Engineering:Strike cruiser

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Short description: 1970s proposed class of cruisers


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The 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 SM-2, Harpoon anti-ship missile, the Tomahawk missile, and the Mk71 8-inch gun.

A prototype strike cruiser was to be the refurbished missing name at a cost of roughly $800 million; however, this never came to pass.

The 17,000 ton strike cruiser design.
Line drawing of the strike cruiser

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 Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist.. 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 Script error: The function "sclass" does not exist. (CG-47) Aegis cruiser program.

See also

  • Arsenal ship
  • DD21
  • CG(X)
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  • Cruiser Baseline
  • List of cruisers of the United States Navy

Notes

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