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Battleship Ideas and Inspiration
GTX_Admin:
Just some inspiration from my recent travels:
tankmodeler:
--- Quote from: elmayerle on February 12, 2019, 03:11:41 AM ---VLS cells and a flight deck sounds like some of the FACES II concepts that were floated. Those would be formidable ships if so equipped.
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For a more extreme, but possibly more useful major refit...
Remove the B and Y turrets. Build an above deck hangar w/ an elevator to below deck maintenance spaces and place an F-35-capable VTOL flight deck on the aft hull. Add fuel and weapon storage in the old accommodations and 16" ammo spaces below that.
Remove all twin 5" mounts and reshape the superstructure to permit 64 standard length VLS cells immediately aft of the rear funnel and in front of the new hangar, plus at least 64 more standard length VLS cells in 4 farms down each beam where the 5" mounts roughly were.
Add 96 strike length VLS cells in the area of the B turret. Store additional ammo for the A turret in the existing old B turret lower barbette and provide a method of transferring ammo when out of combat from the B barbette to the A barbette.
Add three CWIS and three SeaRam mounts on each side.
Replace one twin 5" mount on each side with a single Mk 45 5" mount.
In the space between the funnels, add 4 quad harpoon/NSM box launchers on each side.
Eliminate the old directors, the masts and the high, armoured conning tower and replace with SPY-6 radars, optical sensors, and install the AEGIS combat system.
Add torpedo and air weapon decoy systems and active and passive defense systems.
Clean up the superstructure to reduce signature as much as possible. IR suppress the funnels.
_Keep_ the old mechanical ballistic computer for the remaining 16" turret (to date, nothing electronic is actually better than that chest-freezer sized calculator).
And, since we're being totally irrational about this...
Replace the 4 geared steam turbines with six LM2500+G4 gas turbines linked to generators with motors driving the props and loads of spare electrical power for the new sensors and battle systems and allowing space in the hull for another LM2500+G4 to be added (or, go ahead, add it now, add it now!) to provide an additional 35,320 kW of electrical power for advanced electric weapons to be installed later.
_That_ would be a modern battle wagon.
Aaaaannnnnd, now I wanna to go buy an Iowa kit...
"Port side Harpoons all launched, sir!"
"Right, bring her around smartly and fire another broadside, Mr. Christian!"
Jeffry Fontaine:
Something to consider for a modern surface combatant in the role of a BB might be to take a look at a carrier hull as it is a much larger hull with plenty of room for VLS installations along the outside edge of the hull. Plus there is the advantage of having the squared off stern which could possible be modified with a well deck to launch and recover RHIB and similar small craft. While it might not be practical to use a 1:350th scale carrier hull for direct conversion to a battleship, perhaps a smaller scale hull could be adapted through the wonders of "Scale-O-Rama?" to become a 1:350th scale hull. The best hull shape I can see for such a project would be based on any hull from the USS Forrestal (CV-59) and later. Maybe a 1:400th scale would work for the scale-o-rama effort? There are a few carrier models in that scale.
Volkodav:
The idea was an intermediate refit providing improved self defence capability for minimal increase in cost over reality and no decrease in real world surface attack capability. Standard and Tartar for that matter had a surface attack capability, not with the range and surface skimming of Harpoon, but they could be guided into surface targets. Tartar in the wing positions was an upgrade config seen on the later CA conversions.
GTX_Admin:
Not technically Battleships - they are actually classed as Monitors and were armed with 15inch guns - the Erebus-class look cool none-the-less:
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