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Exceptionly nice looking ships Mark

Well done

In terms as classification, how would you describe these vessels? Destroyers?

Kind regards,

Andy

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Muchas gracias.
Good to know that I have that effect on people! As you've probably noticed I'm the polar opposite to you with regards to ship styles
Ta!

In Galenian terms they wouldn't be classed as destroyers as they lack long range warning such as SAMPSON and associated weapons such as SM-6 or similar, they're a bit big to be legitimately called a frigate. Given their intended role as a presence ship which deals with pirates, escorts merchant shipping and does disaster relief I'd guess the best classification for them would be a sloop.

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WOW

In that case, they're HUGE Corvettes

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Nice work!

nice ships, good work

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Martin

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WOW you are doing an amzing job with those ships.

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Just out of curiosity, what kind of missiles are those from the VLS? Only one I recognize is the ESSM.

See this post.

Very nice work. An impressive looking ship.

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Say hello to the Bedlam class again, this time depicted at end-of-life with all the trimmings required to keep them relevant until the Deity class start to appear (mid to late noughties)



The last four of the counties (built 1972-73) were built to a modified design including new sonar and combat systems, as such these were the four that lasted the longest. Two of which remained in the CGC state you see here, the other two were converted towards the end of the cold war into CGHs losing their Mk.10s and associated equipment and gaining substantial helicopter facilities and the capacity to operate commandos from them.

Their final SLEPs saw them fitted out with an SPS-49, SPQ-9B, NSSM, HVM and the ability to fire SM-2 MR from their Mk.13s. After deletion of Harpoon from operational service and the block obsolescence of Terrier they were re-armed with SM-2ER and SM-2MR exclusively in the shape of RIM-67D and RIM-66K-2. NSSM was fitted alongside both sides of the hangar in Mk.48s for a total of 16 missiles, neither of the two remaining CGCs were given ESSM.
Their close-in defensive weapons were augmented during the SLEP by the fitting of Oerlikon GDM and Shorts Starstreak. Small-calibre weapons consist of a pair of automated 20mm x102 GIAT cannon in Typhoon mounts and an assortment of MG3s and M2s.

Since the end of the cold war the remaining Bedlams have been active in various areas seeing action in the Gulf, Balkans and South Atlantic.

With the appearance of the Deity class CGC these two great survivors were laid up facing an almost certain future of being turned into razor blades, all four were scrapped between 2012 and 2013.

~Mark.

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