Originally Posted by
etudiant
The US Navy is still trying to decide what to do with these three ships, as the main gun armament was too expensive to shoot.
EDIT: correction, it looks like they are going to remove the guns. (face palm)
Any redo will cost additional billions, but the hull is apparently quite successful, so there is talk of using it for the successor to the DDG 963 class.
The Arleigh Burke class DDG has already replace the Spruance class. There were 30 Spruance class destroyers. (I served in a few of them). There are 3 Zumwalt class DDGs.
Are you, perchance, referring to the four Sprucans that were reclassified as the Kidd class , the ones that had Surface to Air missile launchers? (Kidd, Scott, Callaghan, Chandler) They now serve in the Navy of Taiwan.