Tactical Dreadnought
Alexander Class Technical Details
    Attempts to provide hemispherical defensive coverage on the Alexander Class have resulted in a vessel bristling with phaser turrets. As always with a three-nacelled vessel, the uppermost unit cannot avoid blanking certain fields of fire. Though the neck-mounted phaser is locked off to a narrow aft-firing arc in both the vertical and horizontal axes, and the aft hangar deck turrets are blanked by the center nacelle, the topside primary hull mounts can cover most threats above with minimal ship manuevering.

    The ship's four forward-firing pulsephaser cannons give the Belisarius and her sisters awesome offensive firepower. The rear-firing cannons offer a more restricted field, with the ship's main warp nacelles obstructing the lower pair of weapons in all directions but outward, away from the ship. The upper aft pair suffer a restriction in Z-axis depression to clear the main nacelles as well. Considering the forward weapons fire directly over and under the saucer section, and are locked-out from firing angles that threaten the hull, this is hardly a deficite. Later Alexander Class vessels built after Belisarius omitted the lower aft weapons completely, so infrequently were they used in earlier ships.

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