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The evolution of launch systems in the USN becomes so rapid in the 1980s that VLS systems make older ships increasingly.obsolete.Even without the end of the Cold War I think by 1995 all cruisers except the Bunker Hill class and all destroyers except Burke and Spruance mods would have gone anyway.So not modernising the Long Beach or building Strike Cruiser probably freed up resources for Bunker Hills and Burkes. But in the early 80s faced with the Kirov class it seemed mistaken. So the modified Iowa class filled a psychological gap.
The evolution of launch systems in the USN becomes so rapid in the 1980s that VLS systems make older ships increasingly.obsolete.
Even without the end of the Cold War I think by 1995 all cruisers except the Bunker Hill class and all destroyers except Burke and Spruance mods would have gone anyway.
So not modernising the Long Beach or building Strike Cruiser probably freed up resources for Bunker Hills and Burkes. But in the early 80s faced with the Kirov class it seemed mistaken. So the modified Iowa class filled a psychological gap.
