Another year another drawing...
This time a rehashing of the AFCON corvette(s). AFCON or Advanced Frigate Consortium was an entity consting of Bath Iron Works, Lockheed Martin and IZAR. Responsible for the F100 and F310 frigates they also schemed out a minimum Aegis combatant which are illustrated below.
Main Particulars
Length Overall ........................................ 102.0 m
Length on the Waterline ........................... 95.0 m
Maximum Beam ........................................ 13.9 m
Beam on the waterline .............................. 13.5 m
Depth to main deck .................................. 7.0 m
Design Draft ............................................ 3.78 m
Contractual Full Load Displacement............... 2580 t
Future Growth Margin (5% Full Load) ............ 130 t
Full Load Displacement including margin ........ 2710 t
Maximum Speed (Trials) ............................ 27 kn
Cruising Speed .........................................15 kn
Range at Cruising Speed ........................... 4,000 nm
Total accommodation capacity.................... 80
Armament betwen all variants include a pair of "20mm machine guns" which I've supplanted by Mk.38s as they seem more likely, Evolved Sea-Sparrow missiles either in individual Mk41 cells or proper eight-cell blocks and finally a pair of 324mm triple torpedo tubes for ASW work.
Other variants were schemed with the Low Cost ASW weapon (a rocket propelled mini-torpedo), 127mm gun in place of the 76, SSM or LAMs (shown here as Harpoon and Sea SLAM).
All variants feature the smallest of the SPY-1 family, the SPY-1K and an unspecified keel-mounted sonar and a pair of SPG-62s. Sensors and ESM/ECM gear between other variants varies in the literature and is pretty vague in in what it is. I opted for APECS for the AAW and multi-mission variants whilst the others retain their very generic items.
Baseline
![[ img ]](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/0obe0z5v0u6fiv2/US_Spain_AFCON_Corvette_Baseline.png?dl=0)
AAW Variant
![[ img ]](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/pfhedmeqjaye3l5/US_Spain_AFCON_Corvette_AAW_Variant.png?dl=0)
ASW Variant
![[ img ]](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/ch6ou6k52b6xvmk/US_Spain_AFCON_Corvette_ASW_Variant.png?dl=0)
ASuW Variant
![[ img ]](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/9hq62yw3rvwz3ah/US_Spain_AFCON_Corvette_ASuW_Variant.png?dl=0)
Land Attack Variant
![[ img ]](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/z62cpy6sfsa2q35/US_Spain_AFCON_Corvette_Land_Attack_Variant.png?dl=0)
Enhanced Multi-Mission Variant
![[ img ]](https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/p7gjwym8esa3bjb/US_Spain_AFCON_Corvette_Multi-Mission_Variant.png?dl=0)
It should be noted that the renders within the literature vary between one page to another as do those around on the web, as such I've tried my best to combine what I can.
