CVN-99 Asuka II

Program

• Government: U.N.
• Ship Type: Aircraft Carrier

Advanced small-scale stealth carrier developed by the United Nations government. Although it was the originally a Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force-constructed standard-power aircraft carrier, it was transferred to the U.N. Forces by the Japanese Unification-government group when they joined and completed as a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. It became the de facto mobile base of first VF-0 special duty combat test unit (Skull Team), deployed in 2008. In addition, engineers assigned to the VF-0 development and maintenance were transferred aboard this ship to maintain these difficult units. Two-bridge design. Stealth structure. Complex polyhedron island design.

Main Machinery

• One Westinghouse Electric Corporation A6W Nuclear reactor improves upon two A4W nuclear reactor used in Nimitz class aircraft carrier.
• Four steam turbines
• Multi-bladed directional highly-skewed propellers

Electronics

• Aegis system

Armaments

• Guns
  • Overtechnology beam gun mounted in starboard
  • Phalanx CIWS mounted on forward port, forward starboard, aft port, aft starboard, and mid-ship starboard
  • Destroid docking booths located on the aft section of the island. Destroids can act as CIWS.
• Missiles
  • VLS launcher mounted on mid-ship starboard

• Variable Vehicles
  • VF-0
• Destroids
  • Destroid Cheyenne Anti-Air Interception Robot
  • HWR-00 Monster (experimental)
• Other aircraft equipment available for F-14A+, Ghosts, Avenger II, and Sea Sergeant.

Measurements

• Dimensions, Meters:
  • 276 (approximate, length) [250m (approximate, length)]

• Water Displacement, standard: 38,200t

Performance

Maximum speed, knots: 40

Appendices

Appearances

• Debut: Macross Zero

Background

Designer: Junya Ishigaki, Kazutaka Miyatake

The name (sometimes written as ASCA) is a reference to Asuka, a common Japanese name for several ships, including an experimental ship of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force.

The ship's length was initially set at 250 meters, but Ishigaki said that they revised the size during production.