October 2, 2007 at 7:36 am
Is anybody aware why the Aegis BMD system is distributed between Ticonderogas (3) and Burkes (15-yet-to-be-converted)? And why they didn’t just re-do the remaining 22(+4) Ticonderogas into BMD platforms?
By: YourFather - 2nd October 2007 at 12:01
Because of the eternal constraint – $. But there are tentative plans to field it across the fleet.