

USN heavy cruiser have rapid reload skills to increase DPM, while light cruisers have better surveillance with both sonar and radar skills. Although the floaty shells may not get you as many citadels as other nations, full penetration from heavy cruisers are common and fire chance for light cruisers as well.

AA is also extremely strong, and coupled with Air Defense Alert, makes it extremely hard for a carrier to strike you without losing a massive air fleet.

In return, they get extremely high DPM, with very hard hitting AP or HE shells, and very floaty shell arcs that make camping behind islands a very viable strategy. They don't have torpedoes and suffer from weak armor protection. USN cruisers are the most reliant on their team.
