The US Navy in the 1980s deployed an impressive range of non-AEGIS cruisers.
Long Beach was the largest and oldest of the nuclear ships and the only one to start life as a cruiser.
The remainder started as frigates then became DLGNs. Bainbridge and Truxtun were one-offs followed in the 70s by 2...
alternate history
anti-aircraftcruiser
area air defence
ballistic missile defense
cold war
cruiser
nuclear battlefield
nuclear powered vessels
united states
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Incidentally the basis of the computer game World of Warships' Austin-class cruiser.
If they had been built, they would have likely received the CLAA hull Hull classification symbol from...
Here I gathered all the various cruiser designs and projects proposed for the Imperial Japanese Navy
Protected Cruisers:
Not found any so far except the cancelled sister ships of the Unebi and Tone classes
Light Cruisers:
Design C-19 (1912) - A primary mine-layer cruiser design offered before...
anti-aircraftcruisercruiser
empire of japan
heavy cruiser
imperial japanese navy
imperial japanese navy technical department
interwar period
light cruiser
ministry of the navy (japan)
pre-world war ii
world war ii
Japanese Wikipedia entry on Akizuki class DD stated that IJN started in 1936 to study dedicated AA vessels following the example of Dido class. They contemplated anything from a 1000 ton torpedo boat armed with a single 10 cm or 12.7 cm AA gun to a quite large cruiser equipped with 12 double...
aa gun
anti-aircraftanti-aircraftcruisercruiser
destroyer
early 1940s
empire of japan
imperial japanese navy
imperial japanese navy technical department
late 1930s
ministry of the navy (japan)
pre-world war ii
world war ii
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