AWD will do air defence quiet nicely, but the ANZAC II seem to be shaping up as very capable multirole ships that will do some air defence but pack some serious antishipping/ground attack capability. Pair them together and you have some mighty impressive stuff.
Still need that 4th AWD tho. How can we have two fleets with only 3 ships!? WA will never see them(I assume)!
I see that you dont count the antisub capabilities, light weight torpedos for the f100, sorry i think in the past i said heavy weight torpedos probably my mistake, and the helos platform with also light weight torpedos, with range as you know 11 kms, its a pity they dont heavy weight torpedos for bigger range from where to hit subs or ships, maybe they dont find it the best (?)...but these capabilities-ranges could be improved by asroc, they say the rocket is +10 miles or +18kms, plus the 11 of the light weight torpedo...18 kms further away for any sub to launch his torpedo, what would we prefer having an hostile sub at 11 until you can throw him a torpedo, or be able to hit it at +29 kms? Or what you would prefer to have an hostil torpedo coming at 100 km/h that it arrives until us in 20 minutes or in 7 minuts, thats the time the awd/anzac would have to move at 50 km/h and scape from the searching head of the torpedo, so the awd/anzac has moved 17 kms or 6 kms, in the case of filoguided torpedos (i suppose is filoguided all the trip (?)) we need to eliminate any hostile that points our position/moves to the sub, i hope the surface radar and the spy make a good job for that, but anyway if the have a carrier or helos superiority these can keep appearing and disapering in our ship horizont and keep our ship targeted until the hostile subs comes, laucnhes the heavytorp filoguided, and what is the solution for this situation:
-Mr. Todjaeger suggestion of a dirigible uav enough heavy (probably only for lhd or galizia flight deck or dock) to carry a good radar so that with our sm2 or essm (are guided as well?) can eliminate the hostile jets or helos from appear in our horizon and target us during the 20 mins of our ships moving (the time the torpedo reaches us from 29 kms away at 100 km/h). This uav can be kept above with a big endurance at a distance like 20-30 kms, for not being a good reference for the hostiles, with respect to our ship/s.
-Or we can use the hull sonar big range, let me paste this phrase "This system is the basic sonar watchstanders tool to keep an eye on all traffic; often picking up surface ships at greater range than most radar systems", i suppose it refers to the surface search radar of the ship that has range until the horizon, from its height position. And recall that fisherman´s small boats have sonar for the fishes for 6 km for ex...we can guess if the awd/anz hull sonar identifies subs at 30-40-50 kms, and if it does it can go direct to the sub and eliminate it with asrocs before his unconfortable heavyweight hostile filoguided torpedo reaches us.
-Or we can have air superiority from instantly available jets to avoid the hostile detecting and tracking our ship for telling it to his sub, and make air safety for our asw helos to go working..
But in the case of asroc i would understand navies dont make public all the weapons that have their ships, for giving less info for potential future sudden conflicts.
And we cant say that any navy hasnt those heavy filoguided torpedos, they are in the market and who acquires them might not make it public.
Cheers.
