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"Single-ended" (i.e., missiles forward and guns aft) U.S. Navy [[cruiser]]s, conventionally powered, original area defense [[surface-to-air missile]

...ge air defense system aboard [[Kirov-class]] and [[Slava-class]] Russian [[cruiser]]s

...design for better antiaircraft gunnery, a small class of U.S. Navy [[heavy cruiser]]s, converted to [[Albany-class]] missile cruisers, a command ship, or scra

...[[Imperial Japanese Navy]], a specialist in torpedoes and gunnery who led cruiser-destroyer task forces, and later the area commander for the Southwest Pacif

Modern [[United States Navy]] [[cruiser]]s usually serving as carrier or amphibious escorts, but capable of indepen

...on [[cruiser#Albany class large missile cruiser|Albany class large missile cruiser]]s.

...f 20,700 ton British [[aircraft carrier]]s; initially called "through deck cruiser" due to political sensitivity of aircraft carrier designation, but accepted

Built in 1942-1945 to a 1938 design, large (11,700 ton) U.S. Navy [[light cruiser]]s based on a major upgrade of the [[Brooklyn-class]]; some converted to [[

U.S. WWII naval command for modern [[battleship]]s and [[cruiser]]s used in fleet operations; designated TF34 when part of [[United States T

A [[warship]] larger than a [[destroyer]], but smaller than a [[heavy cruiser]], with more or heavier main guns (typically 6"/152mm), and some [[armor (n

===Cruiser=== During the Cold War, the U.S. Navy went through numerous renamings of cruiser-like ship types, eventually stabilizing in 1975, but having gone through ca

A Baseline 4 [[Ticonderoga-class]] cruiser of the [[United States Navy]], which has been one of the primary test ships

The last naval battle of the [[Guadalcanal Campaign]], in which a U.S. cruiser-destroyer force under Rear Admiral [[Robert Giffen|"Ike" Giffen]], concerne

...destroyer]] ''USS Goldsborough (DDG 20)'', and the [[Ticonderoga-class]] [[cruiser]] ''[[USS Yorktown (CG 48)]]''. He commanded Cruiser-Destroyer Group 2, the George Washington Battle Group, and the [[United Sta

...victory over an ''ad hoc'' Allied force, 27-28 February 1942, fought by [[cruiser]]s and [[destroyer]]s, ending Allied naval resistance in what the Japanese

A German [[armored cruiser]] of the [[First World War]], flagship of Admiral [[Maximilian von Spee]].

A Baseline 3 (of 4) [[Ticonderoga-class]] [[cruiser]] of the [[United States Navy]], which survived a mine explosion during the

...[[Soviet Union]] for the [[German auxiliary cruiser Komet|German auxiliary cruiser ''Komet'']] to transit the [[Northern Sea Route]] across the top of [[Siber

Pioneering [[aircraft carrier]], originally a specialized large light cruiser built in 1917, and then adapted for flight experiments with a small flight

Second ship of the [[United States Navy]] to bear the name, a [[heavy cruiser]] of the [[New Orleans-class]], built in 1934, fought in the [[Doolittle Ra