Ship Name: Ares

Pedigree: AresClass

Type: Battlecruiser / Front-line MS drop/support ship

Number: BSD—HX—1 (BSD stands for Bombardment, bombardment; Support; D, Deliver, delivery; HX is High-End-eXperimental)

Affiliation: Zaft

R&D design: Zaft 1st Institute of Naval Strategy

Construction: Zaft

Part of the external contractor: Fokker. Wellington (Hull Structure Improvement); Anaheim (part of the electronics; thermonuclear rockets); Ouyang Heavy Industries (ship-based missiles; Wire-controlled gun engine)

The first ships to enter service: Ares (ship 1); Iliad (ship No. 2); Thrace (ship No. 3)

Overall length of the ship: 485 meters

Width: 165 meters

Combat full weight (without carrying MS): 80455 tons

The main material of the hull: lightweight E carbon steel/high-tensile steel

Full strength: 1,107 (83 officers); MS Wing related personnel (473 people)

Engine: CBG-1 laser fusion reactor X4 of the Zaft Institute for Naval Strategy; Anaheim Precision Electronics VZN-84 thermonuclear rocket jet engine X2 base

Auxiliary propulsion system: Positive electron jet suspension system

Possible combat time of a single ship without replenishment (Universe): 27 days

Possible combat time of a single ship without replenishment (Earth): 16 days

MS deployment (normal): 12 units

MS mounted (assault/no repairs): 30 units

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MS transport / ejection

MS lift: 4 seats

MS ejection channel: 2

MS inlet: 2

Emergency MS Recovery Slide: 2

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Armament:

Twin-mounted beam cannon x4

180 mm twin pair MS cannon X8

100 mm anti-air shotgun X6

Large multi-purpose* launch tube X4

Built-in 4-link vertical missile silo X2

Carrier-based wire-controlled gun X6

Shipborne camouflage balloon X2

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Ship Description/Introduction:

In the face of the challenge of the Federation's warships and the combat system in the Minovsky particle environment, the defeat of Zaft's existing main warships has made Zaft's top management anxious---- the MS carrying capacity is not enough to counter the delivery capacity of the Federation ships; Carrier-based interceptor weapons are unable to form a sufficient network of interceptive fire in the face of a new enemy; Lack of endurance, low mobility, and insufficient defense.

In order to improve the performance of the warships, Zaft spared no expense to establish the First Institute of Naval Strategy, and let the major arms dealers openly bid for them, and began to widely absorb the strengths of the Federation warships.

Eventually, the veteran battleship merchant Fokker. Wellington, Anaheim Precision Electronics, and Ouyang Heavy Industries, which has unique advantages in engine and nanotechnology, and Zaft's Institute for Naval Strategic Studies jointly proposed the "Third Ship R&D Improvement Program" to "be able to operate outside the atmosphere and break through the atmosphere; It has excellent firepower projection capability and MS carrying ability; has flagship-level control capabilities, and can carry out special covert battles alone", began to design and build "Ares" class warships.

With Zaft's "Minerva" high-speed combat ship as the original starting point, absorbing the design experience of the Alexander, Irish, and Clapp-class, Minerva's equivalent ships in the dockyard began to be transformed.

The positive electronic cannon in the bow of the ship was completely removed, the live gun and the main beam gun at the upper end were partially removed and rearranged, and the two twin beam guns were arranged at the bottom of the bow, and the shooting and rotation angle were fully considered, so that Ares did not need to play "stunts" like the Archangel to carry out effective shelling downwards and rear;

At the same time, there are also 4 large* launchers placed in the bow of the ship, which are used to launch the "Orca 3" type ship/submarine fish produced by Ouyang Heavy Industry in a gravity environment; Or launch the Hurricane 2 against ships* and the Locust 1 against MS swarms* in the space environment.

The rest of the space in the bow of the ship was also carried by the MS, and the interception weapon was effectively used.

Fogg. Wellington designed a composite combat bridge that can be used as a large escape pod for the Ares class, and the new bridge armor is divided into more than 10 isolation areas, each isolation area is connected to the side of the command center is equipped with flexible bulletproof fibers, and the structure is all made of lightweight E carbon steel, which can effectively reduce the killing of shrapnel and shock waves; Anti-beam coating and multilayer armor on the outside of the bridge can withstand multiple direct attacks from Nazca-class guns.

The middle and lower part of the hull is equipped with an MS launch elevator that can directly throw the MS into space when the ejection channel in the bow is damaged, and vertical missile silos are installed on both sides to launch high-speed missiles at close range.

The long, medium and near composite air defense network composed of MS cannons, anti-air shotguns, and ship-borne wire-controlled guns, even in the face of a large cluster of MS sieges, will not appear to be the embarrassing situation that the shipborne MS needs to become a fixed battery, and due to the linkage with the new large-scale biological sensors and optical sensors, plus the interceptor mount is designed to be manually operated, the interception success rate has increased significantly.

The slender Ares-class battleship places more anti-aircraft fire in the rear half of the hull, and adds 3 radars provided by Anaheim Electronics to search for small/micro targets in the rear half, combined with interception weapons and heavy armor and anti-riot compartment design, which can avoid the embarrassing scenario of the stern engine being attacked by floating guns/dragoons and losing its combat effectiveness.

And in the fierce attack and defense of the front line, Ares can still fight if he faces heavy damage to the enemy's bow and front end, and can still provide front-line support for the MS.

The third ship, "Thrace", is equipped with a shield system to isolate light waves in order to carry out special tasks.