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No, no sonodome. I haven't really geared this ship towards antisubmarine duty. Bow shape. If you are referring to that of the Zumwalt, I would be interested to see how dry the deck stays in the North Atlantic in winter vs. that of a more conventional shape. Yes, I know that the Iowas had very wet bows due to the shape of thier bows and what I have done is (if you look at the hull shape drawings I made, which are in the first post) that the bow while slender at the waterline for increased speed, it is much wider at the weather deck, creating a "V'' shape that pushes water out before it reaches the level of the deck. Not to say the deck will never get wet, that is just plain foolish to say. BUT, I will not say that a Zumwalt type bow wont fare better. After all that shape bow has been used in naval ships two millenia ago (look at Greek and Roman warships, namely for the bow ram) and also in warships of the 19th and 20th century (not the bows on some of the BB's in the photos I posted). So in short, being an amature, I think that this type of bow will fare better in heavy seas.
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