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Is that some sort of ASW mortar on that recessed platform next to the fore-end of flight deck?

Presumably the smaller guns are the same type as the OHP were supposed to have been armed with before they chose the 76mm.

uhm.....
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THIS is the never build design. no VLS, no directors aft, no SPS-49 but an SPS-48, an heli position up front, an smaller elevator.... where does that other stuff come from? IIRC, the original design never was an harrier carrier......

also, the GK has A LOT of deck penetration. it needs an reload room and magazine, while the phalanx has all that on-mount (although some of it is sometimes recessed, as was done here). this is why you cannot just swap an GK and an Phalanx.

Ok, here is the original drawing as it was shown in Hybrid Carriers (well the original was in Processdings, but this is an even higher res rendering:



What Shiplover had done was he taken this, and modified it considerably.

Depending on how modern it's actually meant to be I'd of thought that Millennium would be a good alternative to GK namely because of AHEAD even if GK fires substantially faster.

also, the GK has A LOT of deck penetration. it needs an reload room and magazine, while the phalanx has all that on-mount (although some of it is sometimes recessed, as was done here). this is why you cannot just swap an GK and an Phalanx.

actually....
the millenium gun is in service from 2003. the GK from 1980. only south korea builds new goalkeepers after 1995, somewhere before that (do not know the exact year) the dutch production line closed. so, you could fit the GK on older ships and the millenium on new ships.