Well had we added the 8 billion from type 26 in as well to make 25 billion we could of built 30 plus type 26's fitted with 48 Mk-41s allowing them to carry 64 CAMM/ CAMM-ER , 32 Spear 3 & 24 Tomahawk BlkV with 32 ships we could have 12 east of Suez and 20 in the home fleet allowing for 8 divisions of 4 ships with a division capable of carrying 256 CAMM , 128 Spear 3 & 96 TomahawkSW1 wrote: ↑08 Mar 2022, 11:56Wonder how many of the said ships configured as mentioned we could of bought for 17b quid we’ve spent buying 2 aircraft carriers and 48 f35. As a comparison strike group.Tempest414 wrote: ↑08 Mar 2022, 11:45I would be more than happy to both batch 1 & 2 type 31 fitted with 24 Mk-41's I would also very happy if the batch 1 were extended to 8 ships and then Babcock went on to build 3 full on IH class under the type 32 banner fitted with type 45 CMS and radar and armed with 32 Aster 30 , 24 CAMM , 1 x 57mm , 2 x 40mm , 8 x NSM . this could allow 4 Type 31's each side of Suez and if we built a 9th type 26 and a light carrier we could have 3 carrier groups of 1 carrier , 2 AAW , 2 ASW ships leaving 3 AAW and ASW ships .Scimitar54 wrote: ↑07 Mar 2022, 13:18 Don’t see the point of a different number of Mk-41 VLS Cells between batches 1 (and hopefully) 2.
Why would you not go for the consistent approach with 24 x Mk-41 for both ?
As said before if Type 31's were fitted with 24 CAMM & 24 Mk-41 we could see the type 31's armed with 24 CAMM , 32 CAMM-ER and 16 Tomahawk Blk-V meaning 3 ships coming together could be armed with 62 CAMM , 96 CAMM-ER and 48 Tomahawk missiles making them a very real strike group
Edit each division could also carry 8 ASW Helicopters plus 8 MCM USV's