Sheng-class cruiser
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| Type: | Cruiser |
| Place of origin: | Jingdao |
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| In service: | 6415 ASC - present |
| Used by: |
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| In service: | 1 |
| Retired: | |
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| Designed: | 6410 - 6414 ASC |
| Manufacturer: | Heimat Industries |
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| Displacement: | 10,600 tons (load)
14,200 tons (full load) |
| Length: | 202.5m |
| Beam: | 21.5m |
| Draught: | 7.2m (deep load) |
| Speed: | 35 knots |
| Complement: | 50 officers, 800 men |
| Armament: | 9 × 46.0 cm guns (3×3)
8 × 15.5 cm guns |
| Anunia points: | 2,500 |
The Sheng-class cruiser was the first developed Jingdaoese cruiser since the start of the Xindao Program (New Path Program), which focused on a massive expansion of the Navy to counter the Shirerithian rearmament programme, that was itself a response to the ongoing Sxiro-Jingdaoese Confrontation over the loss of Kildare.
The Sheng is considered to be a departure from its predecessors in that the placement of armaments has been rationalised so that the gun-turrets no longer mutually obstruct their respective fields of fire, which had been something of a tradition hitherto in the Jingdaoese Navy.
