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| rdfs:comment | - The Trafalgar-class carrier was a class of command carriers (informally known by the public and media as 'supercarriers') operated by the UNSC Navy between 2547 and 2604. Five ships were constructed, UNSC Trafalgar, UNSC Vanguard, UNSC Intrepid, UNSC Fortitude and UNSC Endeavour. At 4,120m in length and displacing nearly nineteen million tons, vessels of the class were the largest ships ever commissioned by the UNSC Navy, as well as the largest self-propelled human-made objects ever built. Construction of each ship took place above Reach in the Epsilon Eridani system, where their sheer size necessitated their construction be staggered over several years at various berths in orbit. Construction was slowed after New Carthage, an industrial colony supplying additional components, was glassed
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| Manufacturer | - *Chevron Aerospace
- *construction by BAE Systems Naval Ships above , additional blocks by Harland and Wolff above Barrow
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| Hull | - layered modular/fixed armour
*RADAR absorbant, UV/LADAR distorting coating
*energy-reactive regenerative nanomaterial
*alternating ceramic/CVT/Titanium alloy plates, silicon carbide backing
*ceramic chevron plates/plasma resistant polymer
*secondary ceramic/CVT/Titanium alloy plate
*plasma-resistant resin-impregnated carbon nanofibre
*Boron Carbide/Titanium Carbide/CVT/Titanium ceramic plate
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| Crew | - *1,750 officers and men
*up to 2,300 flight technicians and support personnel
*up to 1,600 marines
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| Armament | - *Mark 5 'super' Magnetic Accelerator Cannon
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*RSGM-16 Archer
*BSGM-14 Harpoon
*RSM-19 Shiva
*RIM-109A Medusa
*dual 4.1 inch Mark 22 naval gun turrets
*quad 50mm mark VI naval gun turrets
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| abstract | - The Trafalgar-class carrier was a class of command carriers (informally known by the public and media as 'supercarriers') operated by the UNSC Navy between 2547 and 2604. Five ships were constructed, UNSC Trafalgar, UNSC Vanguard, UNSC Intrepid, UNSC Fortitude and UNSC Endeavour. At 4,120m in length and displacing nearly nineteen million tons, vessels of the class were the largest ships ever commissioned by the UNSC Navy, as well as the largest self-propelled human-made objects ever built. Construction of each ship took place above Reach in the Epsilon Eridani system, where their sheer size necessitated their construction be staggered over several years at various berths in orbit. Construction was slowed after New Carthage, an industrial colony supplying additional components, was glassed in December 2549, but all four ships were commissioned before Reach and its shipyards were themselves destroyed in August 2552. The need for a large class of carrier was identified the mid-2530s, as it became apparent that the UNSC would not be able to halt the Covenant advance into the inner colonies, and that existing UNSC ship classes were not effective against Covenant vessels. Fifty years after UNSC Gorgon, equipped with the first shipboard Magnetic Accelerator Cannon, revolutionised space warfare, the Trafalgar-class carrier was the first vessel fitted with a 'super' MAC, the Mark 5 Heavy Magnetic Accelerator Cannon. Five of the class were constructed four during wartime, of which two, Vanguard and Fortitude, survived to serve lengthy post-war careers. Endeavour, the last vessel constructed, was begun in 2557 and entered service in 2562, as a replacement for the two vessels lost during wartime. The class was eventually replaced at the turn of the century by seven vessels of the Majestic-class.
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