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Originally Posted by Kazuaki Shimazaki II
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Originally Posted by Fitz62STG
If we were to make everything more realistic we would have to take the MK 13 launcher off of the FFG first. No FFG in the USN has the single arm bandit anymore.
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Oh no. Why, why, why, why, why!
This would mean it has no air defense except for a gun and CIWS, and no real antiship ability. Great, now it can't go even against missile boats! |
Because, in real life, the SM-1 just wasn't a terribly effective weapon and cost too much to maintain the support and training pipeline for the one-arm bandit. Same with the two-arm bandit, they were keeping a pipeline open for five ships, so they got rid of those ships. That being said, anti-ship missile defense capability of the OHPs is probably better now, since they got Nulkas on-board.
Of course, the proposed Mk 13 mod, firing dual-pack RAMs in addition to Nulka would have been even better, but the bottomline is the bottom line.
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Apparently the US Navy doesn’t know that since the OHPs are still FFGs according to them.
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Costs too much to change the hull classification. Although it was a running joke for awhile that the Navy had DDs with guided missiles (the Sprucans) and guided missile frigates without.