Perhaps this is an off base comment, but it appears to me the whole world has access to our designs. Is this a product of Singapore, or simply a rework of concepts we developed and mapped out?
From the article:
The launch of Independence marked the first time a Navy ship was completely designed and built in Singapore. A total of eight LMVs, including Independence, would be built by ST Marine locally, based on a design jointly developed by ST Marine and Saab Kockums AB.
The Swedes have been into advanced shipbuilding for a century and Singapore’s own ST Marine has built ships for close to 3 decades.
If they were copying American designs it would have been underarmed and unfit for it’s declared purpose