son of the catargorizing Starfleet ships thread

[phongn]

FAC is generally a relatively small ship packing lots of antiship firepower at the expensive of everything else, like decent sensors, crew quarters or whatnot.

I ment what does the acronym FAC stand for?

Fast Attack Craft. Most modern ships of that type are FAC-Ms, M meaning 'Missile'.

[Howedar]

Fast Attack Craft. Google is your friend.

*EDIT* Damnit!

[Iceberg]

When the battlecruiser concept fell into disrepute, the United States Navy avoided the name by designating USS Alaska (CB 1) and USS Guam (CB 2) as "large cruisers".

Alaska and Guam were descended from heavy cruiser designs (their armament fit was essentially identical to the smaller Baltimore-class heavy cruiser, but with 9x12" guns replacing the Baltimore's 9x8"). The Lexington-class battlecruisers (redesigned to become carriers while under construction) were, like their foreign counterparts, descended from battleships - in this case, from the Standard type designs).