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The drawing shows the Guided Missile Cruiser USS Albany CG-10 (Ex CA-123) as looked like in around 1972. After WW2 the USN had a large surplus of both light and heavy cruisers as well as destroyers and the emerging new rocket and missile technologies promised advanced weapon systems to combat the new threat that the WW2 brought: Destructive Air Power. The development of the first missiles:
RIM-2 Terrier
RGM-6 Regulus
RIM-8 Talos
RGM-15 Regulus II
RIM-24 Tartar
UGM-26 Polaris
and the ever increasing threat of the Soviet Air and Naval Force meant that the USN required new missile armed ships as soon as possible so while new ships were laid down, a number of the surplus ships left from the world war were chosen for conversion into either hybrid gun-missile armed ships or pure missile armed ships. The Albany class was part of this process whose members (originally 6 but later reduced to just 3 due to costs) were originally Oregon City (Improved Baltimore Class) The Ship Characteristic Board allocated a design (SCB-173) for the Oregon City class a full missile conversion. The conversion envisioned the total removal of the entire armament and superstructure from the main deck upwards, replacing them with a double ended twin Talos setup, wing mounted twin Tartar launchers and their associated radars. Loading mechanisms and other various equipments like davits for boat handling was added as well. Due to the arrangement and sizes of the missile director radars the bridge superstructure and the the now combined mast and funnel called Mack had to be considerably tall to look over the aforementioned radars. The resulting height improved the surface and air search radar capabilities but these changes resulted in quite unique looking ships with tall but relatively thin superstructures and long funnels.

The design had the following characteristics:

Dimensions: 202,4 (wl) 205,8 (oa) x 21,3 x 7,9m

Displacement: 14.394tons (standard), 18.777tons (full load)

Engines: 120.000shp General Electric Steam Turbines, 4 shafts
Speed: 59km/h (32knots)
Range: 13.000km at (7.500nm at 15knots)

Armour: 64mm Deck, 152mm Machinery, 76mm Magazines Belt

Armaments:

2x1 5"/38 Mark 12 Guns

1x8 RUR-5 ASROC ASW in Mark 16 Launcher
2x2 RIM-8 Talos SAM in Mark 12 Launchers,
2x2 RIM-24 Tartar SAM in Mark 11 Launchers
2x3 324mm Torpedo Tubes

Sensors:

SPS-10 Surface Search Radar

SPS-30 Air Search / Height Finding Radar
SPS-43A Air Search Radar
SPS-48 3D FRESCAN Air Search Radar
4x SPG-49 Talos Fire Control Radars
4x SPG-51 Tartar Tracking/Illuminating Radar

4x SPW-2 - Talos Guidance Radar

TACAN - TACtical Air Navigation System

Description

The drawing shows the Guided Missile Cruiser USS Albany CG-10 (Ex CA-123) as looked like in around 1972. After WW2 the USN had a large surplus of both light and heavy cruisers as well as destroyers and the emerging new rocket and missile technologies promised advanced weapon systems to combat the new threat that the WW2 brought: Destructive Air Power. The development of the first missiles:
RIM-2 Terrier
RGM-6 Regulus
RIM-8 Talos
RGM-15 Regulus II
RIM-24 Tartar
UGM-26 Polaris
and the ever increasing threat of the Soviet Air and Naval Force meant that the USN required new missile armed ships as soon as possible so while new ships were laid down, a number of the surplus ships left from the world war were chosen for conversion into either hybrid gun-missile armed ships or pure missile armed ships. The Albany class was part of this process whose members (originally 6 but later reduced to just 3 due to costs) were originally Oregon City (Improved Baltimore Class) The Ship Characteristic Board allocated a design (SCB-173) for the Oregon City class a full missile conversion. The conversion envisioned the total removal of the entire armament and superstructure from the main deck upwards, replacing them with a double ended twin Talos setup, wing mounted twin Tartar launchers and their associated radars. Loading mechanisms and other various equipments like davits for boat handling was added as well. Due to the arrangement and sizes of the missile director radars the bridge superstructure and the the now combined mast and funnel called Mack had to be considerably tall to look over the aforementioned radars. The resulting height improved the surface and air search radar capabilities but these changes resulted in quite unique looking ships with tall but relatively thin superstructures and long funnels.

The design had the following characteristics:

Dimensions: 202,4 (wl) 205,8 (oa) x 21,3 x 7,9m

Displacement: 14.394tons (standard), 18.777tons (full load)

Engines: 120.000shp General Electric Steam Turbines, 4 shafts
Speed: 59km/h (32knots)
Range: 13.000km at (7.500nm at 15knots)

Armour: 64mm Deck, 152mm Machinery, 76mm Magazines Belt

Armaments:

2x1 5"/38 Mark 12 Guns

1x8 RUR-5 ASROC ASW in Mark 16 Launcher
2x2 RIM-8 Talos SAM in Mark 12 Launchers,
2x2 RIM-24 Tartar SAM in Mark 11 Launchers
2x3 324mm Torpedo Tubes

Sensors:

SPS-10 Surface Search Radar

SPS-30 Air Search / Height Finding Radar
SPS-43A Air Search Radar
SPS-48 3D FRESCAN Air Search Radar
4x SPG-49 Talos Fire Control Radars
4x SPG-51 Tartar Tracking/Illuminating Radar

4x SPW-2 - Talos Guidance Radar

TACAN - TACtical Air Navigation System