Further images and details here
http://www.raf.mod.uk/falklands/1sqn_5.html
The Atlantic Conveyor was carrying a complete sectionalised airstrip for the bridgehead.
http://www.raf.mod.uk/falklands/mov1.html
TJ
Exactly. The concept, as ‘sold’ was that a small area of hard standing and a fuel truck was pretty much all you need. An “air strip” for a VTOL aircraft??? There were Argentine aviation resources at Pebble Beach and Goose Green both of which could have been borrowed.
5500 ton ASW & GP Destroyer
(upper-most layout has 50m flight deck at cost “strike length” VLS and internal volume)
Overall dimensions:
Length overall: 150m
Beam: 18m
Draught: 7m
Main features:
Hanger for two EH-101s
Sampson based sensor system
48 medium-length VLS in distributed peripheral layout forwards
24 Strike-length VLS in peripheral layout amidships
BAE Systems 155mm main gun
4 x Skyshield 35mm CIWS with full 2*360 coverage with two FC units (integrated with SAMPSON etc also)
2 x 12m launches
TAS + bow sonar
CODAG with rear exhaust, in all-electric drive to two RR waterjets
completely enclosed bridge/command centre complex with 360 visual coverage and anti-spall lining and armour
Narrower hull (more draught) with only two EH-101s (plus UAVs?) and distributed peripheral VLS but using Sylver footprint. The 16 amidship would be max depth for TacTom and SM-3. The rest would be A-50 or equiv.
Rear mast is SAMPSON etc, front mast is 3D air-search.
On the enlarged Type-45 theme, here’s a more conventional layout on the hull of the through-deck I previously posted. The hull is wider and longer than Type-45 but shallower (I’d prefer longer and thinner than this but I’d already drawn the hull…).
With the 26m+ beam the hanger can easily fit three EH-101 although that was accidental, and there’s only one landing spot. Three EH-101 would be a “heavy” load obviously.
Other key feature is the German style rear exhaust which eliminates the smoke stack (intakes in the masts).
A more Vosper-Thornycroft idea is asymmetrical masts. I’d go for search radar forwards and SAMPSON aft. Comms would be in two masts not a third mast. Bridge lacks the wings – sod Lloyds.
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