 K

Equipped with two short range shuttles 42 tons each, when not in use they are stored inside hangar bays.

Because you cannot hide in space enemy general location is known long before shooting starts. Most ship to ship combat consist of long nervous waiting till enemy is in range and rapid exchange of laser volleys until one side is destroyed. Main fighting efforts concentrate in gathering enough data to actually hit enemy ship. In consequence ship armor is concentrated in front shield.

Crude firing animation here

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Description
My first "properly calculated" spaceship. Submitted after countless hours of fighting with numbers and my concept of space battles.
If picture appears to be blurry click for full view. Scale: 1 pixel is 0.25 m.

Hare class general purpose frigate. Serving under Planets of Sol Federation.

Crew: 35

Total weight: 5508 tons (including 3933 tons of methane used as propellant)
length: 140 m
front shield diameter: 31 m

Main propulsion: fusion engine,
Delta V budget: 500 km/s

Main armament:
huge long range laser embedded into front shield (shooting three 0.5 s pulses every half minute with peak power of 320 MW), depending on target it can engage at ranges up to 6500 km (or more if target is really squishy)

Secondary armament (mounted on the edge of front shield)
2x 4 MW lasers in turrets
4x 25mm railguns (around 10000 rounds each)

Additional armament:
8x 5mm railguns (around 10000 rounds each)
almost 100 tons of missiles, torpedoes, drones, reconnaissance satellites and Combat Reconnaissance Missiles (hybrid of unmanned scout vehicle and armed missile) - chosen accordingly to mission profile, located behind weapons radiators

Heat dissipation:
weapons radiators mounted behind front shield forming parts of short cylinder with nominal temperature of 1000 K
main radiators (mainly reactor cooling) mounted on stern in shape of flat wings with nominal temperature of 800 K

Equipped with two short range shuttles 42 tons each, when not in use they are stored inside hangar bays.

Because you cannot hide in space enemy general location is known long before shooting starts. Most ship to ship combat consist of long nervous waiting till enemy is in range and rapid exchange of laser volleys until one side is destroyed. Main fighting efforts concentrate in gathering enough data to actually hit enemy ship. In consequence ship armor is concentrated in front shield.

Crude firing animation here

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