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I was assuming a hull sonar and a helicopter with a dipping sonar (plus buoys) as part of the permanently-assigned equipment.
Yeah, no. These are basically hybrid LSL/LST/LPDs. No sonar, no permanent ASW helos.
I'd honestly prefer those OTO 76mm for close in guns. Good rate of fire, fairly light installation that's really about the same total weight as Phalanx(!), and has the option for some nice long range guided shells in Vulcano. Plus the DART guided antimissile shots.
Thing is, the RN has already bought 57mm and 40mm for the Type 31s. Adding another medium gun caliber is not practical. If they want guided rounds, 57mm does offer that in the form of ALaMO (and another newer offering that I'm forgetting the name of. Not Orka.) But again, that's money they probably don't have.
It's honestly really expensive to have a mix of VLS suites in the Navy.
And yet this is one area where the RN is stuck. They have Sylver for PAAMS, they have the CAMM launchers, and they want Mk 41 going forward. (Sylver will likely die with the T45 successor but that's a way down the road.)
If MRSS gets any missiles at all, CAMM is the only one that makes sense to me, and the mushroom farm is what they've chosen. It's an incredibly simple launcher since all of the ejection and so forth is done in the canister with a frangible cap, no hot gas plenum, no moving doors, etc.