Midway-class Guided Missile Cruiser

The Midway-class Guided Misile Cruiser is a class of nuclear powered cruiser in service in the United States Navy from 2012 onwards. It was based on the design of the strike cruiser proposed in the 1970s. In the 2000s, the United States overhauled the USS Long Beach and USS Des Moines to serve as testbeds for the design of the CGX.

Specifications

 * Type: Nuclear Powered Guided Missile Cruiser
 * Service Period: 2012-
 * Characteristics
 * Length: 725 feet (220.98 meters)
 * Beam: 76 feet 5 inches (23.3 meters)
 * Draft: 22 feet 4 inches (6.81 meters)
 * Displacement: 16,650 tons (Standard); 19,880 tons (Full Load)
 * Crew: 454
 * Power: 155,000 shp (115.63 MW)
 * Propulsion: 2 x General Electric C1G pebble bed nuclear reactor, turboelectric drive, 2 shafts
 * Range: Unlimited
 * Speed: 36.3 Knots (66.23 km/hr)
 * Sensor Suite/Countermeasures
 * AN/SLY-2 Electronic Warfare Suite
 * AN/SPY-3 Air Search radar
 * AN/SQR-19 Tactical Towed Array Sonar
 * AN/SLQ-25 Nixie Torpedo Countermeasures
 * AN/SQQ-28 LAMPS III Shipboard System
 * AN/SLQ-39 CHAFF Buoys
 * AN/SQS-53C Sonar Array
 * AN/SPS-67(V)2 Surface Search Radar
 * AN/SPS-73(V)12 Surface Search Radar
 * MK 36 MOD 12 Decoy Launching System
 * Armament
 * 6 x 155mm/62-caliber naval guns
 * 3 x 64-cell Mark 41 VLS (RIM-66M-5 SM-2MR, BGM-109 Tomahawk, RUM-139 VL-ASROC, RIM-161 SM-3, RIM-162 ESSM)
 * 2 x Mark 112 Rolling Airframe Missile Launchers (42 missile cells, plus reloads)
 * 2 x Mark 143A RGM-84 Harpoon missile launchers (16 missiles)
 * 2 x 30mm Avenger Phalanx
 * 2 x Mark 32 12.75" triple fire torpedo tubes
 * 6 x 12.7mm machine guns
 * Aircraft Carried: 2 x SH-92 Cyclone or 2 x SH-60F Oceanhawk

Unit Run

 * USS Midway (CGN-75)
 * USS Coral Sea (CGN-76)
 * USS Wake (CGN-77) - under construction
 * USS Truk (CGN-78) - under construction
 * USS Rennell Island (CGN-79) - under construction
 * USS Guam (CGN-80) - under construction
 * USS Okinawa (CGN-81) - planned for construction
 * USS Palau (CGN-82) - planned for construction
 * USS Savo Island (CGN-83) - planned for construction
 * USS Unnamed (CGN-84) - planned for construction
 * USS Unnamed (CGN-85) - planned for construction
 * USS Unnamed (CGN-86) -planned for construction
 * USS Unnamed (CGN-87) - planned for construction
 * USS Unnamed (CGN-88) - planned for construction
 * USS Unnamed (CGN-89) - planned for construction
 * USS Unnamed(CGN-90) - planned for construction