Kursk-class light frigate

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Kursk-class light frigate
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Production information

Manufacturer:

Blohm und Voss (pre-2154 CE)
Davo-Hamish Shipyards (2154 CE - 2173 CE)
Cord-Hislop Aerospace (2174 CE - 2186 CE)

Model:

Kursk

Class:

Frigate

Operator(s):

Systems Alliance Navy
Cerberus Navy

Succeeded by:

Warsaw-class

Generation:

First

Technical information

Length:

140m

Width:

51m

Height/depth:

29m

Max acceleration:

20 kilometers per second

Engine unit(s):

Element Zero Drive Core

Power plant:

1 Element Zero drive core

Shielding:

Kinetic Barrier

Hull:

450cm of Titanium-A2 Ablative Light Armor
Silaris-B Modular/Ablative Super Armor (Cerberus militarization program)

Sensor systems:

  • LIDAR
  • Radar
  • Spectroscope

Targetting system:

Shipwide VI

Armament:

Crew:

500

Usage

Commissioned:

2 November 2150 CE (by the Alliance)
10 April 2174 CE (by Cerberus)

Decommissioned:

16 October 2173 CE (by the Alliance)
24 September 2186 CE (by default of Cerberus' dissolution)

Role(s):

Fleet composition/protection of capital ships

Era:

Asari Cycle
Pax Galactica Era

Affiliation:

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Systems Alliance (2150 CE - 2173 CE)


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Cerberus (2174 CE - 2186 CE)
 

The Kursk-class light frigate was a classification of frigate that served in the Systems Alliance Navy from 2150 CE to 2173 CE, and the Cerberus Navy from 2174 CE to 2186 CE. Part of what is collectively known as the first generation of the Alliance Navy, the Kursk-class was the first space-based light frigate the Alliance ever produced, and that humans ever put to space. Like so many other first generation ship classes of the Alliance, the Kursk-class was largely a prototype design for future Alliance warships, although at the time, the ship's purpose was escort duty rather than waging war. Regardless, the Kursk-class light frigate had better protection and armaments than the Gargoyle-class corvette, and was far more popular. The Kursk-class was also one of the Alliance's more successful first generation designs, so much so that it actually enjoyed a long career in the Alliance Navy when compared to other classes of its generation, continuing to serve in the Alliance Navy well into the 2170s before finally being replaced by the slightly upgraded Warsaw-class. The costs of maintaining the Kursk-class became exorbitant, and the cheaper Warsaw-class was seen as a far better alternative.

Despite this, Cerberus was able to save over 90 of the ships from the scrapyards, snatching them up and quickly introducing them into their own naval forces, and using stolen Alliance designs to build more. While its life in the Alliance Navy ended, the Kursk-class continued to serve in the Cerberus Navy, with upgrades and new facilities introduced that brought it up to the same level as its Warsaw-class equivalent. In 2185 CE, Cerberus began an aggressive and staggering militarization effort to prepare for the Reaper invasion, and with this process saw equipment across the Cerberus Navy being significantly overhauled with new technology extracted from the ruins of the Collector Base. While many older ship classes were discarded in favor of newer ones, such as the Chupacabra-class being replaced with the Alliance's superior Mermaid-class vessels, others such as the Kursk-class were kept due to their reliability and significantly upgraded with new weapons, armor and shielding. This revolutionized the design of the Kursk-class, turning it from an obsolete FCW-era warship into a state-of-the-art frigate of an ultramodern naval force, capable of tackling its contemporaries. The Kursk-class was used frequently across every theater of war Cerberus opened up during the Reaper War, although it ultimately proved in vain when Cerberus was eventually defeated. Following the war, a surplus of Cerberus materials left over from the conflict, including two dozen surviving modified Kursk-class ships, were retrieved by the Systems Alliance, and later the Systems Coalition, and would ultimately inspire the successor to the Warsaw-class design, the Kharkov-class.

The class was named after the Battle of Kursk of the Second World War.

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