Aegis Type ships information

Skywatcher said:

Jeff, perhaps it would be a good idea to make the next destroyer nuclear powered, after the shipyards have undergone the necessary refitting to build and handle reactors and the like?

(would come in handy for modifying them with high energy weapons)

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The ship will have to be larger to handle nuclear propulsion; I would love to say stuff a 10m hull stretch, but there is really no place to put the stretch except right in the middle between the funnels and that isn't a good place to place a stretch if you want to make use of the extra space, unless you move the superstructure, which would all require significant re-engineering and replumbing.

Scratch said:

Ok, now the debate if and how to improve on the AB design gets going. Will be interesting to see how far they decide to go here, or if the USN wants only little change after some bad experiences lately.

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The Koreans already did it, the KDX-III:



Install AEGIS BMD system & SM-3 and it's good to go.

Jeff Head said:

Could be a language thing, although during World War II and before, the French clearly built destroyers. I expect over the years that a politically correct term for finance and budget purposes has developed...such things are not unusual and certainly not relegated or individual to the French.

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We don't use Destroyer denomination because it's not at term that is really employed in the French language, we are preferring to say a heavy frigate for those ships, the others are light frigates. the letter "D" is there for some kind of standardization with allies navies.

One more note about the Aster SAM, this missile is not really designed to intercept Ballistic missiles and to do long range air defense. It's more for the close protection against aircraft and last Anti-ship missiles using evasive maneuvers or/and with low RCS, I'm not sure if the Standard Missiles reaches the maneuverability of an Aster.

Also, I don't know if export users will buy this system but it could be possible that FREMM could be equiped with MICA VL, also a very maneuverable missile.

Twix101 said:

Also, I don't know if export users will buy this system but it could be possible that FREMM could be equiped with MICA VL, also a very maneuverable missile.

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There are CGI of rather interesting VL-MICA installs on side of the FREMM, instead of the front:

Ok, I have a question about future naval TBM defence.
Especially if the threat of guided anti-ship TBMs materializes, will fleets (the USN in this case) have to rely on the single layer defence provided by the SM-3, or is a second, lower layer provided by a naval PAC-3 MSE possible?
It also seems to be no wider than a ESSM, allowing to quad-pack the PAC-3 into a Mk-41 cell.