A Challenge started by MihoshiK that ran from the end of November, through just before Christmas 2018.

The Challenge

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to design a 1970s, early 80s era warship armed with the Typhon series of missiles:

The RIM-50 Typhon LR, a long-range ramjet missile, and the medium-range RIM-55A Typhon MR, a Tartar Missile sized weapon.

These missiles were originally coupled with the AN/SPG-59 radar system, and would have provided near AEGIS-like capability to the USN. The radar came in two sets, a 3400 element type radar for destroyer sized ships, and a 10000 element array for cruiser sized ships. These systems were power hungry enough that nuclear power was pretty much needed to feed them. Studies mentioned power demands of ten megawatts. Even for nuke ships this was a big load. The idea as ultimately envisioned was that the AN/SPG-59 would be on standby, and a long-range 2d radar would provide eary warning, at which point the AN/SPG-59 would be activated, allowing for 3d tracking and missile guidance.

The AN/SPG-59 radar system was ultimately cancelled due to mounting technical difficulties and cost overruns.

Now, the challenge is to ARM your ship with the Typhon missile system. The AN/SPG-59 is optional. Remember that you pretty much have to build a nuke ship, especially if you're using the larger array. The smaller array might be powered by a set of dedicated generators... But you'll still need to provide room for those sets. In theory a good long-range 3D radar and enough illuminators should be able to allow your ship to at least use the Typhon missiles for their intended purpose, which was long-range air defense and saturation-attack defense.

The Typhon LR was envisioned to be fired from the Mk 10 Terrier GMLS, and the Typhon MR from the Mk 13 GMLS. Take the below-deck size of these launchers into account when building your ship!

A nice folder filled to the brim with more information (Courtesy of erik_t): https://sta.sh/21azyfbyohaa https://drive.google.com/file/d/1e4lrpO_-adeVsEwdE2Y3ZUGdyhmv3b3v/view

Now, as said, this is a 1970s era ship. All equipment other than the radar systems (You're free to think up a plausible radar system for the ship!) should be period compliant.

This challenge will run until friday the 21th of december, so don't rush yourselves.

Judging: Drawings will be judged on 3 categories, with 10 points available in each category, for a total of 30 available points:

• Adherence to SB style - does your drawing follow the SB style rules as defined in the Style Guide?
• Drawing quality - how well-executed is your drawing?
• Design realism/feasibility - is your design realistic? Does it make sense given the parameters we have defined?

Judging was done by Coloseum, MihoshiK, Gollevainen, & Hood.

erik_t's "TyBeach" won with 109 (out of 120 possible points), with Superboy's Sukanya and J.Scholtens' DDG-47 tying for second with 101 points.