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Originally Posted by gunnut
Didn't the Ticos come from modified Sprucan hull? That was a 7000t ship loaded up to 10000t. Can we stretch or enlarge somehow the Burke hull to do the same?
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You are right about the Ticos. I think the Burkes were already stretched though for the Flight IIs. There is a proposal floating around to use the LPD-17 class hull as a basis for a next gen CG. I can only guess the Ballistic Missile Defense requirements are pushing the size of the next gen CG.
I too think we need some sort of lower-end ship to both keep numbers up and to take on tasks that do not make sense to use ships like Burkes and Ticos for. Somebody mentioned "proper frigate". I agree with the caveat that I do not know what is meant by "proper". Maybe someone can explain that to me.