The Danish Knud Rasmussen class is presented as an exceptional modern counterpart to the interwar sloop. Its patrol role prompts a comparison with the US Navy's Littoral Combat Ship program, which might have benefited from studying the Danish design more closely. The broader procurement problem is institutional: a leading navy can assume it must invent its own solution. Other navies may already have workable answers to the same small-ship requirement.
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A Danish patrol-ship lesson for the Littoral Combat Ship
The Danish Knud Rasmussen class becomes a missed reference point for the US Littoral Combat Ship program.