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I believe I may go with the SPS-49 instead of the -52 now.

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Sounds like a plan. I would also second Thiel's comment about Sea Sparrow.

At this point, other than sliding the gun aft oh, 5-10 feet so it clears the sonar spaces It's a good, solid layout that just needs detailing (surface search and navigation/weather radars - these are the bar radars over the bridge; connect the two parts of the superstructure; mount a small platform for the Mk 95 radar you have there; and other general detailing).

A fine looking ship!

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Futzed with it some more.

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I like it although I do have two questions:

1. Is there a reason for the two surface search sets? It looks like one SPS-10 set and one SPS-67 set.
2. I presume you are not using the SLQ-32? I say that because the real SLQ-32 is found in the USN thread here.

Oh, also nets around the helideck.

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Please don't call me Tim. If you don't want to use Timothy, use TJ.
"I am, and ever will be, a white-socks, pocket-protector, nerdy engineer - born under the second law of thermodynamics, steeped in the steam tables, in love with free-body diagrams, transformed by Laplace, and propelled by compressible flow."-Neil Armstrong

Current Project: CVAN-65

Ilike it too, though i doubt the carrying of such a large RHIB, since that shift came only in the latter part of the 1990s. However, you can re-date this one and put a normal cutter or personnel motorboat in its place to make it more like 1982! Feel free to scavenge my drawings around this community, if you need to find a suitable one.

Must have grabbed the wrong , older, drawing out of my "equipment" folder, because it is supposed to be the SLQ-32.

I misread my source for the sps-67. I thought the sps-10 was part of the suite. Upon further reading I see I was mistaken. Ideas on what I can put there instead?

Still a WIP, haven't got to most of the handrails and nets yet. Also, on that note, any other ASW gear I may be missing I ought think about putting on there?

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Maybe a towed sonar array?
I have no idea if its too early for such a piece of equipment or if it will even fit, but just an idea

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I'd add a second SeaSparrow director below and aft of the one you have now and then I'd place both of them on a small deck house that would hold 16 reloads.
I'd also add a platform around the ECM set.
I have more, but I'll need to make a few illustrations to show what I mean.

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This is an approximation of how your bridge is laid out. As you might imagine, rearwards visibility is going to be rather limited. Considering the length you've gone to to provide defences against asymmetric threats this makes little sense to me. It's also going to make close manoeuvring, such as during UNREP, even harder than it already is.
Given the time frame I'd also add a couple of whip antennas and lastly (for now ) I'd move the anchors further forward so they clear the sonar.

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