Shrike-class
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| Shrike | |
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| Ship role | Light Attack Craft |
| Affiliation and star navies | Star Kingdom of Manticore |
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| Broadside lasers | {{{Broadside lasers}}} |
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| Broadside grasers | {{{Broadside grasers}}} |
| Graser size (cm) | {{{Broadside graser size (cm)}}} |
| Broadside missiles | {{{Broadside missiles}}} |
| Broadside energy torpedoes | {{{Broadside energy torpedoes}}} |
| Broadside counter-missiles | {{{Broadside counter-missiles}}} |
| Broadside point-defense laser clusters | {{{Broadside point-defense laser clusters}}} |
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| Forward lasers | {{{Forward lasers}}} |
| Laser size (cm) | {{{Forward laser size (cm)}}} |
| Forward grasers | {{{Forward grasers}}} |
| Graser size (cm) | {{{Forward graser size (cm)}}} |
| Forward missiles | {{{Forward missiles}}} |
| Forward counter-missiles | {{{Forward counter-missiles}}} |
| Forward point-defense laser clusters | {{{Forward point-defense laser clusters}}} |
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| After counter-missiles | {{{After counter-missiles}}} |
| After point-defense laser clusters | {{{After point-defense laser clusters}}} |
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| Boat bays | {{{Boat bays}}} |
| Bowwall | {{{Bowwall}}} |
| Sternwall | {{{Stern}}} |
The Shrike-class Light Attack Craft is a fictional class of spaceship in David Weber's Honorverse, a series of science fiction novels which depict space warfare in the 41st Century.
In the Honorverse, Light Attack Craft (LAC) are small, non-hyperspace capable warships with light armament and scarce protection. As such, they have been considered to not have a role in heavy fleet combat, as they were easy targets for more powerful vessels and being more suitable for patrol and customs duties. However, thanks to technological advances originated in the Manticoran Alliance (one of two factions engaged in a long and brutal war), the LAC were reintroduced as a viable warship type, being carried through hyperspace by massive carrier vessels and fighting much in the manner of an aircraft carrier and its air wing.
It is Manticore's first advanced LAC. It is armed with a 150-cm graser (a gravity-lensed gamma radiation beam), four missile tubes with five missiles each, four countermissile launchers with thirteen countermissiles each, and six point defense laser clusters, all forward facing. They are also equipped with sidewalls, a bow wall and a life boat.
The Royal Manticoran Navy also produced variants of the original class known as the Shrike-A and Shrike-B classes. The Shrike-B traded the lifeboat and its hangar for four countermissile launchers and six piont defense laser clusters facing aft. The countermissile magazine was increased to one hundred, evenly divided fore and aft.
- See also: Defensive technology in the Honorverse
