Sokol-class destroyer

The Sokol-class, officially classified as the Type-086 Destroyer is a series of destroyers in service with the United Front Space Force, the space warfare branch of the Interstellar Union of Revolutionary States's military forces. First built in 216, the Sokol-class is a mainstay in the UFSF's armada and is their primary escort option.

These warships were designed for multi-mission warfare and escort duties as part of carrier battle groups, which are central to the UFSF's carrier warfare doctrine. Sokol-class vessels have also been used as leaders of Agresor-class frigate "wolfpacks", which raid enemy supply lines and harass the flanks of enemy formations. Designed almost entirely for ship-to-ship combat, the Sokol-class vessels are respectably competent in space combat but lack major space-to-ground support capabilities.

History
Designed by the 7th State Defence Development Institute, the Sokol-class was lauded as the first indigenous Union warship design approaching modern standards, a significant improvement over the earlier Guaira-class. The chief designer was the famous naval engineer Raúl Sarmiento. The Sokol-class made extensive use of reverse-engineered foreign technologies from both the Empire and the USC, acquired by the Union through illicit means, as well as a new, more efficient reactor system developed in the Yudi Socialist State.

Command and control
An armoured Combat Information Centre (CIC) is buried deep within the ship's mid-aft section beneath the bridge, ensuring full protection for command and control functions during heavy fighting.

The Sokol-class has access to a powerful communications suite that enables interconnectivity between the ships of a combat formation. A strong sensor suite is installed to provide the Sokol-class vessels with all-round detection capability in a wide radius. Target designation and detection data can be shared with other vessels in the command environment, allowing the Sokol-class ships to act as sensor pickets for the larger vessels.

Weapons systems
Designed for all-round space warfare, the Sokol-class is equipped with a variety of weapons to engage multiple targets. The main battery of the Sokol-class is comprised of 4 dual-mount 155mm JUNG132 railgun turrets, with 2 turrets each on the dorsal and ventral decks, and a further 10 dual-mount 110mm Hongqiao-42 railgun turrets mounted around the vessel's hull. The ship's secondary battery consists of 6 single-mount rapid-fire 70mm ArbustosMaestro railguns.

In addition to the guns, the primary all-range weapons of the Sokol-class are missiles, with a 24 missile launch tubes on the forward dorsal deck, reloaded through automated systems connected to the ship's magazine. The Sokol-class primarily deploys the standard Union Mosquito high-velocity all-range anti-shipping guided missiles, with options for Mosquito-A high-explosive/fragmentation, Mosquito-C armour-piercing high explosive and Mosquito-L nuclear warheads.

Point-defence missiles are also able to be launched from the same tubes, typically M7 Tábano close-in guided missiles, which use three-dimensional spherical scan radar for target tracking. Other point-defence options are 16 30mm ArbustosMaestro M29 CIWS guns, strategically placed across the hull for all-round defensive coverage, and 14 multi-tube anti-missile countermeasure dispensers.