Royal New Zealand Navy Discussions and Updates

[swerve]

Are the Mk.41’s replacing the mushroom farm or in addition?

If a replacement, the RN (and possibly Poland) will have to pay for integration. It also opens up the possibility of the longer ranges CAMM variants.

Poland is building frigates with Mk41 from the start, & intends to use it for CAMM. 32 cells according to what I've read. MBDA & LM qualified CAMM in Mk 41 via Host ExLS, with CAMM supplied in a 4 round canister, back in the late 2010s. Links in post no 9898, to ADMk2.

Poland wants to use CAMM-ER, which I imagine would need some integration, & eventually CAMM-MR, but that's still under development (which I think Poland is taking part in) & is planned for dual-packing (too big for quad), which'd complicate matters a bit, but Poland's heavily committed to the CAMM family for both land-based & naval use. It's currently building a factory to make CAMM-ER, for example.

 

[d-ron84]

Early renditions show it there - perhaps the DefPros with knowledge of the project can explain the changes?

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Was that original position chosen to provide an additional Mk41 VLS (2x 4 cell SD length) option on the fo'c'sle? If so it doesn't show on the above plan. However wonder if 2x ExLS launching systems could be fitted nowadays?

Remour I heard years ago:
RAN FFH's had the space for 2 x MK41's but only fitted 1, as well as not fitting Phalanx.
Due to this they weren't reinforced to take the weight, this prevented the second cell or CIWS being fitted since.
This "apparently" also prevented Harpoon being fitted aft of the mast. Since the upgrade to the CEA Mast, they are to top heavy to have NSM up that high so they remain aft of the gun.
Not sure how true but seems plausible