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| rdfs:comment | - Traditionally, the UNSC Navy has shunned the use of Heavy Frigates in favour of full-fledged Destroyers. Though similar in armament and defense, there are major differences in terms of functionality and combat role. Frigates are designed for long-term long-range deployment, operating in tandem with small groups of corvettes or other frigates. Destroyers, on the other hand, are designed as escorts for fleets providing a screen of firepower behind which larger ships can operate with relative safety. At the beginning of the Human-Covenant War, Destroyers outnumbered Heavy Frigates nearly 15:1.
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| Era | - *Human-Covenant War
*War of Vengeance
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| Length | |
| shield gen | - *CEMPT-7
*MJLNR-7X Solid Light Barrier Generator
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| Affiliation | |
| Role | - *Battlegroup escort
*Orbital fire support
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| Name | |
| Manufacturer | - Reyes-McLees Naval Shipyards
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| Engine | |
| Hull | - *Ceramic-Titanium Composite Hull Plating
*Ancile Metamaterial
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| Crew | |
| Armament | - * 2 x MAC
* 26 x RIM-438C Archer Multi-Stage Missile Pods
* 14 x RIM-441 Neith Multi-Stage Missiles
* 6 x RIM-442 Anubis Anti-Radiological Missiles
* 12 x THOR Weapon System Launchers
* 8 x Helix 50mm CIWS Autocannons
* 2 x DEW12 Hydrogen-Fluoride Chemical Point Defence Lasers
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| slipspace speed | - *2.625 lightyears per day
*38 lightyears per hour
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| slipspace drive | - Shaw-Fujikawa Translight Engine
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| abstract | - Traditionally, the UNSC Navy has shunned the use of Heavy Frigates in favour of full-fledged Destroyers. Though similar in armament and defense, there are major differences in terms of functionality and combat role. Frigates are designed for long-term long-range deployment, operating in tandem with small groups of corvettes or other frigates. Destroyers, on the other hand, are designed as escorts for fleets providing a screen of firepower behind which larger ships can operate with relative safety. At the beginning of the Human-Covenant War, Destroyers outnumbered Heavy Frigates nearly 15:1. As the war raged through the Outer and Inner Colonies, however, the Admiralty began to realise that the Heavy Frigate was desperately needed. Reconnaissance and patrol battlegroups were woefully underpowered against Covenant invading forces, and while UNSC fleets had found tactics that worked and made use of their few strengths, Destroyers simply couldn't respond fast enough for the Navy's liking. In 2549, the Reyes-McLees Shipyards were commissioned constructing XFFG-217, the prototype for the design - another nine were constructed and entered service, with the hulls for another seventeen laid down. The fall of Reach saw these uncompleted frigates destroyed, but the models that had already entered service acquitted themselves at the Battle of Earth, and though certainly battered, were part of the remnant of the UNSC Navy left after the end of the war. They would continue to serve in the UNSC Navy until 2567, when they were retired.
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