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I like it, they're kinda blockishly good looking ships.
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But I don't see anything too controversial about naming her Australia, the name has generally been used for the most powerful ship in the navy - at least in the first half of last century - so I don't think it would be too out of place here. I like the name Tasmania too, I wonder why we don't name ships after states in real life?

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Yes, I agree with Rowdy, Ausrtralia is a time honoured name, and sure, we should be using States for naming, following the USN custom

I've always liked the way the Spruance/Kidds looked.

You should take my name off the drawing, IIRC all I did was draw the underwater hull and I'm not entirely sure that it's accurate. I'm enough of a man to not need credit for an underwater hull.

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as far as I know, at least the midships and stern are accurate. I am waiting on refs/an checkup of somebody of the sonar dome though......... but consider it accurate enough, colo

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OK well it was done years ago before I became extremely exacting in my drawing process. Either way I don't need credit for it.

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When are they commisioned? and are u going for a mk.26 then modernization replacement of these with VLS or VLS from the beginning
Very good and interesting though

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Two (two and a half, with SPG-60) directors is pretty unexciting for two Mk 13 (which, indeed, ought to be Mk 26).

I'll step up and defend the Mk 13 - it's a very "export friendly" launcher (the only Mk 26s ever exported outside the U.S. came attached to the Kidds) and it might be one of those things that get slapped on because the prospective buyer doesn't feel like ponying up for anything else. Now you loose ASROC capability, which would be a major point of this ship (unless you want Ikara instead, and you can use the mag space to your advantage by shipping Harpoon in them).

BTW, you need some sort of ASW weapon if you're going to have the standard Kidd sonar. I'd rather sacrifice the aft gun for an Ikara launcher, for example, than keep the present state.

Another imaginitive idea. It looks good and plausible and its certainly a very interesting idea.

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Sure, but only a total of (amusingly) 26 Mk 26 launchers were ever put into service; the poor thing was somewhat short-circuited in service life by the Mk 41. Reflecting on the paucity of exported Mk 26 shouldn't be interpreted as some sort of export-unfrieldliness (aside from the size of the GMLS itself, which is not relevant here). As for discussions about cost, the cost of integrating the different launcher and different combat system ought not be discounted. Presumably Kidd already exists in this world.