Kirishima-class heavy cruiser

The Kirishima-class are a series of heavy cruisers in service with the Imperial Navy. Built with the new design philosophy pioneered by the Mogami-class light cruiser, the Kirishima-class replaced the older Niigata-class heavy cruisers as the Imperial Navy's most numerous class of cruisers.

Designed to be all-purpose medium warships, the Kirishima-class is able to effectively engage ships larger than itself as well as chase down lighter ships. The Kirishima-class would eventually come to be the main inspiration behind the much larger Senmetsu-class battleship.

Design
Victory I-class Star Destroyers were 900 meters long, just over half the size of the later Imperial-class Star Destroyer.

The Victory I-class Star Destroyer's biggest disadvantage was its underpowered LF9 ion engines, which could not produce sufficient acceleration to pursue newer and faster ships, allowing them to escape ship-to-ship combat. This flaw was rectified in the limited Victory II-class, produced shortly before the advent of the Empire.[2]

Some variants of the Victory-class were designed with three main thrusters and four auxiliary thrusters, like the larger Imperial-class. Others, like the Harrow and the Protector, had two main thrusters and two auxiliary thrusters wedged in-between.[14][15]

The Victory Star Destroyer's Class 1.0 hyperdrive was superior to that of the Imperial-class Star Destroyer, allowing Victory ships to reach their destinations in half the time.[10]

Armament
Despite being several decades old at the time, the shields and hull armor of Victory I-class ships were still quite heavy compared to the other vessels used during the Galactic Civil War. They were equipped with 10 quad turbolaser batteries, 40 double turbolaser batteries, 80 concussion missiles tubes, and 10 tractor beam projectors. Due to being clad in 9095-T8511 grade durasteel[2], a Victory-class vessel was said to be capable of fighting a Dreadnaught-class cruiser to a stand-still.[13]

Two beam lasers facing forward one ach wing, and two on the superstructure. beam laser array

Complement
A single Victory I-class Star Destroyer required 4,798 crew members and 402 gunners for optimal operation and could transport up to 2,040 troops, 8,100 metric tons of cargo, several ground vehicles like the AT-AT, and two squadrons of starfighters.