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Around the same time the Regulus armed version proposed a similar Polaris armed version was drawn up on the same lines as the single ended design calling for 16 vertical launch tubes abaft the second funnel. Such a conversion at that time was estimated around 210 million dollars (of which only the Polaris costed 36 million!) and a conversion time requiring three and a half years for each ship. In both Polaris versions, estimates were made to see how quick a surface Polaris system could be operational. Other designs included conversions of existing cruisers or even newly built ships. By this time the Kentucky was no more and the rest of the Iowa class battleships would had been converted.
While the BBG proposal was included in the tentative Fiscal Year 1958 programs (as of 1956 April) but soon deleted from both the 1958 and 1959 programs. However slightly later in November of 1958 the director of the Long Range Objectives Group favoured the Talos conversion for the 1961-62 Fiscal Year programs if cost could be held below that of the Nuclear missile cruiser USS Long Beach. The idea was seriously considered as late as of 1960, meaning the USN strongly needed such warships but the money allocated for them was never voted fore, dying the program altogether. Still not that later a different conversion proposal emerged in the form of the Commando Ship a hybrid between a Battleship, Amphibious assault ship and Helicopter Carrier showing how well these ships made able to draw such many conversion proposals!

This is basically the Polaris version of this proposal:
www.deviantart.com/tzoli/art/D…
and hence the double ended variant of this:
www.deviantart.com/tzoli/art/S…

This drawing too was commissioned by yamato74

The designs had these characteristics:

Dimensions: 262,1m(wl), 270,4m (oa) x 33 x 11m
Displacement: unknown
Engines: 212.000shp General Electric / Westinghouse Steam Turbines, 4 shafts

Speed: 61km/h (33knots)
Range: 27.800km at 28km/h (15000nm at 15knots)
Armour: 178mm, Deck over machinery and magazines, 307mm Belt over machinery and magazines.
Armaments:
2x2 5"/38 (127mm/38) Mark 12 DP-AA Guns,

2x2 RIM-8 Talos SAM,
4x2 RIM-24 Tartar SAM,

2x8 RGM-27 Polaris A1 IRBM
1x8 RUR-5 ASROCK ASWM
Sensors:
SPS-10 - Surface search radar
SPS-30 - Height finder radar
SPS-34 - Height finder search radar (modified SPS-2)
SPS-43 - Air search radar
4x SPG-49 - Talos Illumination/tracking radars
8x SPG-51 - Tartar Illumination/tracking radars
4x SPW-2 - Talos guidance radars
2x Mark 37 Gun Directors with SPG-25 fire control radars
1x Radio Star Tracker Dome containing a Transit satellite navigation receiver antenna (Early version of the Global Positioning System)

1x TACAN - TACtical Air Navigation system

Description
Around the same time the Regulus armed version proposed a similar Polaris armed version was drawn up on the same lines as the single ended design calling for 16 vertical launch tubes abaft the second funnel. Such a conversion at that time was estimated around 210 million dollars (of which only the Polaris costed 36 million!) and a conversion time requiring three and a half years for each ship. In both Polaris versions, estimates were made to see how quick a surface Polaris system could be operational. Other designs included conversions of existing cruisers or even newly built ships. By this time the Kentucky was no more and the rest of the Iowa class battleships would had been converted.
While the BBG proposal was included in the tentative Fiscal Year 1958 programs (as of 1956 April) but soon deleted from both the 1958 and 1959 programs. However slightly later in November of 1958 the director of the Long Range Objectives Group favoured the Talos conversion for the 1961-62 Fiscal Year programs if cost could be held below that of the Nuclear missile cruiser USS Long Beach. The idea was seriously considered as late as of 1960, meaning the USN strongly needed such warships but the money allocated for them was never voted fore, dying the program altogether. Still not that later a different conversion proposal emerged in the form of the Commando Ship a hybrid between a Battleship, Amphibious assault ship and Helicopter Carrier showing how well these ships made able to draw such many conversion proposals!

This is basically the Polaris version of this proposal:
www.deviantart.com/tzoli/art/D…
and hence the double ended variant of this:
www.deviantart.com/tzoli/art/S…

This drawing too was commissioned by yamato74

The designs had these characteristics:

Dimensions: 262,1m(wl), 270,4m (oa) x 33 x 11m
Displacement: unknown
Engines: 212.000shp General Electric / Westinghouse Steam Turbines, 4 shafts

Speed: 61km/h (33knots)
Range: 27.800km at 28km/h (15000nm at 15knots)
Armour: 178mm, Deck over machinery and magazines, 307mm Belt over machinery and magazines.
Armaments:
2x2 5"/38 (127mm/38) Mark 12 DP-AA Guns,

2x2 RIM-8 Talos SAM,
4x2 RIM-24 Tartar SAM,

2x8 RGM-27 Polaris A1 IRBM
1x8 RUR-5 ASROCK ASWM
Sensors:
SPS-10 - Surface search radar
SPS-30 - Height finder radar
SPS-34 - Height finder search radar (modified SPS-2)
SPS-43 - Air search radar
4x SPG-49 - Talos Illumination/tracking radars
8x SPG-51 - Tartar Illumination/tracking radars
4x SPW-2 - Talos guidance radars
2x Mark 37 Gun Directors with SPG-25 fire control radars
1x Radio Star Tracker Dome containing a Transit satellite navigation receiver antenna (Early version of the Global Positioning System)

1x TACAN - TACtical Air Navigation system