CATZ, few points I noticed
1-(like Thiel said)The A turrets blast will, probably as a combination of sudden heat and pressure, cause the silo hatches to change shape, possibly jamming them or opening the contents to the elements. If not that, they would break.
2- the large turrets are a godawful shape for internal mechanisms and are they single?
3- you don't really need the torpedoes, escorts do that
3- you don't really need the torpedoes, escorts do that
It needs torpedoes to operate an active torpedo defense. Anti-torpedo torpedoes as the USN has taken to calling them. Probably a ruskie version. Other than that, I believe in the USN's multi-mission ship philosophy. It's intended as a modern ship, and it should reflect that.
2- the large turrets are a godawful shape for internal mechanisms and are they single?
A 20m wide turret with one gun?
No...
They're quads.
And I would assume that they have no barbettes. They'd have a below deck lattice work for support (hull integrity issue). Other than that. Truth be told, since they are modern, I doubt they'd resemble WW I & WW II major caliber turrets very much. In the same way that modern smaller and intermediate caliber turrets don't have much in common with the older turrets featuring similar caliber guns. Other than that I leave it up to the imagination of the reader/viewer. I imagine they'd have some type of mechanism of retracting or shielding the guns though.
1-(like Thiel said)The A turrets blast will, probably as a combination of sudden heat and pressure, cause the silo hatches to change shape, possibly jamming them or opening the contents to the elements. If not that, they would break.
Like I said before, I doubt it. They could just build them with heavier hatches if the engineers foresaw it as a possibility. I've heard of ships damaging superstructure and decks before with larger guns. But it seems to be an issue of poor design, more than anything else. VLS are designed to hot launch missiles. If turrets can super-fire over each-other, or fire forward without damaging their decks, then it stands to reason, that they'd be able to fire over steel VLS hatches.