Ticonderoga-class cruiser

Ticonderoga-class cruiser

USSPort Royal(CG-73) Class overview Builders: Operators: Preceded by: Succeeded by: Built: In commission: Completed: Active: Laid up: Retired: Preserved: Ingalls Shipbuilding Bath Iron Works United States Navy Virginia CG(X) development program 19801994 1983present 27 22 4 5 (CG-47 to 51) 1 On Donation Hold
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General characteristics Type: Displacement: Length: Beam: Draught: Propulsion: Guided missile cruiser Approx. 9600long tons (9800t) full load 567 feet (173 m) 55 feet (16.8 meters) 34 feet (10.2 meters) 4 General Electric LM2500 gas turbine engines, 80000shaft horsepower (60000 kW) 2 controllable-reversible pitch propellers 2 rudders 32.5knots (60km/h) 6000nmi (11000km) at 20kn (37km/h); 3300nmi (6100km) at 30kn (56km/h). 33 officers, 27 Chief Petty Officers, and approx. 340 enlisted

Speed: Range: Complement:

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Sensors and processing systems:

AN/SPY-1A/B multi-function radar AN/SPS-49 air search radar AN/SPG-62 fire control radar AN/SPS-73 surface search radar AN/SPQ-9 gun fire control radar AN/SQQ-89(V)3 Sonar suite, consisting of

AN/SQS-53B/C/D active sonar AN/SQR-19 TACTAS passive sonar AN/SQQ-28 light airborne multi-purpose system

AN/SLQ-32 Electronic Warfare Suite Electronic warfare and decoys: Armament: Mark 36 SRBOC AN/SLQ-25 Nixie cruiser mark 26 2 Mk26 missile launchers 68 RIM-66 SM-2, and 20 RUR-5 ASROC 8 RGM-84 Harpoon missiles 2 Mark 45 5in / 54cal lightweight gun 24 .50cal (12.7mm) gun 2 Phalanx CIWS 2 Mk32 12.75in (324mm) triple torpedo tubes cruiser mark 41 2 61 cell Mk41 vertical launch systems 122 Mix of RIM-66M-5 Standard SM-2MR Block IIIB, RIM-156A SM-2ER Block IV, RIM-161 SM-3, RIM-162A ESSM, RIM-174A Standard ERAM, BGM-109 Tomahawk, or RUM-139A VL-ASROC 8 RGM-84 Harpoon missiles 2 Mk 45 Mod2 5in / 54cal lightweight gun 2 25mm Mk38 gun 24 .50cal (12.7mm) gun 2 Phalanx CIWS Block 1B 2 Mk32 12.75in (324mm) triple torpedo tubes for lightweight torpedoes limited Kevlar splinter protection in critical areas 2 Sikorsky SH-60B or MH-60R Seahawk LAMPS III helicopters.

Armor: Aircraft carried:

The Ticonderoga class of missile cruisers is a class of warships in the United States Navy, first ordered and authorized in FY 1978. The class uses phased-array radar and was originally planned as a class of destroyers. However, the increased combat capability offered by the Aegis combat system and the AN/SPY-1 radar system was used to justify the change of the classification from DDG (guided missile destroyer) to CG (guided missile cruiser) shortly before the keels of Ticonderoga and Yorktown were laid down. Of the twenty-seven built vessels, nineteen were built by Ingalls Shipbuilding and eight by Bath Iron Works (BIW). All but one (Thomas S. Gates) of the ships in the class are named for noteworthy events in U.S. military history, and at least twelve; Ticonderoga, Cowpens, Anzio, Yorktown, Valley Forge, Bunker Hill, Antietam, San Jacinto, Lake Champlain, Philippine Sea, Princeton, Monterey, and Vella Gulf; share their names with World War II aircraft carriers.

Design
Vertical Launching System
In addition to the added radar capability, the Ticonderoga class built after the Thomas S. Gates are outfitted with two Vertical Launching Systems (or VLS). The two VLS allow the ship to have 122 missile storage and launching tubes that can carry a wide variety of missiles, including the Tomahawk cruise missile, the Standard surface-to-air missile, the Evolved Sea Sparrow surface-to-air missile, and the ASROC anti-submarine warfare missile. More importantly,

Ticonderoga-class cruiser the VLS enables all missiles to be on full stand-by at any given time, shortening the ship's response time. The original five warships, including the Thomas S. Gates, had Mk 26 twin-arm launchers which limited their missile capacity to a total of 88 missiles, and could not fire the Tomahawk missile. After the end of the Cold War, the lower capabilities of the original five warships limited them to duties close to the home waters of the U.S. These ship's cluttered superstructure, inherited from the Spruance class destroyers, required two of their external radar units to be mounted on a special pallet on the portside aft corner of the superstructure, with the other two mounted on the forward starboard corner. Later AEGIS warships, designed from-the-keel-up to carry the SPY-1 radars, have them all clustered together. The high weight of the ships - 1,500 tons heavier than the "Spru-cans", resulted in a highly-stressed hull and some structural problems in early service, which were generally corrected in the late 1980s and mid-1990s. Several ships had superstructure cracks which had to be repaired.

