Miliek Salusa
Shipbuilder
Ph-30 Point Defense Autocannon
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To create a point defense cannon to include in future starship subs.
- Image Source: Expanse Wiki - PDC
- Canon Link: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Primary Source: N/A
- Manufacturer: PhoenixDrive Shipwright Corporation
- Affiliation: PhoenixDrive (Manufacturer)
- Market Status: Open-Market
- Model: Ph-30 Point Defense Autocannon
- Modularity: No
- Production: Mass Produced
- Material:
- Trimantium
- Dallorian Alloy
- Galven Coil Components
- Tungsten (Projectiles)
- Classification: Autocannon. Point Defense Cannon
- Role: Anti-Starfighter / Anti-Warhead / Close-In-Weapons-System
- Size: Large
- Weight: Heavy
- Ammunition Type: Miniature Ionized Tungsten Projectiles
- Ammunition Capacity: Very Large
- Effective Range: Personal
- Rate of Fire: High
- Rapid-Reload Gatling Mechanisms
- 8 Barrels
- Damage Output: Low
- Recoil: Low
- Gk7 Gyrocooler
- Miniaturized Reaction Jets for Recoil Compensation
- Tibanna Gas Nozzle for Ammo Ionization
- Rapid-Reload Gatling Mechanisms
- Fast-Tracked Mountings and Joints
- Integrated Sensors to Track Moving Targets
- Rapid-Fire: The Ph-30 can fire off rounds at extreme rates of fire, able to quickly create vast fields of fire in a matter of seconds.
- Shrapnel: In addition to carrying concentrated amounts of raw energy to a target, the solid tungsten rounds employed by the Ph-30 have the tendency to become shrapnel, inflicting a scattered amount of damage on a target’s nearby subsystems.
- Miniaturized Ammunition: As the tungsten rounds employed by the Ph-30 are extremely miniaturized, they take up less space in its magazine chambers, allowing numerous rounds to be loaded into the cannon.
- Automated: Coordination of Ph-30s can be placed under the supervision of a vessel's integrated droid brains or other computational networks, allowing the autocannons to adjust their bearings rapidly and accurately to intercept incoming targets.
- Complicated: The mechanisms used to reload, launch, and charge the Ph-30’s projectiles add to the weapon a significant amount of mechanical complexity. Without regular maintenance, the cannon is prone to extreme malfunctions.
- Bulky: The Ph-30s themselves take up a rather significant portion of a vessel’s surface area when compared to more traditional laser cannon turrets.
- Low Effective Range: The energy bolts carried by the Ph-30’s tungsten projectiles are quick to dissipate, and cease to work effectively at great range. They are dedicated CIWS weapons meant only to intercept targets at close range.
- Damage: Though extremely effective against small craft and ordnances, the Ph-30 has extremely limited offensive potential against large capital ships.
Every day, dozens upon dozens of vessels leave the production yards of the PhoenixDrive Shipwright Corporation, each bearing the labors of the company’s growing design team– critical offensive and defensive subsystems. Among the new technologies integrated into PhoenixDrive’s latest production lines, the Ph-30 Point Defense Autocannon has become a flagship product.
The Ph-30’s most defining feature is likely its use of both solid and energy-based projectiles. Its main firing chamber relies on the same basic principles as most conventional energy weapons, building up a mass of energy through the use of converging particle streams. The compressed "bolt" that is created is carried by a hyper-accelerated tungsten projectile at speeds uncommon amongst more traditional laser cannons.
As a dedicated Close-In-Weapons-System (CIWS), the role of the Ph-30 is entirely that of intercepting incoming ordnances and small craft before any damage can come to an autocannon-equipped starship. In such a role, the cannon excels, lighting the sparks of a hellfire for any object daring to enter its range.
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