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Whenever I look at my little model of the USS Long Beach nuclear missile cruiser I find myself musing what a 21st Century version for Western navies could look like?
Such a ship would replace the Ticonderoga class in the US Navy and perhaps provide Task Force escorts for the RN and MN instead of T45 and Forbins.
Propulsion would not be nuclear but it would need to generate a shed load of power.
Now for the armament:
Air Defence:
An area long range missile suite able to tackle missiles
A close in defence system to protect these high-value units
Surface Warfare:
A long range anti-ship and ground installation missile system
A non-missile (gun or?) set of shorter range systems for dealing with surface targets
Anti Submarine Warfare:
A long range ASW system both missile and air launched (helo or UAV)
The US evolved launch systems covering a range of weapons. Ideally silos should do this and allow for replacement systems to be fitted.
This is very much a "schoolboy" approach but I thought that given the attempts in various "alternate" or future real ships threads to create such a ship, I would give you a clean sheet of paper.
Such a ship would replace the Ticonderoga class in the US Navy and perhaps provide Task Force escorts for the RN and MN instead of T45 and Forbins.
Propulsion would not be nuclear but it would need to generate a shed load of power.
Now for the armament:
Air Defence:
An area long range missile suite able to tackle missiles
A close in defence system to protect these high-value units
Surface Warfare:
A long range anti-ship and ground installation missile system
A non-missile (gun or?) set of shorter range systems for dealing with surface targets
Anti Submarine Warfare:
A long range ASW system both missile and air launched (helo or UAV)
The US evolved launch systems covering a range of weapons. Ideally silos should do this and allow for replacement systems to be fitted.
This is very much a "schoolboy" approach but I thought that given the attempts in various "alternate" or future real ships threads to create such a ship, I would give you a clean sheet of paper.