YES!
(I also took the liberty to attempt to bring
Chiyo to the same standard)
The FNS
Chiyo is a helicopter cruiser in service with the Frontier Navy Fleet Foreign Auxiliary. The ship is capable of operating eight 13-ton class helicopters although the ship's airgroup at the ship's first commissioning consist of S-70C Thunderhawk and RH-3H Sea King for anti-submarine and mine countermeasure, respectively. Her massive radar mast houses both an S-band volume search radar, which is rated between the AN/SPY-1F and the AN/SPY-1D in terms of performance, and a C-band multi-function radar with Track-via-Missile antennas, which is very similar to the land-based MPQ-53 set and necessary for anti-aircraft missile guidance.
The ship was modestly-armed despite her large size- 10 quad medium-range anti-aircraft missile launchers, two triple supersonic anti-ship missile launchers, four 8-cell vertically-launched close-in defense missiles, two 76mm autocannons, three triple 324mm torpedo tubes, two Phalanx cannons, and two manually-operated 20mm cannons. This is primarily because the ship is armed with a simplistic navalization of the land-based Patriot missile launchers- they have no companion autoloader used by naval anti-aircraft missiles, meaning that a large number of launchers are required. According to her crew at the time of first contact, the ship was built by a country that was subject to a virtual arms embargo aimed to curtail development of naval ballistic missile defense capabilities in the name of "regional balance of military power", which was rendered moot by the impending and irreversible death of her homeworld believed to have been inflicted by a Sage cleansing campaign.
Despite being essentially obsolete in an environment that now permits ready access to optimised BMD-capable warships following the relocation of her home civilization,
Chiyo, alongside every other surviving ship of her world with at least marginally-useful military potential, was offered commission by the Frontier Navy- in return for assistance in building their new settlement around a Frontier Navy offworld base, they are to assume joint responsibility in defense and commerce protection of the region (Foreign Auxiliaries are typically not to be considered as assets available for expeditionary operations, despite having been accused otherwise by a few political factions within the UN). Following her incorporation into the Fleet Foreign Auxiliaries, the ship received several upgrades: first and foremost being the GEM/T and GEM/C interceptors against tactical ballistic missiles and cruise missiles, respectively, although the shorter range of the GEM/T ordnance makes it suitable only for self-defense against a notional anti-ship ballistic missile threat. Her Phalanx guns were replaced with an upgraded model armed with a more-powerful 25mm Oerlikon KBD gatlin gun, her 76mm guns were refurbished for improved rate of fire and low-observable cupolas, and the ship herself further received two Mk 49 21-round Rolling Airframe Missile launchers as well as two tactical length 8-cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems (equivalent to which the ship was in fact fitted for but not with). The Mk 41 is intended for the RUM-139 anti-submarine missiles.
Chiyo's parent fleet command is now reportedly looking into the new SkySceptor ordnance, which promises both an anti-aircraft capability on par with the SM-2MR missiles used by the rest of the Frontier Navy's anti-aircraft surface combatants while still being capable against TBMs and a 200% increase in the number of missiles at ready (12 missiles each launcher); unsubstantiated reports suggest that it is well on its way to supersede an earlier plan to modify the loadout for three of the Patriot launchers with quad-packed canisters for the BMD-optimised MIM-104F interceptor.
The FNS
Ying-Ning is a helicopter cruiser built by an allied nation of
Chiyo's country of origin. An ambitious development of the project that led to the construction of
Chiyo,
Ying-Ning retains the same aviation facility arrangement, S-band passive electronically-scanned array 3D search radar, and machinery as
Chiyo but, despite a degree of similarity in her outward appearance, is otherwise essentially a "clean sheet" design centered around a vertical launch system for her surface-to-air missiles.
Due to technical constraints and the choice of missiles, the VLS utilizes "cold-launch" method and slanted cells so that the launcher does not need to be strengthened against acute heat buildups associated with missile launch and that a malfunctioning missile can be ejected off the ship; however, the larger individual cells and mechanism required to launch missiles prior to ignition means that the system has only six eight-cell modules, for a total of 48 missiles, within the total footprint equipvalent to 12 eight-cell Mk 41 modules. Each cell is compatible with both the semi-active radar homing Sky Bow I ordnance and the slightly-larger active radar homing Sky Bow II ordnance; the ship has two MPG-25 illumination sets for Sky Bow I missile terminal guidance. The Sky Bow I and Sky Bow II missiles have a range of 100km and 200km, respectively. Two quad anti-ship missile launchers, four quad anti-submarine missile launchers, four 8-cell vertically-launched close-in defense missiles, two 76mm autocannons, three triple 324mm torpedo tubes, two Phalanx cannons, and two manually-operated 20mm cannons round out her armaments.
Ying-Ning was completed just as the beginning of the end was inflicted upon her homeworld, meaning the hope of developing a capability against tactical ballistic missiles for the Sky Bow II ordnance did not materialize prior to the evacuation of her homeworld and was only realized after the ship accepted commission with the Frontier Navy, where Earth-borne contractors transferred the technology needed to remanufacture her associated inventory of Sky Bow II ordnance to incorporate a credible BMD capability. She also received refurbishment for her 76mm guns, upgrade to her Phalanx guns, compatibility with the RUM-139 ordnance for her anti-submarine missile launcher, and two Rolling Airframe Missile launchers.
EDIT:
I just realized that I forgot to link the entry thread back to this post. *BANGING HEAD* Thanks, Mod.