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Fleet Rehabilitation and Modernization

USS George K. MacKenzie, after her FRAM I conversion

The Fleet Rehabilitation and Modernization (FRAM) program of the United States Navy extended the lives of World War II-era destroyers by shifting their mission from a surface attack role to that of a submarine hunter. The FRAM program also covered cruisers, aircraft carriers, submarines, amphibious ships, and auxiliaries.[1] The United States Coast Guard also used this term in the 1980s for the modernization of its Hamilton-class cutters.

  1. ^ Vinock, Eli, CAPT USN "FRAM Fixes the Fleet" United States Naval Institute Proceedings August 1984 pp.70-73

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