[2ndDivisionVet]

We still have some cruisers?

[Phlyer]

We still have some cruisers?

They're built on a Spruance (destroyer) hull. But they were the first Aegis ships and they just couldn't call it a destroyer when it cost more than a billion dollars each. Nonetheless, the mission is pure escort - like a destroyers.

In contrast, they called the Zumwalt class ships "destroyers" even though their mission is much more like a traditional cruiser mission - mostly because it sounds less expensive to call them destroyers than cruisers.