Ugly beast, but certainly interesting concept and great work. :) Oh, I've seen far, far uglier UUV carrier concepts. The PhD student has been looking at this sort of analysis and investigating various combinations of internal and external UUVs and weapons. It is not necessary to refer to yourself i...
I don't know why you want to move the catapult to the deck, there's a reason why most navies had them amidships. USN practice kicked it to the fantail because of a lack of priority for it, in part because not only did we have carriers fairly early on, but some pretty large ones (other than escort ca...
It depends on what you envision the gun being for. The OTO 76 as it stands right now is pretty much a jack-of-all-trades weapon with adequate performance in the anti-ship, anti-aircraft and shore bombardment roles and even has a CIWS function (though I believe it requires special ammo for this). The...
My biggest question is, if you need to move the catapult to the fantail because of the trunked funnel, why bother with the trunked funnel in the first place? The whole point is to free up deck space, not sacrifice it.