Should Britain partner with Germany on a future destroyer?

Should Britain partner with Germany to develop its next destroyer?

No; Japan or Italy better match British global-operating requirements, while German designs and industrial politics point elsewhere.

Britain's experience with Horizon illustrates how different requirements for endurance and global operations can undermine a common design. Japan and Italy are judged closer to the Royal Navy's operating requirements than Germany. F127's roughly 30-day endurance and frigate role are considered a poor match for the proposed British destroyer. Britain could share design work while retaining construction in its own yards. The argument also treats European work-share politics and Britain's exclusion from the European Defence Fund as obstacles to a partnership that might otherwise make technical sense.