USS Des Moines (CA-134)

The USS Des Moines (CA-134) was a Des Moines-class heavy cruiser in service in the United States Navy from November 16, 1948 to July 6, 1961. It would later spend the next fortythree years deccommissioned before being rebuilt as part of the USN's CGX Program to design and build a large multirole cruiser to replace the Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruisers. It would be commissioned on September 18, 2006 at Bath, Pennsylvania.

Specifications (2004 Rebuild)

 * Type: Heavy Cruiser (Hull designation symbol CA)
 * Rebuilders: Bath Iron Works, Bath, Pennsylvania
 * Characteristics
 * Length: 716 feet 6 inches (218.39 meters)
 * Beam: 76 feet 6 inches (23.32 meters)
 * Draft: 27 feet 6 inches (8.38 meters)
 * Displacement: 22,650 tons (full load)
 * Crew: 805 (126 officers and 679 enlisted)
 * Power: 166,000 shp
 * Range: 12,500 nautical miles (23,150 km) at 15 knots
 * Speed: 35.8 Knots (66.3 Kilometers/Hour; 41.2 Miles/Hour)
 * Propulsion:
 * 3 General Electric LM6000 gas turbines
 * 4 General Motors Model 265 turbodiesel cruise engines
 * 12 Western Electric AC Electric Generators
 * 16 x Electric Motors
 * 4 x Shafts
 * GODAG propulsion
 * Sensor Suite:
 * AN/SPY-1D(V) 3D Search Radar
 * AN/SPQ-9B Fire Control Radar
 * AN/SQR-19 Tactical Towed Array Sonar
 * AN/SQS-53C Sonar Array
 * AN/SPS-67(V)2 Surface Search Radar
 * AN/SPS-73(V)12 Surface Search Radar
 * SMR-1200 Very Long Range Radar
 * Countermeasures
 * AN/SLQ-25 Nixie Torpedo Countermeasures Suite
 * AN/SLQ-32(V)2 Electronic Warfare Suite
 * AN/SLQ-39 CHAFF Buoys
 * Mark 36 Mod 12 SRBOC Decoy Launching System
 * Armament:
 * 9 x 8"/55-caliber Mark 71 Mod 3 naval guns
 * 6 x 5"/62-caliber Mark 45 Mod 4 naval guns
 * 2 x 3"/70-caliber Mark 26 Mod 0 naval guns
 * 1 x Mk 41 Vertical Launch System, 64 launch cells (fits RIM-66I SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk, RUM-139 VL-ASROC, RIM-156 SM-2ER, RIM-161 SM-3, and RIM-162 ESSM)
 * 4 x Mk 143A RGM-84 Harpoon missile launchers (16 missiles)
 * 2 x Mk 112 Rolling Airframe Missile Launchers (42 missile cells, plus reloads)
 * 2 x Goalkeeper 30mm CIWS