Post by Uzb3kistan on Jul 12, 2005 10:45:46 GMT -5
Orsiris Class SSHBN
Introduction[/color]
Back in the late 20th century, many people attempted to predict into the future of Naval and submarine warfare, as well as others. Some predicted accurately, some predicted that submarine warfare would be totally revolutionized by the earlier 21st century. They predicted that submarine warfare would become more and more like surface warfare, where aircraft carriers being the predominate and central ship, while it's surrounding ships help escort it, and thus creating a carrier group. The designing, developing, and production of the Osiris Class Submarine reinforces this idea. The Osiris Class Submarine; or "mothership" as the men have came around to calling it; introduces the term Heavyweight Ballistic Missile Submarine (SSHBN) to the Uzb3kistan Navy. With a total displacement of approximatly 160,000 tons, it's the largest in the Navy, and the largest in the world.
Design[/color]
The design of the Osiris Class is purely Uzb3kistan indigenous in design. However powerful, the massive hull brought on challenges to the Navy. Many Naval Harbors have build larger ports to house the Osiris Class without taking up extra room that could be of valuable use to other Naval and merchant ships. Unlike other Submarines, though, the entire hull doesn't need to be entirely surfaced, or the entire hull doesn't need to 'fit' inside of a port, but just the very top may be used to man the Submarine, and equip it. The Osiris Class has a massive length of 8,707 ft; or the length of 22 Dakuwaqa Class Submarines, or the length of 29 football fields. With a width of about 2,234 ft at it's widest point: the most very back point (see picture). It's powered by four Nuclear Pebblebed Reactors, that in the total system come together in a hybrid of propulsor features. The Osiris Class is designed to be very flexible and universal. This allows for technological insertion and innovation in the future, without having to redesign the hull and consequently designing a new submarine.
With a frame made out of Titanium , giving the Submarine a high mass efficiency, a high strength-to-weight ratio, and a lighter weight. Although expensive, the costs are made up with the lower maintenance costs. The Titanium frame also protects the submarine from certain dangers that haunted previous crews. Such as the crushing of the hull due to pressure depth. The Titanium allows the submarine to go deeper than ever before, and it can even hold up to some older torpedoes, like the Mk 48 ADCAP torpedoes. The hull of the ship is made of Shaitan Corporation designed special advanced polymer matrix composite materials, or advanced PMCs. Giving it an even higher strength and protection against outside aggression. The composite materials are then reinforced by extra layers of titanium, depleted uranium, and anechoic materials to add extra strength and stealth to the hull(s); and an active degaussing system to help prevent MAD detection. The Osiris Class has photonic masts, that are basically arrays of high-resolution cameras , which will send the visual images to flat-panel displays in the control room. Also featured on the Osiris, are two 'bays' which other smaller submarines and submersed vehicles may attach themselves to, and load up on supplies and weaponry.
Propulsion[/color]
The Osiris Class Submarine is powered by four Nuclear Pebblebed Reactors, that in the total system come together in a hybrid of propulsor features, with the Shaitan Corporation designed Advanced Shaftless Propulsion System (ASPS), and Electric Integration. With the ASPS, the submarine can overcome selected technological barriers that have a significant impact on a submarine's infrastructure and cost. The ASPS features a shaftless propulsor that eliminates the need for a traditional shaft that penetrates the submarine's pressure hull. This revolutionary change in submarine design will dramatically reduce the ship's weight, size and cost, freeing up critical space for mission payloads. The system provides advanced, permanent magnet motor (PMM) and electric drive technologies, which will allow the Uzb3kistan Navy to realize its vision of affordable, integrated power systems on board warships. This solution provides proven, best-value technology that is lighter, smaller and more power-dense than any other previous Naval electric drive available. The new system utilizes a common ship power system architecture that can transfer electric power from propulsion and ship service systems to advanced electric weapons, sensors and countermeasures. The integrated power systems equipment will provide increased fuel efficiency, reliability and commonality benefits in electric ship architecture, which provides, stealthier hull forms, reduced reliability on logistics, "plug-and-play" maintainability, larger payload and mission capacity, and reduced crew sizes. The system also features many more Auxiliary Maneuvering Units, which are small propulsors at the bow and stern of the nuclear submarine, used to greatly enhance the vessel’s maneuverability.
