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Offline Hammer of HLP 0wnage

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HLP Staff Submission: NAA Vindicator-class destroyer
The NAA Vindicator class spinship destroyer, heaviest battle line unit in the NAASF.

The Vindicators have 4 heavy neutral particle beams, capable of engaging targets in excess of 200,000 km, causing electronic damage.  Hard kill range is significantly lower, however.
4 twin railcannons provide main close in punch, firing rounds in excess of 50 km/s.  Rail weapons, due to their immense kinetic energy and high rate of fire are the most effective short ranged weapons used by the NAASF.
Primary long range offensive armament are housed in the two side launch bins.  Each has 24 silos, housing a variety of missile armament including long ranged ASAT shipkillers, cluster bombs and AF missiles.
A total of 8 light free electron laser emitters provide point defense against missiles and fighters.
Details on other weapon systems such as decoy launchers and orbital re-entry vehicle dispensers are not available at this time.

16 external hard points allow docking and transport of various fighter and small craft during FTL transit.

Main sensors are various phased-arrar radar  and lidar systems, spread over the hull.  The main port array can be seen near the front of the ship.

Drive system is a inertial-impeller system, providing significant advantages over a traditional fusion drive setup, including but not limited to elimination of fusion drive reaction mass requirements.  Sublight acceleration is up to ~9 gees, primarily dependant upon the gee limits of the crew.  Primary power source is a 3.2 TW Lithium Hydride fusion reactor.

Crew numbers 68, primarily officers.
Most tasks that would be performed by enlisted crewmembers are instead performed by the extensive onboard systems.  Main computer is a 137 TB fullerene milspec AI system.

A Vindicator leaving Earth orbit.
     

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Polygons:  24,380
Maps:  2 texture, 2 bump
Rendered in 3DS MAX v.3.0

This is not a finished model, and as further details such as better mapping/maps, antennae, etc are added, the pictures will be updated.

 

Offline Sushi

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HLP Staff Submission: NAA Vindicator-class destroyer
Ph33r the Hammer.  

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Offline Fineus

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Offline Jabu

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HLP Staff Submission: NAA Vindicator-class destroyer
Get more detail on the nose  

Yeah, I saw this at SpaceBattles  

 

Offline Itsara

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HLP Staff Submission: NAA Vindicator-class destroyer
I dont know if you said it in the description of it but how big is it?

 

Offline Hammer of HLP 0wnage

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HLP Staff Submission: NAA Vindicator-class destroyer
roughly 400 meters long.

 

Offline Bobboau

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HLP Staff Submission: NAA Vindicator-class destroyer
it need somehing in the middle, twards the back

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Offline IceFire

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HLP Staff Submission: NAA Vindicator-class destroyer
Looks great....a bit influenced by Babylon 5 I think, but excellent none the less.
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Offline Setekh

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HLP Staff Submission: NAA Vindicator-class destroyer
 
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Originally posted by Hammer of HLP 0wnage:
roughly 400 meters long.

About two Fenris cruisers...
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Offline NeoHunter

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HLP Staff Submission: NAA Vindicator-class destroyer
Very nice.

Is it me or doesn't everybody like the Deimos skins?

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Offline Jabu

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HLP Staff Submission: NAA Vindicator-class destroyer
I usually use the Deimos skins on my ships  

Except when they're meant to be different.

 

Offline Fury

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HLP Staff Submission: NAA Vindicator-class destroyer
Not quite conventional design what I've seen, but still nice.  

  

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