US Navy question

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Originally Posted by FASTBOAT TOUGH

Generally the single mount guns are on the DDG 51 & CG 47 Class ships the latter with 2 mounts.

Currently we have:

5in Naval Gun A (1946-1975) triple mount, ROF=7, Rng=210
5in Naval Gun B (1976-2011) dual mount, ROF=8, Rng=215
6.1in AGS NG (2012-2020) triple mount, ROF=6, Rng=218

Background Data:

5"/45 Mk 45 Mod 0 thru 2 (available 1971)

5"/62 Mk 45 Mod 4 (available 2000)
Starting with DDG 81, 5"/62 Mk 45 Mod 4 is being forward-fit to U.S. Navy DDG 51 Class destroyers. Other Mod 4 applications include installations for the fleets of South Korea, Japan and Denmark.

6.1in/62 AGS (available not as of 2014)

Defense News reported in a 22 July 2008 article that the USN appears ready to halt the DDG-1000 program at only two ships - which was already down from the originally planned 32 ships - and to instead build eight to eleven up-rated Arleigh Burke DDG-51 class destroyers, construction of which had been slated to end in 2012. The same article states that the Navy is investigating using the SPY-3 radar system and the AGS gun on these new DDG-51 destroyers.

So I'd propose:

5in Naval Gun A (1946-1970) triple mount, ROF=7, Rng=210
5in Naval Gun B (1971-1999) dual mount, ROF=8, Rng=215
5in Naval Gun C (2000-2020) dual mount, ROF=8, Rng=218 (replacing the 6.1in AGS)