>>64130636
The US damage control requirements do not gel well with how most countries build ships.
You can see this in how different nations build ships from the same lineage. Japan and Korea have both built Burke derivatives. They build them faster and for lower costs than the US does. They pull resources and expertise for warship construction from their commercial shipbuilding industries, which are large and productive. In comparison, US shipbuilding is specialized on building military ships and is slow and expensive.
The Japanese and Korean designs make modifications to the base design which speed up construction and reduce costs.
The issue is that lots of those modifications would also give USN naval architects a fucking stroke. They simplify construction but at the cost of significantly lower resistance to battle damage.
Complaints include:
-Using too much flammable material.
-Reduced mechanical and electrical system redundancy.
-Reduced density of water/airtight bulkheads leading to unacceptably large internal voids.
-Reduced robustness of bulkheads meaning that many of the the already insufficient number of bulkheads would likely not remain water/airtight after taking a hit.
-Not spacing out your fucking machinery so that a single hit can't take out your already insufficiently redundant systems.
The Chinese have never built a Burke but they likely suffer from the same issues if those stories about Type 052 damage control requirements are true.
US warship construction is very different from basically all foreign ship construction even if the end product looks very similar on the outside. Having Japan or Korea build a Burke the way the US does would cause some issues because doing it to spec would require them to do some things which are fundamentally very different from how they typically construct ships.
It might still be cheaper and faster but it's not straightforward.
