crusier

If an Arleigh Burke had the same autonomy, the same firepower, the length of the hull and the same radars, would it itself be a destroyer? I remember reading about former naval officers who had written that the Burke of Ticonderoga was better, and that the former could do the same job as the...

According to the Global Security web site the US Navy studied a destroyer design given the cruiser mission: http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/cruiser-cold-war.htm