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- Cruiser abstract "A cruiser is a type of warship. The term has been in use for several hundred years, and has had different meanings throughout this period. During the Age of Sail, the term cruising referred to certain kinds of missions – independent scouting, raiding or commerce protection – fulfilled by a frigate or sloop, which were the cruising warships of a fleet.In the middle of the 19th century, cruiser came to be a classification for the ships intended for this kind of role, though cruisers came in a wide variety of sizes, from the small protected cruiser to armored cruisers that were as large (although not as powerful) as a battleship.By the early 20th century, cruisers could be placed on a consistent scale of warship size, smaller than a battleship but larger than a destroyer. In 1922, the Washington Naval Treaty placed a formal limit on cruisers, which were defined as warships of up to 10,000 tons displacement carrying guns no larger than 8 inches in calibre. These limits shaped cruisers until the end of World War II. The very large battlecruisers of the World War I era were now classified, along with battleships, as capital ships.In the later 20th century, the obsolescence of the battleship left the cruiser as the largest and most powerful surface combatant (excluding aircraft carriers). The role of the cruiser varied according to ship and navy, often including air defense, commerce raiding, and shore bombardment. The U.S. Navy in the Cold War period built guided-missile cruisers primarily designed to provide air defense, while the navy of the USSR built battlecruisers with heavy anti-ship missiles designed to sink NATO carrier task forces.Currently only three nations operate cruisers: the United States, Russia, and Peru. (BAP Almirante Grau (CLM-81) is still in service with the Peruvian Navy, and is the last gun cruiser currently in service in any navy), though the line between cruisers and destroyers is once again blurred. New models of destroyers (for instance the Zumwalt class) are often larger and more powerful than cruiser classes they replace.".
- Cruiser thumbnail USS_Port_Royal_CG-73.jpg?width=300.
- Cruiser wikiPageExternalLink cr_navsea.html.
- Cruiser wikiPageID "7034".
- Cruiser wikiPageLength "31762".
- Cruiser wikiPageOutDegree "133".
- Cruiser wikiPageRevisionID "705135537".
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink 9K33_Osa.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink AK-630.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Aegis_Combat_System.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Age_of_Sail.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Aircraft_carrier.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Anti-aircraft_warfare.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Anti-ship_missile.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Anti-submarine_weapon.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Armed_merchantman.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Armored_cruiser.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Athens.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Battle_of_Jutland.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Battlecruiser.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Battleship.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Belfast.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Bordeaux.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Boston.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Buffalo,_New_York.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Capital_ship.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Category:Cruisers.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Category:Ship_types.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Commerce_raiding.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Cruise_missile.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Cruiser_and_Convoy_Act.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Destroyer.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Dreadnought.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Dual-purpose_gun.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Elswick,_Tyne_and_Wear.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Flagship.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Forecastle.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink France.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink French_Navy.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Frigate.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Heavy_cruiser.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Helicopter.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Hellenic_Navy.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Huáscar_(ironclad).
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink India.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Ironclad_warship.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Italian_Navy.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Italy.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Japan_Maritime_Self-Defense_Force.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Japanese_cruiser_Izumi.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Jeune_École.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink John_Fisher,_1st_Baron_Fisher.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Kashtan.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Kriegsmarine.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Landévennec.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Light_cruiser.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink List_of_cruisers.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink London.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink London_Naval_Treaty.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Merchant_navy.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Missile.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Monitor_(warship).
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Museum_ship.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Mykolaiv.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Naval_warfare_of_World_War_I.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Northern_Fleet.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Novorossiysk.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Nuclear_weapon.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink P-700_Granit.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Peruvian_Navy.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Philadelphia.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Point-defence.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Poop_deck.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Pre-dreadnought_battleship.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Protected_cruiser.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Quincy,_Massachusetts.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Radar_horizon.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Reichsmarine.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Royal_Navy.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Royal_Netherlands_Navy.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Russian_Navy.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink S-300_(missile).
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink SSM-N-8_Regulus.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Saint_Petersburg.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Screw_sloop.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Second_London_Naval_Treaty.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Ship_of_the_line.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Sloop.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Soviet_Navy.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Steam_frigate.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Steel.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Surface-to-surface_missile.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Taranto.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Tomahawk_(missile).
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Ton.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Tor_missile_system.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Torpedo_boat.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Torpedo_gunboat.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Treaty_of_San_Francisco.
- Cruiser wikiPageWikiLink Treaty_of_Versailles.