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Ta! My train of thought was along the lines of those fitted to the Perries, limp-home capable but primarily for fine manoeuvring. Granted on the Perry, it's more an issue of them being single-screwed than anything else... It's certainly an interesting thought on just how much they'd affect the acoustics of the ships fitted with them though.

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It's a bit overwhelming to see all these drawings together one after the other, there's no lack of interesting bits to look at. Could we perhaps see some varied schemes depicting certain particular deployments if there's anything of note?

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Great series again, Bb! On the other hand; I don't disagree with Charguizard comment much...

An excellent series of drawings as ever.
So much to look at!

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Eventually, I will be doing blurbs for all the various classes so there may well be specific vessels with their own drawings. That said I do want to get all of the classes represented first.

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Truly outstanding as always Blackbuck, I love the support fleet

Great series!

Something new...



I was never particularly happy with the Type 45 solution as a 'command' cruiser, the VLS arrangement was dubious and it lacked other features I wanted to include and, after a few false starts this is the result.

Essentially (at least aesthetically speaking) it's an amalgam of the Atago and Sejong the Great classes slightly scaled up albeit with some notable changes here and there.

Bahdbh-class Guided Missile Cruiser

Type: Guided-missile command cruiser

Ships in Class:
- C931 | HMGS Badhbh
- C932 | HMGS Macha
- C933 | HMGS Nemain
- C934 | HMGS Fea

Displacement:
- Nominally 9,000t
Length:
- 175m Oa.
- 162m WL
Beam:
- 20m
Draught:
- 6.7m
Propulsion:
- Hybrid-electric / COGLAG
- 4x WR-21 recuperated gas turbines @ 21.9MW ea.
- 4x LM500 gas turbine generator sets @ 4.57MW ea.

Speed:
- >30 knots (guesstimating in the region of 32 knots)
Range:
- 6,000 Nautical miles @ 20 knots
Endurance:
- Provisioned for 60 days between replenishment
Complement:
- 300 Total
- 24 Officers
- 276 Enlisted

Accommodation
- 400 Permanent berths including core crew

Armament:
- 1x BAE Mk.45 Mod 4 127mm/62 with ~600rds of guided and unguided ammunition
- 3x BAE Mk.41 VLS One forward, two aft all strike-length (SM-2MR / SM-6MR, SM-2ER, SM-3 SM-6, HyStrike, LRCSW, Sea Lance, ESSM / ESSM Block 2)
- 4x Deck launchers for 16x Kongsberg NSMs
- 2x Twin 400mm (lined to 324mm) torpedo tubes for BAE Stingray lightweight ASW torpedoes
- 2x SAFRAN SAMOS CIWS each with a GAU-8 and four Thales Starstreak 2 surface-to-air missiles
- 2x MSI Seahawk Sigma remote weapon stations each with an ATK XM813 30/40mm cannon and seven Thales Martlet lightweight multi-role missiles
- Numerous mounting spots for small-calibre weapons including but not limited to: HMGs, GMGs and Gatling guns

Sensors + Fire Control:
- CEA Technologies CEAFAR / CEAFAR 2 in a four-sided setup on the deck house and six-sided one on the mast. L and S-band antennas on the deck house with X-band atop the mast
- 4x CEA Technologies CEAMOUNT phased-array directors (3x 6' faces and 1x 4' face)
- Kelvin Hughes Sharpeye-S (X-band navigation and helicopter-control is catered for by CEAFAR) navigation radar
- CEC enabled via non-rotating array atop the masthead
- Thales Artemis IRST farm atop the masthead
- 2x FLIR Systems Star SAFIRE 380-HLD EO/IR gimbals
- SQS-61 HF sonar and a notional LF sonar derived from erik_t's derivation of Thales' PFAS
- A full CAPTAS-4 system tucked neatly away in the stern

Electronic Warfare:
- Northrop Grumman CIRCM-derived optical countermeasures atop the masthead
- Northrop Grumman AAR-54-derived UV MAWS atop the masthead
- Outboard-style distributed COMINT + SIGINT suite
- NOLQ-3 derived phased-array ECM + ESM suite
- 4x Chemring Centurion rotary dispensers
- 4x Nulka dispensers

Communications:
- 2x AS-2537C/SR HF whips
- 4x AS-3772B/U HF whips
- 2x AS-5078/SR LF-receive antenna
- 4x VAS-1016A VHF dipoles
- 2x AS-2809 VHF dipoles
- 2x AS2810C/SRC UHF dipoles
- 2x VMB-11512-N V/UHF dipoles
- Thales ICAS-derived V/UHF embedded into the mast structure for Link-11, -16 and -22 as well as civilian communications etc
- 2x OE-538-based wide-band antennas on telescoping masts built into the rear uptake structure
- 4x Syntonics nested SATCOM arrays (fore, aft, port and starboard) WSC-6(V)6 + (V)X type performance for SHF work and WSC-6(V)7 / (V)9 in X-band
- 2x OLE-82-class high-elevation SATCOM antenna (port and starboard)

Aircraft + Boats:
- Split hangar for 2x S-70 or AW159-sized helicopters or similarly sized aircraft / UAVs
- 2x 'mission bays' (glorified boat bays) amidships for either RHIBs or USV / UUVs to be operated from
- 2x Norsafe Magnum 750 RHIBs

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Nice work

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EXCELLENT looking ship Mark

Jolly WELL DONE old fruit. She looks more than capable as a Flagship and a War ship, and her design fits in well with your other classes of surface going warships

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