The strike cruiser (proposed hull designator: CSGN) was a proposal from
DARPA
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is a research and development agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of emerging technologies for use by the military.
Originally known as the Ad ...
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 , armed and equipped with the
Aegis combat system
The Aegis Combat System is an American integrated naval weapons system developed by the Missile and Surface Radar Division of RCA, and it is now produced by Lockheed Martin.
Initially used by the United States Navy, Aegis is now used also by ...
, the
SM-2,
Harpoon anti-ship missile, the
Tomahawk
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missile, and the
Mk71 8-inch gun.
A prototype strike cruiser was to be the refurbished ; at a cost of roughly $800 million, however this never came to pass.
![Strike Cruiser, 17,000 ton design](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/Strike_Cruiser%2C_17%2C000_ton_design.png)
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 . Plagued with design difficulties and escalating cost, the project was canceled in the closing days of the Ford administration.
After the cancellation of the class, the Aegis destroyers were expanded into the (CG-47) Aegis cruiser program.
See also
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Arsenal ship
An arsenal ship is a concept for a floating missile platform intended to have as many as five hundred vertical launch bays for mid-sized missiles, most likely cruise missiles. In current U.S. naval thinking, such a ship would initially be cont ...
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DD21
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CG(X)
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Cruiser Baseline
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List of cruisers of the United States Navy
This list of cruisers of the United States Navy includes all ships that were ever called "cruiser", either publicly or in internal documentation.
The Navy has 17 cruisers in active service, as of 29 September 2022, with the last tentatively s ...
Notes
External links
Letters to Antiwar.com GlobalSecurity.org
Statement by Ronald O'Rourke before the House Armed Services Committee, 6 April 2006CSGN-1 "Strike Cruiser" class- Harpoon HQ
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USS ''Long Beach'' CSGN Refit
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''CGN-42''-class CSGN
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''CGN-42''-class CSGN
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1974 CSGN
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1974 CSGN
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1976 CSGN
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USS ''Long Beach'' CSGN Refit*
''Virginia''-class CSGN*
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CSGN Chart
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Ship types
Cancelled ships of the United States Navy
Cold War cruisers of the United States
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