Here’s One Idea How to Defend Ships From Ballistic Missiles (Modified 'San Antonio' LPD class)

War is Boring ^ | January 15, 2016 | Dave Majumdar

[C19fan]

The U.S. Navy has been in discussions with shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls about the possibility of building a missile defense variant of the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock (LPD-17). The new vessel could eventually be equipped with new radars, railguns and lasers.

The massive 25,000-ton troop carrier has the size and weight margins for the mission, according to industry officials. “You can put a lot of additional weight on the ship and you can put … some modern technologies like ballistic missile defense radars that are very heavy,” Huntington Ingalls vice president Brian Cuccias told reporters at the Surface Navy Association symposium this week, according to National Defense Magazine.

[C19fan]

Another phase of the offense v. defense race with hypersonic missiles, railguns, and lasers.

[C19fan]

25,000 tons would be on par with the WW I era New York Class battleship of which one the Texas is now a museum ship.

[Blueflag]

How to defeat enemy missiles?

Kill the people who would operate them before you enter the AO.

Wage war to crush.

Defeat your enemy, then go to war.

Sun Tsu.

[JoeProBono]

[Fai Mao]

The USS Texas is the only Pre-WW1 battleship still in existence

[Tallguy]

A San Antonio LPD will never operate with a CVG. Cruising speed mismatch. You’d still need a similar capability built into a cruiser hull.

[Boowhoknew]

didn’t the Japanese make a shrine out of Admiral Toga’s flagship which could technically be a pre-dreadnought. I don’t know if they called it a battleship, but equal to the USS Maine. USS Texas was of course, a dreadnought era battleship, and considering how many capital ships from 1912 on were built, some by countries that don’t exist anymore, USS Texas is a very unique survivor.I hope to see it one day soon. Is the USS Lexington at the same memorial?

[Fai Mao]

I think the Lexington is in Galveston

Yes the Japanese have the per-dreadnought ship but I didn’t know that until I looked it up

[StoneWall Brigade]

Ping

[bravo whiskey]

MIKASA is a predreadnought. LEXINGTON is in Corpus Christi.

[cva66snipe]

Resolving the electrical issues would have to be an absolute for the cooling to work. No A/C then nothing will work right. I don't have any idea what the A/C cooling capacity tonnage wise would be but on a full CV its 1800-2000 tons. Electrical load that means rough guesstimate 2000 amps at 460 volts A/C just for full capacity cooling at run mode. Start up surge is way up there amps wise for about 15-20 seconds.

I'm all for diversifying ships capabilities as long as the ships design itself is compatible especially hull integrity and engineering plants wise. This one will have to be designed right from the get go due to not much room for future additions like there is on a full carrier.