A wild GCS appears! Based on various parts of the various changes to the GCS thus far so not an accurate representation by any stretch of the imagination but for AU purposes it's what I want so hey-ho.
Much more capable than the four Super Broadswords that they are to replace they are geared as you'd imagine to global presence ops. Other than detail changes, such as Dutch bits and pieces, Seastreak, Millennium and the MLGs they're reasonably similar to what the Brits will be purchasing in the AU. Unlike the British 26s though they will not be fitted to operate towed arrays, this space instead being given to a more multi-role flex deck as envisaged on earlier GCS studies.
Four ships are envisaged for the first batch as direct replacements for the Broadswords plus a further eight in two follow-on batches to replace the Large Dukes which leaves the FCV and Quiet Duke as the mainstay of the frigate force of the RGN for the foreseeable future.
~Mark.