Canadian River Class Destroyer Megathread

[Stoker]

So lets see here: So far, we have artwork from Irving and from NavyShooter for a thread that goes back to August 2015.

And the winner is NavyShooter!

What I'm being told its the latest version of the ship with the mark 54 gun and other changes to the design.

 

[Lumber]

What I'm being told its the latest version of the ship with the type 45 gun and other changes to the design.

Mark 54*, but yes, in happy to see they've finally updated the picture to reflect that change.

 

[Stoker]

Mark 54*, but yes, in happy to see they've finally updated the picture to reflect that change.

Ahh, thanks I'll make the correction.

 

[Rainbow1910]

Latest artwork from Irving .

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The quality of the image especially on the aft of the ship is low quality and partially looks AI modified (aerials aft look squished alongside the NSM launchers?). Obviously the Italian 5" gun has been replaced by the BAE Mark 45 5", although it kind of looks to me as well that the Italian 30mm Lionfish mounts are gone and replaced with BAE's 25mm or 30mm Mark 38 MGS. The NSM launcher looks to be strangely squished but also shifted inwards above the mission bay, which seems to point to the ExLS cells finally being removed from the renders. There is something clearly present on the starboard side aft where the RAM launcher has been shown before, but its weirdly compressed and short. The older quad Nulka decoy launchers abaft the primary stack has been shifted to a two layered 6 cell system, or some kind of additional VLS? The model is very generic, but I'm very sure it's Nulka going off the recent Australian launcher setups I've seen. A few small changes to stuff bolted on the ship in various spots, but mostly reverting to US weapon systems even further it seems.