22000 metric tons is 21653 long tons or 24251 short tons.
in short, it seems like the earlier claims of this ship being too big make sense again...... but the larger radars and AGS (whatever they say, I just don't think the AGS lite takes only the space of an 5in gun) justify it at least partially again.
let me explain why I am against rotatable pods on fast ships.
1. on high speeds, where these ships are designed for, rotating the pods would shred them off if they are not reinforced compared with others.
thus, the ship can not steer with them, so you will still need rudders anyways.
2. due to them needing to rotate, they must be fitted on an entirely flat bit of hull. to create this flat bit, your stern shape is inperfect
3. the resistance of them is about as much as that of an regular prop axis, if the prop axis is not too long. that said, fixed pods, especially azimuths which have the engine on top of the pod instead of inside it have a lot less resistance then an prop axis
which makes me say the following: pods work on warships, as long as they are fixed with rudders aft of them
and then it is what you like best, the reduction in power due to the additional gear parts to make the Z coupling to the prop, or the resistance of the prop axis (and of course a bit additional cost)
this is why the pods will never really get better for this purpose (well maybe with smaller electrical engines or gearing with less resistance, but still, fixed ones are the only ones that really work) due to the law of hydrodynamics and resistance
watch out with bow thrusters in ships with sonars as well. I would suggest retractable trusters, like the perry and nansen classes have. these are less vulnerable, can rotate, and when retracted have no additional noise or resistance.
the crest instead of desron markings are an error found more on USN shipbucket drawings. IIRC, the only desron markings as of now are on my perry drawings. I should make a sheet with those.........
that midships VLS makes some sense if explained for LRASM, all other small ones I would certainly remove (logistics, replenishment and maintenance nightmare, if nothing else) and for that same reason I would consider moving the VLS cells to the main block as well
keep in mind that you also need to acces the replenishment hatches for the reactorwithout having to cut steel and equipment out, so you don't want VLS or anything like that on top of it.
also, a few questions and (drawing) remarks:
- why that one SEARAM on board? it makes little sens having both Mk 49 and the SEARAM. you have quite a lot RAM launchers on a relatively small space anyways.
- the praerie masker belts below the waterline might better be taken from the perry of DG/AEGIS drawings.
- you seem to have some grey lines which should be black (the sides of the SLQ platform for example) and some black which I would make grey (the middle line of the mast, for example)
- why's the much smaller mast still a tripod? I would think you could minimise this a bit
- was it meant for this ship to have no Mk 32 SVTT but an 21 inch TT? because that is what you have now.
ow, and great to learn why those white lockers are there on the burke shipright
I wondered about them a lot.