Electronics - Sensors and Countermeasures
The electronics systems is a vital to a submarine's success. Making sure the Osiris had electronics up to par, or even better than some of the leading Naval powers in the world was one of the Shaitan Corporation's biggest priorities. When it comes to detection systems in Naval Warfare, it's vital who can detect another first, and farther away. It was in the Shaitan Corporation's best interest, therefore, to design and develop detection systems that will see the enemy, long before the enemy sees you. Also, the Shaitan Corporation understands the importance of Countermeasures in submarine warfare, because once that torpedo is in the water and is heading toward the Osiris Class SSHBN, the SSHBN needs to have the right equipment to either eliminate that threat, throw it off, or escape it.
The Osiris is equipped with a TB-29 submarine thin-line towed array, and a Shaitan Corporation designed AN/SQR-74 Tactical Towed Array SONAR (TACTAS). The TB-29 submarine thin-line towed array is a Commercial Off-The-Shelf version of the legacy TB-29 towed array. Compared with the legacy array, the TB-29 uses COTS telemetry to significantly reduce the unit cost while maintaining equivalent array performance. The TB-29 is longer than the thin-line TB-23 and has a sensor location system. The AN/SQR-74 Tactical Towed Array SONAR is the next step up from the AN/SQR-19 Tactical Towed Array SONAR. It now features three separate parallel lines, which are over two miles, in which the individual hydrophones use fiber optic coils and lasers. Tiny changes in the behavior of the laser light will result when the coils are influenced by sound waves in the surrounding ocean. Analysis of such data promises to greatly increase the sensitivity of the array to the presence of enemy submarines and other targets. The new system provides a 310nm range of detection.
The Osiris is also equipped with other systems which are linked to supercomputers designed for recognition, targeting, and RADAR/LIDAR enhancement, etc,etc. Equipped, is the Shaitan Corporation developed AN/UQQ-7 bow-mounted spherical array sonar acoustic system, which has a range of about 63nm. Also equipped is the newly Shaitan Corporation designed SC/LUR-16E modern hull-mounted sonar that gives the SSHBN a full 172nm. The SC/LCL-9 LIDAR gives the Osiris Class Submarine the ability to actively search, and do it silently. The SC/PGS-16 is currently the primary Surface Search Radar for the Submarine fleets, giving them a search capability of about 330 miles on perfect environment conditions.
The Countermeasure electronics on the Osiris Class have proved to be up to par with the leading Naval technologies around the globe. The Osiris Class Submarine is equipped with 10 decoy tubes. The tubes fire FCD-1 "Brilliant" Decoys, which is intended to conspicuously mimic the maneuvering and noise signature of the parent sub. The purpose is to draw an enemy's attention away from the parent sub, allowing the parent sub to sneak away from the battle area undetected, or to escape enemy torpedoes because those torpedoes will be lured toward the decoy. The decoy contains a propulsion system and fuel supply like a regular torpedo. But the decoy is unarmed, and the space available because there is no explosive warhead is used instead for additional computers and sonar emitters. This gives the decoy the ability to be programmed -- before launching -- with complex instructions regarding how to behave regarding changes in depth, course, speed, etc., and also to give off appropriate noises like a real full-sized submarine. The decoy might be programmed to act like a different class of sub than the parent, to further confuse and distract the enemy. The term "brilliant" refers to an advanced state of on-board artificial intelligence routines that allows the decoy to make autonomous real-time decisions once launched that further aid the tactical goals of its parent sub during combat or intelligence-gathering missions.
