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You also need the UK's staff officers to stop getting seduced by the Good Idea Fairy. The engineers and the staff officers are good at feeding each others imaginations.Annoyingly, this is where the Treasury is supposed to step in and say 'do you REALLY need that?'.I'd love to know where this went wrong, because the missile isn't significantly different in size to Tartar/Standard MR. It ought to have been able to fit in a launcher the size of a Mark 11 or Mark 13. I suspect the Good Idea Fairy had been visiting the ordnance department.The hoofing great Type 909 target tracker/illuminator won't have helped matters either, of course.Not just that - you physically cannot fit a Sea Dart launcher into a Type 22 hull. Type 42 was a bathtub by comparison.In fact, comparing the GW series to their US equivalents, they didn't so much grow uncontrollably to 'colossal' size, as they rapidly grew to the size that a modern missile cruiser with those capabilities needed to be. The RN just hadn't realised that modern weapons and sensors required a big, expensive ship.
You also need the UK's staff officers to stop getting seduced by the Good Idea Fairy. The engineers and the staff officers are good at feeding each others imaginations.
Annoyingly, this is where the Treasury is supposed to step in and say 'do you REALLY need that?'.
I'd love to know where this went wrong, because the missile isn't significantly different in size to Tartar/Standard MR. It ought to have been able to fit in a launcher the size of a Mark 11 or Mark 13. I suspect the Good Idea Fairy had been visiting the ordnance department.
The hoofing great Type 909 target tracker/illuminator won't have helped matters either, of course.
Not just that - you physically cannot fit a Sea Dart launcher into a Type 22 hull. Type 42 was a bathtub by comparison.
In fact, comparing the GW series to their US equivalents, they didn't so much grow uncontrollably to 'colossal' size, as they rapidly grew to the size that a modern missile cruiser with those capabilities needed to be. The RN just hadn't realised that modern weapons and sensors required a big, expensive ship.
