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One of the critical strategic problems faced by Starfleet Command, if the Federation was going to win the Dominion War, was that the Federation forces were being spread too thin. Between defending the Federation territory from and trying to go on the offensive against the Dominion, in addition to keeping a wary eye on the Romulans, Starfleet found it had too many obligations and too few resources. Capital ships such as the Galaxy and Nebula class ships, or even ones as small as a Defiant Class, were too expensive and used up too many resources to continually rebuild the fleet. Additionally, the Jem'Hadar used a great number of smaller fighter craft in combat, increasing the number of targets for Federation ships, and generally causing havoc with strategic planning.

A new ship of revolutionary design would be required. Ship designers of Utopia Planitia were up to the challenge. They not only designed a totally new class of ship, the Achilles; they designed and built it in less than two years.

The prototype, deployed for field testing in the closing weeks of the war, performed admirably, destroying two key facilities on its single mission behind enemy lines. It also accounted for two full Cardassian fighter wings, as well as nearly a score of Jem'Hadar strike cruisers in its mission, the best record of any single ship in the war. However successful, a number of problems were identified and the Achilles was returned to Utopia Planitia at the end of the war for refitting. The remainder of her hull was filled out with the non-warfare facilities that were called for in her original design, including a basic science department, multipurpose holodecks and upgraded ship-wide holo-emitters, and she was retasked for system patrol and deep-space exploration, then moved out for further field testing.

Notable Ships of This Class

• USS Cutlass: prototype
• USS :

Specifications

• Type: Carrier
• Length: 746 Meters
• Height: 40 Meters
• Beam: 372 Meters
• Mass: 6,165,000 Tonnes
• Decks: 12
• Accomodations: 1000
• Crew: 931
  • Standard: 496
  • Flight Team: 435
    • Command: 2 (1 Wing Commander, 1 CAG)
    • Flight Ops Team: 36
    • Pilots: 72
    • Fighter Grounds Crew: 288 (4 per fighter craft)
    • Deck Crew: 37 (6 squad chiefs, 30 specialists, 1 Deck Boss)
• Warp Speeds:
  • Cruising: 6.0
  • Maximum: 8.6
  • Emergency: 9.2 for 12 hours
• Weapons:
  • 8 x Type VIII Phaser arrays
  • 4 x Type II Photon Torpedos