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was just bored scrolling, i stumbled on this.
Malaysias LMS design has 4 cell quadpacked KSAM.
I seriously wonder why the PN decided also not to make use of this space. Each side could easily fit 6 cells, giving them another 12. That KVLS is 3 meters long by 1.5m wide. Another 4/6 cells on each side was achievable, infact, they probably didnt even need to lengthen the hull to achieve a similar sam capacity to what they have now... Infact, with some surface level redesign, you could probably fit a crap ton of launchers on the same base ada hull.
Our threat environment calls on us to have significant magazine depth, why we are sending ships out with 12-16 missiles is beyond me, the Indians can let 16 brahmos out at a time, they'd need to be extremely lucky to get out of there alive. None of our platforms are suitably equipped to be able to handle any kind of swarm attack, what we need is magazine depth. I think KSAAM would have been alot better suited for our needs as a whole.
We could have 32-64 missiles per ship, albeit shorter ranged, these vessels are not AAW ships, the missiles are for self defense, im sure the only reason we got CAMM-ER was it was all that was available to us as its an italian funded project, ksaam seems like a great option, especially for our scenario.
Another option could have been the use of KVLS. KVLS can easily accommodate CAMM, but if not, literally a plethora of Korean missiles, again, a shorter length KVLS is present on the Malaysian design, the shroom canisters are not short either, theyre about 16-18 feet long too. Having 4-8 cells of KVLS would have done these ships wonders, once again, giving them the same or even greater magazine depth. Imagine a Babur class with 4 KVLS Cells in the front, 4 in the rear, it would be a decently effective solution to prevent swarm attacks and also if anything, give them longer range missile options via the KM-SAM.
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