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That is a beautiful cruiser, heuhen! That streamlined stack fully integrated into the bridge structure is very unique.

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Love your cruiser emperor_andreas, but may I suggest that, you'll give some thoughts to giving the ship some short range AA missile system, a sort of a bolt on installation, like the American Sea Chapparel, an idea toyed with by the USN in the early 1970's

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Thank you Kim for the crest

"Never fear to try on something new. Remember that the Titanic was built by professionals, and the Ark by an amateur"

There are four others of her class that are all converted to missile cruisers (like the Baltimores) by then (and one that received a major refit and went entirely missile)...I chose the ship I did as my entry because she remained primarily an all-gun ship for her entire career.

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My entry comes from my new AU, Tyrrhenia, which I have not started in SB yet, I'm still not sure on my maps and backgrounds, backstory, all of which need work.

Heraklion Class Heavy cruiser.

The Heraklion was laid down in late 1939 in answer to the big German, British, American, French, Italian, Russian, cruisers being built at the end of the 1930's as those countries explored the upper limits of the heavy cruiser and into the American designation 'Large' cruiser (CB). Everybody was doing it.

However Tyrrhenia surrendered in 1943 with the Heraklion at about 70% complete. 1945 and the Tyrrhenian Admiralty reviews what is left to them after the victorious Allies have been through and grabbed all the best ships and discarded most of the rest. The Heraklion, while an older design, has already had a lot of investment in it and it would serve the Tyrrhenian Fleet for 30-40 years if completed. The original design was reviewed and Tyrrhenia went cap in hand to the US and asked if they could purchase modern tertiary armaments, fire control and Radar to complete the ship. The US agreed and packed up and sent the systems.



The new parts from America arrived during 1946 and were incorporated into the new design. Air defence was now one of the major roles of the Heraklion with the automatic 3" and 5"/38cal guns playing the leading roles aboard ship.

Nice!

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Hi, i have 2 days to draw and i'm done

Aungsumalin-Class Subcompact Cruiser
2 January 1943 Royal Thai Navy was start 'Subcompact Cruiser Project', built by Naval Dockyard and many japanese engineers. launched in July 1945, commissioned into RTN in 30 December 1945, she was only a ship in the class because the WWII budget crisis.



Type: Subcompact Cruiser
Displacement:
3,142 tons standard
4,076 tons full load
Length: 120.01 m
Beam: 12.39 m
Draught: 4.51 m

Propulsion:
3×Ro-Gō Kampon water tube boilers,
2×Kampon impulse geared turbines,
3 shafts, 54,000 shp
Speed: 31.5 kn
Range : 5,000 nmi at 18 kn
Complement: 268

Armament:
3x200/50 mm Type D twin guns
6xBofors 75/51mm single guns
5x40/40 mm twin guns
4×depth charge projectors
2×depth charge racks
1xType 14 main gun director
2x 2.5 m rangefinders
2xtype S paravanes

Armour:
Main Belt: 63.5 mm
Barbettes: 102 mm
Turrets: 102 mm
Deck: 38+25 mm
Conning Tower: 102 mm
Base plating: 10 mm
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HTMS Aungsumalin 1955



add 1xSA Air search radar
add 1xSG radar
replace Bofors 75/51mm single guns by 6×3"/50 caliber single guns
replace 5x40/40 mm twin guns by 5xBofors 40 mm L/60 single guns
replace 2x2.5 m rangefinders by 2xmk51 gun director

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HTMS Aungsumalin 1975



remove 4×depth charge projectors and 2×depth charge racks
remove 2xtype S paravanes
replace 1xSA Air search radar by 1xAN/SPS-6 air search radar
replace 1xSG radar by 1xDecca I-band navigation radar
replace rear Bofors 40 mm L/60 single guns by 1xSea Cat surface-to-air missile launcher and GWS-24 missile director
add 2xAN/WLR-1 Mod 1 ESM
add 4xSippican Mk33 RBOC Decoys
add 4x12.7 mm guns


After the 1997 Asian financial crisis, HTMS Aungsumalin was decommissioned and now open as a museum ship. Nearby cities: Bangkok, Pattaya City, Samut Songkhram Province. Coordinates: 13°32'19"N 100°35'3"E

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PS. add Armour

I really do love the restrained scale of your AU, superboy.

Very nice work!

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I love this, superboy. There's no mention of armour though, and I think the last air search radar could look better.

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Hatsuyuki-class Escort Ships . . . <3

As usual a fantastic entry from Superboy

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