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Most of the stuff was covered by others but Main reason for getting rid of box launchers and Sea sparrow and using VLS quad packed ESSM is Its a better missile. ESSM has a longer range and more maneuverable. It is designed to take out supersonic ASMs. It also runs off your SPY radar and battle management suite. No new cables to run throughout the ship for those box launchers.
Keep the box launcher/Sea sparrow,then you will need more radar dishes put up. Power usage and space issues and a less capable system.
With ESSM you can get rid of your R2D2s.
If you decide to keep them anyway, you need to get rid of at least half of them. As many as you have, and placed all over the ship, you are going to run into the problem of 1 tracking the rounds of another one that is trying to engage a missile. Firing rounds at the rounds vice at an incoming missile. Or you put lockouts on them but the speed that modern missiles travel you would barely get a good track before it reached its limit switch. Then the next would have the same problem.
4 of them in the superstructure would be more than adequate. 4 Goalkeepers would be better.
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