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My point is that these weapons require a much different level of volume and weight (apparently 16,000lbs each sans launcher) and you are going to waste a lot of volume and freeboard crushing that into an escort. The range of the weapon is stated to be 1750 miles by the army (I assume that is a very rough number); the launch platform could be well past the first island chain and still strike hundreds of miles inland. Maybe the platform needs defending, maybe it doesn’t, maybe it operates with a CSG, maybe it doesn’t. But it makes sense to me to separate this offensive capability out from the escort screen rather than shoehorn it into ships that are already already taxed by their mission requirements.

[QUOTE="Josh_TN, post: 495616, member: 15394"] My point is that these weapons require a much different level of volume and weight (apparently 16,000lbs each sans launcher) and you are going to waste a lot of volume and freeboard crushing that into an escort. The range of the weapon is stated to be 1750 miles by the army (I assume that is a very rough number); the launch platform could be well past the first island chain and still strike hundreds of miles inland. Maybe the platform needs defending, maybe it doesn’t, maybe it operates with a CSG, maybe it doesn’t. But it makes sense to me to separate this offensive capability out from the escort screen rather than shoehorn it into ships that are already already taxed by their mission requirements. [/QUOTE]

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