Ea-class Cruiser

## History

### Number built

89 units planned (55 for the Royal Mervayan Navy, 30 for the RKN, 4 for the Military and Security Forces of Markaz)

### Price

7-10 billion NSD per unit, including development costs, estimate

## Technical Data

### Propulsion

2 nuclear reactors, 3 azimuth thrusters, bow thrusters

### Sensors and Processing Systems

3D Long-Range Phased Array Air Search Radar, 3D Air/Surface Search Radar, 1x Navigation Radar, 2x Air/Surface Search Multifunction Radars, Bow-Mounted Sonar, Variable Depth Sonar with torpedo alert, Radar Warning Receiver, Shabaka Combat Network

### Electronic Warfare

Full ECM, ESM, ECCM and SIGINT Suites, Radar Warning Receiver

### Decoys

Chaff, flares, Multi-Ammunition Softkill System, torpedo decoy launcher

### Armament

2x2 152mm Railguns, 2x 10-cell VLS-Modules (strike length), 6x 10-cell VLS-Modules (short), 4x Laser-CIWS, 2x 25-cell RAMs

### Aircraft carried

Depending on configuration, up to 15 VTOLs and Helicopters, 12 medium-sized drones

### Aviation Facilities

Hangar forward of flight deck, hangar deck below hangar and flight deck, aft flight deck (rated for vectored-thrust VTOLs and Helicopters), drone catapult, drone control room

## Notes

### Notes

Data for the RKN-Version of the Vessels

The **Ea-class Cruiser** is the next generation of cruisers designed, developed and built for the Sultan's Navy. A total of 36 vesels is currently (2021) planned, the first units are to be laid down in 2025 (and to be commissioned in 2030). Equipped with the newest technologies of the Kyrenaian Military-Industrial Complex, the class is expected to be a guarantee for Kyrenaia's and its allies' safety and security, as well as the Freedom of the Sea and Navigation, for decades to come.

All vessels are to be named after weapons from Kyrenaian History and Mythology, Ea, the mythical Sword of Rupture of Almadaldiman Mythology, being the first.

They are both able for independent operations, operation in conjunction with other vessels as flagships and, one of their secondary roles, as escorts for the Hisan-class Aircraft Carriers. While they can provide naval gunfire support, theirs is of a long range. The vessels are supplemented by the conventionally-powered Tahul-class Cruisers.

In 2021, the Kingdom of Mervay joined the development under the conditions of domestically producing the 55 planned vessels and equipping them with Mervayan Technology. In 2028, the Government of Markaz acquired four vessels as well.

## Design

The vessels of the Ea-class are hybrid cruiser-carriers, with railgun turrets at the bow and a flight deck for VTOLs and Helicopters aft. A design study for a vessel with an angled flight deck terminating in a ski-jump in order to also allow operations of STOVLs and another one with an extendable ski jump were dropped.

## History

* procurement of the RKN scaled down from 48 to 30 in 2022

## Ships in class

### Sultan's Navy

*30 units*
* *RKN Ea*, to be commissioned in 2030.
* *RKN Alzumrud Alsayf*, to be commissioned in 2030 (the Emerald Sword is a mythical weapon from Fenchuan Folk Stories).
* *RKN Imhullu*, to be commissioned in 2030 (the Imhullu is a warhammer from Almadaldiman Mythology used to slay several gods).
* *RKN Ukokirve*, to be commissioned in 2031 (the Ukokirve is the thunder-throwing hammer of a sky-god in Jalidi Mythology).
* *RKN Sharura*, to be commissioned in 2031 (Sharura is a mace from Almadaldiman Mythology).