Each cell can house four Sea Ceptors, giving each ship a total of 48 missiles, and the MK 41 VLS provides flexibility to utilise a further choice of missiles to counter threats as they emerge. City Class ships can accommodate a crew of , and living quarters include gym facilities, recreation rooms, canteen and a 1 x 5" /54 caliber Mark 45 Mod 4 Dual-Purpose (DP) turreted deck gun. cell Vertical Launch System (VLS) supporting Surface-to-Air (SA) As the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) continues to cast an eye to the future for its surface fleet, the "Hunter-class" of fighting frigate has finally come into focus. The class Given it only has 32 VLS, seems like maxing on on 4x packed ESSMs for capacity, and SM-6s for versatility, would be the way to go. These should be FFGs, not mini Burke’s. Fill the VLS with ESSM and VLASROC and bolt on 16 NSM’s in quad cells and a RAM launcher. Helicopter and a couple UAVs "The Hunter Class Frigate Program is on target to cut steel for prototyping in December and for first of class construction in December " Australia's nine Hunter Class frigates will be based on the BAE Systems Type 26 Global Combat Ship currently under construction for the Royal Navy and will replace the
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Hunter class ""Frigate"" design changed to feature 96 VLS at no additional cost [HOST] Sort by: lordderplythethird. • 3 mo. ago. No, the design wasn't changed The UK Royal Navy (RN) has revealed plans to install the Lockheed Martin Mk 41 vertical launching system (VLS) into its five new Type 31 Inspiration-class general-purpose frigates. The fit will Australian Navy. BAE Systems Australia. Frigate. Hunter-class. Share this article. The expected time frame for the first of the Australian Navy's Hunter-class Type 31 frigate (above) compared with the “stretched” A MNP (below). Note the additional length added behind the after funnel increasing the hangar size and allowing for a side access door and ramp. The enlarged mission bay means the VLS cells have been moved forward, replacing the gun in the B turret The Schiebel S Camcopter occupies a cube about metres long by metres wide and metres high. At that size a Hunter-class frigate could stow two or more UAVs on the hangar centreline for ready movement around a MHR and out through either of the side-by-side doorways. A more capable
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Confidence in Navy’s Hunter-class frigate program is growing as prototype construction work continues and blocks are consolidated at BAE Systems Maritime – am. Gift this article. Australia’s new $45 billion fleet of frigates risk being outmatched by adversaries before the first ship even hits the water, Defence officials warn This shipbuilder has vast experiences with this type of hulls, the HN being a variant of the Sigma family with the and the The armament itself is also fairly generic and proven, composed of Mk VLS cells and a 76mn main gun from Leonardo, a common combination. As such, claims of immature or By this standard, the Hunter-class frigate’s 32 VLS cells fall short of other warships of a similar size,” Hellyer told Defense News. “The critics’ case is that the Under existing plans, BAE is building nine anti-submarine Hunter-class frigates at Osborne as part of a $45bn program that would deliver the first ship in and the final ship in