USS Lake Champlain
United States
Builders:	Ingalls Shipbuilding Bath Iron Works
Operators:	United States Navy
Preceding class:	Virginia
Following class:	CG(X) development program
Commissioned:	January 22, 1983
Ships in Class
Ships in class:	27
Ships in active service:	USS Antietam USS Anzio USS Bunker Hill USS Cape St. George USS Chancellorsville USS Chosin USS Cowpens USS Gettysburg USS Hué City USS Lake Champlain USS Lake Erie USS Leyte Gulf USS Mobile Bay USS Monterey USS Normandy USS Philippine Sea USS Port Royal USS Princeton USS San Jacinto USS Shiloh USS Vella Gulf USS Vicksburg
Ships in storage:	USS Thomas S. Gates USS Ticonderoga USS Valley Forge USS Vincennes USS Yorktown
General Characteristics
Class type:	Guided missile cruiser
Displacement:	9,500 tons
Length:	567 feet (173 m)
Beam:	55 feet (17 m)
Draught:	31 feet (9.5 m)
Propulsion and power:	4 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 80,000 shp
Speed:	30 knots
Range:	6,000 miles
Complement:	360
Armament:	8 cruise missiles 8 anti-ship missiles 114 vertical-launch surface-to-air and anti-submarine missiles 2 dual purpose guns 2 close-in weapons systems 6 machine guns 6 torpedo tubes
Aircraft complement:	2 helicopters

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A modern torpedo, historically called a locomotive torpedo, is a self-propelled projectile that (after being launched above or below the water surface) operates underwater and is designed to detonate on contact or in proximity to a target. ... Robinson Helicopter Company (USA) R44, a four seat development of the R22 A helicopter is an aircraft which is lifted and propelled by one or more horizontal rotors, each having two or more rotor blades. ... Diagrams of first and third rate warships, England, 1728 Cyclopaedia. ... The United States Navy (USN) is the branch of the United States armed forces responsible for naval operations. ... A fiscal year or financial year is a 12-month period used for calculating annual (yearly) financial reports in businesses and other organizations. ... 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In addition to the added radar capability, the Ticonderoga class built after Thomas S. Gates are outfitted with two Vertical Launching System (or VLS). The two VLS systems allow the ship to have 127 launch tubes that can carry a wide variety of missiles, including the Tomahawk cruise missile, the Standard surface-to-air missile, and the ASROC anti-submarine missile. More importantly, the VLS system enables all missiles to be fully standing by at any given time, shortening the ship's reaction time. The original five ships, including Thomas S. Gates, had MK. 26 twin arm launchers which limited their missile capacity to a total of 96 missiles, and which could not fire the Tomahawk missiles increasingly vital to the role of the US Navy's surface warships. After the end of the Cold War, the lower capability of the original five ships limited them to home-waters duties. Due to the cluttered superstructure of the ships, inherited from the Spruance class destroyers they were derived from, two of the radar transcievers are 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 ships, 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, also relating to weight problems. This long range RADAR antenna, known as ALTAIR, is used to detect and track space objects in conjunction with ABM testing at the Ronald Reagan Test Site on the Kwajalein atoll[1]. RADAR is a system that uses radio waves to determine and map the location, direction, and/or speed... The VLS cells on board USS San Jacinto. ... The Tomahawk Land Attack Missile (TLAM) is a long-range, all-weather, subsonic cruise missile with stubby wings. ... A Tomahawk cruise missile A cruise missile is a guided missile which uses a lifting wing and most often a jet propulsion system to allow sustained flight. ... The Standard Missile is a type of surface-to-air missile (SAM) originally developed for the United States Navy. ... Akash Missile Firing French Air Force Crotale battery Bendix Rim-8 Talos surface to air missile of the US Navy A surface-to-air missile (SAM) is a missile designed to be launched from the ground to destroy aircraft. ... An older Matchbox ASROC launcher, phased out in the 1990s ASROC (for Anti-Submarine ROCket) is an antisubmarine missile system, developed by the United States Navy, and installed on over 200 surface ships, generally cruisers and destroyers. ... A Tomahawk cruise missile The Tomahawk Land Attack Missile (TLAM) is a long-range, all-weather, subsonic cruise missile with stubby wings. ... For other uses, please see Cold War (disambiguation). ... The Spruance-class destroyer was developed to replace a large number of World War II-built - and Gearing-class destroyers, and was the primary destroyer built for the U.S. Navy during the 1970s. ...

All five of the twin-arm (Mk-26) cruisers have been decommissioned. The newer 22 of the 27 ships (CG-52 to CG-73) in the class will be upgraded to keep them combat-relevant, giving the ships a service life of 35 years each [1]. 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.

One ship of the class, USS Vincennes, became infamous in 1988 when she shot down Iran Air Flight 655 resulting in 290 civilian fatalities, which the captain of Vincennes had believed from misinterpreted radar returns was an Iranian Air Force F-14 Tomcat jet fighter on an attack vector. Vincennes was later decommissioned in 2005. The fourth USS Vincennes (CG-49) is a U.S. Navy Ticonderoga class AEGIS guided missile cruiser. ... Iran Air Flight 655 (IR655) was a commercial flight operated by Iran Air that flew from Bandar Abbas, Iran to Dubai. ... The Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF) (Persian: ‎ ​) is the aviation branch of the of the Iranian armed forces. ... The Grumman F-14 Tomcat is a supersonic, twin-engine, two-seat, variable geometry wing aircraft. ...

Of the "Ticos", at least six (Ticonderoga, Anzio,Yorktown, Valley Forge, Antietam and Princeton) share names with World War II aircraft carriers. Only one, Thomas S. Gates, is not named for a battle. USS Anzio (CG-68), named for the site of a beachhead invasion of Italy by Allied troops from 22 January to 23 May 1944, is a Ticonderoga class guided missile cruiser laid down by the Litton-Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation at Pascagoula, Mississippi on 21 August 1989, launched on 2 November... USS Yorktown (DDG-48/CG-48) was a Ticonderoga-class cruiser in the United States Navy from 1984 to 2004, named for the American Revolutionary War Battle of Yorktown. ... USS Valley Forge (CG-50) is a Ticonderoga-class cruiser in the United States Navy. ... USS Antietam (CG-54), named for the site of a battle between Confederate forces under General Robert E. Lee and Union forces under Major General George McClellan on 17 and 18 September 1862, is a Ticonderoga class guided missile cruiser laid down by the Litton-Ingalls Shipbuilding Corporation at Pascagoula... Categories: Military stubs | Ticonderoga class cruisers ... Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Nazi Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead... USS (CG-51) is a Ticonderoga-class cruiser in the United States Navy. ...

Originally, the Navy had intended to replace its fleet of Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruisers with cruisers produced as part of the CG(X) guided 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 wide spread rumors that the CG(X) program was cancelled. If this is in fact correct then the Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruisers do not yet have an intended replacement. The CG(X) is a cruiser, the descendant of the DD(X) will replace the Ticonderoga-class AEGIS cruisers, with improved Missile Defense and Air Warfare capability. ... SC21 was a United States Navy program of the 1990s for new ship designs. ... The DD(X) is a future class of United States Navy destroyer. ... A guided missile destroyer is, as the name suggests, a destroyer designed to launch guided missiles. ...

External links

• navysite.de: The Ticonderoga (CG 47) - Class
• Federation of American Scientists Report: Ticonderoga class guided missile cruisers

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