in august 1980, an article was published with the title "Will Our Ships Have Enough Cruise
Missile Firepower?" in USNI Proceedings. this article suggested that the USN ships had not enough firepower against surface targets (which was especially an issue before the tomahawk was around) in the article were 2 images, which then showed how additional
missiles could be fitted on Perry class frigates by modifying either the structure or the LAMPS Mk III capabilities of the ship.
I found the drawing of the 'LAMPS refit' on the net without knowing all this, and still haven't read the article as I am no member of USNI and can't access it. (if somebody who is could find it.... #106, page 91-96, according to my source for the above)
anyways, the drawing.
the weapons shown on my ref, a simple tomahawk launcher and an mk 141 harpoon canister angled 30 degrees from the centerline were not drawn in sb, so I decide to make them myself. for people interested:
hope you all like it
one last thing: before you all are going to say: this is stupid, you take away a lot of the capabilities, this shouldn't be in neverbuild etc.....
I personally think this is just as stupid as removing the launcher arm. by that these ships were made large expensive patrol craft, by this they would have been made large expensive long range FAC's with air defence capabilities. while it seems stupid to sacrifice one of the perry's best points, something could be said for it............
as always, please comment
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