How Type 26 is arranged around ASW sensors

The weapons occupy a limited part of the layout, while the stern carries a large flight deck, hangar, and mission bay for crewed or uncrewed ASW assets. The discussed British fit lacks the dedicated shipboard torpedo launchers often expected on an ASW frigate; such launchers would normally fire the same class of lightweight torpedo carried by the helicopter. Shipboard torpedoes would provide a close-range response, although firing them could already mean the frigate was within the submarine's torpedo range. Hull form keeps the flow around the bow-mounted Type 2150 sonar as clean as possible. The Type 2087 towed array is expected to do much of the searching, alongside the bow sonar and information from other ships and aircraft. Computer space, cooling, and electrical power matter because modern ASW depends on combining several streams of acoustic data. Rafted machinery and electric motors reduce the ship's own noise. Quieting also makes the frigate harder to detect, while its primary benefit here is allowing the sonars to hear weak submarine signatures through less self-generated interference.