Great ship i realy like it , only weird thing i think are these goalkeepers on a US ship,but great to see a top class ciws in US service. only one question : why you make this ship a cruiser? i would class it more as a battlecruiser or even battle ship.
That gets into the nature of what is a battleship and what is a battlecruiser. I tend to use the battleship definition of "A large ship with a main gun armament, and the armor to resist her own guns inside the majority of her own guns' range." Battlecruisers tend to be ships similar to battleships, but slightly smaller and with armor exchanged for speed. Just a reminder - the last battlecruiser the USN ordered was the Lexington class.
such a ship would of led to world war III but it would of been glorious.
Why would a ship with less range and striking power than a carrier lead to World War 3?