Editing Baltimore-class cruiser (section)

===Armament===
[[File:USS Saint Paul (CA-73) provides gunfire support off South Vietnam, circa in October 1966 (80-G-K-33437).jpg|thumb|right|Salvo by both forward turrets on ''St. Paul'' during the Vietnam War]]
[[File:SSM-N-8 Regulus cruise missile on USS Toledo (CA-133) in 1958.jpg|thumb|A Regulus missile ready to launch from ''Toledo'' in 1958]]
The main armament of the ''Baltimore'' class consisted of three turrets, each with three Mark 15 [[8"/55 caliber gun]]s (Mark 12 in ''Baltimore''). Two of these were located forward and one aft. They fired a {{convert|335|lb|kg|adj=on}} shell out to a maximum range of {{convert|30,050|yd|m}}. The armor-piercing shell could penetrate six inches of armor plating at {{convert|20,800|yd}}. The secondary armament consisted of twelve [[5"/38 caliber gun]]s in six twin mounts. Two mounts were located on each side of the superstructure and two were behind the main batteries fore and aft. These guns could be used against aircraft and surface targets. Their maximum range for surface targets was {{convert|17,575|yd}} and they could reach aircraft at altitudes of up to {{convert|12,400|yd}}. In addition, the ships had numerous light anti-aircraft weapons: 12 quadruple mounts of [[Bofors 40 mm Automatic Gun L/60|Bofors 40 mm]] guns (or 11 quadruple mounts and 2 twin mounts on ships with only one rear aircraft crane) as well as 20–28 [[Oerlikon 20 mm cannon]]s, depending on when a given ship was commissioned. After World War II the 20&nbsp;mm anti-aircraft guns were removed without replacement, due to limited effectiveness against [[kamikaze]] attacks, and because it was expected they would be completely ineffective against postwar jet aircraft. The 40&nbsp;mm Bofors were replaced with [[3"/50 caliber gun]]s in the 1950s.

Four ships, {{USS|Toledo|CA-133|2}}, {{USS|Macon|CA-132|2}}, {{USS|Helena|CA-75|2}}, and {{USS|Los Angeles|CA-135|2}}, were also each equipped with three nuclear [[cruise missiles]] of the [[SSM-N-8 Regulus]] type between 1956 and 1958. Ultimately, though, the deployment of such missiles on surface ships remained an experiment, which was only undertaken until the 1960s. The successor [[UGM-27 Polaris]] was carried only by [[nuclear submarine]]s. In the late 1950s, plans were made to fit Polaris to missile conversions of these cruisers, but the only missile cruiser conversion ever so equipped was the {{ship|Italian cruiser|Giuseppe Garibaldi|1936|6}}, (four tubes), and the missiles were never actually shipped.