On another thread, it’s revealed that Obama may have given Iran as much as 33 billion in cash and gold. That would have paid for 8 of these destroyers!
And the price for each of these would pay for six or seven Burke class destroyers.
No matter how good it is, it can only be in one place at one time, not six or seven places or five places with ship rotation depending on whether it's a wartime or peacetime deployment.
I also don't see how when it comes to defending carriers how it is superior to having four to six Burke class ships sailing with the carrier.