Gelvadar Class Battle-Carrier

The most presently modern yet surprisingly capable carrier is the dual-united hull Gelvadar class Battle-Carrier. It's very roomy internal maintenance and storage bays allow it to store and launch more fighters or other craft than it looks like it should. sitting in the 390-400meter length range, it is the internal hulls that allow for the storage of the number of planes it carries, and then the upper shuttle bay to the aft of superstructure under the Missile launcher and bridge arrangement.

The Gelvadar also has all the same systems, armor, and shields and electrical systems that it's more aggressive cousins like battleships and cruisers sport. This means that the Gelvadar, once it launches it's charges, can give support with it's array of weapons, plus the two deck sections that rotate and show more weapons allowing it to fight like a battleship! Camouflaged Gelvadar with a sister ship and escorts launches DWG-262's. the scale of the planes to the mother ship show why it can carry so many of the smaller fighters, and shows it can also carry a mix of planes although the large torpedo planes take up more space and thus limits the carried load. but 80 of the small 262's can be carried, along with a varied mix of planes of similar size, so a cut of say 40 x 262's and 20 x dive bombers with 10 x torp planes

The Gelvadar is likely to see service for years to come in the UruKhar fleets.

Weapons: Visible;

4 x triple long-barreled 330mm Variable phase Particle Beam Cannon turrets

4 x triple long barreled 133mm Variable phase Particle Beam Cannons

4 x triple barreled 280mm Variable phase Particle Beam Cannons (ventral)

2 x forward 180cm torpedo tubes

2 x aft 180cm torpedo tubes

8 x missile launchers (ventral)

6 x tube missile launcher aft

Deck swap weapons:

2 x triple barrel Variable phase Particle Beam Cannons

4 x triple barrel 280mm Variable phase Particle Beam Cannons

32 x AA Point defense weapons

Aircraft:

80 x fighters or dive bombers

or

40 x fighters plus 40 x dive bombers

or

40 x torpedo bombers

or

40 x fighters + 20 x dive bombers + torpedo bombers

4 x shuttles

pilots:

84

Crew:

24 x Officers

250 x deck crew

230 x Ship crew

150 x droid marines.