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A rebuilt Fort Drum in a modern missile-destroyer form

A brief design exercise recasts Fort Drum around contemporary missile-destroyer silhouettes and magazine capacity.

Question

If the Philippines rebuilt Fort Drum, which modern warship class should provide its visual model?

Short answer

An Arleigh Burke is the simplest model, with the VLS-heavy Sejong the Great or a new large Japanese design as alternatives.

Notes

An Arleigh Burke provides a recognisable modern destroyer outline and is the simplest suggestion for the rebuilt fort. The South Korean Sejong the Great class offers an alternative with an unusually large vertical-launch battery. A large new Japanese design is also suggested without being named. These are choices of visual model for the hypothetical reconstruction.