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USS Kentucky Guided Missile Battleship 1956

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The first part of the BBG conversion proposals of the Iowas I've described here:
www.deviantart.com/tzoli/art/I…
so I continue with the second part.
The Long Range Objectives Group started another preliminary design studies in the spring of 1956 for the USS Kentucky hull which showed that instead of RGM-15 Regulus II or SSM-N-2 Triton missiles, two RGM-27 Polaris A1 launchers with 16 missiles could be installed. The design would also accommodate four twin RIM-8 Talos (80 missiles each) and twelve RIM-24 Tartar (most likely single) missile launchers (42 missiles each). The Polaris missile would had required special equipment like a new inertial navigational system (SINS - Ship Inertial Navigation System) a Doppler sonar for precision ship speed measurement and anti-pitch fins for stabilisation and reducing the roll of the ship. Somewhat later in mid 1956 a citadel like radar array was envisioned, most likely the same then proposed for the USS Long beach and USS Enterprise. By this time this more extensive conversion proposal would cost roughly 252 million dollars and 42 months of construction time and as of July BuShips expected to complete the USS Kentucky to this design by the end of July 1961!

Based on this description and especially on the mention of the citadel type radar (SPS-32 and 33) I've created what I would call a Super Long Beach, essentially an enlarged Long Beach on the hull of an Iowa but with standard steam turbine propulsion and similarly no gun armament at all!

This drawing too was comissioned by yamato74 :iconyamato74:

The designs had these characteristics:
Dimensions: 262,1m(wl), 270,4m (oa) x 33 x 11m
Displacement: unknown
Engines: 212.000shp General Electric / Westinghouse Steam Turbines, 4 shafts
Speed: 61km/h (33knots)
Range: 27.800km at 28km/h (15000nm at 15knots)
Armour: 178mm, Deck over machinery and magazines, 307mm Belt over machinery and magazines.
Armaments: 
4x2 RIM-8 Talos SAM,
12x1 RIM-24 Tartar SAM,
2x1 RGM-27 Polaris A1 IRBM
Sensors:
SPS-12 - Surveillance radar
SPS-30 - Height finder radar
SPS-43 - Air search radar
12x SPG-51 - Tartar Illumination/tracking radars
8x SPG-49 - Talos Illumination/tracking radars
10x SPW-2 - Talos Guidance radars
4x SPS-32 SCANFAR Search radars
4x SPS-33 SCANFAR Tracking radars

EDIT: I've added the missing SPW-2 Talos guidance radars, improved the SPG-49 Illuminator radars and some superstructure changes according to this.
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I see a slight error in the info on the Tarter launchers. Only the Mk 11 GMLS with the twin arms had a 42 round magazine. The Mk 13 and Mk 22 GMLS which are the two single arm Tarter launchers had 40 and 16 missiles respectively.



Everything I have read on the Talos Mk 7 and Mk 12 GMLS shows them with 46 and 56 round respectively. There may have been plans for a mod of one of these systems with a larger magazine. It looks like the Mk 12 could have been made deeper with ten levels of missile trays instead of the seven in the normal mods.



You have a super Long Beach but I think a super Albany might have been more likely.