Cruisers in Service Today
Few cruisers remain operational in the world navies. Those that do are:
- United States Navy: 22 Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruisers.
- Russian Navy: One Kirov-class large missile cruiser (sometimes referred to as battlecruisers due to their size) and three Slava-class missile cruisers and one Kara-class.
- Peruvian Navy: The BAP Almirante Grau (CLM-81), a De Zeven Provinciën-class cruiser, was modernized as a guided-missile cruiser in the late eighties, is the world's last operational gun cruiser.
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