Strike cruiser
 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 |
| Succeeded by: | Ticonderoga class |
| 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 RIM-66 Standard 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-84 Harpoon (16) 1 x 8"/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 for a class of cruisers in the late 1970s. The proposal was for the Strike Cruiser to be a guided missile attack cruiser with a displacement of around 17,200 long tons (17,500 t), armed and equipped with the Aegis combat system, the Standard missile two, Harpoon anti-ship missile, the Tomahawk missile, and the Mk71 8-inch gun.
A prototype strike cruiser was to be the refurbished USS Long Beach; at a cost of roughly $800 million, however this never came to pass.
Originally, eight to a twelve strike cruisers were projected. The class would have been complemented by the Aegis-equipped fleet defense (DDG-47) version of the Spruance-class destroyers. Plagued with design difficulties and escalating cost the project was canceled in the closing days of the Ford administration.[1] After the cancellation of the class, the Aegis destroyers were expanded into the Ticonderoga class (CG-47) Aegis cruiser program.
See also
- Arsenal ship
- DD21
- CG(X)
- Virginia-class cruiser (CGN-42 variant)
- Ticonderoga-class cruiser
Notes
- ↑ Friedman, Norman (1984). U.S. CRUISERS An Illustrated Design History. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. pp. 419–422.
