How sensitive performance data limits modern naval war games

Can professional naval war games use commercial rules with accurate performance data for the systems?

They can use commercial frameworks, but real performance estimates are sensitive and may be altered or withheld even when intelligence-informed assumptions are used.

Naval war games have historically drawn on intelligence estimates of real weapon and sensor performance. Public leaks and tighter protection of sensitive specifications make that practice harder to discuss openly. Exercises may still use informed estimates, but participants should expect important values and assumptions to be limited, altered, or withheld. A public ruleset cannot be assumed to reproduce operational capabilities faithfully.