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From: fcrary@lightning.Berkeley.EDU (Frank Crary)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: DDG-51
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Date: 24 May 91 19:39:18 GMT
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From: fcrary@lightning.Berkeley.EDU (Frank Crary)


tek@CS.UCLA.EDU (Ted Kim) writes:
>The Burke is definitely not larger than most cruisers. It does,
>however, displace more than most cruisers due to having all steel
>construction, rather than the aluminum superstructure common to
>earlier ships. 

Why does the Burke have an all steel design? I had thought all recient ships
used aluminum?
By the way, I stand corrected on the Burke's size... I was looking at the
displacement numbers.

Frank Crary