What I'd love to see to make are T26 pack a real punch would be to replaced the forward 24 CAMM silos with 2 more 8 cell mk41s and the mid ship CAMM silos replaced with 15 EsXL cells.jonas wrote:In regards to the quad packing the extra Mk41 silos and replacing the CAMM silos for'd of the bridge, they were my thoughts exactly. This could provide many more options, including replacing the midships silos with extra anti ship missiles such as tube launched LRASM.Simon82 wrote:I don’t think there would be sufficient depth to replace the amidships CAMM tubes with Mk-41. I’m not sure of the exact deck penetration of a CAMM launcher, although the ever reliable Wikipedia gives a canister length of 4.4 m. It is possible the shortest 209” (5.3m) version of the Mk-41 might fit, but I think that is limited to ESSM only anyway. This is presumably why the Australian Type 26 variant has no silos in this location. If the CAMM silos here were quad-packed, however, like a stand-alone ExLS system allows, all the CAMM silos could be removed from ahead of the bridge freeing up more space for Mk-41 silos, while allowing for no reduction in the number of SeaCeptors carried overall.Scimitar54 wrote:
Does anyone know how long it would take to replace the cheap CAMM only launch tubes with Mk41, assuming the Mk41's were available for immediate insertion?
Anyway, this isn’t news. Merely idle speculation and dreaming.
It'd offer a lot more flexibility and punch for the same space taken