Earth Alliance Ushakov Class Missile Battleship Ushakov Class History The Ushakov Class was an attempt to build a dreadnought based on missile racks. With the success of the Warlock's Class LH rack, Earthforce decided to try building a Warlock variant based around the heavy missile battery. The design was eventually redesignated a new class due to the amount of changes in structural support, systems, and changed overall appearance. Construction was to begin in 2258, when the first Warlock Prototypes were put into service, but was continually pushed back. A total of five of these ships were planned before Earth was attacked by the Drakh. None were ever built, nor was there any variants ever planned. The ship was armed with no less than six Class LH-racks, backed up by a further ten Class-L racks, four LPA's, and 10 SPB's. The ship carried a squadron of fighters which operated from a ventral hangar, as well as a reload rack for the missile launchers. Total reloads in the reload rack was 80 missiles, giving the ship a total of 400 missiles. (Designer's note: I got inspired by the old Kirov Class BC mentioned on the B5W online forums. It's taking an almost Medusa mystique on, as it was mentioned by "Vetnor," its creator, some time ago, then forgotten about, till "Smoot" brought it up again. I decided to build my own Missile based battlecruiser, and it sorta mutated into the Ushakov. The class is named after what Russia's Kirov Class Nuclear Battlecruisers were renamed, Admiral Ushakov. After completing the SCS, I was tempted to rename the class yet again, to Chees-rov. Look at the SCS, you'll know why. ) Ushakov Class SCS (Alpha Model)