Atmospheric Attack Carrier (AAC)
Siege Perilous Class

Platform Overview:
The Siege Perilous class Atmospheric Attack Carrier serves as the Group Operational Commander for a PRG during battlegroup operations. The AAC primary combat role is to destroy hostile tactical aircraft and defensive stations on the ground. It ensures that the skies are clear for dropships and other endo/exo-atmospheric craft during beach-head establishment, provides close air support (CAS) for Lancers on the ground, and destroys hostile ground forces in the interdiction zone. In addition, the AAC provides air traffic control for the PRG and directs all High Guard movement onto the objective. Although it is nearly as large as an XMC, the space on board an AAC is devoted almost entirely to hangar space and crew quarters. As a result, the AAC has limited value as a non-combat support ship aside from directing ship-to-surface relief operations from other platforms.

Physical Characteristics:

Length: 1,000m
Beam: 750m
Height: 250m
Inertial Mass: 74,160,673 kg
Max Speed: Classified

Manpower:

Ship's Complement: 3,700
Officer/Enlisted: 1/7

Sensors:

PAS-37Q System Search Sensor (Phased Array)
HSS-114D Hyper-Spectral Scanner (EO)
AIS-117M Advanced Imaging Sensor (Synthetic Aperture/Moving Target Indicator)
AIS-117I Advanced Imaging Sensor (Inverse Synthetic Aperture)
ES/A-9R Electronic Support and Attack Measure Suite

Combat Systems:

10 ELS missile tubes
3 PDL 50Mw turrets
24 RF-42 Centaur tactical fighters
72 AF/A-29 Phoenix atmospheric attack craft
8 ES-14 Janus light sensor/attack drones
24 AES-111 Odin atmospheric sensor/C2 drones
4 Radiating Counter Measure generators
1 AI command and control entity

Standard Armament:

OM-5 standard offensive kinetic kill missiles
DM-5 standard defensive kinetic kill missiles
PM-6 Star Arrow smart anti-ship missiles
SAPM-6III Strike Arrow surface attack variant

Operational Capability Ratings:
Abbreviations

AST BDO CCC C2W GSO GSW IEO IMW
5 8 10 8 5 7 2 2
INT LOG MOB MOC NCO PFW PSW
8 7 9 4 3 10 10
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