Institutions often forget old requirements because doing so makes peacetime budgets easier, then relearn them after combat. A heavily gunned Type 31 concept illustrates redundancy at close range because several mounts provide overlapping protection and allow the ship to keep fighting after a failure. Technology cannot eliminate adversarial uncertainty or the need for depth, although the example does not make every proposed weapon fit mandatory.
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Technology complicates war without changing its fundamentals
Across the world wars, the Falklands, and Ukraine, new systems alter execution but repeatedly confirm the need for information, mass, redundancy, logistics, and layered firepower.