McCain's Spacecraft Encyclopedia:

After the Zentraedi Holocaust, an estimated 670,000 Tou Redir-class ships remained intact or salvageable in the Zentraedi. Most of these were decommissioned due to protoculture depletion prior to 2020. The Terran forces decommissioned their units of this class very soon after the hostilities ended. In 2033 when the Invid Invaded the System they wrecked the Factory sattelite and most of the vessel stored within, 99% of all ships stored in the Factory Sattelite were damaged beyond repair and scrapped the still useable components either used to restore the remaining vessels or were put in storage.

These ships were refurbished at the Space Station Liberty Factory sattelite from 2065 to 2075. The total number of vessels refurbished is 6700. 2345 vessels were destroyed during the First Battle of Tirol (2090 to 2093) with another 2010 being destroyed during the Rogue Zentraedi Mop-Up Operation (2093 to 2099) that followed shortly afterwards also another 47 was scrapped due to action damage or constructiorial total loss. During the second Battle of Tirol (2094) another 134 were destroyed or scrapped shortly after. And during the Fourth Robotech War (2111 to 2131) 1541 vessels were destroyed or scrapped shortly after the final conflict.

Only 623 are still in service.

Design: Unknown Design Bureua
Builder: Various
Operator: Zentraedi Navy (1243 to end of Mercantile Empire); TMF (2065 to present)

Ships Complement:

Zentraedi Ships: (190 men):

Ship's Crew: (70 men),
Air Group: (80 men),
Troops: (40 men),

Human Ships: (70 men):

Ship's Crew (940 men),
Army Personnel (3125 men),
Air Group (900 men),

Dimensions:

Length: 498 meters
Width: 178 meters
Height: 355 meters
Mass: 1,525,000 metric tons
Fuel Mass: 650,000 metric tons

Propulsion Systems:

Main power system: TRG mk 4e protoculture-fueled Reflex furnace. The powerplant of the Tou-Redir-class vessel can deliver up to 15.4 Petawatts of power, and can operate for 47 minutes at maximum power before overheat initiates autoshutdown.

Anti-gravity System (1): 11 TRG Coral anti-gravity pods.

Space Fold: TRG Mk1e spacefold.

Endurance and Mobility Limits:

Dry stores: 4 Years.
Reflex Furnace: A 35 year span before rebuild or replacement has to occur.
Hull Endurance: 640 years.

Weapons Systems:

Zentraedi Ships:

Makral Mossil 918 particle cannon (14): For centuries this combined particle beam and laser weapon has been the standard medium cannon armament on Zentraedi vessels. Two different beam weapons (variable frequency laser and particle beam cannon) are provided on one mount so that the discharge medium can be chosen as the optimum for the local target and environment conditions. Both weapons have the same yield at the muzzle. The laser can be fired in a low power mode directly before the particle beam fires, this setting is typically used to burn a vacuum path for the particles through an atmosphere. Because of the slow recharge time of the larger weapons, and the flexibility inherent in the double mount, this cannon turret is the weapon system most often utilized on board Zentraedi vessels. For ground support, it is the only effective weapon as the other systems are to heavy to be used around own troops. The cannon, as most Zentraedi beam weapon systems, has an effective range of 300,000 km. Each full-intensity shot has a yield of 1000 MJ, and the cannons can cycle through their firing sequence once every three seconds. The exact location of these weapons varied by building yard, but the most common scheme mounted 14 of the turrets in the forward section of the hull, another six forward of each engine, and the remaining 20 mounted in the sectors the forward weapons did not cover.

Deuawhaug Rasar 89 (10): A Reloadable Silo Launch System (RSLS), or as it is better known, a torpedo tube, capable of firing large anti-ship and ground bombardment torpedoes. The tubes can reload in 3.6 seconds, and have a 40 round magazine close-by. These launchers are mounted between the upper and lower hull shells in the nose of the ship. The missiles used are the SSA-1 Sniper (Lojredbeth Deuawhaugh) and the SSA-2 Scrapper (Letkes Deuawhaug) missiles. The former is a nuclear missile with a 326 kT reaction warhead, the latter is a conventional tipped missile with a warhead of 2.3 metric tons.

Both missiles are optimized for anti-ship strikes in deep space, but can be used in orbital bombardment modes or in an atmosphere.

Touwhaug Rasar 481 (24): A missile launcher mounted in a pop-up turret, firing anti-mecha/missile missiles, though the projectiles can guide on point-blank enemy ships. When the missiles are released they are already on their intercept vectors, or very close to them. Each turret has a reload time of 3.6 seconds and a magazine with a 100 round capacity. They are mounted for spherical coverage.

The missile system used is the SAA-1 Granite (Gliquoun Touwhaug), a weapon with a conventional blast fragmentation warhead of 278 kg and an atmospheric range of 112 km. at a speed of Mach 7.5.

NOTE: Zentraedi starships mounted a large percentage of their armament forward, for maximum attack capability. Other areas of the ships mounted correspondingly less weapon systems.

Human Ships:

Bofors RL69 Triple Particle Beam Turrets (24). The Andromedas carry a fully enclosed version of the heavy RL36 turret also mounted on the Garfish class destroyers. These excellent weapons deliver 6300 MJ of particle energy per turret per salvo.

PL-2e Point Defense turrets (48): Mounted in the sides of hull behind movable panels, these standard REF weapons can fire 73 MJ of particle energy five times per second.

Mk.283 MLS missile systems (24): Each launcher has 10 individual launch silos. The silos each contain 6 ready missiles in a rotating mechanism, which can be reloaded while firing. The ready magazines store 300 missiles per launcher. These launchers typically fire Warhawk and Spacehawk missiles. Typical warheads are anti-mecha cluster munitions, nuclear reaction anti-warship and nuclear reaction re-entry capable weapons.

Mk. 299 Missile Tubes (10): These tubes typically launch Barracuda, Warhawk and Spacehawk missiles. The total magazine capacity is 60 Barracuda or 160 Warhawk/Spacehawk missiles. A typical load-out is 18 Barracuda missiles, 20 nuclear Spacehawk-B missiles, 60 Spacehawk-A missiles, and 30 Warhawk missiles.

Zentraedi Ships:

1 Quel Quallie
1 Liewneuatzs
50 Raulonve

Human Ships:

(Naval/Marine aircraft - combat ready)

2 SPT-3 Pigeon Courriers/Trainers
1 EC-39 Starowl ECW Shuttles
3 SC-39 Starswan Heavy Passenger and Cargo Shuttles
10 RC-4E Rabbit Light Passenger and Cargo Shuttles
150 VF-11B/T Thunderbolts
50 VF-17 Nightmares
75 VF-19 Excaliburs
75 VF-22 Sturmvogels

(Army mecha - in storage hangars)

80 Fast Strike Destroids
70 Heavy Battle Destroids
50 AAA/Missile Destroids
6 Medium/Heavy Artillery Destroids

2500 Light Veritech Cycles

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Updated: 12:12:2000

Thanks to the Unofficial Robotech Reference Guide for the pics and info.