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 long tons (16,292 t) (light); 17,284 long tons (17,561 t)(full load);
Length	709 ft 7 in (216.28 m)
Beam	76 ft 5 in (23.29 m)
Draft	22 ft 4 in (6.81 m)
Propulsion	2 pressurized water D2G General Electric nuclear reactors, two shafts, 60,000 shp (45 MW); 2 × 2,000 kW (2,700 hp) diesel generators; 6 × ship service turbo generators;
Speed	30 knots (56 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; bow-mounted sonar; AN/SLQ-32 ECM suite; AN/UYK-7 computer processing;
Armament	2 × Mk-26 missile launchers; ASROC; 64 missiles forward; 64 missiles aft; 2 × quad Mk-143 ABL launchers; BGM-109 Tomahawk (8); 4 × quad Mk-141 tube launchers; RGM-84 Harpoon (16); 1 × 8"/55 cal MCLWG (forward); 2 × Mk-15 Phalanx CIWS (amidships); 2 × triple Mark 32 SVTT; Mark 46 torpedo;
Aircraft carried	2 x SH-2F LAMPS I helicopters

The strike cruiser (proposed hull designator: CSGN) was a proposal from

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 twelve strike cruisers were projected. The class would have been complemented by the Aegis-equipped fleet defense (DDG-47) version of the Spruance-class destroyer. 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.

Notes

^ Friedman, Norman (1984). U.S. CRUISERS An Illustrated Design History. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. pp. 419–422.

External links

Letters to Antiwar.com
Strike Cruiser (CSGN)- GlobalSecurity.org
Statement by Ronald O'Rourke before the House Armed Services Committee, 6 April 2006
CSGN-1 "Strike Cruiser" class - Harpoon HQ
Shipbucket.com:
- USS Long Beach CSGN Refit Archived 15 August 2014 at the Wayback Machine
- CGN-42-class CSGN Archived 15 August 2014 at the Wayback Machine
- CGN-42-class CSGN Archived 15 August 2014 at the Wayback Machine
- 1974 CSGN Archived 15 August 2014 at the Wayback Machine
- 1974 CSGN Archived 15 August 2014 at the Wayback Machine
- 1976 CSGN Archived 15 August 2014 at the Wayback Machine
Photobucket - Shipbucket:

[1] Friedman, Norman (1984). U.S. CRUISERS An Illustrated Design History. Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press. pp. 419–422.

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