The Oliver Hazard Perry class of frigates and the Arleigh Burke class of destroyers, the US Navy’s newest combatants, share a common design fault despite, or perhaps because of, a 20-year difference in design time. This paper describes the fault and links the underlying cause of the error to a lack of readily available historical knowledge.
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