However, like anything, the decoy system isn't failsafe. Therefore the Navy doesn't like to rely on one system for defense against an incoming torpedo. Thus, the Shaitan Corporation responded with the design of a new "Active out-of-phase emission" system. The SH/MEI-05 is the newest implemented technology in the Navy. What Active out-of-phase emission, and this system, does is weaken the echo which an enemy sonar receives from a submarine’s hull, by actively emitting sound waves of the same frequency as the ping but exactly out of phase. The out-of-phase sound waves mix with and cancel those of the echoing ping. This increases the submarine's stealth technology and less likeliness of a direct hit with a torpedo. However, say the enemy submarine already has a good firing solution and drops torpedoes heading toward your submarine? No problem; this worry by the Naval Forces was heard by the Shaitan Corporation scientists when they developed the SH/MEI-05A, an advanced version of the SH/MEI-05 that not only the Active out-of-phase emission on enemy submarines, but takes it a step farther with incoming torpedoes and other inbounds. Using the same technology, only more advanced; it actively emits back to the incoming torpedo to make the Submarine seem, to the inbound, that it is in a different location, and therefore causing the inbound to miss it's target by overshooting or undershooting and detonating prematurely. There are also more systems mounted in the Osiris that help prevent possible enemy torpedo collision. The Osiris has a total of fifteen deployable ATDS guns; which are an underwater "anti-torpedo artillery" system, which shoots rapidly at inbounds, and is guided by SONAR and LIDAR. Mounted on the submarine are ten smaller 8 inch torpedo tubes, designed to launch Shaitan Corporation designed countertorpdeos, that target incoming enemy torpedoes.
Armament
With the new Shaftless Propulsion System (ASPS), freeing up a lot of critical space for mission payloads, much more weaponry can be stored on the Osiris. The Osiris safely holds 6,200 weapons, including anywhere from torpedoes, Vertical Launch weapons, mines, small anti-torpedoes, etc. The reason being for so many weapons, is that using the 'bay' feature on the Osiris, other submarines can load up on supplies and weapons. The Osiris has twenty forward 21 inch torpedo tubes,capable of launching any torpedoes of the UT series, or of similar size; and three foward 1000mm tubes, designed to launch any new Ultra-heavyweight torpedoes, including future indigenous designs, as well as purchased foreign designs (most notably the Draka-made 'Tempests'). The Osiris Class Submarine features a twenty tube VLS system, designed to launch any of the Uzb3kistan VLS rated missiles. As well as four Heavy VLS tubes, capable of launching heavyweight anti-shiping missiles, or ballistic missiles. Also, reinforcing the idea of an "underwater aircraft carrier" the Osiris houses fourty deployable unmanned mini-submarines for both combat and reconnaissance missions. Also deployable are ten Advanced Delivery System mini-submarines that are new battery-powered mini-submarines for the transport of special forces from a parent nuclear submarine to the forward operational area and back, within a warm and dry shirtsleeves environment. Also, although unintentional, they can be used as 'escape pods' if the unfortunate were to occur; however, there's a very small chance that anyone may be deployed before the parent submarine is destroyed, as it takes time to man and deploy it (more information on the technology post about the system).
Propulsion: 4 Nuclear Pebblebed Reactors with Advanced Shaftless Propulsion System (ASPS), and Electric Integration.
Displacement: Approximatly 160,000 tons
Length: 8,707 feet
Width: 2,234 feet (most back/wide point)
Crush Depth: 4km
Armament: 20 21in. torpedo tubes, mining system, 15 ATDS guns, 10 counter-torpedo 8in. tubes, 20 VLS tubes, four heavy VLS tubes, 40 deployable unmanned mini-submarines
Special Warfare: 10 deployable Advanced Delivery System mini-submarines
Countermeasures: 10 FCD-1 "Brilliant" Decoys, SH/MEI-05 and SH/MEI-05A systems, ATDS guns, and counter-torpedoes
Detection Systems: TB-29 submarine thin-line towed array, AN/SQR-74 Tactical Towed Array SONAR, AN/UQQ-7 bow-mounted spherical array sonar, SC/LUR-16 modern hull-mounted sonar, SC/LCL-9 LIDAR, and SC/PGS-16 Surface Search Radar
Crew: 2,960 officers and men/women, 100 Special Forces men/women (optional)
Cost Per Unit: 40.5 Billion USD
Production Rights: Not Available