Shipbucket

I just noticed, on your axe-bow patrol craft (which, as I explained before, makes no sense on a what is this I don't even scale), you have an open machine gun position right where the poor sod is gonna get a face full of Sea State 5.

"swin_lad" This is for you.



Shows (to an extent - read not finished) what the enlarged gemstone idea is/was. This would be the "Cruiser"...

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Cheers!!!!

I have just downloaded and will tweak it a bit before posting it on my AU.

Nick

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@ashwellkennedy

The Wave lives! It was actually my very first shipbucket drawing. (And the only one so far that won't fit on the small template)
I like what you've done with the Gemstone, though I'd straighten out the deck to keep as much of the sea outside the boat as possible.
On the topic of keeping the sea outside, I find the exhaust system suspect. When at anchor in heavy weather you risk swamping your exhaust system. Also, as engines go, gas turbines are rather finicky, and if there's one thing they don't like it's backpressure in the exhaust system. This'll cause slow down if you're lucky, stalling if you're not and engine reversal if you're plain unfortunate. As you might have guessed, reversing the rotation is a bad[/] thing.At the very least you're looking at new main bearings and airfilters. And speaking of air, your tubines will need it, lots of it. As it is right now you have no air intakes and unless you want engineers stuck to the airfilter, drawing air dirctly from the engine room is not an option.
Another thing, the prop shroud need some hull supports. You don't support it on the axle since this'll cause flow interference.

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Some changes to the Gemstone.



And a parts sheet

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Inspired partly by the Juan Carlos.

Preliminaries on air group and landing craft:

Hangar accommodation for: 4x Harriers, 4x Mi-171Sh and 8x AW149
Welldeck accommodation for 4 of the indigenous LCUs shown or a multitude of CB90s

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Why do you have so many helicopters from so many different nations with overlapping roles?

Ignore the parts sheet above, I've made a lot of changes over the past week to things.

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I think you have to move the forward 76mm back a bit. As it is right now, its in the way of the bow frames.
You might also want to shorten the stalk on the pod to protect the prop from damage.

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Source Materiel is always welcome.

No bow sonars on any of the CGs? VLS fit also seems a bit feeble, given the amount of money already sunk into electronics and such.