One last word: the BIP is an almost twin of the Spanish BPE (or is that the contrary ?). Had the BIP indeed been built, maybe Australia would have bought it…

Yeah, they are very similar concepts, but BPE is 50 % bigger and may be Australia was more interested in the capabilities of a larger ship than in the presence of a ski-jump itself, thought it will be an useful addition…

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That “D-71 Lepanto” is fan art. I saw it first time in a Spanish naval enthusiast site three or four year ago. The aft Mk-45 seems a bit troublesome for high weights…;)
A more logical F-100 enlargement is this other with double hangar, a third illuminator and a couple of Mk-41 modules aft…but fan art, after all :rolleyes:

It’s sure that Navantia has enlarged versions of the F-100 more or less developed, like the contender for the Evolved Design of the Australian AWD (7.000 + tons) but they haven’t been publicised by the shipyard.

MConrads, it’s great that KDX-II with SPY-1F 🙂

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Sorry MConrads 🙁 I have that image in my PC from, at least two or three years without any other reference. The design is, obviously, based on that of KDX-II surely enlarged but, how much?

I also found this picture that has to originate from a Thales advertisement. Does someone know wether Thales offered APAR/SeaPAR for the Polish Meko A100 Gawron project (Slazak class)? Does someone have the hole ad?

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This article (in Polish…) seems to make reference to Thales SeAPAR like the main radar in Gawron corvettes. Look at the specification table at the botton.

http://www.hrvatski-vojnik.hr/hrvatski-vojnik/0902006/korvete.asp

The image also make reference to the SeAPAR, although is obvious that the set showed is a more conventional one…

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… and three years later born BPE/SPS like an evolution of LHD proposal. In fact, with different names, LHD has been offered by Izar/Navantia from those years up to now.
More images:

About LSL, it happens like BSAC CV’s a lot of speculation and nearly any info available 🙁

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This is system is new to me? Was it a mortar, like ELMA or Hedgehog?

LCAWS was a NATO requirement of the 80’s/90’s for an affordable weapon system capable of confirm a submarine contact. In other words, the ship has a contact that may be or may be not a real SSK. One torpedo could be launched but modern torpedoes are scare and very expensive (even more than a SSM), and, after all, the contact can be false…
The idea was to launch a “cheap” round dangerous enough for make a real submarine runs away. If that was the case then a torpedo would be launched.
One of the proposals was the German/Norway Seapike, a little torpedo boosted by a rocket (more or less a “mini-ASROC”). The torpedo could be the Italian Whitehead A200, of 130-140 mm and 1 nm range at 17-18 kn (remember that the victim would be usually an SSK laying at the sea bottom or moving slowly in coastal waters). The rocket itself would have a range of 5-6.000 m.
I think that this is the weapon showed usually in the AFCON Corvette’s images.

But there were other proposals for LCAWS like the Spanish ABCAS, a kind of “modern Hedgehog” with a trainable launcher with 20 rounds. This project was also abandoned years ago.

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