Changing Needs Influence Warship Design

By Bill Sweetman, Andy Nativi, Francis Tusa, David Eshel .
Washington, Genoa, London, Tel Aviv .

Warship design in much of the world may be entering a new era, with requirements driven less by peer-on-peer sea battles and more by lessons of the past decade, combined with economic constraints. Brazil, Canada, Israel and the U.K. are among the nations looking at new surface combatant programs. The first three represent markets for Europe’s shipbuilders (and possibly South Korea) while the U.K. is trying to break back into the global warship ...

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