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The Falklands had seen the Type 22 with Seawolf cooperating with the Type 42 with Seadart to try and complement each other's systems. The idea of putting both systems on one hull like the Soviets did with their big Kara class cruisers was understandable.The Type 23 ordered after the Falklands got vertical launch Seawolf but there was no money for a similar version of Seadart. Vertical launch cells would have made the Type 43 a lot more realistic, though the various directors and radars would have needed sorting out.But by the mid 80s the NATO frigate 90 programme was expected to replace the T42s using a cell launched SAM and Goalkeeper point defence. Twenty years later this entered service as T45.
The Falklands had seen the Type 22 with Seawolf cooperating with the Type 42 with Seadart to try and complement each other's systems. The idea of putting both systems on one hull like the Soviets did with their big Kara class cruisers was understandable.
The Type 23 ordered after the Falklands got vertical launch Seawolf but there was no money for a similar version of Seadart. Vertical launch cells would have made the Type 43 a lot more realistic, though the various directors and radars would have needed sorting out.
But by the mid 80s the NATO frigate 90 programme was expected to replace the T42s using a cell launched SAM and Goalkeeper point defence. Twenty years later this entered service as T45.
