Canadian River Class Destroyer Megathread

[Rainbow1910]

And yet, even with that, they somehow managed to incorporate 32 VLS cells.

It's been well known for quite sometime that the Hunter class is actively paying for such a sizable mast/array alongside its 32 VLS cells by basically eating the entire weight margins for the design, leaving effectively nothing left for future additions. There has also been concerns regarding stability, weight and speed being affected to worrisome degrees.

Not sure I'd look at that design with envy.

 

[Underway]

And yet, even with that, they somehow managed to incorporate 32 VLS cells.

Its a bigger ship, more beam and length. We've been over this. There were some sacrifices for those extra missile (among them speed, maneuverability, power, seakeeping).

CEAFAR on the ANZACs is pretty compact, this looks like they've really scaled it up.

The large diamond at the bottom of the pattern is an L-Band addition to the normal CEAFAR S-band (diamonds across the top). That's to provide long range air search capability to the radar, which will liberate the S-band to do more tracking, targeting tasks.

The original shipborne CEAFAR only had the S-band.

 

[suffolkowner]

Its a bigger ship, more beam and length. We've been over this. There were some sacrifices for those extra missile (among them speed, maneuverability, power, seakeeping).


The large diamond at the bottom of the pattern is an L-Band addition to the normal CEAFAR S-band (diamonds across the top). That's to provide long range air search capability to the radar, which will liberate the S-band to do more tracking, targeting tasks.

The original shipborne CEAFAR only had the S-band.

Is the addition of the L band worth it in your opinion?
How many ships are utilizing L band as well as S and X?