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Valdez-Class Battleship
The Valdez class represents the largest class of seagoing warship in the world, being approximately 3930 feet long, 328 feet wide and 49 feet high above sea level. They originated not as warships but as part of Poseidon Energy's pre-War fleet of megascale oil supertankers - approximately 18 ships, of which 7 would survive the nuclear exchange either en route to their destinations, in drydock, or run aground on various beaches (one, being destroyed mid-refit), one of which was the celebrated vessel which assisted in the destruction of Control Station ENCLAVE. Now the six vessels of the class - no more of which can be produced - are considered the NCR Navy's heaviest hitters after extensive up-armouring and modification to better fulfill the role of a warship.
Each Valdez has eight main gun-turrets, each carrying three 16.5" chemically-propelled guns and sixteen secondary gun-turrets, each carrying two 6" guns. To maximise use of deck space they are located around the edges of the vessel rather than down its centre as per the pre-War configuration. The large amount of otherwise useless deck space between the batteries is largely taken up by aircraft landing zones - a Valdez typically carries 20 Condor fighters, 20 Buzzard close-air-support planes, and 20 vertibirds for troop deployment - and by anti-air electro-laser cannons.
The normal speed of a Valdez is 15 knots - the engines can be pushed to 20 knots, but this is dangerous when done for significant stretches of time. It also typically take from thirty-to forty-five minutes to perform a ninety-degree turn, up to an hour to carry out a 180-degree turn. Its escorts (Dayglow-class cruisers or Ranger Seth-class destroyers) typically find themselves forced to move significantly behind maximum speed to keep pace with the mighty vessels ...