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The U.S. Navy is retiring its last seven Ticonderoga-class cruisers by 2030, ending a decades-long era of missile-heavy carrier escorts. A $3.7 billion modernization...
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The U.S. Navy is retiring its last seven Ticonderoga-class cruisers by 2030, ending a decades-long era of missile-heavy carrier escorts. A $3.7 billion modernization...
In the 1970s, Congress mocked the Navy's new Spruance-class destroyers as "empty hulls", warships the size of a light cruiser that went to sea...
Beijing calls its largest warship a destroyer. Washington calls it a cruiser. At 13,000 tons and 112 launch cells, the Type 055 is bigger...
The Ticonderoga-class cruisers were the most heavily armed surface warships America ever built — 122 missile cells each. Congress forced the Navy to keep...
Each U.S. Navy Ohio-class SSGN guided-missile submarine carries up to 154 Tomahawk cruise missiles. Each U.S. Navy Ohio-class SSGN has 22 missile tubes —...
The retirement of the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruisers represents a structural transformation for the U.S. Navy in 2026. While these 1980s-era vessels are aging and...
The decommissioning of the Ticonderoga-class cruisers, which carry a fleet-high 122 VLS cells loaded with Tomahawk missiles, creates a structural firepower gap that newer...
Harrison Kass, a senior defense and national security writer and former Air Force pilot trainee, evaluates the "mathematical crisis" facing the U.S. Navy as...
Dr. Brent M. Eastwood, a former U.S. Army Infantry officer and defense expert, evaluates the critical "Vertical Launch System (VLS) gap" facing the U.S....
Synopsis: The Ticonderoga-class cruisers were built around the Aegis Combat System as carrier strike group defenders and command-and-control hubs, combining SPY-1 radar with a...