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From: tek@CS.UCLA.EDU (Ted Kim (Random Dude))
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Subject: Re: Nuclear Navy
Message-ID: <1991May16.052919.18015@amd.com>
Date: 16 May 91 01:51:15 GMT
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From: tek@CS.UCLA.EDU (Ted Kim (Random Dude))


In article <1991May14.051605.6857@amd.com> ae627x07@ducvax.auburn.edu writes:
>At present, however, the Navy has only one class of destroyer - the
>Spruance - and it runs an a LM2500 Gas Turbine as do many of the
>DDG's. 

Currently, the USN operates more than one class of destroyers. Other
than Spruance class DDs, there are the new Arleigh Burke class DDGs
and the Isaac C. Kidd class DDGs (Spruance variant originally for
Iran). The Charles F. Adams and Coontz DDGs are being retired, but I  
am not sure if they are all gone yet.

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