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 AN/SQS-53 bow-mounted sonar AN/SLQ-32 ECM suite AN/UYK-7 computer processing
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
Aircraft carried	2 x SH-2F LAMPS I helicopters

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

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:
  • USS Long Beach CSGN Refit
  • Virginia-class CSGN
  • Virginia-class CSGN
  • 1974 CSGN
  • 1974 CSGN
  • 1976 CSGN
  • CSGN Chart