Rama Class Destroyer Refit

The Rama-Class Ballistic Destroyer (DDB) is one of the oldest warships in the Terran Protectorate Stellar Navy. Only the Holstein Pinnance is older. Even though the ship's first flew into action 70 years ago, they have been kept effective combat vessels through a number of upgrades. The old "tin cans" were designed for upgrading and were mass produced in large numbers. The Protectorate is loathe to mothball them all and they need the firepower in the newest conflict.
The biggest upgrade to the vessel is unseen, with the use of automation and systems design improvements that have cut the crew requirements nearly by half. In addition, it's one energy weapon system, its heavy pulse lasers, have been replaced with a more powerful pair of particle beam cannons. Besides that, improved sensors and command and control systems, not much has changed in how the ship gets the job done.


This was one of my first ship designs. It sorely needed an upgrade from what it looked like when I first started out making ships. The base design is still the same, the flying gunbrick I call it, but there have been a LOT of cosmetic changes to the fine details that make it a much better model.

Model: DDB Type II Ballistic Destroyer, Rama-Class
Fleet: Terran Protectorate

Length: 450 feet (137 M)
Height: 154 feet (47 M)
Width: 208 feet (63 M)

Sublight Speed: 20% light speed
Maximum FTL: 1 Light year per day

Officers: 8
Crew: 127
Armaments
1 x 500 lbs. Gauss Mass Driver
2 x 12-tube long-range anti-ship missile launchers
2 x Heavy Particle Beam Cannons
8 x 120mm Electromagnetic Acceleration Auto Cannons (a.k.a. rail guns).

Defenses: 9-inch thick Chobham Electromagnetic Reactive Self-Sealing Armor over a nanotube carbon fiber weave

Auxillary Vehicles: 1 captain's launch.

Avionics: Digital Navigational Telescope, Long-range Gravity and Electromagnetic Field Detectors, Short-range LADAR.

Here's an older version: