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krispos42

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2. No it is not

Reply to Auggie (Reply #1)

Wed Mar 30, 2022, 11:23 AM

Mar 2022

Those we turned out more than two per week!

Of course, that was wartime. But yeah, about two Fletcher-class destroyers were launched per week during the production run from February 19th 1942 to September 25th, 1944. We launched 175 of them!

And this new Arleigh Burke can wipe out most of them with missiles launched from over 7 times the range a Fletcher-class can shoot.

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Not your grandfather's Destroyer Auggie Mar 2022 #1

No it is not krispos42 Mar 2022 #2

Some of these new weapons are mind-boggling in their capability to destroy Auggie Mar 2022 #3

Current day destroyers are about the size of a WWII cruiser. Angleae Mar 2022 #4