The American proposal chooses a Gearing destroyer in FRAM form with modern electronics and a close-in weapon system. The design entered service before VJ Day, while its FRAM reconstruction belongs to the postwar period. The imagined restored ship would therefore combine a wartime hull with later and contemporary equipment.
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A FRAM Gearing with modern electronics
A revived Gearing would combine its postwar FRAM reconstruction with updated electronics and close-in defence.