NOSWO said:There was some talk of a forward firing gun at one point...but think that got swapped for some nifty moving map thingy...I will never understand the whole funding thing I think.....
I think another part of the equation was that everyone wanted a forward firing gun (not just HC), and NAVAIR said to wait. A year or two went by, and at this last OAG conference, the weapon eggheads got up and told everyone that they didn't want a forward firing gun, to which everyone said "Riiiiight." Then they showed them the LOGIR demo, and everyone agreed they wanted that. So the FFG (not the ship) was "replaced" by LOGIR.
At least that's the story my skipper gave us after he went to the conference.