Upgrade
Originally, the Navy had intended to replace its fleet of Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruisers with cruisers produced as part of the CG(X) missile cruiser program; however, severe budget cuts from the 21st century surface combatant program coupled with the increasing cost of the Zumwalt-class guided missile destroyer program have led to widespread rumors that the CG(X) program was canceled. The Ticonderoga class will instead be replaced by Flight III Arleigh Burke class destroyers.[2]

Ticonderoga class cruiser was built on the same hull as the Spruance-classdestroyer.

All five of the twin-arm (Mk-26) cruisers have been decommissioned. In 2003, the newer 22 of the 27 ships (CG-52 to CG-73) in the class were upgraded to keep them combat-relevant, giving the ships a service life of 35 years each.[3] In the years leading up to their decommissioning, the five twin-arm ships had been assigned primarily home-waters duties, acting as command ships for destroyer squadrons assigned to the eastern Pacific and western Atlantic areas.

Iran Air Flight 655 Shot Down

One ship of the class, the USSVincennes, became infamous in 1988 when she shot down Iran Air Flight 655, resulting in 290 civilian fatalities, which the captain of the Vincennes, William C. Rogers III, had believed from reports of (misinterpreted) radar returns to be an Iranian Air Force F-14 Tomcat jet fighter on an attack vector. The USS Vincennes was decommissioned in 2005.

Interception of United States satellite USA-193

On February 14, 2008, the United States Department of Defense announced that the USSShiloh(CG-67) and USSLake Erie(CG-70) would attempt to hit the dead satellite USA-193 in the north Pacific just prior to burn up during a period after February 20 using a modified SM-3 missile.[4] [5] On February 20, 2008, at approximately 22:30 EST (21 Feb, 03:30 UTC), the missile was fired from Lake Erie and later confirmed to have struck the satellite. The military intended that the kinetic energy of the missile would rupture the hydrazine fuel tank allowing the toxic fuel to be consumed during re-entry.[6] The Department of Defense later confirmed that the fuel tank had been directly hit by the missile.[7]

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Units
Ship Name Ticonderoga Yorktown Vincennes Valley Forge Hull No. CG-47 CG-48 CG-49 CG-50 Builder Ingalls Ingalls Ingalls Ingalls BIW Ingalls Ingalls Ingalls Ingalls Ingalls Ingalls BIW Ingalls BIW BIW Ingalls BIW BIW Ingalls Ingalls BIW Ingalls Ingalls BIW Ingalls Ingalls Ingalls In Commission 19832004 19842004 19852005 19862004 19872005 1986 1987 1987 1987 1988 1988 1989 1989 19891990 1989 1991 1991 1991 1991 1992 1992 1992 1993 1993 1993 1994 Disposition Stricken, available for donation as a museum and memorial Stricken, to be disposed of Stricken, to be disposed of Link [8] [9] [10]

Disposed of in support of Fleet training exercise, sunk in a target practice [11] Stricken, to be disposed of in active service, as of 2011 in active service, as of 2011 in active service, as of 2011 in active service, as of 2011 in active service, as of 2011 in active service, as of 2011 in active service, as of 2011 in active service, as of 2011 in active service, as of 2011 in active service, as of 2011 in active service, as of 2011 in active service, as of 2011 in active service, as of 2011 in active service, as of 2011 in active service, as of 2011 in active service, as of 2011 in active service, as of 2011 in active service, as of 2011 in active service, as of 2011 in active service, as of 2011 in active service, as of 2011 in active service, as of 2011 [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [32] [33] [34]

Thomas S. Gates CG-51 Bunker Hill Mobile Bay Antietam Leyte Gulf San Jacinto CG-52 CG-53 CG-54 CG-55 CG-56

Lake Champlain CG-57 Philippine Sea Princeton Normandy Monterey CG-58 CG-59 CG-60 CG-61

Chancellorsville CG-62 Cowpens Gettysburg Chosin Hu City Shiloh Anzio Vicksburg Lake Erie CG-63 CG-64 CG-65 CG-66 CG-67 CG-68 CG-69 CG-70

Cape St. George CG-71 Vella Gulf Port Royal CG-72 CG-73

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References
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External links
Navy Fact File (http://www.navy.mil/navydata/fact_display.asp?cid=4200&tid=800&ct=4US) Federation of American Scientists Report: Ticonderoga class guided missile cruisers (http://www.fas.org/man/ dod-101/sys/ship/cg-47.htm) Global Security Article (http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ship/cg-47.htm)

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