Salah-al-din class Cruiser

(Timeline-3177) Cario Pact Salah-al-Din class Heavy Cruiser. The Cario Pact is an Alliance which formed out of several prominant Post Ottoman Muslim states in 2013, controlling Egypt, Arabia, Iraq, Syria and Palestine. The Primary goal was to give said Nations access to Space without becomming subservient to any of the established major powers (which had all had Lunar assets for three decades and were making headway on early developments on mars), to which the Cario Pact met some sucess, although they still were left behind by the more established powers, with their only major gain was a few settlements on a few of Jupiter's and Saturn's moons and Asteriod bases. In the FTL Age, the Cario Pact remains vigilent to establish itself across other star systems and has settled seven systems, but suffers in that the other nations developed FTL travel 25 to 30 years before the Cario Pact built its first Hyperdrive due to internal power struggles and campaigns to deal with internal terrorist activity in the early 22nd century.

Based off an unusal combination of Soviet, American and European Technology, the Salah-al-Din class Heavy Cruiser makes up the bulk of the Cario Pact's Space Navy's Wall of Battle. While the Cario Pact does have at its disposal the Sultan of Space class Battleship, only six of said ships exist in the fleet which are used as flagships. First put into production in 2185, the Cario Pact has built up a fleet of 44 Salah-al-Din class cruisers and has plans for several more batches. These ships are armed with Rapid Fire Beam cannons, with high recycle rates and respectable range but limited output per shot, but are notoriously tough. They have battleship level armor and screens as well as a heavy point defense system. Each of these craft carries Twelve fighters and six Torpedo bombers, as well as having a repsectable torpedo armament. Standard patrol squadrons consist of three or four of these cruisers alongside alongside a medium carrier (something the Cario Pact has never been able to produce a class of with a run longer than two ship).