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Continued Ticonderoga production and hull limits

Continued Ticonderoga production could produce later flights with upgraded systems and growing pressure on the existing hull.

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Question

What if Ticonderoga production continued until 2008?

Short answer

Probably a Flight III equivalent, with improved equipment and increasingly crowded ships comparable to later Arleigh Burke development.

Notes

Continued production is imagined as reaching a Flight III equivalent, with successive Arleigh Burke flights as the comparison. The hypothetical cruisers gain improved equipment while becoming more crowded. Repeated growth in the Burke's upper works is criticised as a consequence of difficulty funding a new hull. A Super Hornet analogy suggests the scale of a more extensive redesign. No detailed alternative cruiser design is produced.