Kansas-class BBGN

An excerpt from 'USN Battleships of the late 20th and early 21st Centuries':

Kansas-class nuclear powered guided missile battleship: A successor to the Iowa, Montana, and Ohio-class battleships, the Kansas-class battleships were designed to complement Carrier Battle Groups, by providing heavy anti-surface firepower, in addition to heavy naval gunfire and missile support.

Ships in Class:
-USS Kansas, BBGN-1
-USS Delaware, BBGN-2
-USS Hawaii, BBGN-3 (named after the State of Hawaii, rather than the Territory of Hawaii as the cancelled CB-4 would have been)
-USS Minnesota, BBGN-4
-USS New York, BBGN-5
-USS Idaho, BBGN-6

Data Sheet - USS Kansas, BBGN-1

Laid down: October 7th, 1998
Launched: March 18th, 2002
Commissioned: July 4th, 2004

Dimensions:
-Length (overall): 1,050 feet (320 meters)
-Beam: 128 feet (39.01 meters)
-Draught (design): 36 feet (10.97 meters)
-Displacement: Standard displacement ~70,000 long tons, maximum displacement ~81,100 long tons (Estimated, actual figure still classified)

Armament:
-6x 16"/56 Mark 9 guns, in 2 3-gun turrets mounted on the fore of the ship. Ammunition storage 195 rounds per gun, in automated stowage.
-4x 5"/62 Mark 45 Mod. 4 guns, in 4 single turrets. 680 rounds per gun in automated stowage.
-4x 57mm/70 Mark 110 Mod. 0 guns, in 4 single turrets. 660 rounds per gun in automated stowage and handling systems.
-4x Goalkeeper Block 1B Close-In Weapon System mounts, mounted on the four "corners" of the superstructure. 1,200 rounds on each mount, plus 2,400 per gun in automated handling systems.
-160x Mk 57 Mod. 0 VLS cells, in periphery positions around the edge of the ship, under armored blast covers and starting far enough aft of Turret 2 to minimize the risk of over-pressure damage during main battery gun fire.
-96x Mk 41 Mod. 7 VLS cells in aft cluster, under armored bay doors, positioned roughly where Turret 3 would be on an Iowa-class battleship.
-4x Mk 141 Mod. 1 Harpoon Missile Launcher, mounted amidships above deck.
-4x Mk 49 GMLS launchers, firing RIM-116 Block 1 Rolling Airframe Missiles. 21 missiles per launcher. Positioned in superstructure, above and towards the middle of the ship from the Goalkeeper CIWS mounts.
-6x Mk-46 or Mk-50 torpedoes, in 2x Mark 32 triple tube launchers, mounted amidships. 1 reload, stored in armored ammunition stowage behind mounts in superstructure.

Armor:
-14" main belt
-6" main armor deck
-2" ends (due to use of HY100 in structure)
-2" fore and quarterdeck (due to use of HY100 in structure)
-8" conning tower
-5" on superstructure (due to use of HY100 in structure)

Powerplant:
-2x Westinghouse B1W Reactor (modified version of Westinghouse A4W reactors used on Nimitz-class aircraft carriers)
-4x Steam turbines
-4 shafts, driven via geared drive
-260,000 shp (194 MW)

Speed:
-32.5+ knots (60.19+ kph, 37.4+ mph) (Estimated, actual figure still classified)

Range:
-Unlimited

Complement:
-1,874, including aircrew

Sensors and Processing Systems:
-AN/SPY-1E 3D radar
-AN/SPS-67(V)4 surface-search radar
-AN/SPG-62A fire control radar
-AN/SQS-53D sonar array
-AN/SQR-19 tactical towed array sonar
-AN/SQQ-28 LAMPS III shipboard system
-Aegis Combat System

Electronic Warfare and Decoys:
-AN/SLQ-32A(V)5 Countermeasures and Electronic Warfare Suite
-AN/SLQ-25A Nixie torpedo countermeasures
-MK 36 MOD 14 Decoy Launching System
-AN/SLQ-39A CHAFF buoys

Boats & Landing Craft Carried:
-Up to 8 rigid-hull inflatable boats

Aircraft carried:
-Up to 4 MH-60R Seahawk LAMPS III helicopters
-Up to 6 RQ-7 Shadow UAVs

Aviation facilities:
-Enclosed hangar for 4 MH-60R Seahawk helicopters, with landing pad, just aft of the 96 cell VLS battery. Landing pad is on lowered section of decking aft of the hangar, to allow for more direct access.
-Internal storage for 6 RQ-7 Shadow UAVs, with deployable launch catapult and recovery cables integrated into helicopter landing pad, with auxiliary recovery netting.

Underway Replenishment Supplies:
-11,500 long tons of JP-5 fuel, to extend the range of the non-nuclear members of Carrier Battle Group

Campaigns Participated In (circa 2019):
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Operation Enduring Freedom
Operation Freedom's Sentinel
Operation Inherent Resolve
Operation Pacific Eagle
Operation Active Endeavour