Despite its failure to enter widespread service, the lessons learned were applied to the follow-on Aegis Combat System and the associated AN/SPY-1 passive electronically scanned array (PESA) radar.

Also, in 1967, USS Long Beach detected and destroyed two North Vietnamese MiGs, utilizing the SCANFAR and Talos missile systems.

In service, the system proved to be temperamental, due largely to the huge number of vacuum tubes it used.

Converting to solid state for radar and radio equipment lightened the superstructure by 20 tons.

Gary M. Farral RD2, USS Long Beach CG(N)-9 2 November 1966 to 28 December 1968