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Tzoli — USS Long Beach as looked like in 1969
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This drawing shows the USS Long Beach as looked like in around 1969, after a minor refit, which added two single Zuni Chaffroc launchers at both sides of the hull near the Talos loading hatches, removal of IFF sensors at the aft flying bridges, removal of two tilted antennas from the aft superstrcutre, added single antenna on the stern port/left side, and replacing the dark grey/black liferafts with light grey/white ones. Otherwise it looks the same as the 1966 look. According to the Wikipedia, the SPS-32/33 radars too got an upgrade around this time replacing their vacuum tube switchboards with Solid State ones.The design had these characteristics:
Dimensions: 210,4 (wl) x 219,9 (oa) x 22,3 x 7,3m
Displacement: 14.200tons (standard), 16.600tons (full load)
Engines: 80.000shp Westinghouse C1W Nuclear Reactors, 2 shafts
Speed: 56km/h (30knots)
Armaments:
1x2 RIM-8 Talos SAM in Mark 12 Launcher,
2x2 RIM-2 Terrier SAM in Mark 10 Launchers,
1x8 RUR-5 ASROC ASW in Mark 16 Launcher,
2x1 5"/38 (127mm/38) Mark 12 Guns.
2x3 324mm Torpedo Tubes
Sensors:
1x SPS-10 - Surface-Search Radar
1x SPS-12 - Air-Search Radar
4x SPS-32 - Air-Search Radar
4x SPS-33 - Height Finder Radar
1x SPS-53 - Surface-Search/Navigational Radar
2x SPG-35 / Mark 35 Gunnery Fire Control Radar for the Mark 56 GFCS
4x SPG-55 - Terrier Illumination/tracking radars
2x SPG-49 - Talos Illumination/tracking radars
2x SPW-2 - Talos guidance radars
1x TACAN - TACtical Air Navigation System
