Charleston class Frigate

Not much to say other than its a more modern frigate than the Warrington. The smallest class of ship in the fleet around 270 meters in length.

Its quite fast and nimble and was designed to be used in formations known as "Packs".



General Characteristics:

Length: 270.15 meters

Beam: 110 meters (From wing to wing)

Height: 50 meters

Defenses:

2 x Hyperion Industries High capacity multi adaptive shield grids.

Reinforced Self healing Triple Hull with 1.5 meters of high capacity Matrix armor plating.

Tractor beams.

6 x Point Defense Beam arrays.

Armament:

65 x rapid fire vertical lunch missile tubes that can carry various kinds of RKM's and missile weapons including Point singularity warheads.

6 x ascension technologies class V main Phased arrays or 3 and:

8 x Antiguis corporation 40 mm twin rapid fire pulse cannons

4 x ascension technologies Class IV Phased arrays

-Under wing slots for missile pods or pulse cannons.-

4 x forward facing torpedo launchers and 1 dual launcher facing aft. Max ammo is a stock of 120 torpedoes including Ryatheon Industries HES-81 Wombat and AACS-70 walrus Torpedoes.

Engines:
Sub light:

4 x Universal Atomics Electromagnetic gravatic drive systems EMG-1900C series.

Maxim maneuvering speed: .45 c (45% the speed of light)

FTL:

2 x Red stone industries HC-805 Hyper drive jump systems.

Craft bays :
2 x (1 primary and 1 auxiliary)

Drone capable: Yes

AI:
1x slot (Filled by sapient AI's upon enlistment) FTL Q-Processors and augmented BMT circuits and communication systems.

Notes: All recent frigates have included a telepathic bio-mechanical net augmenting its primary circuts giving the ship the ability to track psi emitting targets and many more classified abilities.

Power systems:

Main reactor:

AT-420D Dual Induction Quantum Phase Reactor.

Secondary:
4 Batteries and 2 Vesta Corp Proton Fusion micro cores.


Note on torpedo tech :
Self propelled projectiles that warp and disrupt space time as they move through space they may either be antimatter based or contain point singularity warheads.