National mission choices would shape hulls and superstructures even if the partners developed their systems together. Command teams need space that other ships may not require. Carrier protection, scouting, and surface-action-group work also place different demands on missile loadouts. An illustrative 128-cell arrangement divides its cells 64 and 64, with one half at strategic length. Another illustrative arrangement combines 48 strategic-length cells with 64 and 48 surface-to-air cells, giving 160 in total. These are examples worked through during the proposal, not settled specifications. They show how different balances of land-attack and air-defense weapons could use a shared set of systems.
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Mission roles should determine national hulls
Shared combat systems can support different command spaces, hulls, and missile mixes for carrier escort, scouting, surface action, or land attack.