I have no idea why they call it a destroyer. Its role (and size) clearly makes it a cruiser.
Because congress in their wisdom deemed any future cruisers would be nuclear powered. So the Navy made a 610 foot destroyer. A Pennsylvania class battleship was 600 feet at the waterline and the Ticonderoga cruisers are 567 feet.
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..politically incorrect to call it a cruiser...such a term implies aggression to people with “sensitive feelings”...
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..destroyer implies a vessel with more limited offensive punch..
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god help us if we create a “battleship” again..
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