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Originally Posted by Homer
Do the Des Moines class get any upgrades in T2k (phalanx, chaff, upgraded electronics, etc?) or get reactivated as is?
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I would expect that they would get a miniature version of the upgrade that the Iowa class received in the 80s. Phalanx, electronics, chaff, landing some of the secondary batteries for Harpoon and maybe a helicopter. There were various proposals made in the 80s, which is probably what inspired GDW. Newport News, I recall, had a turret explosion before she was laid up in the 70s, so her reactivation took longer and might have been less extensive. She was used as a training ship from the summer of 96 in my world and was only thrown into action as the raider hunt got intense.
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