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To: Eric in the Ozarks
“Just wondering if the guided missile cruiser Gettysburg is like the cruiser Long Beach (now scrapped.)”

No, they’re very different.

Long Beach was the only ship in her class. She was nuclear and designed to steam with Enterprise. I think she had a couple of 2 armed bandits. A fine ship, at the time.

Gettysburg is a Ticonderoga class CG. The bulk of those ships were built in the 80’s. They’re fitted with 4 LM2500 gas turbines. They’re the first AEGIS ships equipped with SPY-1 phased array radar. Early ships were fitted with 2 armed bandits then later upgraded to VLS MK-41.

The Arleigh Burke DDG’s are the latest AEGIS ships and they make up the bulk of our surface ships. Nice upgrades from the Tico’s and all steel hull and superstructure.

81 posted on 06/21/2007 1:06:14 PM PDT by ryan71 (You can hear it on the coconut telegraph...)
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To: ryan71

I checked Gettysburg’s webpage and saw that she was a gas turbine. I don’t know that the Long Beach was a one of a kind cruiser tho. Curious that the US would move away from nuke power to jetfuel... Probably cost or the reactor.


82 posted on 06/21/2007 1:16:50 PM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks (BTUs are my Beat.)
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