Shipbucket

All of these are very good as an exercise of ships designs.
My main objection (if I may) to the ships of Shippy2013, is about the ASROC armed variant. I believe that placing the launcher behind the Type909 radar is a very bad idea, especially when thinking about the exhaust flames from the missiles when fired. Also the high energy from the radar itself may cause problems with the quite delicate electronics of the stored missiles as well as launcher itself.

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Not to mention the weight induced stability implications of putting something that heavy that high would have.

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Since the ASROC launcher used a 3/50" twin base ring IIRC, I doubt it was substantially heavier than the latter. There are probably some good reasons not to mount ASROC in that position, but I don't think weight is really one of them.

Some of those designs are good and some are not (mainly the ASROC ones).
I think its impossible to fit Sea Dart and Ikara on the same hull cheaply. ASROC at least seems to have been more compact as a system than Ikara.

I made the conscious decision that an aerial-defence escort only needs self-defence capability at best and leaves the real ASW dedicated platform to a frigate with suitable sonars and weapons.
On my Type 82 the Sea Kings are the main ASW weapon; they act as dipping sonar assets to protect the carrier (or amphibious force) and carry homing torpedoes to prosecute targets close-in. They would feed data to the Ikara Frigate which has a long-range stand-off weapon and MATCH to deliver nuclear depth-bombs if required.

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