The Gallipoli Class
The Gallipoli is a dedicated marine landing ship, the first
such vessel to be deigned in years.
The primarily military nature of Marine landing craft has mean their development has lagged behind other classes such as the large exploratory cursers. Starfleet is always hesitant to invest in a ship that concentrates on a single function, preferring ships witch can fulfil a range of task especially peace time missions such as exploration and scientific research.
After the terrible losses of the dominion war STARFLEET and the SFMC decided that a new landing ship was needed and so authorised a joint venture between the ASDB and Marine R&D to design a vessel better suited to the perilous task of landing troops in a combat zone. Marines generally make planet fall in 1 of 2 ways, the entire ship lands on the planet or, as with the Gallipoli, the ship used amphibious assault craft to land its marines.
Rather than designing a ship from scratch the development team chose to heavily refit an existing class, the Nebular, an excellent vessel that has been an integral part of the fleet for 25 years. This drastically reduced the design and construction costs associated with a new class and using a proven design severely reduced the teething problems that often plague new designs.
Much of the Nebulas nebular structure remains the same, the primary hull, nacelles and pod tower are basically unchanged. The only major difference is the placement of the deflector dish in the nose of the saucer section. Despite these similarities most of the ship's systems have been replaced. The engines, computers, weapons and shields have all been upgraded to the same systems found on the Galaxy Mk2 and it has the same scientific compliment as a Steamrunner class vessels.
The Nebula’s secondary hull was not suitable for a shuttle carrier so was completely redesigned. As this part of the ship holds the equipment, transports and fighters of the Marines and their escort pilots stationed on board plus main engineering it needs to be quite a large space. The Gallipoli’s secondary hull is directly integrated into the saucer section this increases the vessels structural integrity and the efficiency of the shield and warp bubble.
The USS Gallipoli, the first of her class, is configured to carry and combined arms brigade over 2000 men and 70 tanks. The Gallipoli lands these troops in 3 separate waves, a battalion at a time, in over 60 transports, escorted by nearly 50 air superiority and ground attack fighters.
This array of craft launch from 16 separate hanger bays, positioned in two rows, spanning the side and rear of the ship. These hanger bays are large enough to carry any craft used by the SFMC including the T-8 Albatross, a key requirement for the design.
The tactical systems on the Gallipoli class are quite unique for a ship of its size. 4 type XII phasers are its only “ship to ship” weapons. It remaining armaments, 30 Va phasers are capable of engaging enemy fighters only. While the vessels lack of torpedo launchers was controversial the Gallipoli is meant to be part of a fleet with escorts tasked to protect it from other capital ships.
What the class lacks in offensive weaponry, it more than makes up with defensive systems. Because it needs to be able to withstand devastating amounts of punishment and continue to operate the Gallipoli is equipped with ablative hull armour and the FSS shield system.
The Gallipoli class is fitted with the new LF-43 warp drive, this allows the Gallipoli to keep pace with the rest of the fleet and FIG-4 impulse engines witch gives the vessel a good straight line sub-light speed.
The M-16 Isolinear III computer system was chosen for the Gallipoli. A new computer system, the AEGIS Mk 8, was developed for the Gallipoli. Using the Mk 7 as a base Marine R&D developed a computer system that would not only track the large numbers of craft launching and fighting around the ship but also the units fighting on the planet below.
All this information is then relayed back to the Gallipoli’s CIC, located in the ship's pod, giving the marine commanding officers a complete overview of the battle field.
The primarily military nature of Marine landing craft has mean their development has lagged behind other classes such as the large exploratory cursers. Starfleet is always hesitant to invest in a ship that concentrates on a single function, preferring ships witch can fulfil a range of task especially peace time missions such as exploration and scientific research.
After the terrible losses of the dominion war STARFLEET and the SFMC decided that a new landing ship was needed and so authorised a joint venture between the ASDB and Marine R&D to design a vessel better suited to the perilous task of landing troops in a combat zone. Marines generally make planet fall in 1 of 2 ways, the entire ship lands on the planet or, as with the Gallipoli, the ship used amphibious assault craft to land its marines.
Rather than designing a ship from scratch the development team chose to heavily refit an existing class, the Nebular, an excellent vessel that has been an integral part of the fleet for 25 years. This drastically reduced the design and construction costs associated with a new class and using a proven design severely reduced the teething problems that often plague new designs.
Much of the Nebulas nebular structure remains the same, the primary hull, nacelles and pod tower are basically unchanged. The only major difference is the placement of the deflector dish in the nose of the saucer section. Despite these similarities most of the ship's systems have been replaced. The engines, computers, weapons and shields have all been upgraded to the same systems found on the Galaxy Mk2 and it has the same scientific compliment as a Steamrunner class vessels.
The Nebula’s secondary hull was not suitable for a shuttle carrier so was completely redesigned. As this part of the ship holds the equipment, transports and fighters of the Marines and their escort pilots stationed on board plus main engineering it needs to be quite a large space. The Gallipoli’s secondary hull is directly integrated into the saucer section this increases the vessels structural integrity and the efficiency of the shield and warp bubble.
The USS Gallipoli, the first of her class, is configured to carry and combined arms brigade over 2000 men and 70 tanks. The Gallipoli lands these troops in 3 separate waves, a battalion at a time, in over 60 transports, escorted by nearly 50 air superiority and ground attack fighters.
This array of craft launch from 16 separate hanger bays, positioned in two rows, spanning the side and rear of the ship. These hanger bays are large enough to carry any craft used by the SFMC including the T-8 Albatross, a key requirement for the design.
The tactical systems on the Gallipoli class are quite unique for a ship of its size. 4 type XII phasers are its only “ship to ship” weapons. It remaining armaments, 30 Va phasers are capable of engaging enemy fighters only. While the vessels lack of torpedo launchers was controversial the Gallipoli is meant to be part of a fleet with escorts tasked to protect it from other capital ships.
What the class lacks in offensive weaponry, it more than makes up with defensive systems. Because it needs to be able to withstand devastating amounts of punishment and continue to operate the Gallipoli is equipped with ablative hull armour and the FSS shield system.
The Gallipoli class is fitted with the new LF-43 warp drive, this allows the Gallipoli to keep pace with the rest of the fleet and FIG-4 impulse engines witch gives the vessel a good straight line sub-light speed.
The M-16 Isolinear III computer system was chosen for the Gallipoli. A new computer system, the AEGIS Mk 8, was developed for the Gallipoli. Using the Mk 7 as a base Marine R&D developed a computer system that would not only track the large numbers of craft launching and fighting around the ship but also the units fighting on the planet below.
All this information is then relayed back to the Gallipoli’s CIC, located in the ship's pod, giving the marine commanding officers a complete overview of the battle field.