Rafael Typhoon series info here http://www.israeli-weapons.com/weapons/naval/typhoon/Typhoon.html

Indeed the NTD turret is quite a clever idea. If it works as adverised, it would be a perfect secondary armament for ships operating in a littoral/coastal environment.

The specifications of the Spike missile, in particular “man in the loop” capability, is quite welcome in a saturated littoral area of operations, since the missile can be “retired” in case of a mistaken launch against friendly forces.

Also the precision of such a weapon would enable, for example, a Coast Guard ship to disable a bandit without human loss. And we shouldn’t forget land attack capability as well.

My first bet was the Millenium gun, but the shape doesn’t match.

OTOH this is a model, so perhaps it is a Millenium after all. 😉

To realize what kind of threat these truck launched SSM is, you could look at the Balkan conflict. I’ve been told that american carrier groups weren’t willing to station in the Adriatic sea because of that Saab had delivered RBS-15 to Belgrade. The risk were to high. Perhaps dienekes can shed som light on this story?

From what I can gather, that delivery never took place. Don’t forget this deal was in the cards when Yygoslavia was a whole nation. Croats took the lion’s share as far as naval powers were concerned.

But the story really illustrates an interesting point: even the threat of deploying an appropriate (but non-existent) weapon is sometimes enough to prevent hostile action. 😎

It also shows us that, perhaps, the USN doesn’t have enough faith on it’s PDMS and CIWS? :rolleyes:

A quick note: Some people underestimate the Serbs, in general. Don’t do that. They have proved time and again they are survivors, and they will play any card they happen to have.

Haven’t seen a Visby carry a helicopter and practically I don’t think it’s going to be handy either. Telescopic hangars have proven difficult in the past and most navies opt for fixed ones. The Swedes don’t have the experience with those hangars yet and might step back once it proves a faulty decision. Taking no hangar at all wouldn’t be practically either.

Severo, I think the best option for such small ships would be naval UAVs, a trend I believe shall be dominant in the near future. Ideally, you need a hangar in that case too. But the logistics of operating a manned vehicle, as well as serious changes to the ship itself, are avoided.

In fact, I’m opening a new thread on navel UAVs, I’m really interested hearing the views of all of you there. 😉