Strike cruiser

The strike cruiser was a proposal from DARPA for a class of cruisers in the late 1970s. The proposal was for the strike cruiser to be a guided missile attack cruiser with a displacement of around, armed and equipped with the Aegis combat system, the SM-2, Harpoon anti-ship missile, the Tomahawk missile, and the 8"/55 caliber [Mark 71 gun|Mk71 8-inch gun].
A prototype strike cruiser was to be the refurbished at a cost of roughly $800 million; however, this never came to pass.
Originally, eight to twelve strike cruisers were projected. The class would have been complemented by the Aegis-equipped fleet defense version of the. Plagued with design difficulties and escalating cost, the project was canceled in the closing days of the Presidency of [Gerald Ford|Ford administration]. After the cancellation of the class, the Aegis destroyers were expanded into the Aegis cruiser program.