In the mid-1990s, a group of forward-thinking Danish naval officers began to consider how the Royal Danish Navy (RDN) should be reshaped and recapitalised to meet the needs of the post-Cold War world. Their careers to date had been in a small-ship service, predominantly focused on sea denial operations in and around the Baltic: a mission that had spawned the Flyvefisken-class multirole surface combatants and their novel Standard Flex system of modular mission payloads. However, the end of the Cold War had seen the RDN's previous focus on defending the Danish Straits, the Kattegat, the Skaw and the western Baltic sharply diminish.
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