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!Missile Heavy Cruiser CMI

A heavy cruiser with weapon replacements to increase the number of missile delivery systems.

**Weapon systems**
2 [PAD]
2 [HELL]
4 [Multi Cannon]
8 Missile Launchers firing [Heavy Missile]
4 [Chaff] / [Flares] launchers
2 One shot [Pacifier]
105 [Starship Marines]

**Approx tonnage** 50,000 tonnes

**Maximum acceleration** 1.5 G

**Navy Crew**: 170 (not including [Starship Marines]

!!Doctrine and operations
Heavy Missile Cruisers were originally designed to add a missile punch to a line of battle fleet.  Most navies regard them as an auxiliary and only of value in the context of big fleet battles where they are covered by line-of-battle CAI and BBI.  They only started to be re-introduced in recent years because they were a way of throwing extra nuclear-tipped missiles at crippled Exterminators.  The CMI trades the all-round weapons flexibility of a proper CAI for extra anti-ship missile launchers (which themselves are only of use once the enemy's point defences have been degraded by other fleet elements).

See also [Heavy Cruiser] [Light Cruiser] [Starship]