I highly approve of this concept, the more demented a ship the better.
I have a bonus joker card idea. Make another version with 'uniform' battery of 10in guns, but with EVERY turret being two story with 7in guns above the 10in battery, and upgrade the casemates to 7in too.
Ah.... I realllly feel like you did this before in like 2010? But it's still good. Much has changed in the interim on drawing small objects I've noticed. I assume so. A phased array serving TVM (which is how Patriot has always worked) ought to scale just fine. The internet says the real-life system ...
...why am I not surprised modding Long Beach won. Of course Long Beach wins. Future competitions should only allow Long Beach with Jupiter missiles. Wow, there's a blast from the past! Haven't seen you around these parts recently. Been busy studying stuff largely not from the 20th/21st century the l...
The Knox class (at least) had Masker, so it didn't strictly require gas turbines. That said, as I recall the compressors to run it were said to be some of the most unreliable machinery aboard the steam frigates. The original use was to silence diesel submarines in the Guppy series entering service ...