Shipbucket

deprecated - see below for current version

A few notes.

• One of the primary goals was extensive redundancy - as best I can tell, the entire upper superstructure block could be blown away and you'd still have all comms, air search to maybe 60nmi and two illumination channels for guns or missiles. So yeah, I know there's a lot of unnecessary duplication.
• Phased arrays right forward, aft and the beams are 30cm 2D search sets. Functionally the same wavelength as SPS-49.
• Angled phased arrays are a C-band SPY-1-ish set. Like Typhon, the frequency is sufficiently low that illuminators are not needed.
• Four SPG-60 provide gunlaying and backup missile illumination.
• Guns are a notional twin version of the Mk 71 MCLWG and the real-life (although unbuilt) Mk 66 5"/54 twin. And four Goalkeeper, of course.
• I'm assuming that the USN 60kshp reactor program had been taken to completion. I've got two. The panels removed for a core reload are visible. I haven't yet installed a bunch of pintles for Ma Deuce, but that'll probably happen at some point.
• Top view remains a WIP. I think the side view, and the design overall, is functionally final. Unless someone's got some fine ideas that didn't occur to me.
• I wish I had space for more boats.
• Cost is no object, obviously.

Comments, concerns, death threats?

What if a Longbeach mounted a Tico and then some..? I'm not sure why but I think it's quite an interesting design (if a bit, well doolally)

Cool design ! I love it...

Greetings.

Oh yeah, does anyone have a top-view SH-60?

<Emeril> BAM!
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Dude, first thing I do when I get a Time Machine is install you as Secret Black World Supreme Fleet Admiral of the USN during the 80s! XD God I wish that ship was real.

Also, what's that white missile with the yellow tip?

Demon Lord Razgriz wrote:Also, what's that white missile with the yellow tip?

It's ASALM

It's a ramjet powered SAM/SSM in this version.

There was lots of USN interest in the late 1970s/early 1980s in multipurpose ramjet missiles. What I've shown on the drawing is (a boosted version of) ASALM, as a stand-in for such. The concepts were never fully defined, so I decided to just go with ASALM.

Starting to fill out the top view.

This is excellent!!!