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<blockquote data-quote="Man in the Funny Hat" data-source="post: 6213681" data-attributes="member: 32740"><p>Yeah, over time the design of vessels, their "definitions", and the tasks they are expected to perform change. This new destroyer is longer than an Aegis cruisier, longer than Pennsylvania-class battleships. But then the Pennsylvania class ships were built around 1912. The 1940's-built Iowa class battleships are a good 250' longer. But we don't even make battleships anymore because they just don't have a place in the current navy even though refits and their 16" guns kept them useful and operational up to the 1990's. Before the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the USSR the navy was still largely oriented around being able to take on the entire communist bloc at once.</p><p></p><p>Times have changed and destroyers long since ceased to be WWII era "tin cans" and just screening against other ships for carrier task forces. These days they might be doing anti-submarine, anti-piracy, drug interdiction...</p><p></p><p>It seems like this might be more specialized being a stealth hull design. Maybe intended for more special ops uses. It also will have a very long-range gun system which sort of suggests shore support in landing operations to me as well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Man in the Funny Hat, post: 6213681, member: 32740"] Yeah, over time the design of vessels, their "definitions", and the tasks they are expected to perform change. This new destroyer is longer than an Aegis cruisier, longer than Pennsylvania-class battleships. But then the Pennsylvania class ships were built around 1912. The 1940's-built Iowa class battleships are a good 250' longer. But we don't even make battleships anymore because they just don't have a place in the current navy even though refits and their 16" guns kept them useful and operational up to the 1990's. Before the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the USSR the navy was still largely oriented around being able to take on the entire communist bloc at once. Times have changed and destroyers long since ceased to be WWII era "tin cans" and just screening against other ships for carrier task forces. These days they might be doing anti-submarine, anti-piracy, drug interdiction... It seems like this might be more specialized being a stealth hull design. Maybe intended for more special ops uses. It also will have a very long-range gun system which sort of suggests shore support in landing operations to me as well. [/QUOTE]
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