- See also
- Notes
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}}{{Infobox ship class overview | Name=Nuclear-powered guided missile strike cruiser (CSGN) | Builders=Never built | US}} | Virginia|cruiser|4}} | Ticonderoga|cruiser|4}} | Subclasses= | Cost=$1.371 billion USD - lead ship (est.) | Built range= | In commission range= | Total ships building= | Total ships planned= 8 - 12 | Total ships completed= | Total ships cancelled= | Total ships active= | Total ships laid up= | Total ships lost= | Total ships retired= | Total ships preserved=
}}{{Infobox ship characteristics | Hide header= | Header caption= | Ship type=Guided missile cruiser | Ship displacement=*16,035 tons (light) | 709|ft|7|in|m|abbr=on}} | 76|ft|5|in|m|abbr=on}} | 22|ft|4|in|m|abbr=on}} | 60,000|shp|MW|lk=in|abbr=on}}- 2 × {{convert|2000|kW|abbr=on}} diesel generators
- 6 × ship service turbo generators
| 30|kn|km/h}}+ | Ship range=unlimited | Ship complement=454 (total) | Ship sensors=*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
| Ship armament=*2 × Mk-26 missile launchers- RIM-66 Standard and 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
| Ship armor= | Ship aircraft=2 x SH-2F LAMPS I helicopters | Ship notes=
}} | 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 {{convert|17200|LT|t|lk=in}}, 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 {{USS|Long Beach|CGN-9|6}}; 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 {{sclass-|Spruance|destroyer}}s. 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 {{sclass-|Ticonderoga|cruiser|4}} (CG-47) Aegis cruiser program. See also- Arsenal ship
- DD21
- CG(X)
- {{sclass-|Virginia|cruiser|1}} (CGN-42 variant)
- {{sclass-|Ticonderoga|cruiser|1}}
Notes1. ^{{cite book|title=U.S. CRUISERS An Illustrated Design History |first=Norman |last=Friedman |publisher=Naval Institute Press |place=Annapolis, Maryland |date=1984 |pages=419–422}}
External links- Letters to Antiwar.com
- Strike Cruiser (CSGN)- GlobalSecurity.org
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20060701140855/http://www.house.gov/hasc/4-6-06ORourke.pdf Statement by Ronald O'Rourke before the House Armed Services Committee, 6 April 2006]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20091213015123/http://www.harpoondatabases.com/encyclopedia/Entry1506.aspx CSGN-1 "Strike Cruiser" class] - Harpoon HQ
- Shipbucket.com:
- USS Long Beach CSGN Refit
- CGN-42-class CSGN
- CGN-42-class CSGN
- 1974 CSGN
- 1974 CSGN
- 1976 CSGN
- Photobucket - Shipbucket:
- USS Long Beach CSGN Refit
- Virginia-class CSGN
- Virginia-class CSGN
- 1974 CSGN
- 1974 CSGN
- 1976 CSGN
- CSGN Chart
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