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ARIA REGINA - Aircraft Carrier

An aircraft carrier loosely based on the german Graf Zeppelin, equipped with 6 biplanes.

Armaments include 6 double-cannon APS turrets with Timed Frag rounds, 8 simple cannon secondary weapons and a bunch of simple anti-air.
Also features spotlights and inter-vehicle detection data transmission, as the biplanes themselves do not carry detection equipment - only snoopers.

Aircraft include 3 torpedo bombers and 3 regular bombers, both using the TP-4 "Fairy" platform.

In terms of firepower, the bombers are generally more powerful than the torpedo variant, however they are also more fragile as they carry more ammo and pass over the target.
The aircraft also carry a backup electric engine in case the fuel engine gets shot.
They also carry a single repair bot.

As for the ship itself, it is intended to function in a support role - providing long range firepower in form of aircraft, and some anti-air defense.
The ship has ring shield generators and uses steam engines. It also carrier a backup fuel engine generator in case the batteries start to run dry.

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NOTE: The ship doesn't reqire a whole lot of power itself, however, since it's intended to share power and materials with its aircraft (and by extension the rest of the fleet), it consumes a lot of materials per second - which is why I tagged it as "end-game". The actual performance is closer to early - mid game.
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The aircraft are subvehicles, and as such, are gone forever when destroyed. As far as I know, the only way to get them back in case of total destruction is to "retrofit" the ship to its latest version - that said, I never got that to work in the designer. So honestly I have no idea how to get the planes back lol.
However if there is even a single block of the plane left alive, it will be repaired once docked.

And for a bit of eye candy, the aircraft are equipped with smoke generators that emit smoke and/or fire depending on how much damage has been sustained.

On a side note, FTD makes it really hard to build small aircraft. I originally wanted to fit 10+ aircraft on the deck, including a squad of fighters. However, I would need to make the ship like 3 times larger for that. And it's already 200+ meters.