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Remembrance-class; ECM/ECCM Frigate
Topic Started: Apr 25 2009, 03:51 PM (67 Views)
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Remembrance-class ECM/ECCM Frigate
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RSS Phoenix, keel laid in 2430, second of the Remembrance class.


After learning a bloody lesson during the Koltsov War about the importance of countermeasures, where Koltsov ground and orbital positions were used extensively as spotters against vulnerable Republic units, the Defense Department decided that it needed a dedicated electronic countermeasure and counter-countermeasure vessel. The realization of that need came first in 2428, when the RSS Los Angeles was launched as the first of the Remembrance class.

Remembrances were given their name to commemorate the loss of life during the two nuclear attacks in world history, in WWII and WWIII. The cities of Los Angeles, Hiroshima, Hangzhou, San Diego, Zibo, Phoenix, Shanghai, and Nagasaki have been the only human cities ever to suffer nuclear attack, and so the class size is forever limited to eight vessels of that name out of respect for those cities. True to its meaning, the Remembrance class is not armed with any nuclear weaponry, just point defense batteries and a half-length frigate coilgun for defense.

The class is the newest in the Navy's arsenal, with the most recently constructed Zibo only four years old. It is also the most cutting edge, with point defense and coilgun designs newer and more efficent than any other in the Fleet. Its ECM and ECCM designs include radar interference booms, radar and EM spoofing arrays, EM drones, and other classified ECM/ECCM measures. The exact radius of the Remembrance's countermeasure effectiveness is a closely guarded secret.
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