The Neptunes are absolutely fantastic! I particularly like the 4x2 6" version. I am somewhat surprised that at least one pair of 21" torpedo tubes wasn't retained. Maintaining such a heavy surface fleet would seem to imply that the Soviet fleet of that era was commensurately more powerful, perhaps w...
Oh man, I love the crazy Delta IV derivatives. For those unaware, the 7-CBC superheavy could rival Saturn V in LEO throw weight. I'm not familiar with this specific generation of next-gen Delta, but I wouldn't be surprised if it could surpass S-V.
That's a good question, but it's really hard to answer. So much of what we know about the pre-Aegis missile ships came about after Typhon's cancellation -- Belknap didn't commission until a year later, and of course the whole next generation of USN missile destroyers/cruisers was cancelled. That mon...
I assume so. A phased array serving TVM (which is how Patriot has always worked) ought to scale just fine. The internet says the real-life system can handle nine targets, which sounds to me like a system operator limitation (it's got to fit on a truck! let's do a 3x3 screen layout) more than a techn...
Well, SPG-59 is nice, or whatever. Even though I'm sure it would be an absolute madhouse in service. https://i.postimg.cc/fyRnbLWf/CG-15-TYBEACH-2018-11-14-4104.png full-size But if it did make it into service, then C-band track-via-missile must have gone into USN service. After SPG-59 crapped the b...