After month of getting stabilized on my (no-longer new) job, I've finally started having time doing something other than reading and commenting on posts......
First I decided to overhaul the idea that I used to mess around with involving HAWK launchers on ships and planes. Then I got reminded of the Geratria military idea that Logan Hartke brought up a while ago and figure I can base my stuff loosely on it again, leading to the following Shipbucket pics:
The first one is actually meant to depict a ship from the "opposing force". B in F69B stands for "Bombarder" (hopefully I got the right French word)...... to denote the presence of an 8" automatic main gun.
Now on to the good guys.
The second one is a carrier with its hull based on the CVV line drawing posted in the Alt. RAN thread somewhere on this forum. "Based on" because line drawings, being what they are, won't allow me to do a perfect CVV without investing more time than I could currently spare.
Third, the baseline Type F69 class DDG and the common starting point of the other Type F69 pics in this post. I want it to be an export-type warship related to the Georges Leygues class frigate, but then I wasn't imaginative enough to go beyond swapping guns and electronics.
Forth, reverse-engineered adaptation of the Type F69 class with the aft gun replaced with a naval HAWK launcher- compared to the F69B in the first pic, which is afforded with the full-range of French exports (plus an US-made 8" gun; until the F69B destroyers went to war against their half-sisters, which is why the French didn't give 'em the Sadral launchers), this one has just bits and pieces of modern foreign products. As for the Seacat 2 launcher...... maybe it's indeed British-inspired.
Oh and where did that Panther come from since I've already implied that the "opposing force" is the one getting modern French imports until very lately? That could actually be a Z-9C; the ship's already got C-802s to replace the MM38 launchers, after all......
Comments and suggestion welcomed.