Keeping British StanFlex from repeating LCS

What would keep a British StanFlex adoption from falling apart like the Littoral Combat Ship module concept?

Danish insistence on strict standards, the Royal Navy's unusually disciplined post-Falklands procurement moment, and Dutch participation could keep the system coherent; designing modules to a common heavy standard also avoids the LCS drive for extreme lightness.

The same British idea could fail in other decades, but the period after the Falklands War offered an unusually disciplined procurement window. Flexible light frigates also matched an immediate requirement, while Danish and Dutch participation would reinforce a common standard. The Type 43 cancellation in 1981 is attributed partly to politicians associating large destroyers with large carriers, as they had with the Type 82s, even though the projects were separate. Sea Wolf modules might hold more missiles than the ESSM alternative. Sea Wolf's shorter reach during part of the period could also encourage a longer-range missile option, while a later move to CAMM would restore a more comparable range. Denmark standardized modules at a common heavy weight and added ballast when necessary, while the United States tried to force every LCS module below a low threshold.