Editing New Orleans Class (section)

==PHASER ARRAY==

The New Orleans class is currently equipped with six Type-X Phaser arrays at key locations throughout the ship's hull, although early versions made use of the older Type-IX Phaser array. This upgrade was rather relatively simple to do, since the design of the New Orleans Phaser system took into account the anticipated completion of the then experimental Type-X emitter.  

Two large Phaser arrays located on the dorsal and ventral surfaces of the saucer section provide the largest firing arcs, and are thus equipped to handle the most energy through EPS taps that supply the one hundred plus emitter segments with the power needed to generate a sustained beam. Two additional arrays are located on the ventral surface of the engineering hull, although both are slightly blocked by the lower mission-specific pod - an oversight from the rushed production designs. Two final arrays are mounted on the nacelle pylons, just below the ejection assemblies for the warp nacelles and provide sweeping coverage of targets laterally.

Individually, each type X-emitter can only discharge approximately 5.1 MW (megawatts). However, several emitters (usually two) fire at once in the array during standard firing procedures, resulting in a discharge of approximately 10.2 megawatts.
The maximum effective range on the Type X emitter is 300,000 kilometers.