10.11.2023, 20:22
Zitat:BAE Offers Evolved, Up-Armed Hunter For Australiahttps://www.navalnews.com/event-news/ind...australia/
The proposal adds 64 additional VLS cells and eight more anti-ship missiles to the design.
BAE Systems Australia is offering an up-armed, evolved version of the Hunter class frigate to the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) as a way of rapidly increasing the firepower of the surface fleet. BAE argues that their proposal, which effectively replaces the Hunter class mission bay with additional missile tubes, offers an evolutionary, rather than revolutionary, approach to delivering additional capability to the RAN. [...] If the RAN elected to remove the 5 inch Mk 45 gun, Lockhart said, it would enable the VLS count to grow even more to 128 cells – which surpasses even the United States Navy’s (USN) Ticonderoga class Guided Missile Cruisers.
Wirkt für mich langsam etwas überfrachtet - aber maybe, reine Feuerkraft ist ja derzeit schwer angesagt.
Schneemann