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CRUISERS

BELKNAP missile cruisers (1964 - 1967)

Belknap 1968

Sterett 1969

Belknap 1979

Josephus Daniels 1990

Belknap 1990

No Name Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comm Fate
DLG26, 6.1975- CG26 Belknap 342 Bath Iron Wks 5.2.1962 20.7.1963 7.11.1964 stricken 2.1995
DLG27, 6.1975- CG27 Josephus Daniels 343 Bath Iron Wks 23.4.1962 2.12.1963 8.5.1965 stricken 1.1994
DLG28, 6.1975- CG28 Wainwright 344 Bath Iron Wks 2.7.1962 25.4.1964 8.1.1966 stricken 11.1993
DLG29, 6.1975- CG29 Jouett   Puget Sound N Yd, Bremerton 25.9.1962 30.6.1964 3.12.1966 stricken 1.1994
DLG30, 6.1975- CG30 Horne   Mare Island N Yd, San Francisco 12.12.1962 30.10.1964 15.4.1967 stricken 2.1994
DLG31, 6.1975- CG31 Sterett   Puget Sound N Yd, Bremerton 25.9.1962 30.6.1965 8.4.1967 stricken 3.1994
DLG32, 6.1975- CG32 William H. Standley 346 Bath Iron Wks 29.7.1963 19.12.1964 9.7.1966 stricken 3.1994
DLG33, 6.1975- CG33 Fox 80 Todd, San Pedro 15.1.1963 21.11.1964 28.5.1966 stricken 4.1994
DLG34, 6.1975- CG34 Biddle 347 Bath Iron Wks 9.12.1963 2.7.1965 21.1.1967 stricken 11.1994
  

Displacement standard, t

5409

Displacement full, t

7890

Length, m

159.8 wl 166.8 oa

Breadth, m

16.7

Draught, m

5.50

No of shafts

2

Machinery

DLG26, 27: 2 sets General Electric geared steam turbines, 4 Combustion Engineering boilers

DLG28, 32, 34: 2 sets General Electric geared steam turbines, 4 Foster-Wheeler boilers

DLG29 - 31, 33: 2 sets De Laval geared steam turbines, 4 Combustion Engineering boilers

Power, h. p.

85000

Max speed, kts

32

Fuel, t

oil 1800

Endurance, nm (kts)

7100(20)

Armament

1 x 2 Terrier SAM / ASROC ASuR (40 RIM-2, 20 RUR-5), 1 x 1 - 127/54 Mk 42, 2 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 34, 2 - 533 Mk 25 TT, 2 x 3 - 324 Mk 32 TT (18 Mk 46), 1 DASH drone ASW helicopter

Electronic equipment

DLG26, 27: SPS-43, SPS-48, SPS-10F, 2x SPG-55, SPG-53, 2x Mk 35 radars, SQS-26BX sonar, WLR-1, WLR-3 ECM suites, 2x Mk 28 decoy RL

DLG28 - 34: SPS-43, SPS-48, SPS-10F, 2x SPG-55, SPG-53, 2x Mk 35 radars, SQS-26BX sonar, WLR-1, WLR-3 ECM suites, 2x Mk 28 decoy RL, NTDS CCS

Complement

388

Project history: These ships suffered a somewhat tortured design history, originating as an attempt to produce a missile destroyer both less expensive than the Adams class and more effective in ASW, with the new SQS-26 sonar and endurance increased from under 4500nm to 6000nm; the result, even with a new austere missile system (twelve rather than forty Tartars were planned) was far more expensive than the original destroyer. Quite soon Terrier was substituted, as befitting so expensive a ship, and the existing Leahy class hull was adapted to the new design. However, its destroyer origin survived in the requirement for a single 127mm/54 rapid-fire gun. Considerable economy in design was achieved by combining the Terrier and ASROC launchers; the system mounted in these ships can accommodate up to sixty Terriers, or it can accommodate forty Terriers and up to twenty ASROCs. Increasing interest in ASW was also manifested in provision for the DASH ASW drone helicopter, and for Mk 25 torpedo tubes in the transom.

Wainwright was the first to be completed with the Naval Tactical Data System integrated into her weapon control system.

Modernizations: late 1960s, Belknap, Josephus Daniels: + NTDS CCS

1970s, all: - 2 - 533 TT; + LN-66 radar

late 1970s, Belknap, Josephus Daniels, Wainwright; early 1980s, Jouett, Horne: - 1 x 2 Terrier SAM / ASROC ASW rocket launcher (40 RIM-2, 20 RUR-5), 2 x 1 - 76/50, SPS-43, SPS-48 radars; + 2 x 4 Harpoon SSM (8 RGM-84), 1 x 2 Standard SM-1MR SAM / ASROC ASuR (40 RIM-66, 20 RUR-5), SPS-48C, SPS-49(v)3 radars, 4x Mk 36 SRBOC decoy RL

late 1970s, William H. Standley, Fox; early 1980s, Sterett, Biddle: - 1 x 2 Terrier SAM / ASROC ASuR (40 RIM-2, 20 RUR-5), 2 x 1 - 76/50, SPS-43, SPS-48 radars; + 2 x 4 Harpoon SSM (8 RGM-84), 1 x 2 Standard SM-1MR SAM / ASROC ASuR (40 RIM-66, 20 RUR-5), SPS-48C, SPS-40 radars, 4x Mk 36 SRBOC decoy RL

late 1970s, Belknap, Jouett, Biddle; early 1980s, Josephus Daniels, Wainwright, Horne, Sterett, William H. Standley, Fox: + 2 x 6 -20/76 Mk 15 Phalanx, 2x Mk 90 radars

1971-1977, all: - 1 DASH drone helicopter; + 1 SH-2D Sea Sprite ASW helicopter

1980, Belknap: - SQS-26BX sonar; + SQS-53A sonar

1980s, Josephus Daniels: - SQS-26BX sonar; + SQS-26AXR sonar

early 1980s, all: - 1 x 2 Standard SM-1MR SAM / ASROC ASuR (40 RIM-66, 20 RUR-5), WLR-1, WLR-3 ECM suites, 2x Mk 28 decoy RL; + 1 x 2 Standard SM-2ER SAM / ASROC ASuR (40 RIM-67, 20 RUR-5), 4 x 1 - 12.7/90, SLQ-32(v)3 ECM suite, 4x Mk 36 SRBOC decoy RL

1983-1985, Belknap, Wainwright, Horne, Sterett: + TFCC CCS

1986, Belknap: -  SH-2D Sea Sprite helicopter, helicopter deck and hangar

late 1980s, all: - SPS-10F radar; + SPS-67(v)1 radar, SLQ-25 Nixie torpedo decoy

7/1987, Biddle, 1989, Horne, Jouett; 1990, Fox; 1991-1993, Belknap, Josephus Daniels, Wainwright, Sterett, William H. Standley: - 1 x 2 Standard SM-2ER SAM / ASROC ASuR (40 RIM-67, 20 RUR-5), SPS-48C radar; + 1 x 2 Standard SM-1MR SAM / ASROC ASuR (40 RIM-66, 20 RUR-5), SPS-48E radar

late 1980s, some: - LN-66 radar; + SPS-64(v)9 radar

Naval service: Belknap was severely damaged by collision with aircraft carrier John F. Kennedy in 22.11.1975 near Sicily and was under repair and rebuilding till May 1980.

 

Fox 9.1987

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