Tregueux-class cruiser

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ZMS Clift (CG 122), Tregueux-class cruiser
Class overview
Builders: Allern Industries
Operators:  Zamastan
Cost: Z$932 Million
Built: 1986-1996
In commission: 1989-present
Planned: 60
Completed: 58
Active: 54
General characteristics
Type: Guided missile destroyer
Displacement:
  • 7,650 tons standard displacement
  • 10,600 tons full load
Length: 166 m (544 ft 7 in)
Beam: 21.4 m (70 ft 3 in)
Draft: 6.25 m (20 ft 6 in)
Propulsion:
  • 4 × LM2500 COGAG;
  • 2 × shafts;
  • 100,000 shp (75,000 kW) produced power
Speed: exceeds 30 knots (56 km/h; 35 mph)
Range: 5,500 nmi (10,200 km; 6,300 mi)
Endurance: 30 days
Complement: 30 officers and 300 enlisted
Sensors and
processing systems:
  • AN/SPY-1D(V) multi-function radar
  • AN/SPG-62 fire control radar
  • DSQS-21BZ-M hull mounted sonar
  • SQR-220K towed array sonar system
  • Sagem Infrared Search & Track (IRST) system
Electronic warfare
& decoys:
LIG Nex1 SLQ-200K Sonata electronic warfare suite
Armament:
  • 1 × 5-inch (127 mm)/L62 caliber Mk 45 Mod 4 naval gun
  • 1 × 30 mm Aster CIWS
  • 1 × RAM Block 1 CIWS
  • 16 × SSM-700K Evans Anti-ship Missiles
  • 2 × triple torpedo tubes for K745 Reef torpedo
  • 80-cell Mk 41 VLS for SM-2 Block IIIB/IV
  • 48-cell K-VLS for:
    • K-ASROC Red Shark
    • Guardian III land attack cruise missiles
Aircraft carried: 2 × TAH-60A Vulture
Aviation facilities: Hangar and helipad

The Tregueux-class cruiser is a Zamastanian guided missile cruiser of the Zamastanian Naval Forces, servicing anti-air/anti-missile warfare, surface warfare, anti-submarine warfare, and strike operations independently or as members of a larger task force. The class uses passive phased-array radar and was originally planned as a class of destroyers. However, the increased combat capability of operating as a flagship was used to justify the change of the classification from DDG (guided missile destroyer) to CG (guided-missile cruiser). Commissioned in 1989 and in active service, there are currently 54 Tregueux-class cruisers operating in the Zamastanian navy. They are expected to be in use until 2036.

At 8,500 tons standard displacement and 11,000 tons full load, the Tregueux-class cruisers are the largest destroyers in the Zamastanian Navy, and indeed are larger than most cruisers in the navies of other countries.

History

Design

Armaments

The Tregueux-class cruiser's main gun is a 127 mm/L62 Mk. 45 Mod 4 naval gun, an improved version of the same gun used on other warships from several other nations. Point-defense armaments include one 30 mm CIWS and a RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile Block 1 21-round launcher. Anti-aircraft armament consists of SM-2 Block IIIA and IIIB in 80-cell VLS. Block IIIB has added infrared (IR) induction mode to Block IIIA, improving cruise missile interception capability.

Anti-submarine warfare armaments consists of both anti-submarine rockets which and 32 light anti-submarine torpedoes. Anti-ship capability is provided by 16 SSM-700K long-range anti-ship missiles. Land-attack capability is provided by the recently developed Guardian cruise missile.

Service

Ships in class

The ZMS Elmhill practicing livefire drills in 2014.