My first design since my return!
The Defiant class Frigate:
Specifications:
Length: 478 feet
Beam: 61 Feet
Draft: 22 feet
Crew: 150
Sensors: (more to be added)
APAR
SMART-L
AN/SQS-53C Sonar
Armament:
1 x Mk. 45 Mod 4 5"/62 Caliber Lightwieght gunmount
1 x 64 cell Mk. 41 Vertical Launch System
[*]Tomahawk Missile
[*]Standard Missile
[*]Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile
[*]VL ASROC
8 x Harpoon SSM
2 x Goalkeeper CIWS
2-6 x GAU-19 .50 BMG Machine Guns
2 x Mk. 32 SVTT
Aircraft:
Facilities for up to 2 SH-60 Seahawks, or 3 MH-65 Dauphin, or 4 RWUAVs, or 1 SH-60/SH-65 and 2 RWUAVs
Small Craft Carried:
2-4 x 11-meter RIBs deployed from stern bay
Propulsion:
2 Shafts, COGAS, 2 LM-2500+ Gas Turbines and 2 Westinghouse Steam Turbines. 80,000 SHP
Performance:
30+ knots
Range:
4500 miles at 20 Knots.
Notes: Still a work in progress, need some help with the sensors. I'm still not too familiar with the european sensors, and I don't want to Noobmash a bunch of incompatible sensors onto the ship. I did, however, include the American weapons systems based on reading that the De Zeven Provincien (sp?) Class uses APAR and fires Standard and ESSM.
The Boat Deck is below the flight deck, with a mission module bay below the hangar, and extending forward to just aft of the funnel. An overhead crane is used to move the boats and modules around.
I remember taking some criticism for COGAS with my FFG-62 design, but I chose it for this because I felt COGAG would shorten the range, and CODOG, CODAG, or CODLAG configurations wouldn't provide enough speed.