AUTHORIZATION CONFIRMED: TRANSMISSION BEGINS

Until the arrival of the Kra'Vak, the Eurasian Solar Union was the greatest threat to the security of the NAC. Although tensions between us have cooled, the situation is hardly stable.

The ESU has lagged behind the NAC and other naval powers in the development of a carrier-based striking force. To compensate for this, they have relied on old-style East-Bloc blue water strategy. Most of their ships carry massive amounts of ship to ship firepower, and many of them carry large amounts of missles, relying on saturation missle attacks to break through the layers of defenses around our carrier groups. Recently ESU naval groups have begun to employ vessels equipped with pulse torpedoes to defeat the superior screen technology of the NAC and NSL. One such example of this trend is the Slava class strike cruiser, first encountered in a skirmish six years ago, and now a mainstay in the ESU order of battle. Note that ESU ships tend to be heavy on firepower, but low on survivability.

Major ESU Warship classes

Komarov Class BD

Mass: 100

Damage Points: 50

Thrust: 2

Screens: Level-2

Weapons: 4 'AA' Battery (F)

4 'A' Battery (3-Arc)

Fighter Group

6 PDAF

Point Value: 700

Rostov Class BD

Mass:76

Damage Points: 38

Thrust: 2

Screens: Level-2

Weapons: 2 'AA' Battery (F)

4 'A' Battery (3-Arc)

Fighter Group

4 PDAF

Point Value: 554

Petrograd Class BB

Mass: 56

Damage Points: 28

Thrust: 4

Screens: Level-2

Weapons: 2 'AA' Battery (F)

3 'A' Battery (3-Arc)

3 PDAF

Point Value: 520

Ding Xiopeng Class BBG

Mass: 60

Damage Points: 30

Thrust: 4

Screens: Level-2

Weapons: 8 Missles

2 'B' Battery (3-Arc)

4 PDAF

Point Value: 548

Kiev Class CVG

Mass: 68

Damage Points: 34

Thrust: 4

Screens: Level-2

Weapons: 4 Missles

2 'B' Battery (3-Arc)

2 Fighter Groups

4 PDAF

Point Value: 580

Konstantin Class CVA

Mass: 92

Damage Points: 46

Thrust: 2

Screens: Level-2

Weapons: 4 'A' Battery (3-Arc)

4 Fighter Groups

4 PDAF

Point Value: 654

Tsiolkovsky Class CVL

Mass: 80

Damage Points: 40

Thrust: 4

Screens: Level-2

Weapons: 2 'B' Battery (3-Arc)

2 'C' Battery (3-Arc)

4 Fighter Groups

4 PDAF

Point Value: 730

Kirov Class BC

Mass: 50

Damage Points: 25

Thrust: 4

Screens: Level-1

Weapons: 3 Pulse Torpedo Tubes (F)

3 'C' Battery (3-Arc)

4 PDAF

Point Value: 447

Manchuria Class BC

Mass: 44

Damage Points: 22

Thrust: 4

Screens: Level-1

Weapons: 4 'A' Battery (3-Arc)

ADAF

4 PDAF

Point Value: 407

Slava Class CS

Mass: 36

Damage Points: 18

Thrust: 6

Screens: Level-1

Weapons: 2 Pulse Torpedo Tubes

' B' Battery (3-Arc)

3 PDAF

Point Value: 289

Gorshkov Class CA

Mass: 36

Damage Points: 18

Thrust: 4

Screens: Level-1

Weapons: 3 'A' Battery (3-Arc)

' B' Battery (3-Arc)

PDAF

ADAF

Point Value: 266

'B' Class CE

Mass: 26

Damage Points: 13

Thrust: 4

Screens: Level-1

Weapons: 3 'B' Battery (3-Arc)

ADAF

PDAF

Point Value: 195

Beijing Class CE

Mass: 26

Damage Points: 13

Thrust:6

Screens: Level-1

Weapons: Pulse Torpedo Tube (F)

'C' Battery (3-Arc)

ADAF

PDAF

Point Value: 214

Tibet A Class CL

Mass: 22

Damage Points: 11

Thrust: 6

Screens: Level-1

Weapons: 2 'A' Battery (3-Arc)

2 PDAF

Point Value: 189

Tibet B Class CL

Mass: 22

Damage Points: 11

Thrust: 6

Screens: Level-1

Weapons: Pulse Torpedo Tube (F)

' C' Battery (3-Arc)

2 PDAF

Point Value: 183

Sverdlov Class CLG

Mass: 22

Damage Points: 11

Thrust: 6

Screens: Level-1

Weapons: 2 Missles

' B' Battery (3-Arc)

2 PDAF

Point Value: 184

Kresta Class CG

Mass: 26

Damage Points: 13

Thrust: 4

Screens: Level-1

Weapons: 4 Missles

' C' Battery (3-Arc)

PDAF

Point Value: 187

Kynda Class CG

Mass: 36

Damage Points: 18

Thrust: 4

Screens: Level-1

Weapons: 6 Missles

' C' Battery (3-Arc)

2 PDAF

Point Value: 252

Kashin Class DDG

Mass: 14

Damage Points: 7

Thrust: 6

Screens: None

Weapons: 3 Missles

' C' Battery (3-Arc)

Point Value: 86

Sovremenny Class DDAA

Mass: 18

Damage Points: 9

Thrust: 6

Screens: None

Weapons: 2 'C' Battery (3-Arc)

2 ADAF

PDAF

Point Value: 114

Warsaw A Class DD

Mass: 14

Damage Points: 7

Thrust: 6

Screens: None

Weapons: 2 'B' Battery (3-Arc)

'C' Battery (3-Arc)

2 PDAF

Point Value: 92

Warsaw B Class DD

Mass:16

Damage Points: 8

Thrust: 6

Screens: None

Weapons: Pulse Torpedo Tube

'C' Battery (3-Arc)

2 PDAF

Point Value: 98

Novgorod Class FF

Mass: 10

Damage Points: 5

Thrust: 6

Screens: None

Weapons: 'B' Battery (3-Arc)

'C' Battery (3-Arc)

Point Value: 65

Grisha Class FFL

Mass:8

Damage Points: 4

Thrust: 6

Screens: None

Weapons: 2 'C' Battery (3-Arc)

2 PDAF

Point Value: 52

Nanuchka Class FFL

Mass:6

Damage Points: 3

Thrust:8

Screens: None

Weapons: 2 Submunition Packs (F)

'C' Battery (3-Arc)

Point Value: 41

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As mentioned in other databases, this list is far from comprehensive. The ESU is constantly turning out new designs, many of them one-off prototypes to fill the gap between new generations of naval vessels. The ESU also tests out new weapons systems on existing designs, often resulting in some very interesting (if somewhat ineffective) hybrids.



If you have any further intelligence to add to this database, please contact the commmander of the 31st OS, Rear Admiral James Moore