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Old 09-20-2016, 02:43 AM   #19
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Originally Posted by bobbymitch View Post
Smaller. It's about the same length as the older DDs. My old DD-781 was 377 feet long and weighed in at 2,235 tons. The DL (frigate) that I served on was 564 feet long and weighed in at 9,150 tons. But then it had two nuclear reactors.

I still can't get used to the new naming convention. Yeah, I'm old school and don't like it. But then, no one asked my opinion.

It's smaller than the frigate I served on, which was originally a destroyer escort.
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