HOME | DD

Description
The Angilus is a heavily armed destroyer designed for fleet defense and screening duties. Armed wit twin light duty spinal mounts and a variety of anti-fighter/anti missile turrets the Angilus is often placed at the inner defense wall of a fleet formation. It's duty is to defend against small craft and missile attacks while providing support fire against destroyers and cruisers with it's long ranged particle cannon.

While it has fewer weapons bays and other anti ship heavy emplacements the ships main batteries allow it to inflict damage on cruisers, and other destroyers with great effect. when part of a Destroyer squadron operating in a coordinated manner several Anguilus can deal heavy damage, and create gaps in the enemies screening force of corvettes, frigates, and destroyers.

the heavy firepower comes at a price, the large reactors, and hardware of the main battery take up considerable internal space, which means that without heavy bay weapons it is vulnerable to smaller more agile corvettes and strike ships. This requires it to operate in groups, with support fire from smaller corvettes or frigates equipped with powerful bay weapons that can more effectively engage sub capital class warships, and light capital class warships.

this weakness means that should an Angilus class ship become separated, or the defensive screen fail, the ship can be swarmed and torn apart by a larger number of smaller vessels. In addition it is vulnerable to the heavy main batteries of cruisers, and battleships, forcing the ship to avoid being targeted by the heavier warships. these shortcomings force the fleet commander to carefully position the ships to maximize their firepower, and reduce their exposure to direct fire from larger warships.

Due to the design factors of the ship, it is not suitable for independent operations, or duties that require it to operate without significant escort. This is not seen as a fatal flaw for the vessel, since it was specifically designed for it's intended role, rather than multi-role deployments. Only poor tactical deployment, or a critical failure in fleet coordination is likely to cause the ship to be in a position that allows an opposing force to exploit the vulnerabilities imposed by fitting the sip with such a narrowly focused weapons system, and defensive measures.

Technical Note:
Due to the design of the ship, it's spinal weapons fire on a single target, delivering the same destructive power as a standard particle weapon deployed on larger cruisers. If one weapon is disabled, however the ships power systems can not redirect power form one weapon to the still functional weapon taking the entire weapon system offline.Prototype refits are being studied to correct this problem, but no stable system has yet been deployed to replace the older weapons systems.

Primary Role, point defense, and fire support
Jump Drive: J-4
Thrust: M-9
Power system T-12 fast Cycle Fusion
Tonnage: 10,000 Displacement tons
Armor: Mid weight Bonded Superdense armor, reflec coating, radiation Shielding
Sensors: Military grade radar, Lidar, jammers, tight beam lasers.
Electronic counter measures: Military Grade
Primary weapons: Twin Long range particle spinal mounts.
Secondary Weapons
Triple mount beam Lasers
Tripe mount pulse lasers
Triple Mount Sandcasters
Barbette mount particle beams
Barbette mount missile launchers

Auxiliary craft:
escape pods
6 20 ton ships boats
2 50 ton cutters

artist notes:

working on something other than my usually box/wedge type starships and trying to refine my textures,..more detailed textures forthcoming, as i develop a set for this model. Modeled in Blander, time, 6 hours so far.

Class name drawn form pre-spaceflight mythical beast, popular in some early forms of video entertainments.

Intended for Traveller Third Imperium setting as well as my own homebrew sci-fi setting.

Description
The Angilus is a heavily armed destroyer designed for fleet defense and screening duties. Armed wit twin light duty spinal mounts and a variety of anti-fighter/anti missile turrets the Angilus is often placed at the inner defense wall of a fleet formation. It's duty is to defend against small craft and missile attacks while providing support fire against destroyers and cruisers with it's long ranged particle cannon.

While it has fewer weapons bays and other anti ship heavy emplacements the ships main batteries allow it to inflict damage on cruisers, and other destroyers with great effect. when part of a Destroyer squadron operating in a coordinated manner several Anguilus can deal heavy damage, and create gaps in the enemies screening force of corvettes, frigates, and destroyers.

the heavy firepower comes at a price, the large reactors, and hardware of the main battery take up considerable internal space, which means that without heavy bay weapons it is vulnerable to smaller more agile corvettes and strike ships. This requires it to operate in groups, with support fire from smaller corvettes or frigates equipped with powerful bay weapons that can more effectively engage sub capital class warships, and light capital class warships.

this weakness means that should an Angilus class ship become separated, or the defensive screen fail, the ship can be swarmed and torn apart by a larger number of smaller vessels. In addition it is vulnerable to the heavy main batteries of cruisers, and battleships, forcing the ship to avoid being targeted by the heavier warships. these shortcomings force the fleet commander to carefully position the ships to maximize their firepower, and reduce their exposure to direct fire from larger warships.

Due to the design factors of the ship, it is not suitable for independent operations, or duties that require it to operate without significant escort. This is not seen as a fatal flaw for the vessel, since it was specifically designed for it's intended role, rather than multi-role deployments. Only poor tactical deployment, or a critical failure in fleet coordination is likely to cause the ship to be in a position that allows an opposing force to exploit the vulnerabilities imposed by fitting the sip with such a narrowly focused weapons system, and defensive measures.

Technical Note:
Due to the design of the ship, it's spinal weapons fire on a single target, delivering the same destructive power as a standard particle weapon deployed on larger cruisers. If one weapon is disabled, however the ships power systems can not redirect power form one weapon to the still functional weapon taking the entire weapon system offline.Prototype refits are being studied to correct this problem, but no stable system has yet been deployed to replace the older weapons systems.

Primary Role, point defense, and fire support
Jump Drive: J-4
Thrust: M-9
Power system T-12 fast Cycle Fusion
Tonnage: 10,000 Displacement tons
Armor: Mid weight Bonded Superdense armor, reflec coating, radiation Shielding
Sensors: Military grade radar, Lidar, jammers, tight beam lasers.
Electronic counter measures: Military Grade
Primary weapons: Twin Long range particle spinal mounts.
Secondary Weapons
Triple mount beam Lasers
Tripe mount pulse lasers
Triple Mount Sandcasters
Barbette mount particle beams
Barbette mount missile launchers

Auxiliary craft:
escape pods
6 20 ton ships boats
2 50 ton cutters

artist notes:

working on something other than my usually box/wedge type starships and trying to refine my textures,..more detailed textures forthcoming, as i develop a set for this model. Modeled in Blander, time, 6 hours so far.

Class name drawn form pre-spaceflight mythical beast, popular in some early forms of video entertainments.

Intended for Traveller Third Imperium setting as well as my own homebrew sci-fi setting.