Strike cruiser

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Artist conception of Mark I variant (1976 version)
Class overview
Name: Nuclear-powered guided missile strike cruiser (CSGN)
Builders: Never built
Operators: United States Navy
Preceded by: Virginia-class cruiser
Succeeded by: Ticonderoga-class cruiser
Cost: $1.371 billion USD - lead ship (est.)
Planned: 8 - 12
General characteristics
Type: Guided missile cruiser
Displacement: 16,035 tons (light)
17,284 tons (full load)
Length: 709 feet 7 inches (216.3 m)
Beam: 76 feet 5 inches (23.3 m)
Draft: 22 feet 4 inches (6.8 m)
Propulsion: 2 pressurized water D2G General Electric nuclear reactors, two shafts, 60,000 shp (150 Mw)
2 x 2000 Kw diesel generators
6 x ship service turbo generators
Speed: 30+ knots (55+ km/h)
Range: unlimited
Complement: 454 (total)
Sensors and
processing systems:		 AN/SPY-1A multi-function radar
AN/SPS-49 air search radar
AN/SPS-10F surface search radar
AN/SPS-64 navigation radar
AN/SPG-62 (x4) fire control radar
AN/SQS-53 bow-mounted sonar
AN/SLQ-32 ECM suite
AN/UYK-7 computer processing
Armament: 2 x Mk-26 missile launchers
SM-2MR and ASROC
• 64 missiles forward
• 64 missiles aft
2 x quad Mk-143 ABL launchers
• BGM-109 Tomahawk (8)
4 x quad Mk-141 tube launchers
• RGM Harpoon (16)
1 x 8-in/55 cal MCLWG (forward)
2 x Mk-15 Phalanx CIWS (amidships)
2 x triple Mark 32 SVTT
• Mark 46 torpedo
Aircraft carried: 2 x SH-2F LAMPS I helicopters

A strike cruiser (proposed hull designator: CSGN) was a proposal from DARPA on the next generation of cruisers in the late 1970s. It was to be a guided missile attack cruiser with a displacement of around 17,200 long tons (17,500 t), armed and equipped with SM-2, Harpoon and Tomahawk missiles, an 8-inch gun, and the Aegis phased array radar system.

A prototype strike cruiser was to be the refurbished USS Long Beach (CGN-9); at a cost of roughly $800 million, however this never came to pass.

Originally, eight to a dozen strike cruisers were projected. The cruiser was to have arsenal ship offensive capabilities coupled with Aegis defensive capabilities in a nuclear-powered package. The class would have complemented the Aegis-equipped fleet defense (DDG-47) version of the Spruance class destroyers. After the CSGN cancellation, the Aegis destroyers were expanded into the Ticonderoga-class (CG-47) Aegis cruiser program.

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