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List of cruiser classes in service

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The list of cruiser classes in service includes all those currently with navies or armed forces and auxiliaries in the world. Ships are grouped by type, and listed alphabetically within.

Kirov-class battlecruiser[edit]

Frunze

Slava-class (Project 1164 Atlant) missile cruiser[edit]

Moskva (former Slava)
  • Builders:  Soviet Union /  Ukraine (61 Kommunar in Mykolaiv, Ukraine)
  • Displacement: 11,490 tons
  • Aircraft: 1 helicopter
  • Armament: 16 × SS-N-12 SSM; 64 × SA-N-6 Grumble SAM; 2 × 130 mm guns; 6 × AK-630 cannon; 10 × 533 mm torpedo tubes
  • Powerplant: COGOG gas turbines (125,000 hp)
  • Speed: 34 knots
  • Range: 9,000 nmi at 15 knots
  • Ships in class: 4 (plus 2 cancelled)
  • Operator:  Russian Navy (3 ships) /  Ukrainian Navy (1 incomplete)
  • Commissioned: 1982
  • Status: 2 in service, 1 sunk, 1 incomplete, 6 cancelled

Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser[edit]

Antietam
  • Builders:  United States
  • Displacement: 9,800 tons
  • Aircraft: 2 × Sikorsky SH-60 Seahawk
  • Armament: 2 × Mk 26 or Mk 41 launchers with up to 122 missiles (for Mk 41 VLS) or 88 (with Mk 26 twin-rail launchers) (ASROC, SM-2, Tomahawk); 2 × 127 mm DP guns; 2 × Phalanx CIWS, 8 Harpoon SSM
  • Powerplant: 4 × gas turbines (80,000 shp)
  • Speed: 32.5 knots
  • Range: 6,000 nmi at 20 knots
  • Ships in class: 27
  • Operator:  United States Navy
  • Commissioned: 22 January 1983
  • Status: 17 in service, 10 decommissioned

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