Arleigh Burke upgrades can keep internal equipment current while retaining an older basic design. The analogy is a late-1980s Ford F-150 fitted with engines and systems from later generations. Such a vehicle could work, but the analogy anticipates difficulties in fitting and maintaining those systems, with comparable maintenance and crewing problems for the ship. The comparison questions what repeated equipment upgrades can achieve without replacing the underlying architecture; it does not suggest that the Burke has ceased to be capable.
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Modern systems do not make the Burke a modern hull design
Burke upgrades can keep internal equipment current while the basic design remains rooted in the 1980s.