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I understand a bit with the one role perspective. But why build short range air defence destroyers at all? Because the ballistic missile destroyers will have a
by trynumber9 3y ago
I understand a bit with the one role perspective. But why build short range air defence destroyers at all? Because the ballistic missile destroyers will have a more capable radar and be able to fit all the same anti-air missiles and the bigger ones too. So it seems like their "one role" subsumes the others entirely albeit with the caveat it'll be more painful to replace if they're lost in war.
- lumost 3y agoThe author may be thinking that in a peer conflict, some number of ships would be taken as “acceptable” losses. This could be a useful role for a cheap forward deployed “drone” ship, but I’d expect alternate platforms would be more effective.