Ticonderoga vs Arleigh Burke Flight II

LoBlo · 06-23-06, 12:24 PM

After looking at the stats of the latest version of the Arleight Burke (the Flight IIA)... its almost as large as the Ticondergo now (ABFlight IIA is 9200tons where the Tico is 9900 tons) and its now has the helo housing that it originally lacked.

So, actually, it seems like the USN is purposely upgraded the latest Arleigh Burkes to de facto cruiser status, really not missing from the mission capability now (they're even been given seal recovery ability and are planning to be able to field BMD systems). So while the original Burkes were destroyers (multimission but not omni-mission capability) the latest Burkes could probably be considered cruisers in the fact that they can pretty much perform all missions.

No wonder the USN stopped constructing Tico in the 1990's, the platforms were becoming redundant...:hmm:

06-23-06, 12:24 PM	#6
LoBlo Subsim Diehard Join Date: May 2006 Location: Texas! Posts: 971 Downloads: 78 Uploads: 3	After looking at the stats of the latest version of the Arleight Burke (the Flight IIA)... its almost as large as the Ticondergo now (ABFlight IIA is 9200tons where the Tico is 9900 tons) and its now has the helo housing that it originally lacked. So, actually, it seems like the USN is purposely upgraded the latest Arleigh Burkes to de facto cruiser status, really not missing from the mission capability now (they're even been given seal recovery ability and are planning to be able to field BMD systems). So while the original Burkes were destroyers (multimission but not omni-mission capability) the latest Burkes could probably be considered cruisers in the fact that they can pretty much perform all missions. No wonder the USN stopped constructing Tico in the 1990's, the platforms were becoming redundant...:hmm: __________________ "Seek not to offend or annoy... only to speak the truth"-a wise man