jasonfreeland wrote:
Thanks for the blister link, it makes me wonder if you could slap on Mk57s instead. Weight might be an issue though.
thats not how the launchers work. The launchers don't have direct contact with the water. Instead, they are inside the hull's main structure along the periphery of the ship. They aren't "bolt on" systems, instead they are reply deeply integrated into the hull.
However, the blister produces voids that immediately made me consider inserting the Mk57 into them. After considering it quite a bit, I came to the conclusion that due to angle of the hull, the only portion of the ship with the available hull depth along the periphery of the ship to accept Mk57 launchers would be on either side of the Sprucan/Tico helo landing pad/flight deck. Even there, only 3-4 modules can be accommodated on either side of the flight deck leading to 12-16 tubes per side. I am pretty confident that's how a model I would produce would represent it.
That would give the ship:
Weapons:
2x 76mmSR positioned fwd/aft center-lined
96x Mk41 Mod7 VLS split 48-cells fwd/48-cells aft
24x Mk57 VLS split 12-cells port/stbd
4x SeaRAM/Millennium Gun positions 2 port/2 stbd
2x 21-cell RAM launchers center lined fwd/aft against the superstructure
Sensors:
Medium AMDR radar split between forward and aft superstructures being controlled by Aegis Baseline 11
SPQ-9B
TRS-3D
SLQ-32/NULKA/Chaff
Passive SIGINT collection
Self-defense sonar
Hangar 1 HH-60/3 Fire Scout and/or 12 Shadow UAV
2x 11 meter and 1x 7 meter RHIBs
Stern miniature LCS-1 style well deck for 11 meter RHIBs
NIXIE/Mk32 SVTT for Anti-torpedo/Mk46/54 torpedoes (internal)
Roughly this is what I would do for an "AAW CG Replacement" as opposed to a mUlti-rolled "CG-47 Replacement".