- your bow and stern thrusters will make so much noise that the sonars become useless.
but just when the bow trosters are running. Normaly you are operating those trusters when you are moneuvering int harbor, and in that Situations a passive Sonar is not necessary.
- I have doubts about this exact design of sonar working, and I certainly would recommend the addition of an active one as well
I also dont know if it would be working but as I understand how a passive latheral SONAR array works it is possibel.
- that stabiliser is massive and the ship will be impossible to dock
- on all APAR + SMART-L fitted ships, the APAR is higher then the SMART-L to enable it to have a field of vision aft. especially on an double ender like this ship I suggest to heighten it up a bit.
you are right I have to fix this
- even if you keep both APAR and SEAPAR faces, you still will have to expand the housing as the APAR housing is currently almost completely filled up with systems for the APAR, and thus does not fit 4 radars of that size to be added. I still recommend an simple enlarged APAR facet
May I ask you when exactly you have seen an ARPA-housing from the inside?
I just asked the 2nd DWE from the FGS Hessen an he things it will fit if the elektronik racks of SEAPAR the same or less size of APAR.
- your intakes are miles away from your uptakes, requiring a mass of large diameter in or uptakes to go trough your ship, wasting space.
I think I will redo the Superstrugture, namely the masts and the funnel and do it more F 125 Style I think that will solv that Problem.
- those 203mm guns look bad. oversizing an oto 76 turret and putting an 203mm in seems not to be an good idea, why not an OTO 127/64, OTO 127/54LW or AGS-Lite?
But I like the 8 inch big guns and without those Guns it would be just a CG but I want a ship with high land atack capacity and I am thinking of removing the SSMs because the gung could do AsuW as well. you say the enlaged design of the oto 76 locks bad so please tell me what desingof an 203mm gun would you have drawn.
- why the bofors guns only forward?
because there are 2 goalkeepers aft
- the goalkeeper CIWS is the most expensive CIWS in the world. apart from being heavier and thus slower and less precise, it will also be near twice as expensive. you fitted 2. even if you did fit this system (that is IMO far over the top) I highly doubt they would fit them next to each other.
my suggestion for this is the following: bofors 57 aft, one or 2 forward, 1-2 RAM aft and 1 RAM forward. or, maybe even better, drop the bofors altogether (but you might want to fit an DP main gun then, like the oto 127)
I put the goalkeeper aft because they dont need this much under Deck space like a Bofors and I put it on the hangar roof so I need the space beneath for the hangar. Putting aditional guns aft will interfere with the flightdeck or the existing weapons.
- keep the roles clear. is this an LCS, or an AAW cruiser, or an ASW ship? right now it is trying to be all, but those 3 together don't really match very well.
This a Cruiser by clasical definition which means its should be able to operate independently in operations of various intensity, showing force and if necessary projecting power. Of course this ship is oversized for embargo or survalience operations but however it should be able to operate so when its size is political necessary.
But to answer your question. It is an AAW cruiser with good ABM, surface- and land attack capacity. moderate ability to operate as an ofshore commandpost for lithoral operations , and very rudimental ASW capabilitys
- you can keep the layout clearer and simpler by just adding that small VLS block in front of the 57mm to one of the larger blocks. right now it interferes with the gun magazines and the passage through the bow.
I will see how it fits