The Svelt class when it was introduced, was the largest ship of the hardskin alliance navy, the size of this impressive space carrier is justified by it's capability of deploying an impressive complement of over 70 gunships, and with enought hangar bays to launch half of them in one go, the Shmel space gunships are the main offensive capability of this space vessel, the rest of the armament it's mostly there in the worst case scenario enemy ships break the defensive formation and are able to move close enought to the carrier to be a treath.

Lenght:
561 meters (1840 feet)

Armament:
16x particle projection ring turrett
4x mass munition interception launcher
2x enhanced anti missile system

Equipment:
2x hardpoints for weapons or equipment

Hangar capacity:
78x Gunships Shmel
4x Light shuttles Pchela
2x cargo shuttles Gorke
16x personal drop pods