“The Type- 45 was designed keeping in mind the capability to add more systems to it when funding becomes available.”
Thats true of all ships these days. The operative phrase is the last one “when funding becomes available”. Unless there is an emergency, funding is never available, and by then of course, it is too late.
As for Sampson, I shall check my contacts, but at the moment I am sticking to my guns (or radars, in this case). Aster is, as I said, very good, but if its going to try theatre missile defence it certainly wont be carrying 48 missiles.
Well,common sense suggests that the RN wouldn’t ask for something “inferior” when other solutions were around!!
http://navy-matters.beedall.com/sampson.htm