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nice work, good looking ship - well done

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heuhen, wb21, Skyder2598 : thank you, refit version of Forrest Sherman

HTMS Regent 1973 AAW Destroyer

-remove all old weapons
-add 1xx127/54mm MK 42 single gun (from HTMS Volant)
-add MK22 GMLS and 16 SM-1 SAM
-add 2xMK32 Surface Vessel Torpedo Tube
-add 4xExocet SSM (1976)
-add SPS-46 navigation radar
-add SPS-39 3D air search radar
-add SQS-23 Sonar



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HTMS Volant 1975

-add MK29 GMLS and 8 Sea Sparrow SAM
-add 2xMK32 Surface Vessel Torpedo Tube
-add 4xExocet SSM (1976)
-add SPS-46 navigation radar
-add SPS-40 2D air search radar
-add SQS-23 Sonar



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Those look like two very capable ships Superboy, nice drawings.

Very nice, but in real Forrest Sherman AAW conversion the Mk13 was at the rear and the gun front.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Parsons_%28DD-949%29

40 SM-1 SAMs very expensive for Thai navy, Asroc too.

The Regent as above, with Mk42 and Mk13 reversed to be more close to real Forrest Sherman AAW. Nothing more.

Might I suggest for a bit later, the TAK-120? It should be around by the early-mid 1960s, and offers perhaps the best performance of any gun of like period, and is light enough to fit on a small patrol vessel. Hard to beat at 80 or so RPM.

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If it's close enough to cast a shadow, I think the flying house wins initiative.

Bronies are like the Forsworn. Everyone agrees that they are a problem but nobody wants to expend the energy rooting them out.

"That is a very graphic analogy which aids understanding wonderfully while being, strictly speaking, wrong in every possible way."

Very interesting idea and great drawing.

Agreed...plus more exports to other countries. The FS was designed to be manufactured in large numbers in wartime (Friedman notes that the concept was based on the Fletcher) and the template offers a lot of possibilities.

Royal Thai navy last refit

HTMS Regent 1990 AAW Destroyer, add Phalanx CIWS, Oerlikon 20mm GAM-B01, and SatCom.




HTMS Volant ASUW Destroyer, add Oerlikon 20mm GAM-B01, and SatCom.




and French Navy Forrest Sherman Class (or T-47 Class) : D628 Vauquelin ASW Destroyer 1965



Armament

2×100 mm guns
2×20 mm guns
1×Bofors anti-submarine mortar
1×Malafon anti-submarine missile launcher
2xShort ASW torpedo tubes