I’d forgotten bout the Tromp class…..very fine lookin warships…..

Well I understand the RN was looking to replace the Sea Dart in the early 80s, but…………..its 20 years on and its still in use…….I was in 8th grade at a military school during the Falklands, so I followed that war pretty closely……and thats when I would have rebuilt her….right after, say 82 or 83…………just the imagination of an 8th grader……..

Still……think it was a shame to take those beutiful ships out so early………A

And would be more of a CRUISER than the Destroyer hulls of the CG-47s……