Rama-Class Destroyer Refit by Darklorddc
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Description
The Rama-Class Ballistic Destroyer (DDB) is one of the oldest warships in the Terran Protectorate Stellar Navy. Only the Holstein Pinnance is older. Even though the ships first flew into action 70 years ago, they have been kept effective combat vessels through a number of upgrades. The old "tin cans" were designed for upgrading and were mass produced in large numbers. The Protectorate is loathe to mothball them all and they need the firepower in the newest conflict.
The biggest upgrade to the vessel is unseen, with the use of automation and systems design improvements that have cut the crew requirements nearly by half. In addition, it's one energy weapon system, its heavy pulse lasers, have been replaced with a more powerful pair of particle beam cannons. Besides that, improved sensors and command and control systems, not much has changed in how the ship gets the job done.
This was one of my first ship designs. It sorely needed an upgrade from what it looked like when I first started out making ships. The base design is still the same, the flying gunbrick I call it, but there have been a LOT of cosmetic changes to the fine details that make it a much better model.
Model: DDB Type II Ballistic Destroyer, Rama-Class
Fleet: Terran Protectorate
Length: 450 feet (137 M)
Height: 154 feet (47 M)
Width: 208 feet (63 M)
Sublight Speed: 20% light speed
Maximum FTL: 1 Light year per day
Officers: 8
Crew: 127
Armaments
1 x 500 lbs. Gauss Mass Driver
2 x 12-tube long-range anti-ship missile launchers
2 x Heavy Particle Beam Cannons
16 x 120mm Electromagnetic Acceleration Auto Cannons (a.k.a. rail guns).
Defenses: 9-inch thick Chobham Electromagnetic Reactive Self-Sealing Armor over a nanotube carbon fiber weave
Auxillary Vehicles: 1 captain's launch.
Avionics: Digital Navigational Telescope, Long-range Gravity and Electromagnetic Field Detectors, Short-range LADAR.
Comments (17)
2121
quality modelling as always
zhaanman
Awesome back ground story and design love it!
missgrin
Outstanding work..
centaurus178
Excellent Back-story and tech! great model! Do you RPG? Traveller, or GURPS?
DangerousThing
Neat. I like the nickname. On the other hand, in space, you don't need streamlining.
Tall
Brilliant design, brutal & to the point as warships should be. One issue - surely there are 16 120mm EMAACs mounted on 8 turrets, not 8 of them as stated? 4 turrets on the top side, presumably 4 on the underside, each with a pair? A minor point with regards to the render, but for the history & story that go with the ship, anyone facing off against it would be deeply unhappy with their intel services if the point-defence systems were understated by 50%!
Darklorddc
Fixed! Thanks Tall!
flavia49
excellent
Faemike55
Very cool work and sometimes the older designs are the best
geirla
Great design and backstory!
restif
Outstanding modelling!
dcmstarships
a great upgrade of a great design!
RoguePilot
A ship thats almost entirely made of guns and engine. As it should be. Of course, techinally, every time they fire the big gun they'll end up going backwards. An issue with space combat they never seem to show in the movies. :)
C-Monster
I think its a great model its not overy done
crender
Awesome work !!! congratulations!
Legion1
Nicely done :)
kjer_99
Fine modeling and texturing.