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By the late 1950s the US Navy will probably be looking at the Typhon system as the future of ship-based air defense. IOTL this consisted of the rocket-powered Typhon MR and the ramjet-powered Typhon LR. IOTL Typhon MR never made it out of the design stage; Typhon LR at least made it to prototyping.Of course, Typhon, being basically the AEGIS system in the 1950s, was completely beyond the technology of the time, and so will almost certainly be cancelled here as well. The difference is likely that this time Typhon MR gets the development priority instead of Typhon LR, what with Talos more credibly filling its niche than Zeus, and more interestingly is not constrained by having to fit in the Mark 13 launcher.So it's not unlikely the US Navy salvages a rocket-powered medium-range SAM out of the wreckage of the Typhon program, something that can be fit to destroyer-size vessels - albeit very large destroyers. Add in development for Talos it never got IOTL and the US Navy would be in decent shape in the SAM department until it comes time for the AEGIS-analogue.Pic related:
By the late 1950s the US Navy will probably be looking at the Typhon system as the future of ship-based air defense. IOTL this consisted of the rocket-powered Typhon MR and the ramjet-powered Typhon LR. IOTL Typhon MR never made it out of the design stage; Typhon LR at least made it to prototyping.
Of course, Typhon, being basically the AEGIS system in the 1950s, was completely beyond the technology of the time, and so will almost certainly be cancelled here as well. The difference is likely that this time Typhon MR gets the development priority instead of Typhon LR, what with Talos more credibly filling its niche than Zeus, and more interestingly is not constrained by having to fit in the Mark 13 launcher.
So it's not unlikely the US Navy salvages a rocket-powered medium-range SAM out of the wreckage of the Typhon program, something that can be fit to destroyer-size vessels - albeit very large destroyers. Add in development for Talos it never got IOTL and the US Navy would be in decent shape in the SAM department until it comes time for the AEGIS-analogue.
Pic related:
