1. Tartar and Standard together? Why?
2. I understand the ASROC box gives you a flexible loadout choice between Harpoons and ASROC, but can you not find room for a single quad-rack of Harpoons? Perhaps move the SVTT and mount Harpoons like the Type 21 mounted Exocets
While I'm redrawing the current (rather innacuratte) Halifax class FFG, I've noticed a troubling lack of concrete sources (likely a source of innaccuracies). Does anyone have an accurate side plan view? I know some Bucketeers have resources Google doesn't and my local library is tiny.
wow. I think you just created the longest and possibly (depending on displacement) largest ship in the world, also more then 50 meters wide (36m+20m) you build ten of these. I have not read into your background, but as the lexington class carriers are there I suppose there is an washington treaty, ...
As far as speed goes, it's not so much "so fast you can't shoot one down", the problem defending against them is "so fast they can overwhelm you". Shooting down 8 subsonic missiles that take a couple minutes to go from horizon to impact isn't difficult. If each of those missiles only takes 30 second...
That's why you have NSM and LRASM. Both can easily distinguish targets from clutter. See the following video on LRASM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvHlW1h_0XQ It doesn't actually seem to mention anywhere in that video why the missile magically bluffs it's way through point defenses. At a certai...