RUM-139 VL-Asroc

[Kapitan]

The only way to survive a volly like that is 1) turn quick weps launch on 2) be very very quick at launching the SM-2.

Reality lies that the perry against ever the 688's with VLS doesnt stand a chance it wouldnt even stand a chance against a russian trantul corvette the perry is a real limited ASW platform hence why the USN utalises it in littoral waters against things like kilo's because most kilo's dont carry ASM's its only now that its starting to be refitted to carry klub.

When designing the mission you need to consider exactly what the unit can do putting a perry against a kirov would be ludacrus, the perry is at home in a battle group where it is protected by ASUW capible units so it can concentrate on its task of ASW.

and the perrys operate well in a SAG only when put together with a burke or tico (or indeed any other ASUW unit).

What i dont understand is why dont navies build something like the type 23 which is full multi role, it has sea dart VLS for shooting down air threats and missiles it has harpoons for engaging ships, and helo for ASW operations as well as its sonar and also ship board torpedos.

if you put all that plus a bit more into one hull wouldnt it work out cheaper to build 50 of them have one manitinance crew one type of ship that can do everything than have 25 ASW units on manitnance crew and another mantinance crew for the ASUW ship?

Build everything into a cruiser hull and well you have one ship that does the job of 2.