Ticonderoga-class Guided Missile Cruiser

The Ticonderoga-class Guided Missile Cruiser is a class of warship in service in the United States Navy from 1983 onwards. The Ticos are the first ships to be equipped with the AEGIS combat system and the AN/SPY-1 multifuction AESA radar. The first five ships were equipped with the Mark 26 twin-arm missile launchers while the rest were equipped with the Mark 41 Vertical Launching System. The Guadalcanal was built in 2006 as part of the CGX Program to eventually replace the Ticonderoga-class cruisers with a new class of nuclear cruiser.

Specifications

 * Type: Guided Missile Cruiser (Hull designation symbol CG)
 * Service Period: 1983-2028
 * Characteristics
 * Length: 567 feet (172.83 meters)
 * Beam: 55 feet (16.77 meters)
 * Draft: 34 feet (10.37 meters)
 * Displacement: 9,800 tons (9,000 long tons)
 * Crew: 400 (33 officers, 27 chief petty offices, 340 enlisted)
 * Power: 80,000 shp (60 MW)
 * Propulsion: 4 General Electric LM2500 gas turbines, 2 controllable-reversible pitch propellers, 2 rudders
 * Range: 6,000 nautical miles (11,112 kilometers) at 20 knots (37.04 km/hr), 3,300 (6,111.6 kilometers) nautical miles at 30 knots (55.56 km/hr)
 * Speed: 32.5 Knots (60.19 km/hr; 37.41 mph)
 * Sensor Suite/Countermeasures
 * AN/SPY-1A/B multifunction radar
 * AN/SPQ-9 gun fire control radar
 * AN/SQR-19 TACTAS
 * AN/SQR-19B ITASS, & MFTA passive sonar
 * AN/SLQ-25 Nixie
 * AN/SQQ-28 LAMPS Mark III
 * AN/SLQ-32 Electronic Warfare Suite
 * AN/SPS-49 air search radar
 * AN/SQS-53B/C/D active sonar
 * AN/SPG-62 fire control radar
 * Mark 36 Mod 12 SBROC
 * AN/SPS-73 surface search radar
 * Armament
 * Mark 26 equipped Ticonderoga-class
 * 1 x Mark 45 Mod 2 5"/54-caliber lightweight naval gun
 * 4 x .50-caliber machine guns
 * 2 x Mark 26 twin-arm missile launchers (68 x RIM-66 SM-2 and 20 RUR-5 ASROC)
 * 2 x Mark 141 armoured box launchers (8 x RGM-84 Harpoon)
 * 2 x Mark 32 12.75" triple fire torpedo tubes
 * 2 x 20mm Phalanx CIWS
 * VLS equipped Ticonderoga-class
 * 1 x Mark 45 Mod 4 5"/62-caliber lightweight naval gun
 * 4 x .50-caliber machine guns
 * 2 x 25mm M242 Bushmaster guns
 * 2 x 64-cell Mark 41 VLS (RIM-66M-5 SM-2MR Block IIIB, BGM-109 Tomahawk, RUM-139A VL-ASROC, RIM-156A SM-2ER Block IV, RIM-161 SM-3, RIM-162A ESSM, RIM-174 Standard ERAM)
 * 2 x Mark 141 armoured box launchers (8 x RGM-84 Harpoon)
 * 2 x Mark 32 12.75" triple fire torpedo tubes
 * 2 x 20mm Phalanx CIWS
 * USS Guadalcanal (CG-74)
 * 1 x 155mm/62-caliber AGS naval gun
 * 4 x .50-caliber machine guns
 * 2 x 25mm M242 Bushmaster guns
 * 2 x 64-cell Mark 41 VLS (RIM-66M-5 SM-2MR Block IIIB, BGM-109 Tomahawk, RUM-139A VL-ASROC, RIM-156A SM-2ER Block IV, RIM-161 SM-3, RIM-162A ESSM, RIM-174 Standard ERAM)
 * 2 x Mark 141 armoured box launchers (8 x RGM-84 Harpoon)
 * 2 x Mark 32 12.75" triple fire torpedo tubes
 * 2 x 20mm Phalanx CIWS
 * Aircraft Carried: 1 x Sikorsky SH-60B/MH-60R Seahawk

Unit Run

 * USS Ticonderoga (CG-47)
 * USS Yorktown (CG-48)
 * USS Vincennes (CG-49)
 * USS Valley Forge (CG-50)
 * USS Thomas S. Gates (CG-51)
 * USS Bunker Hill (CG-52)
 * USS Mobile Bay (CG-53)
 * USS Antietam (CG-54)
 * USS Leyte Gulf (CG-55)
 * USS San Jacinto (CG-56)
 * USS Lake Champlain (CG-57)
 * USS Philippine Sea (CG-58)
 * USS Princeton (CG-59)
 * USS Normandy (CG-60)
 * USS Monterey (CG-61)
 * USS Chancellorsville (CG-62)
 * USS Cowpens (CG-63)
 * USS Gettysburg (CG-64)
 * USS Chosin (CG-65)
 * USS Hué City (CG-66)
 * USS Shiloh (CG-67)
 * USS Anzio (CG-68)
 * USS Vicksburg (CG-69)
 * USS Lake Erie (CG-70)
 * USS Cape St. George (CG-71)
 * USS Vella Gulf (CG-72)
 * USS Port Royal (CG-73)
 * USS Guadalcanal (CG-74)