USS Sterett on 7 September 1990
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Class overview | |
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Name | Belknap class |
Builders | Several |
Operators | United States Navy |
Preceded by | Leahy class |
Succeeded by | California class |
Subclasses | Truxtun class |
Built | 1962–1967 |
In commission | 1964–1995 |
Completed | 9 |
Retired | 9 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Guided missile cruiser |
Displacement | 7,930 tons[1] (8,057 metric tons) |
Length | 547 ft (167 m)[1] |
Beam | 55 ft (17 m)[1] |
Draft | 29 ft (8.8 m)[2] |
Propulsion | four 1200 psi (8300 kPa) boilers, two geared steam turbines, two shafts. 85,000 shp (63,384 kW)[1] |
Speed | 32 knots[1] (59 km/h) |
Complement | 27 officers, 450 enlisted[1] |
Sensors and processing systems | |
Armament |
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Armor | none[2] |
Aircraft carried | (final configuration) 1 × SH-2H Seasprite[1] |
The Belknap-class cruiser was a class of single-ended guided-missile cruisers (their missile armament was installed only forward, unlike "double-ended" missile cruisers with missile armament installed both forward and aft) built for the United States Navy during the 1960s. They were originally designated as DLG frigates (destroyer leaders; the USN use of the term frigate from 1950 to 1975 was intended to evoke the power of the sailing frigates of old),[citation needed] but in the 1975 fleet realignment, they were reclassified as guided missile cruisers (CG).
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