 It was installed on numerous US Cruiser and destroyers in the 1960s through early 1990s such as the California class cruisers, Virginia class cruisers, Kidd class destroyers and the Charles F. Adams class destroyer.It is also in use in other countries such as the Fleet escorters of the French Navy "Kersaint", "Bouvet", "Du Chayla" and "Dupetit-Thouars", and is now in use on the "Cassard" and "Jean Bart".Starting in the middle 1960s a new family of guided missiles referred to as the Standard missiles were developed to replace the poor performing missiles used by existing fire control systems.