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Originally Posted by B.Smitty
Seems to me you want a stripped down DDG-1000.
Just take off the AAW and ASW suites, and make more room for munitions. (maybe keep a simplified SPY-3 for ESSM guidance, surface search, counterfire, etc).
If we decide down the road that we need more real multipurpose warships, we could always refit those subsystems as part of an upgrade.
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With armor...gotta have armor to be an armored cruiser.
But yeah, that's essentially what I have in mind. US anything tend to have a mission creep problem. A single purpose machine will come online as a multipurpose, jack of all trades military complex.