The Ukrainians would refuse it. A nation at war has little tolerance for boondoggles. Unless its the US of course. Even in WW2 the US made things like this -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Alaska_(CB-1)
In service for three years.
At the end of WWII hundreds of ships were decommissioned as we reduced our manpower from over 12 million.
In 1958, the Bureau of Ships prepared two feasibility studies to see if Alaska and Guam were suitable to be converted to guided missile cruisers. The first study involved removing all of the guns in favor of four different missile systems. At $160 million this was seen as too costly, so a second study was conducted. This study left the forward batteries—the two 12-inch triple turrets and three of the 5-inch dual turrets—in place and added a reduced version of the first plan for the aft. This would have cost $82 million, and was still seen as too costly.[11] As a result, the conversion proposal was abandoned and the ship was instead stricken from the Naval Vessel Register on 1 June 1960. On 30 June, she was sold to the Lipsett Division of Luria Brothers to be broken up for scrap.[8]
Indeed. I fear this is coming to the USA, in spades.
Politiicians and DC cronies of all kinds have feasted for decades on printed US dollars, massive debt, and general peace and prosperity. And while they have scammed the system with $Billion ships that last only 5 years, they have turned the military into just another bloated, woke, politicized bureaucracy.
I'm afraid they have set themselves, and us, up for a great humiliation.
I would have gladly traded the Alaska’s for getting the last two Iowa’s (Kentucky & Illinois) finished. Similar sized crews, better ships.