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Circling back to this, I don't think there is any question of the DDM's provenance. Friedman references Litton-Ingalls brochures from 1980 as his sources, and he is unlikely to have got that wrong. I think there may be some detailed errors, like the number of VLS cells (possibly errors in the source), but nothing major like the origin of the design.Most of Friedman's relevant text is here:[URL unfurl="true"]http://shipbucket.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=496[/URL]Izar (now Navantia) did not have a partnership with Litton-Ingalls, as far as I know. The F-100 actually benefitted from some expertise from General Dynamics Bath Iron Works and Lockheed Martin. By 2000, those three had formed the AFCON (Advanced Frigate Consortium) offering F-100 derivative designs for export.
Circling back to this, I don't think there is any question of the DDM's provenance. Friedman references Litton-Ingalls brochures from 1980 as his sources, and he is unlikely to have got that wrong. I think there may be some detailed errors, like the number of VLS cells (possibly errors in the source), but nothing major like the origin of the design.
Most of Friedman's relevant text is here:
[URL unfurl="true"]http://shipbucket.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=496[/URL]
Izar (now Navantia) did not have a partnership with Litton-Ingalls, as far as I know. The F-100 actually benefitted from some expertise from General Dynamics Bath Iron Works and Lockheed Martin. By 2000, those three had formed the AFCON (Advanced Frigate Consortium) offering F-100 derivative designs for export.
