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We are going back now to fill in some of the gaps. Hood has proposed an A, B, and C of anti air cruisers/destroyers, with the previously posted Admirals in the B period for cruisers (with C still to follow). In A position were the four Bellona sub class of the Dido's: Bellona, Diadem, Black Prince, and Royalist; modernised postwar for screening carriers with what was current and with the new 4.5-in replacing the 5.25's. The logic being to have commonality of guns, and the earlier availability of the new mount. These ships had decent anti air for the period, with the two directors offering double the control of contemporay destroyers; the rest being bofors in single and twin mounts, the later being the STAAG mount, which was now being introduced (with mixed results). By the introduction of the bigger Admirals these Dido conversions could have been either further modernised or sold out as they were to foreign navies - still with some life left in them:

I have a similar rebuild in a custom Harpoon Classic database. All 5.25" were changed to 4.5" Mk 6 due to better rate of fire.
Would a Sea Dart fit on the "B" and/or "X" locations? Ikara, triple 324mm tubes amidships?
I am finally playing around with the parts sheet using Microsoft Paint, but I am starting off with some crude cut and paste.

Bill shouldn't this be on the main AU thread?

gkm, this is an early 1950s rebuild, waaay before anyone had even dreamed of such weapons as the Sea Dart or Ikara. A Dido hull could never of taken those kinds of weapons and by the time they had appeared these hulls would be tired and fit for scrap.

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Oops I'll repost on the right thread, then delete here tomorrow.

gkm. Seadart or Ikara would not work on this hull; two reasons: one, it was too old by then; being warbuilt the steel was not properly protected from corrosion so a relatively short life; and two, these were not generous in terms of space, though you might get one or t'other