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What shows that Type 26 is designed around ASW?

Rafted machinery, hull shaping, and accumulated operational experience provide the basis for identifying Type 26 as an ASW specialist.

Question

What shows that Type 26 is designed around anti-submarine warfare?

Short answer

Its rafted machinery and hull shaping incorporate ASW measures developed and proved through exercises and combat experience.

Notes

Rafted machinery and hull shaping are concrete signs of Type 26's ASW priorities. The design brings together techniques developed through a long history of submarine hunting. Exercises and combat operations have helped establish which measures work. Those accumulated lessons explain the confidence in its specialist design.