Royal Navy and US Navy destroyers were not always technological maxima because both services needed to build them in quantity. A nominal 100-percent solution may depend on fringe systems, new construction methods, and components without a ready stockpile, turning improvement into delay. The practical destroyer is therefore a balanced general-purpose design assembled largely from proven or near-off-the-shelf systems that yards can reproduce at scale.
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Why mass fleets rarely buy the perfect destroyer
Large destroyer programs favor proven, accessible systems because pausing construction for every leading-edge improvement sacrifices numbers and delays the fleet.