The example divides an air-defence system between one ship carrying the large radar and another carrying its missiles. Losing the radar ship would deprive the missile ship of the sensor it needs; losing the missile ship would leave the radar without that weapon capacity. Putting both functions aboard each of two larger ships preserves a complete combination after either ship is lost. The criticism concerns mutually dependent specialist hulls and the assumption that distributing their functions automatically improves survivability.
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Why separating radar and missile ships can create a dependency
A two-ship example tests the survivability of splitting sensors and weapons between mutually dependent hulls.