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Originally Posted by Takao
Look at the Spruance class destroyers. Several were to have been kept in operation until 2010, to cut costs, they are now all gone save one, the Paul F. Foster(EDD-964). To further save money these ships were not kept in reserve, but scrapped or used in SINKEXs. What a waste of fine ships... During the cold war, ships were kept around for decades. For the Spruances many were sunk or reduced to razor blades after less than 5 years.
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The main reason for scrapping them was that they required a very large crew to run them compared to ships with similar capablities. The fact they were offered to other nations at next to nothing, and there were no takers, showes why they were one of the first classes of ships to be cut. The fact they lacked the flexablity of ships the same size counted agaist them. At least they provided the stepping stone to the
Ticonderoga and
Arleigh Burke classes