The closing design question concerns future large surface escorts, including Britain's Type 83 and the American DDG(X) programme. It asks which roles those ships must fill and what compromises would still let them perform those roles adequately. The aim is to make useful ships affordable in sufficient numbers. Type 45 provides a caution that accepting compromises does not itself protect an order from reductions. No detailed design or answer to the question is supplied.
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Future escort design and affordable numbers
A viewer discussion prompt applies the problem of affordable capability and fleet numbers to future large surface escorts.