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| rdfs:label | - Light Cruiser
- Light cruiser
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| rdfs:comment | - The term "light cruiser" refers to a type of ship (spaceship or starship), smaller and more lightly armed or armored compared to a heavy cruiser, equivalent in some cases to a frigate.
- Light cruisers were the largest ships used by the Khanate of Orion until the First Interstellar War. Although rapidly superseded with larger designs between 2205 and 2212, they remain in common use as screening elements and for rear-area patrols.
- The term light cruiser is a starship classification that is applied to starships that are designed as small-to-medium sized multi-purpose vessels.
- A light cruiser is a type of small- or medium-sized warship. The term is a shortening of the phrase "light armored cruiser", describing a small ship that carried armor in the same way as an armored cruiser: a protective belt and deck. Prior to this smaller cruisers had been of the protected cruiser model, possessing armored decks only.
- In starship classification, a light cruiser was a small- to medium-sized multipurpose starship. The 24th century starship USS Drake was designated a light cruiser. (TNG: "The Arsenal of Freedom" ) According to the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Technical Manual, the Saber-class was also classified as a light cruiser, as was the Intrepid-class. During the Dominion War a Yeager-type of light cruiser was built from an Intrepid-class primary hull. Another type of light cruiser used in the Dominion War was a variant of the Constitution-class of starship, a saucer with two warp nacelles.
- The light cruiser concept was carried out by Wildstorm artist Shawn Moll. Originally, he'd been instructed to design a ship that looked "something like Serenity." However, the end image was declared "too much like Serenity", possibly due to the rotating thrusters.
- A light cruiser is a starship classification designated as small-to-medium sized multi-purpose vessels.
- Light cruisers (often abbreviated to CL for "Cruiser, Light") served a role similar to their smaller consort, the destroyer, but with heavier armaments (at the start of the 20th Century PD, the distinguising feature between a heavy destroyer and a small light cruiser was the cruiser's graser broadside mount or mounts), superior sensors and better endurance. They were primarily used for reconnaissance, commerce raiding, and commerce protection with an average tonnage of ninety to one hundred fifty thousand tons. (HH1)
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| abstract | - The term "light cruiser" refers to a type of ship (spaceship or starship), smaller and more lightly armed or armored compared to a heavy cruiser, equivalent in some cases to a frigate.
- Light cruisers were the largest ships used by the Khanate of Orion until the First Interstellar War. Although rapidly superseded with larger designs between 2205 and 2212, they remain in common use as screening elements and for rear-area patrols.
- The term light cruiser is a starship classification that is applied to starships that are designed as small-to-medium sized multi-purpose vessels.
- A light cruiser is a type of small- or medium-sized warship. The term is a shortening of the phrase "light armored cruiser", describing a small ship that carried armor in the same way as an armored cruiser: a protective belt and deck. Prior to this smaller cruisers had been of the protected cruiser model, possessing armored decks only.
- In starship classification, a light cruiser was a small- to medium-sized multipurpose starship. The 24th century starship USS Drake was designated a light cruiser. (TNG: "The Arsenal of Freedom" ) According to the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Technical Manual, the Saber-class was also classified as a light cruiser, as was the Intrepid-class. During the Dominion War a Yeager-type of light cruiser was built from an Intrepid-class primary hull. Another type of light cruiser used in the Dominion War was a variant of the Constitution-class of starship, a saucer with two warp nacelles.
- The light cruiser concept was carried out by Wildstorm artist Shawn Moll. Originally, he'd been instructed to design a ship that looked "something like Serenity." However, the end image was declared "too much like Serenity", possibly due to the rotating thrusters.
- A light cruiser is a starship classification designated as small-to-medium sized multi-purpose vessels.
- Light cruisers (often abbreviated to CL for "Cruiser, Light") served a role similar to their smaller consort, the destroyer, but with heavier armaments (at the start of the 20th Century PD, the distinguising feature between a heavy destroyer and a small light cruiser was the cruiser's graser broadside mount or mounts), superior sensors and better endurance. They were primarily used for reconnaissance, commerce raiding, and commerce protection with an average tonnage of ninety to one hundred fifty thousand tons. (HH1) Light cruisers of the RMN were designed with break-away bulkheads to jettison a malfunctioning fusion reactor. (HH3)
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