The published battery combines twelve Conventional Prompt Strike cells for hypersonic missiles with 128 Mark 41 cells. Mark 41's eight-cell modules suggest two groups of sixty-four, although that arrangement is an inference from the early material. The criticism concerns how modest the standard magazine appears against a hull above 35,000 tons. Groups of ninety-six are proposed as an alternative that the ship's apparent size might accommodate. That is a suggestion from the illustration and displacement, without a completed internal design to establish the available space.
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Hypersonic tubes and an unexpectedly modest VLS magazine
The proposed twelve CPS cells and 128 Mark 41 cells prompt a question about standard magazine depth on a hull above 35,000 tons.