I don't know who told GBZ Tico was a destroyer... while that class were called destroyers during their planning and when Congress authorized them, they were redesignated as Guided Missile Cruisers (CG) on January 1, 1980... before the first keel was laid (21 January 1980).
Only the lead ship was formally ordered as a DDG... the other 26 were ordered in 1981 & later as CGs.
They were called cruisers when they were built, and they have been called cruisers ever since.
Last edited by GreenKnight121; 15th October 2012 at 18:10.