United States Navy/Catalogs/Ship classes
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- Nimitz-class [r]: Main class, in the United States Navy, of large aircraft carriers with nuclear propulsion [e]
- Ticonderoga-class [r]: Modern United States Navy cruisers usually serving as carrier or amphibious escorts, but capable of independent action including long-range strike, anti-air/anti-ballistic missile/anti-satellite warfare, naval gunfire support, and antisubmarine warfare. [e]
- Burke-class [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Zumwalt-class [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Oliver Hazard Perry-class [r]: Limited-capability ocean escorts in the U.S. and other navies, designated "frigates" [e]
- Los Angeles-class [r]: The primary class of attack submarines in the United States Navy, built in three groups of which early models are being retired; to be replaced by the Virginia-class [e]
- Seawolf-class [r]: A class of advanced attack submarines of the United States Navy, optimized for Cold War requirements as a replacement for the Los Angeles-class; production capped and replacement shifted to the Virginia-class [e]
- Virginia-class [r]: Latest attack submarine class of the United States Navy, smaller than Seawolf-class for cost and to give better littoral warfare capabilities; port-swappable mission modules to optimize for surveillance, special operations [e]
- Ohio-class [r]: The sole operational class of U.S. ballistic missile submarines, firing the Trident D5; some have been converted for special operations and cruise missile launch [e]
- San Antonio-class [r]: Used in amphibious warfare, a class of Landing Platform Dock ships of the United States Navy, with some in commission and some under construction; they displace 24,900 tons and will replace the Austin-class (LPD-4) [e]
- Wasp-class [r]: The largest amphibious warfare ships in the United States Navy, which carry a Marine Expeditionary Unit and supporting aircraft [e]
Historic
Aircraft carriers
- Essex-class [r]: Ordered in 1940 and beginning delivery in 1943, originally twenty-four ship class was the backbone of U.S. WWII aircraft carrier operation, continuing in a secondary role well into the Cold War; planned later ships built to Ticonderoga (carrier)-class design; many went through postwar SCB-27 and SCB-125 conversion into Oriskany-class [e]
- Forrestal-class [r]: Originally planned as an eight-ship "supercarrier" class, the first large aircraft carrier built with angled decks and other features specifically intended to operate jet aircraft; improved last four became Kitty Hawk-class [e]
Battleships
- Montana-class [r]: A cancelled class of U.S. battleships, slower and more heavily gunned and armored than the Iowa-class [e]
- Iowa-class [r]: The last class of battleships deployed by any navy; these were United States Navy vessels launched during WWII and played a role in anti-air warfare and naval gunfire support; later conversions kept them in use as missile-launching platforms; all 4 retired [e]
- South Dakota-class [r]: A four-ship class of 35,000 ton U.S. Navy battleship begun just before the Second World War; more compact and better protected than the preceding North Carolina-class, but had the same main battery of nine 16"-45 caliber MK 6 naval guns in triple turrets [e]
Cruisers
Destroyers
First World War
- Clemson-class [r]: A post-First World War "four stack" U.S. destroyer class, of 1,190 tons/1,308 tons full load displacement, armed with 4x4" guns and 1 3" guns plus torpedoes; USS Reuben James (DD-245) was of the class [e]
- Wickes-class [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Caldwell-class [r]: Add brief definition or description
Interwar & Second World War
- Farragut-class [r]: A 1931 U.S. Navy destroyer type, which was the first to move away from the First World War "flush deck" design; they were the oldest destroyer type in general U.S. use in the Second World War, the "flush deckers" having been converted to auxiliaries or transferred to Britain [e]
- Gridley-class [r]: A two-ship U.S. Navy destroyer class, built during the 1930s to experiment with a new high-speed power plant [e]
- Bagley-class [r]: U.S. Navy destroyers of a 1935 design, slightly slower than the two-ship Gridley-class, with the same powerplant and weapons as the Mahan-class [e]
- Benson-Gleaves-class [r]: Two closely associated classes of U.S. Navy destroyer, built between 1938 and 1940, which were somewhat undergunned compared with the Fletcher and especially Allen M. Sumner-class destroyers, but did workhorse duty during the war [e]
- Mahan-class [r]: A U.S. Navy destroyer design, which served in the Second World War, based on the Sims-class but rearranged to provide more space for torpedo tubes, and featuring a turbine power plant much advanced of the predecessor Sims-class [e]
- Sims-class [r]: Designed in 1937, the last class of U.S. Navy destroyer built before the Second World War; the last with a single fireroom and single stack, which represented a single point of failure [e]
- Benham-class [r]: U.S. Navy destroyers of the general layout of the Gridley-class, but with a higher pressure power plant, thus needing one less stack than the Bagley-class; in wartime, traded torpedo tubes for more antiaircraft and antisubmarine armament [e]
- Porter-class [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Somers-class [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Fletcher-class [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Allen M. Sumner-class [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Gearing-class [r]: Add brief definition or description
Cold War
- Adams-class [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Spruance-class destroyer [r]: Add brief definition or description