Updated link: https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/ADA365150
I can easy see it being the type of idea of...
That may actually be standard Navy planning for skimmers.
Problem, as we're seeing, is spinning up production isn't like it was in WW2.
I'm not sure that's the direction we're headed.
Hello Virginia-class Block V+?
As well as what would become the Tactical Tomahawk, which was originally conceived for the Arsenal Ship project as a low cost missile that could be procured in bulk. Work on it survived the shelving of the latter due to both being selected as a potential replacement for the cancelled TBIP (Tomahawk Baseline Improvement Program) as well as hopes within the USN and the Department of the Navy for the resurrection of the the Arsenal Ship program in the then near future. (The onset of the War on Terror in 2001 should have provided the perfect opportunity for such, but SecDef Rumsfeld and the Cult of Transformation had their own priorities needless to say.)
Is the hatch in the bow enclose the VGAS barrel as in other models?
In the 90s?
640 rounds. Those aren't Mk41s, from the illustration there are 15x40 cell (4 5x2 modules) and 2x20 cell vls modules. If they were Mk41s like I initially thought until I zoomed in closely it would have been 1024 cells.
Given the history of the design, that might possibly actually represent the pre-1982 design for the Mk-41.
None of the late 1990s Arsenal Ship designs used the Mk 41 VLS (including those from Lockheed who actually owned the manufacturing rights to Mk 41) the companies either developed their own VLS, used NWC Dahlgren's Concentric Canister Launcher, or a VLS developed by United Defense.
Thank you porkslow. sorry can't help on a better pic. Looks like a good conceptual background for a battleship.
It's certainly better than nothing but I would prefer a higher quality 300 DPI or 600 DPI scan. Another place where I found this image was the January 1996 issue of the Marine Corps Gazette. It's a larger image without a lot of cropping but it's a black-and-white magazine and probably really hard to find.
Maybe some PR rep will be nice enough to dig through the achieves, you never know!Love this design, wise enough to give it CIWS guns.I realy like the "bottle shaped" deck plan, so obviously influenced by the Iowa class battleships. Oddly enough, the AOE-type Sacramento class replenishment ships also had a hull form similar to the Iowas - and the first two units each had half the machinery from the cancelled USS Kentucky.
I do have to wonder if this sort of complex design would conform with modern shipbuilding practices? Is this an actual proposal? Of course, some of the details, such as the bridge design, do conform to later designs such as the current Lockheed LCS?
I'm not sure those are CIWS more like RAM?
According to this LM engineering drawing, the ones in at the bow are MRLS while the ones at the aft are box launchers for the NTACMS/ATACMS.
I suggest you look up the actual purpose why they planned the ship. The primary purpose was supposed to be shore bombardment and supporting ground troops.
That's could be done relatively quickly, if you have deck space; the MLRS launcher is reloaded with rocket pod, and equipped to auto-reload itself. In field, it could grab a new pod from the ground or from the truck with loading frame, and put inside:
There are elevators forward and aft for each pair of box launchers so those might be used by the reloading equipment though for one launcher at a time
