The Ship Model Forum

I have something for the community. There are few paintings and reference material out there about the strike cruiser conversion planned for the USS Long Beach. This is a painting recently discovered at Lockheed Martin's Aegis warfare center and was done my Lockheed's conceptual artist Vince Peicyk. It has been stored at Lockheed's facility at Moorestown, New Jersey for decades. This is a copy of the original and is being posted with permission on the internet for the first time.
As you can see it's fitted as:
Aegis
4x SPG-62 from the looks of the directors
2x Mk71 MCLWGs
2x Mk26 twin rail launchers
16x Harpoon
8x some larger missile, perhaps another launcher variant for the tomahawk
SPS-49 on the aft part of the mast
SPQ-9 perhaps inside the dome

This ship would have been a beast. I have a larger version of the file if anyone would like a copy.

Hi Dave

Just found that post...this version of Long Beach looks really great! Now changing the rocket launchers to VLS and beefing up the electronics even more I am sure she would be for for even 2014
...Wouldn't mind getting the bigger file you mentioned, please.

thanks a lot
Uwe

Uwe,
Unfortunately, my computer was killed by the Windows 8.1 upgrade, and it lost all of my pictures, including that one.