The Horizon experience separates the expensive parts of a multinational warship program that benefit from common standards from the national choices that need not be identical. Missiles, radars, sensors, and electronic systems are good candidates for shared development because pooling costs and standards produces direct operational value. Hull form, propulsion, range, and cell count can remain national choices when each partner builds in its own yards and has different deployment needs. Demanding one complete ship for Britain, France, and Italy helped fracture the project even though much of its combat-system cooperation remained useful.
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Share combat systems without forcing one common warship
The Horizon experience supports sharing expensive missiles, radars, and sensors while allowing each navy to build the hull and propulsion arrangement its own missions require.