Belknap-class cruiser

USS Sterett on 7 September 1990
Class overview
Name	Belknap class
Builders	Several
Operators	United States Navy
Preceded by	Leahy class
Succeeded by	California class
Subclasses	Truxtun class
Built	1962–1967
In commission	1964–1995
Completed	9
Retired	9
General characteristics
Type	Guided missile cruiser
Displacement	7,930 tons[1] (8,057 metric tons)
Length	547 ft (167 m)[1]
Beam	55 ft (17 m)[1]
Draft	29 ft (8.8 m)[2]
Propulsion	four 1200 psi (8300 kPa) boilers, two geared steam turbines, two shafts. 85,000 shp (63,384 kW)[1]
Speed	32 knots[1] (59 km/h)
Complement	27 officers, 450 enlisted[1]
Sensors and processing systems	AN/SPS-10 surface search RADAR[3] AN/SPS-48 3D air search radar[3] AN/SPS-49 2D air search radar 2 AN/SPG-55 Terrier missile fire control radar[3][4] AN/SQS-26 SONAR[3][5]
Armament	(final configuration) 1 × Mk 10 Mod 7 Guided Missile Launching System with 40 SM-2ER Standard missiles 20 × RUR-5 ASROC Antisubmarine Missiles (Fired from the Mk 10 launcher) 2 × 4 Harpoon missile launchers 2 × 3 Mark 46 torpedo launchers 1 × 5 Inch/54-caliber Mk. 42 gun 2 × Phalanx CIWS[1][2]
Armor	none[2]
Aircraft carried	(final configuration) 1 × SH-2H Seasprite[1]

The Belknap-class cruiser was a class of single-ended guided-missile cruisers (their missile armament was installed only forward, unlike "double-ended" missile cruisers with missile armament installed both forward and aft) built for the United States Navy during the 1960s. They were originally designated as DLG frigates (destroyer leaders; the USN use of the term frigate from 1950 to 1975 was intended to evoke the power of the sailing frigates of old),^{[citation needed]} but in the 1975 fleet realignment, they were reclassified as guided missile cruisers (CG).