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Well, altough that's not an improved Arizona class but technically a new design altogether you are quite rigth; i long tought of lowering the wing 8-inch mounts to relieve topweight a bit, and despite the vLS is a deck higher now is quite lower as it would have been if placed on a third deck on the older Arizonas, as the decks themselves are lower. Glad you liked the Vulcan-AK bastard child the ide abehind them is exactly that, i wanted a cool looking double stacked Phalanx You believe me if i say that those are HMS Tiger 5-inch turrets from the British parts sheet kitbashed to death? Length (waterline): 363,5 m (some 1194 feet)
Length (overall): 374,5m (some 1230 feet)
Beam: 47m (some 154 feet)
Draft: 12m (some 39 feet)
Displacement: around 130/135.000 T (i believe)
Armament:
12 x 20-inch guns (or 508mm/50), down from the 22-inch or 558mm of the Arizonas (as i now believe that 20-inch are more than enough to blow everything to smithereens)
15 x 8-inch guns (or 203mm/55)
24 x 5-inch guns (or 127mm/64), and yes those are twins, just for the rule of cool
and obviously the 4 double-stacked CIWS sporting 48 20mm/102 barrels.
More data around speed, endurance, armor, exact dispacement and the like might need some Springsharp typing (and might still not reliable at all, as SS can calculate ships as far as 1950, a bit much earlier for this monster.) Technically there are no 3M54 or Brahmos on board, the missile suite should be something like that (altought one missile frame has been a casual choice):
84x RIM-116 RAM Block 2 (plus reloads)
16x Nulka decoys (plus reloads)
256x RIM-162 ESSM (in 64 quadpacks)
40x RIM-161 Standard 3
40x RIM-174 Standard 6 ERAM IV
48x RGM-1XX Cruise Missile XR
40x RGM-84VL Harpoon
24x RUM-139VL ASROC
(for a total fo 256 VLS cells) I'm slowly working on a top and front view from time to time, altough my priority right now is collecting more sources to restart drawing real life IJN ships.

anyway, here is a teaser for you.

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BB, can I kiss you? Very platonicaly, off cource.
Oh! Will there be an aft view as well?

I think that final work may have to be preceeded by a large safety warning, because amazement may cause heart attacks.

I'm looking forward to see this monster finished!

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Fantastic, love alternate views

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A frontal view?
Awwww yeeeeaaaaahhhhh!!

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I have a 1452ft LOA BBGN I'd like to post . . . But how do I do it?
http://www.majhost.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=3807907

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1. Start a threat in the beginners forum
2. Upload the image to an external image host (Guide
3. Post the image
4. Listen to feedback (Good or bad)

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Thanks for the tip Thiel, but as you can see I'm still havng an issue posting the drawing.

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You're not putting the link om img tags

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