let me look that GK up. could take some time though, have to search. anyways, if I can't find any separate one, there is one on the camelot drawing I send you with the lynx on, IIRC
I suppose you want to make this ship as build in 1990 somewhere?
problems with the design as of now:
goalkeeper location aft: problematic due to belowdeck spacing. might not fit
bow GK: right now you just cut off part of your helideck, and by that removed the ability to have another helispot over there. maybe shorten the deck a bit and keep the width instead.
the stabilisers could be fitted midships, 1 set, in an break of the bilge keel. like this they are very much in the way for docking and internal space.
I cannot understand your director setup.
I do miss some ECM
why heightened the VLS?
make the elevator only slightly bigger then the largest vehicle you want on it. on this ship, you never want to take 2 at the same time, and you always want the holes in your deck to be as small as possible
the hull looks like an tico hull, maybe even an lengthened tico hull.......
also, the aft GK is still in dutch navy colours
quite a few parts need updates (SPQ-9, TACAN, mk 45)
and keep in mind that this would be an helicopter destroyer, not an helicarrier. primary role would be ASW..... of which I have doubts about usefulness.
I would want some harpoons somewhere
I would want ESSM or NSSM instead of the SM-2 on this ship. maybe even in an mk 48 launcher instead of an mk 41, depending on the time era. I am not that happy that you slammed VLS on it anyways.... the hull is overloaden with top weight as it is.
I guess to answer most of your questions, I could say
"I don't know, I just left the original drawing as is". I figured the Mk 41 had a raised shield around it or something, like on the Type 45 destroyers, thats the only thing I could think of.
Pretty much the only thing I changed was moving the forward GK from the original mid supersteructure area to forward of the superstructure, flattened the forward flight deck (removed the ski jump), and took the Harriers off and added helicopters. As for the radars, the only changes I made was to replace older drawings with updated ones. The aft GK is in the same location as the Phalanx that was there.
I'll have to consider the suggested changes to Shiplover's never-build design.