A deliberately poor cross-bloc fleet for 2010

How would another traitorous procurement chief rebuild the fictional Elbonian Navy in 2010?

With underarmed Belgian frigates, a French carrier and submarines, and early Arleigh Burke destroyers chosen without a coherent fleet logic.

This deliberately awful fleet combines ships whose drawbacks become worse when they operate together. The frigates have only eight VLS cells, reducing missile depth; the carrier and submarines come from France; and the destroyers are early-flight Arleigh Burkes bought for reputation instead of fit. The force parodies procurement that treats labels such as carrier, frigate, and Burke as sufficient justification. Its lesson is that a navy needs common support, suitable magazine capacity, and ships selected for national tasks instead of a shopping list of recognizable classes.