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Soon after WW2, the Royal Navy sketched up a couple of cruiser designs mostly as theoretical representatives of what the RN would need in the future and whose embodied the new technologies then under development:
- 6inch Mark XXVI Main Battery Weapon (1953)
- Medium Calibre DP Weapon (5"/70) (1957)
- 3/70 for secondary Battery (1953)
- New DA Close Range Weapon (1957)
- LRS.1 Long-Range Director and TS Equipment (1953)
- MRS.3 Director and Predictor (1953)
- MRS.4 Director and Predictor (1957)
- TIU Mk.III (1954)
- Type 960 Radar (Already existing)
- Type 992 Radar (1954)
- Sea Slug Missile (1958)
The first among these sketches were the small, medium and large cruisers of 1948/49 often called as the "1960 Cruiser" because the technologies above would be only ready by 1960.
Sketches I and II:
Sketch III:
Sketch IV:
Sketch V:
- 6inch Mark XXVI Main Battery Weapon (1953)
- Medium Calibre DP Weapon (5"/70) (1957)
- 3/70 for secondary Battery (1953)
- New DA Close Range Weapon (1957)
- LRS.1 Long-Range Director and TS Equipment (1953)
- MRS.3 Director and Predictor (1953)
- MRS.4 Director and Predictor (1957)
- TIU Mk.III (1954)
- Type 960 Radar (Already existing)
- Type 992 Radar (1954)
- Sea Slug Missile (1958)
The first among these sketches were the small, medium and large cruisers of 1948/49 often called as the "1960 Cruiser" because the technologies above would be only ready by 1960.
Sketches I and II:
![1595359426487.png 1595359426487.png](https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/data/attachments/173/173553-7a6d0fd06f7ca0698c26435f7bbf46fb.jpg)
Sketch III:
![1595359593033.png 1595359593033.png](https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/data/attachments/173/173555-f1746c3fb5bda572f5e359105d539b58.jpg)
Sketch IV:
![1595359502879.png 1595359502879.png](https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/data/attachments/173/173554-60df6dc924ebd35ee337d16c19829d1e.jpg)
Sketch V:
![1595359621959.png 1595359621959.png](https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/data/attachments/173/173556-6f96b34c4b0032d6e91cf5d021d2ab04.jpg)