Flight IIA technology insertion illustrates the time between choosing a ship's systems and bringing them into service. The example discussed was laid down in November 2015 and commissioned in December 2018. Decisions about that equipment fit necessarily preceded construction. The first Flight III was laid down four years after the technology-insertion example, showing how successive capability increments overlap across several years.
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Construction dates reveal the long transition between Burke flights
Technology-insertion and Flight III construction dates show why a newly commissioned ship reflects decisions made years earlier.