HMS Amazon class ideas

[ysi_maniac]

With Bismarck turrets modified and reescaled to 1/2, so 7.5in guns. Well, let's say 6in.



And updating the old concept of Flying Battleship. 

[pyro-manic]

Yikes. The Type 21s had serious topweight issues anyway, so two twin 6" would be, uh, slightly ott! No helicopters either, I see.

Pretty ships though. What about a Soviet-style version, with huge banks of anti-ship missiles? Say half a dozen or so Exocet boxes down each side?

[deathjester]

How about Hydrofoils?  Stabilising fins, and a booster jet for high speed dashes.

[Weaver]

Yikes. The Type 21s had serious topweight issues anyway, so two twin 6" would be, uh, slightly ott! No helicopters either, I see.

Pretty ships though. What about a Soviet-style version, with huge banks of anti-ship missiles? Say half a dozen or so Exocet boxes down each side?

It wasn't so much topweight in a balance sense as the fact that adding much more weight would put the very low quarterdeck underwater at otherwise bearable angles of roll. For a new-but-similar design, start by filling in that quarterdeck and you can then add a fair bit of weight which just makes her sit lower in the water.

[Captain Canada]

The flying one isn't working but I like the look of the first one ! Always a fan of naval guns 

[zenrat]

HMS Amazon - there's a whole heap of jokes about spam and qualifying for free shipping but I can't quite pin them down...

How about a step in the hull so she can 'plane?