The Soviet Union outfitted their cruisers with hulking batteries of missiles designed to overwhelm and sink U.S. carriers. Into all of this entered the Ticonderoga-class. In the late 1970s ...
What You Need to Know: On October 13, 2012, the USS Montpelier, a Los Angeles-class submarine, collided with the USS San Jacinto, a Ticonderoga-class cruiser, during an anti-submarine warfare ...
Twenty-seven Ticonderoga-class cruisers were built between 1980 ... They primarily serve as air-defense escorts in carrier strike groups, as they have the most robust air-defense capability ...
Like the larger Ticonderoga-class cruisers, DDG 51's combat capability ... The first Flight IIA, USS Oscar Austin, was commissioned in August 2000. A DDG modernization program is underway to ...