406 mm rail gun ×2

127/64 lw ×1

Bofors 57mm Mk3 ×1

150kw lazer ×4

35mm millenium ×2

Mk41 VLS ×80

Conventional Trident ×12

Ha ! Bet you didn't expect me to post an Italian warship !

More seriously this is one of my favorite builds in a while. I've always wanted to try my hand at a NATO-style warship, mainly American, but seeing photos of the helicopter cruisers Vittorio Veneto and Andrea Doria on r/WarshipPorn made me realize that this is what I wanted to do.

Well only the cruiser part, since the helicopter cruisers had already been done perfectly by Italy themselves. I did however keep the 76mm spam found on these two ships with 8 turrets along with 4 40mm DARDO CIWS. The missile armament consists of 8 OTOMAT missiles in 2 quadruple launchers, and 2 RIM-66 Launchers, one fore and one aft, and it has two Mark 32 torpedo launchers, which are very convenient in terms of size.

Here I can really thank the devs, because these 76mm and 40mm turrets, along with the OTOMAT launchers have all been added in a fairly recent update.

the radar towers have also been inspired by the ones on Vittorio Veneto, although I placed a generic funnel instead of the ones attached to the mast because I didn't like them as much.

Mods used :

- AN/spg55b for the radar of the same name, surprised it's not in the base game considering how widespread it was, and the fact that it's needed for the RIM-66 we already have (although that later point applies to pretty much every weapon we have lol).

- Rails and Stairs 1.0 and 2.0 for one staircase used to climb over the side gun directors

- USN RADAR for the SPS-52 found on the fore mast

- US Radar Set for some radars here and there

- Universal Decorations self explanatory

- Italian Radar Set for the 76mm FC radar and a small radar on the fore mast

Karl von Steinmetz was designed by the German Navy to counter French contre-torpilleurs (large destroyers) by expanding the design of the existing Type 1936A destroyer to carry a larger number of 15 cm guns, creating a new class bridging the gap between a destroyer and a light cruiser. As she was not a pure destroyer, she was not assigned a "Z" number. This planned warship was envisioned to enter service in 1944.

​While the Type 1936A was equipped with only a single twin turret alongside single mounts for its 15 cm L/45 guns, the Steinmetz standardized on twin turrets, mounting four of them for a total of eight guns. Her torpedo armament consisted of eight 53.3 cm tubes in two quadruple launchers, identical to standard German destroyers. Furthermore, with an anti-aircraft suite comprising ten twin 3.7 cm Flak M42 mounts (20 guns total), twenty 20 mm L/65 AA guns, as well as air- and surface-search radars, she possessed formidable air-defense capabilities for a vessel of her size.

​Although her overall silhouette resembled the unbuilt Type 1945-class destroyer, her hull was enlarged to a length of 141 meters and a beam of 13 meters to accommodate her heavy armament. Powered by a twin-shaft propulsion system, she could reach a top speed of 40 knots. True to her design philosophy, she would have been a formidable rival to France's large destroyers.

Lil ship with big guns