Shipbucket

Very nice work.

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You can actually fit the OTO 5 incl LW gun on all ships. There's room. The VLS is too far forward, it actually sits right in front of the superstructure. Right now you've got problems with your magazine for the cannons impinging on the VLS.

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Would you please not eat my gun...

The reason why I went with the Strales/Dart mount is their tasking rather than weight concerns, volume of fire and guided projectiles over calibre. As for the VLS, that's my bad, it should indeed be further back.

ETA: Amended.

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AU Projects: | Banbha et al. | New England: The Divided States
Blood and Fire

Patrol frigates ahoy.

Seeing as the current drawings were only really place holders I decided to knock up what they are actually all about.

Firstly some background to them.

Due to various pieces of legislation the RGN is only able to maintain an 'offensive' pool of so many ships. This works out at 6 cruisers (of which we have the full 6), 30 destroyers (of which we have 22) and 20 'First Rate' frigates (of which we have the full 20).
'Second rate' frigates are not restricted by this legislation in number but are restricted in other respects, these are as follows.

• A length no greater than 120m
• Limited capacity to wield 'high impact' weaponry such as the Tsetse Fly or long-range SAMs such as SM-6 or SM-2ER
• A main gun no larger than 76mm in calibre (This usually means fitting a 57mm)
• Less than 4,000t mean displacement

Dagger Class FFHL

The Dagger class second rate frigate is in all but name a first rate frigate, built right up to the restrictions imposed by the Monroe legislation. They were built in both Galenian and British yards to a modified F3000 design, they entered the capability sustainment program in the past few years along with their little sisters the Fairlights receiving Artisan and Centurions amongst other upgrades.

They are fitted with a pair of Mk.41s in two eight cell blocks (one Tactical and one SDLS) but no AShMs due to Monroe again. Their surface punch in recent years has been augmented by Spike-NLOS which for their intended policing role is perfectly suitable.

Fairlight Class FFGL

The Fairlight class are the younger, smaller sisters of the Daggers, being based upon the design of the Lekiu and her F2000 siblings, again built in both domestic and foreign yards they employ some notable changes over the Daggers other than their smaller stature.
They are currently the only vessels in service with the RGN to utilise the Marte anti-ship missile, these being fitted from new meaning there was little requirement to fit Spike. Unlike the Daggers, they only feature a single Mk.41 block meaning they are slightly more limited in the stores that they carry - currently they only ship ESSMs but integration trials have been performed with Nulka and VS-SPEAR / SDB for use as necessary.

The mismatching pennants and names bely the fact that development of the Fairlights was a more protracted process than that of the Daggers (the original design was near enough a carbon copy of the Lekiu). So in the end they came out quite oddly with swapped pennant numbers.
In conclusion, both classes are expected to be in service for the foreseeable future being frequently deployed abroad to counter piracy and drug runners allowing the pointier part of the stick to be wielded elsewhere.

~Mark.

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Blood and Fire

very nice designs like them

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best regards
Martin

~~Normerr~~FD stuff~~

Heh, I see you took my advice with FF-1121.

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To add yet another update into the mix.



Brought up-to scratch with the rest of the combat pool so far. Illustrated with the full CESP package including revised ELINT/SIGINT gear and better arrangements for cooperative engagement the Paladins should all make it to the end of the decade before being replaced with an even more capable set of vessels in the GCS.

As can be expected with their enhanced C2 facilities and EW gear they're frequently paired up with either of the two roaming DDGLs or CGLs, alternately they have been used from time to time as flagships for ad-hoc groupings in the Indian Ocean and Caribbean.

~Mark.

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Blood and Fire

Another vessel set has been ticked off the list, the two Aglæca class arctic patrol vessels.



Their main duties are to patrol the into the Norwegian Sea and Arctic Circle providing a jumping off point for Arctic research teams as well as providing emergency response form them. As such they are set up as follows.

• 17kts Max. Speed on an IEP arrangement using MTU gen-sets
• 7,000Nmi range at 10 kts
• Hangar and maintenance space for two AW101s plus small UAVs
• A flex deck ahead the hangar for containerised mission modules accessed via the hangar
• Medical facilities for 10 casualties with an ICU for 2 - expandable via flex deck
• Daughter craft for operations away from the ship
• Enclosed life boats capable of housing the twice the number of souls embarked
• Retractable VSP for 'limp home' and fine manoeuvring
• ELINT and SIGINT gear, similar to that employed by the Paladins for intelligence work in the Arctic
• At sea for 350 days of the year with crew swaps similar RN Antarctic vessels
• Suitably armed to counter any eventualities when employed elsewhere

The pair are slightly quirky vessels and were rather expensive to procure, hence there only being two in the class out of a projected 8.

~Mark.

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Blood and Fire

Very nice.

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That's a neat vessel, Blackbuck. I'm not familiar at all with that type of hull and propulsion scheme, but it looks like it can do anything one would ask of it. Very cool!

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