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  Truxtun 1978

Ships

No	Name	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comm	Fate
DLGN35, 6.1975- CGN35	Truxtun	540	New York SB, Camden	17.6.1963	19.12.1964	27.5.1967	stricken 9.1995

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	8149
Displacement full, t	8927
Length, m	164.6 wl 172.0 oa
Breadth, m	17.6
Draught, m	6.00
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets geared steam turbines, 2 D2G reactors
Power, h. p.	60000
Max speed, kts	30
Fuel, t	nuclear
Endurance, nm(kts)	practically unlimited
Armament	1 x 2 Terrier SAM / ASROC ASuR (40 RIM-2, 20 RUR-5), 1 x 1 - 127/54 Mk 42, 2 x 1 - 76/50 Mk 34, 2 - 533 Mk 25 TT, 4 - 324 Mk 32 TT (18), 1 DASH drone ASW helicopter
Electronic equipment	SPS-40, SPS-48, SPS-10, 2x SPG-55, SPG-53, 2x Mk 35 radars, SQS-26BX sonar, WLR-1, WLR-3 ECM suites, 2x Mk 28 decoy RL, NTDS CCS
Complement	490

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Project history

Truxtun was essentially a nuclear version of the Belknap class, somewhat enlarged and rearranged to accommodate her power plant. The Nuclear Propulsion organization had originally hoped to duplicate the earlier Bainbridge, but this was rejected in new of the need for the improved SQS-26 sonar.

Modernizations

1970s: - 2 - 533 TT, 1 DASH drone helicopter; + 1 helicopter (SH-2D Sea Sprite)

1980: - 1 x 2 Terrier SAM / ASROC ASuR (40 RIM-2, 20 RUR-5), 2 x 1 - 76/50, SPS-10, SPS-40, SPS-48, 2x SPG-55, 2x Mk 35 radars; + 2 x 4 Harpoon SSM (8 RGM-84A), 1 x 2 Standard SM-1MR SAM / ASROC ASuR (40 RIM-66, 20 RUR-5), LN-66, SPS-48C, SPS-40D, 2x SPG-55B radars

4/1984: - SPS-10, SPS-40, SPG-53 radars, WLR-3 ECM suite, 2x Mk 28 decoy RL; + 2 x 6 -20/76 Mk 15 Phalanx, 4 x 1 - 12.7/90, SPS-40D, SPS-48C, SPS-67, SPG-53F, 2x Mk 90 radars, SLQ-32(v)3 ECM suite, 4x Mk 36 SRBOC decoy RL

1990: - LN-66, SPS-40D, SPS-67, 2x SPG-55B radars; + SPS-49, SPS-64(v)9, SPS-67(v)1, 2x SPG-55C radars, T-Mk 6 Fanfare torpedo decoy

Naval service

No significant events.