this is called "DEH" now
600 ship crew
200 air wing
surge of 950 (royal marines company)
air wing:
12x H-3 ASW
3x V-22 AEW
3x P.1216 (not shown)
organized as a composite aviation squadron (VC)
operates in convoy escort groups with 1x DEH, 3-4x DEGs, and 5-6x DEKs
can also operate as independent HUK but it's less efficient at this than the DLK/DLG/DLH equipped groups
launches:
2x 40' launch
1x RHIB (port davit)
armament:
2x Mk 29 fore and aft island
3x Mk 15 (two aft quarter, one starboard fore quarter, on island)
1x Mk 41 (8-cell) (amidships on the island)
2x Mk 32 SVTT (port and starboard fore quarters)
8x2 ESSM (no reloads carried)
8x VL-ASROC in the mk 41
2x 2-cell Mk 53 canisters (aft island deckhouse)
4x Mk 36 chaff launchers (2x aft island, 2x fore island deckhouses)
Mk 23M TAS provides air surveillance (L-band)
boxes on aft deckhouse and fantail provide ILS like SPN-41 but smaller/better phased arrays
4x panels for C-band (baby MPQ-65) air surveillance radar
4x panels for X-Band (APAR expy) missile guidance radar
1x SPQ-9B provides sea search for TAS air surv
2x SLQ-32(v)4 for ESM/ECM
1x TACAN beacon for finding the thing
some number of SATCOMs for talking to people/White Cloud datalink/SBIRS datalink for real time air/ship warning
has an SQS-53 in the bow for CZs and SQS-56 is too awful to have been made by gayla
there's a SLQ-25B on the fantail too
TACTAS is omitted because it makes maneuvering hard for the carrier and it's expensive
Prairie Masker is installed for acoustic damping and deception (as is the case on basically every ship that doesnt head for the reserve fleets)
rear deckhouse may receive a crane at some point but that requires moving the aft mk 29 to the fantail like Wasp OTOH that will let it carry tanks on the deck for purpose of being a company landing ship
it has a similar island to CVS/DLH but it is smaller with a radar fit suitable for convoy air defense
sadly it's two screws so it's not much cheaper than the CVS/DLH
there is a m-day/austere version that probably lacks pretty much everything in terms of sensor fit except the basic ATC stuff and basically all the anti-missiles except chaff launchers, SLQ-32(V)6, and rubber ducks, and reduces armament to 2x Phalanx only, and propulsion to two LM2500s vice four
probably about a billion or so spondoolies
m-day version is probably 2/3rds to 3/5ths that for the same displacement and air wing size and can be produced slightly faster since it has less bottleneck in machinery
the m-day ship is now called "CVE" or maybe "DTH"
the CVS is now "DLH"
DLs are bigger than DEs of all types
there are also "DDEs" which accompany the "CVE" but they are literally just floating helicopter pads and towed arrays with a phalanx gun
and then there are "DLEs" which are literally just Spruance weapons fits (ASROC/sonars/helipad/hangar/Harpoon/Phalanx/ESSM) on a more stable hull
DDE/DLE/"DTH" sits in the reserve mothball fleet waiting for the Final War to begin and requires of convoy escort so frontline fleet units like DE/DL/CV can fight
more reasonably theyre activated as Reserve Fleet ships are brought out of mothballs and mobilized for major regional wars al a Desert Storm or Falklands or Vietnam that stretch the peacetime sealift capacity and escort ability
gallaverse is like ace combat except instead of airplanes everyone and their dog has a hunter-killer SS and stealth mine laying capability