Either that or its so they can achieve better AA arcs? I find it quite odd that I never noticed it before....and I am quite happy to admit that I am a ship spotter (so I should have noticed)!
The aft Seawolf launcher and tracker are on the centre-line of the ship Guys, it's just an optical illusion because, as you know, the Port side of the Hangar extends right to the Ships side, unlike the Stbd side, so not symetrical. Probably made to look so, also because the image is not taken from exactly above the centre-line of the vessel.
Interestingly, I have a copy of the original General Arrangement Drawings of the Batch 1's, which show that they were only to have a Hangar big enough for one Lynx. They therefore had both a Port and Stbd waist Outb'd on 1 Deck in the early design phase.
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