USN Burke Class - News, Reports, Data, etc.
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This is part of the reason why the Burke Class is such an effective class of modern destroyers.
They were designed to be able toi be upgraded like this. Their systems were designed to be upgraded.
Through their yard maintenance periods and mid-life refits, all of the Burke DDGs are getting upgraded...and will continue to do so.
62 of these vessels have been built and at least 13 more will be built, and probably 26 more altogether.
Good, seaworthy hull forms. GREAT design with a lot of capacity designed in for upgrades and modernization. They will far and away outlive me...and probably all of my kids.
My grandkids will be old before they are fully replaced by whatever comes next.
I think this ship is what burke III should be replaced with, or rather should have been -- studied decades ago when burkes had yet been built, the CGBL AKA cruiser baseline was a 13,500 ton ship combining burke and VLS-tico technology into a large, true cruiser hull.
It was never built of course, as burkes and ticos were more than enough for USN's missions back then. But I think the original DDX programme should have been scaled back for something a little less ambitious, and CGBL would have been a nice option. It had a conventional but large hull, that was both large enough to accommodate current weapons of the time and future upgrades for future variants, including more power that would've been needed for AMDR and probably even IEPS.
I think it would have been just the right size to meet USN needs to replace ticos and fill the role burke III is meant to have in the forseeable future.
Interestingly, the projected CGBL has a similar displacement and even relative capability to what 055 is predicted to have in PLAN.
This is a nice 3d render I found of a modernized CGBL
It was never built of course, as burkes and ticos were more than enough for USN's missions back then. But I think the original DDX programme should have been scaled back for something a little less ambitious, and CGBL would have been a nice option. It had a conventional but large hull, that was both large enough to accommodate current weapons of the time and future upgrades for future variants, including more power that would've been needed for AMDR and probably even IEPS.
I think it would have been just the right size to meet USN needs to replace ticos and fill the role burke III is meant to have in the forseeable future.
Interestingly, the projected CGBL has a similar displacement and even relative capability to what 055 is predicted to have in PLAN.
This is a nice 3d render I found of a modernized CGBL
shen
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I think this ship is what burke III should be replaced with, or rather should have been -- studied decades ago when burkes had yet been built, the CGBL AKA cruiser baseline was a 13,500 ton ship combining burke and VLS-tico technology into a large, true cruiser hull.
It was never built of course, as burkes and ticos were more than enough for USN's missions back then. But I think the original DDX programme should have been scaled back for something a little less ambitious, and CGBL would have been a nice option. It had a conventional but large hull, that was both large enough to accommodate current weapons of the time and future upgrades for future variants, including more power that would've been needed for AMDR and probably even IEPS.
I think it would have been just the right size to meet USN needs to replace ticos and fill the role burke III is meant to have in the forseeable future.
Interestingly, the projected CGBL has a similar displacement and even relative capability to what 055 is predicted to have in PLAN.
This is a nice 3d render I found of a modernized CGBL
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pretty much what PLAN is doing with 055 with modern technologies.
hehe, well actually the AMDR-S is a octagonal shaped array, but I appreciate the humour
I assume you are joking..however, In case you did not know Ticonderoga class CGs had & have panel type array radar panels long before China ever started building its bluewater navy.
...And the single class USS Long Beach(CG 9) and USS Enterprise(CVAN 65) had panel type radar over 50 years go.
Got it.
Yes I'm also tired of the claim that most Chinese military gear is cloned..all coming from these so called experts. It gets tiresome.