Project DX

[eswube]

Very interesting. Keep it up.

[Hood]

Nice additions and interesting work based on textual sources. Not pretty ships but certainly interesting.

[acelanceloet]

as I finally finished these but got stuck on the designs directly before them, I throw the chronological order overboard for the moment.
the ship this entire project is about!


other ships/dates are coming soon, as is the background story, but I did not want to keep this from you all after staying silence for literally monts in this thread.

feel free too shoot holes in the drawing, as I want it to be as good as it can be.

[erik_t]

They look very nice! However, I think this drawing may be a good opportunity to decide if we're really, really, actually happy with the current SPS-40 and (....?) SPS-58 drawings.

[acelanceloet]

if there are references for the SPS-40, I will gladly take it on. the scale is correct though with the reference drawing from US destroyers, as is the shape, so for me it was acceptable......

SPS-58? that one is not on the spruance, is it?

[erik_t]

Whatever the smaller air search set is aft. I don't think that's TAS Mk 23, not in 1975.

[acelanceloet]

Whatever the smaller air search set is aft. I don't think that's TAS Mk 23, not in 1975.

it is..... but it should not be there. fixed as we speak.

[Hood]

Well I'm no USN expert, but I like what I see. Great job, nice to see this ticking along in whatever you order you wish.

[acelanceloet]

updated and added some of the actual spruance class (real and never build both) into the first post. most of the pre-VLS variations are now drawn. (apart from kidd, that is) if you spot any errors, please notify me

[Thiel]

One thing I just noticed, on the August 1966 concept you've got a BPDMS director, but no missile or launcher.