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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Combined arms. It’s why tanks don’t go charging out solo. Easy pickings for RPG ambush. So you need mobile infantry at the very least.
Same thing applies at sea. Battleships (which today are outdated) and carriers are slow vulnerable targets. They need escorts. Why not put everything on one destroyer? Part of it is space. The other is modification, refits, and specialization. Why put 2 types of targeting systems on 2 ships when you can just create 2 different ships.
The other issue see F35. When you refit too many specs on one piece of equipment, issue become exponential.
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