Keith Speed's proposal to extend Sea Wolf to the Invincible class runs into the carrier's physical layout. The compact design offered only limited positions around the flight deck and island for another defensive system. A further five or ten thousand tons of hull volume is suggested as a way to ease integration. A carrier combining Sea Dart, Sea Wolf, and Phalanx would have layered area and close defence, but fitting all three was a design problem rather than a paper exercise. The discussion ties weapon ambition to space and displacement constraints.
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Where could Sea Wolf fit on an Invincible-class carrier?
A proposed wider Sea Wolf fit raises a practical question about placing another defensive system alongside Sea Dart and later Phalanx on a compact carrier.