Why do different naval ship types exist?

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I can obviously tell why you’d want a dedicated aircraft from a not, but trying to wrap my head around why you’d for example in the royal navy (UK) frigates are slightly specialised for anti submarine warfare whilst destroyers are slightly specialised for anti air warfare, why not have a single dedicated escort?.

And to mention historically, why would you have smaller ships alongside battleships (for example destroyers and torpedo boats in the battle of Jutland) when the battleships have a dedicated armament to combat destroyers?

Sorry if this seems stupid, I’m just doing my best to understand 🙂

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It’s the benefit of specification.

Let’s go with an extreme. If you do everything fairly well let’s say you destroy 50% of the targets you see. Regardless of type (let’s go with air vs sea)

So the first ship gets 50% then the next so gets 50% of the remaining targets. We have 75% elimination of enemy targets.

If you specialize let’s say you get 100% of your type (air). But 0,% of the other (sea) The event sends sea vessels after you. You can’t handle them, but your partner skip is right next to you .. So it cleans up 100%…

The challenge thigh is having these two units work together, very placed in support, by supplied, and two entirely different training programs….

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