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From: fcrary@lightning.Berkeley.EDU (Frank Crary)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Definitions of naval vessel types?
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Date: 18 May 91 23:04:22 GMT
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From: fcrary@lightning.Berkeley.EDU (Frank Crary)


waugh@rtpnet05.rtp.dg.com (Matthew Waugh) writes:
>Isn't this primarily a political issue. A frigate is smaller than
>a destroyer so when you ask for frigates people don't tend to look
>as hard, despite the fact that you're building BIG frigates that do
>things destroyers used to do.

Another example if the DDG Arlie Burke (Sp?) class destroyer. Although
it is, in fact, larger than most crusiers, I believe it was sold to
congress as "just modernizing our destroyers."

Frank Crary
UC Berkeley