The comparison between NATO Frigate 90 and Arleigh Burke centers on a family of specialists versus a single multi-role design. NF90 envisaged variants emphasizing air defense, anti-surface warfare, or ASW. Burke offered a combination of those missions to a useful standard. The explanation offered for American withdrawal is that the emerging destroyer had become the benchmark against which the specialist frigate proposals were judged.
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NF90 collides with the Burke generalist model
The explanation for US withdrawal from NF90 contrasts its proposed specialist variants with Burke's combination of major warfare roles.