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 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.
See also
- Arsenal ship
- DD21
- CG(X)
- Virginia-class cruiser (CGN-42 variant)
- Ticonderoga-class cruiser
- Kirov-class battlecruiser
- Cruiser Baseline
- List of cruisers of the United States Navy
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:
