Reactivating Fletcher-class destroyers is suggested as a way to fill a modern US Navy frigate gap. The immediate obstacle is the lack of a reserve fleet of usable hulls: only a handful of museum survivors are identified. Those ships do not provide the available force implied by the proposal. No engineering or cost study for reactivation accompanies the exchange.
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Why museum Fletchers cannot fill a frigate shortage
A proposal to reactivate Fletcher-class destroyers meets the practical objection that only a handful of museum survivors remain.