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Why modular warship construction needs enforced standards

Modularity depends on sustained production and rigid interface standards.

British Shipbuilding Modular Construction Standardisation Type 21 Frigate Type 23 Frigate

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Question

What would have made the Type 21 and Type 23 workable modular designs?

Short answer

Continuous module production and a rigidly enforced standard interface.

Notes

The proposed remedy is to keep factories producing modules to an actual standardized system. That standard must be enforced rigidly. The failure identified for Type 21 and Type 23 is the inability to sustain that discipline. Calling a design modular does not by itself keep the production system standardized.