The new sexy

[LoBlo]

In military design, form meets function and aesthetics are inconsequential. But wow, if this is the future of naval design, talk about sexy ship designs.

http://defensetech.org/2015/09/02/brita ... more-25635

[magi]

Very cool indeed…

[NakedWeasel]

[Dysta]

Will the future's naval warfare becomes a one-ship fleet loaded with everything it could fit in?

(Actually, it's the Soviet's idea -- the Kirov-class is designed to pit against a principal fleet by its own)

[ziolo]

A plastic warship?

[CapnDarwin]

Cool looking ship. Not sure what it is using for ASM defense close in.

[LoBlo]

ORIGINAL: ziolo

A plastic warship?

No one said the design of realistic.. or even useful in some aspects. But you got to admit that it looks like a hotrod on water.

[Casinn]

Like the Star Trek bridge/CIC.

[SeaQueen]

No missiles? No point defenses? That rail gun better be pretty good.

[NakedWeasel]

Does it not appear to have upward directed VLS ports built into the outriggers? And naturally the PDS would be a combination of: soft defense, electronic defenses, hard defense, and DEWs.

[NakedWeasel]

I make out what looks like, 48xVLS tubes (possibly multi-celled), 4xDEWs, (possibly each attacking 5 individual targets or focusing firing on one or more (maybe 10!?) Beams on a single target, from at least 2 turrets simultaneously. Below and aft of the VLS tubes, there are long rectangular hatches that could hide torpedo launchers, possibly for ASW/Torpedo defense, and maybe larger tubes for heavy weight torpedoes. That odd looking cluster atop the PLANAR array might also house DEWs as well. The vessel also seems to have a very well equipped aircraft operations capability, large enough to host several multi-mission attack VTOLUAVs.

With an equivalent level of technologies including: LO, ECM/ECCM, sensors, DC, (armor???) the ship could probably be better defended than a current day CVN.

[NakedWeasel]

According to the article:“The ship would not have a conventional mast but a tethered quad-copter which could be flown above the ship. This tether would be made of carbon nanotubes and cryogenically cooled in order to transmit significant power to the quad-copter for multi-spectral sensors and act as a high-power (i.e. laser) weapon to knock down enemy missiles or aircraft.

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