USS Truxtun, lead ship of her class |
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| Class overview | |
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| Builders: | New York Shipbuilding Corporation |
| Operators: | United States Navy |
| Preceded by: | Belknap-class cruiser |
| Succeeded by: | California-class cruiser |
| In commission: | 1967-1995 |
| Completed: | 1 |
| Retired: | 1 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Nuclear powered cruiser |
| Displacement: | 9,127 long tons (9,273 t)[1] |
| Length: | 564 ft (172 m) |
| Beam: | 58 ft (18 m) |
| Draft: | 31 ft (9.4 m) |
| Propulsion: | 2 D2G naval reactors driving two geared steam turbines coupled to two shafts; Total output: 60,000 shp (45,000 kW). |
| Speed: | In excess of 30 knots (56 km/h) |
| Complement: | 37 officers, 530 enlisted |
| Sensors and processing systems: |
AN/SPS-48C 3D Air Search, AN/SPS-40 2D Air serach, 2× AN/SPG-55 |
| Armament: | • 1× Mk. 10 Guided Missile Launching System with 40× Standard missiles, & 20× 1ASROC • 2× 4 Harpoon missile launchers • 4× 1 Mark 46 torpedo launchers • 1× 5 Inch/54-caliber Mk. 42 gun • 2× Phalanx CIWS |
| Armor: | None |
| Aircraft carried: | 1× DASH, 1× SH-2 Seasprite |
The Truxtun class cruiser was a nuclear-powered class of single-ended guided missile cruisers (their missile armament was installed only aft, unlike "double-ended" cruisers with missile armament installed both forward and aft) based on a heavily modified version of the Belknap class. Truxtun was the third class of nuclear cruisers to operate in the United States Navy, after the Long Beach and Bainbridge classes, and was powered by the same D2G reactors as the Bainbridge class. The class was originally designated as a destroyer leader (DLG), but in the 1975 cruiser realignment, it was reclassified as a guided missile cruiser (CG).
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Virtually identical to the Belknap class in weapons systems, the Truxtun class was powered by two D2G reactors rather than her sister class's four 1,200 psi boilers. This resulted in the Truxtun class being larger overall: 17 feet (5.2 m) longer, 3 feet (0.91 m) greater across the beam, a 2-foot-deeper (0.61 m) draft, and a displacement of almost 1,200 more tons. The lessons learned on the Truxtun class were later adapted to the next nuclear classes, the California and Virginia classes of nuclear-powered cruisers.
The Truxtun class was commissioned with a 5"/54 caliber Mark 42 gun on the foredeck and a twin-rail Mk 10 Missile Launcher on the quarterdeck, for the RIM-2 Terrier[2] The Terrier system was later upgraded to utilizing the RIM-67A Standard missiles in place of the less reliable Terrier missile. [2] The missile depot was located under the helicopter deck and could store 40 RIM-67 Standard and 20 RUR-5 ASROC missiles.[2] The class initially used two twin 3"/50 caliber guns, however in 1980 these were replaced with two Harpoon missile launchers.[2] The ASW suite of the Truxtun class originally included the un-manned DASH, but in 1971 the hangar was upgraded to LAMPS Mk. I and the SH-2 Seasprite helicopter.[2] While the class was not upgraded via the NTU program, two Phalanx CIWS systems were installed, and new electronics were installed during overhaul and nuclear refuelling in the mid 1980s.[3]
| Keel laid | Launched | Commissioned | Decommissioned | |
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| Truxtun (CGN-35) | 17 June 1963 | 19 December 1964 | 27 May 1967 | 11 September 1995 |
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