Little room for larger Type 26 and Type 31 magazines

Could Britain retrofit Type 26 and Type 31 frigates with more air-defence missiles if the CCV lacks magazine depth?

A major increase is unlikely because the British variants already use the available hull volume tightly and are among the smaller versions of their design families.

There appears to be little room for substantial additional missile capacity in these frigates. Britain's Type 26 is described as the smallest variant, with its allocated hull space already near its limit. The Type 31 is also compared with a larger foreign derivative, roughly 137 metres for the British hull against about 140 metres elsewhere. The chosen hull sizes are therefore judged to leave little scope for the proposed magazine expansion.