Strike cruiser
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Template:Infobox ship imageTemplate:Infobox ship class overviewTemplate:Infobox ship characteristicsThe 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 Template:Convert, 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 Template:USS; 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 Template:Sclass. 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 Template:Sclass (CG-47) Aegis cruiser program.
See also
- Arsenal ship
- DD21
- CG(X)
- Template:Sclass (CGN-42 variant)
- Template:Sclass
- Template:Sclass
- Cruiser Baseline
- List of cruisers of the United States Navy
Notes
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:
- Photobucket - Shipbucket:
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