if Bath Iron works had won the DDX competition instead of Littom/Ingalls, this is how the DD-963 might have looked.
as you can see, the weapon systems are more or less the same, except for the CIWS: weird enough the reference showed an system that I could only recognize as an goalkeeper or an very similar system. this is weird, as the GK was still in early development at that time, but as the NSSM was shown as well with an different then final launcher....... speaking of the NSSM, I have placed the mk 29 launcher on board, while it looks like nothing as in the drawing. in that case, and the other cases were I could not identify certain systems, I have just looked at the real build spruance and took what she had. I also went with the rubber cover over the sonar: while the model predates the deployment of it in the fleet, the RDW experiments would have been done before the ships entered the fleet, and thus the real ship would, just like the real spruance, be fitted with it.
I left her a bit undetailed, as the only reference was an pic of the official model, which I have included below. my knowledge of these ships is not enough to accurately show the details, so to keep the ships as accurate as possible I left her a bit bare
interesting to see is the difference in about everything, except one thing: the main weapons, the aft part of the underwater hull and the offset funnels. by this, we can see what was solidly specified and what was left to the shipyards..... always interesting to see.
well, please comment, discuss, alternate ideas of what systems are.... and hope you guys like it.