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{{Quote|Core Dynamics Farragut-Class Battle Cruisers represent the cutting edge in military technology. A single FCB can carry several squadrons of Federal Fighters and multiple Federal Corvettes across hundreds of light years without any difficulty. These deep deployment capabilities, coupled with extraordinarily heavy firepower, practically guarantee that a single FCB will completely overpower all but the most well-equipped opponents.|Excerpt from a GalNet report on the completion of the FNS Nevermore<ref name="CompletesWork">[https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/8c57c116a6560dcdf309f1bebc9b0a2da0f7d14b GalNet: Core Dynamics Completes Work on New Capital Ship]</ref>}}

==Overview==

{{Quote|The Federation's capital ships are brutal, practical war machines inside and out. Airtight doors split the interior into many separate compartments. Grab-handles abound, as do access panels and all the paraphernalia of a military vessel. There would be no mistaking a Federal ship's interior with an Imperial one.|''The Art of Elite Dangerous''<ref name=":0">The Art of Elite Dangerous, August 17 2016</ref>}}

From 3278 to 3302, the construction of Farragut-Class Battle Cruisers as well as other capital ships was restricted by the terms of the [[London Treaty]], which was created to prevent an arms race between the superpowers that was projected to occur with the introduction of the [[Frame Shift Drive]]. Imperial Senator and Fleet Admiral [[Denton Patreus]] publicly spurned the London Treaty on October 21, 3302 in a speech in which he declared he would build as many capital ships as the Empire needed for its defence, marking the Empire's withdrawal from the treaty and heralding its dissolution.<ref>[https://community.elitedangerous.com/en/galnet/uid/57ada8c69657baeb6e876c6d GalNet: Galactic News: Economic Turmoil Ahead?]</ref><ref>[https://community.elitedangerous.com/en/galnet/uid/5809dff79657baf8216962ee GalNet: Galactic News: Patreus Rails against London Treaty]</ref>

During a period of increased tensions between the [[Federation]] and the [[Empire]] in late 3306 caused by the activities of the [[Neo-Marlinist Liberation Army]], President [[Zachary Hudson]] convinced [[Federal Congress]] to approve a funding increase for the Federal Navy in order to expand production of Farragut-Class Battle Cruisers.<ref>[https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/5fbfa6a3f502ec2bd049d15f GalNet: Empire and Federation Increase Capital Ship Production]</ref> With assistance from independent pilots, this resulted in five new Farraguts being fast-tracked for completion, with planned deployments in Atropos, Iman Caber, LHS 142, LFT 367, and Wolf 25.<ref name="CapConstruction">[https://community.elitedangerous.com/galnet/uid/5fc8f4d5993bc86fbd2e6d46 GalNet: Capital Ship Construction Initiatives Conclude]</ref>

|LFT 367

|Dec. 7, 3306

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|FNS Ajax

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|FNS Bellerophon

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|FNS Erebus

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|FNS Europa

|Segovan

|Jul. 15, 3309

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|FNS Fearless

|HIP 22460

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|FNS Furious

|Oct. 7,

3304

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|FNS Glory

|LHS 142

|Dec. 7, 3306

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|FNS Hood

|Iman Caber

|Dec. 7, 3306

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|FNS Indefatigable

|Beta Hydri

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|FNS Kracer

|Mu Koji

|Sept. 10, 3302

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|FNS Leander

|Wolf 25

|Dec. 7, 3306

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|FNS Nevermore

|HIP 46903 3

|Oct. 31, 3303

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|FNS Orion

|Cemiess

|Jun. 7, 3304

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|FNS Pursuer

|FNS Trander

|Sol

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| FNS Unicorn

|Atropos

|Dec. 7, 3306

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|FNS Victorious  

|LHS 20

|Nov. 22, 3305

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|Darion ep Tellek

|Kamitra

|Jan. 11, 3304

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|Lars Porsenna

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|Starship One

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|Vanguard

|Ross 719

|Dec. 10, 3304

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|Wedge Androlos

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*[[David Braben]] describes the Farragut-Class Battle Cruiser: ''"...there will be no [[gravity]], you'll just float around. Things like magnetic boots will make getting around very easy, and they wouldn't be great big clunky things like you might see on a diver. These would look like normal shoes but they'll have fancy technology that make them stick to the surfaces...the Federal ship is a lot more sort of Spartan, a lot more just practical warship essentially...the Federal ship's central section, and with design, one of the design briefs we've had, this is trying to design ships with their function in mind...For the Federal ship, it's utility that's important. The reason it's got this central corridor, this is where ships come out of their hangars and it's to try and protect the hangars from outside. So the reason they face inward and the ships fly out, you know they're already up to speed...that would be very very heavily protected and potentially with things like shields around it."''<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4-gyDLRMXg&t=219 YouTube: Elite: Dangerous Progress Diary #6 (3:39)]</ref>

*All Farragut-Class Battle Cruisers appear to share the registration tag of FDN-RD5.

*The Farragut-Class Battle Cruiser cannot be destroyed by reducing its hull to 0%.<ref>[http://www.twitch.tv/mercenarythorrn/b/602359547?t=270m Twitch: MercenaryThorrn's broadcast (04:30:00)]</ref>

*Most Capital Ships have an exclusion zone, and flying too close to one can provoke it into attacking even if the player is on friendly terms with its controlling faction. In these cases, the Capital Ship will issue warning messages to ships that invade its exclusion zone.

*The length of the Farragut-Class Battle Cruiser (2,040 meters) is roughly the same as six [[wikipedia:Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier|''Gerald R. Ford''-class aircraft carriers]] (337 meters) lined up end to end.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nDYYYqrhp4 YouTube: Elite ship scale 3.0]</ref>

*The majority of Farragut-Class Battle Cruisers are named after past and present warships of the British Royal Navy.

*The Farragut most likely gets its name from [[wikipedia:David Farragut|David G. Farragut]], the first American Admiral, for whom two U.S Navy destroyer classes have also been named.

==Videos==

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==Gallery==

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File:Federation-Federal-Navy-Fleet-1.png|Federal Navy First Fleet in Newsletter 52

File:Battle Cruiser FNS Kracer.jpg|FNS Kracer in combat

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==References==

[[ru:Линейный крейсер класса «Farragut»]]