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The Royal Manticoran Navy (abbreviated RMN) is a fictional space navy from the Honorverse, a series of novels and stories written by David Weber, and now others. All are published by Baen Books.
It's the navy of the Star Kingdom of Manticore. The RMN is a thinly-disguised copy of the Age of Sail Royal Navy (United Kingdom).
Like all navies in the Honorverse, the RMN uses starships which are designed remarkably like Age of Sail men-of-war, with a moderate "chase" armament mounted in the bow and stern of the ship, and the main firepower of the ship concentrated in its broadsides. A typical broadside for a light cruiser might contain several laser or graser (a gamma-ray laser lensed by artificial gravity) cannon and seven to ten missile tubes; a typical broadside for a super-dreadnought (the largest class of capital ship in the Honorverse, over three kilometers in length and massing over eight million tons) might have a dozen or more times as many weapons in raw numbers, each individual weapon mount also being much more powerful than the light cruiser's battery. Because of the nature of Honorverse propulsion, "fighters" are not possible; the smallest possible effective warship is the light attack craft (LAC), massing 20,000-30,000 tons (LACs cannot travel through hyperspace, however, they must be towed through it by tenders or carried in aircraft carrier-like ships called CLACs).
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