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Firepower crisis: The US Navy will lose 1500 missile launch tubes in the next few years
Unfortunately that’s not a happy story either. The end is in sight for the US Navy’s long-serving Ticonderoga-class cruisers, icons of the US fleet since the 1980s. A new plan anticipates that ...
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Farewell to the Ticonderoga-class Cruiser: A Pillar of U.S. Naval Power
Into all of this entered the Ticonderoga-class. In the late 1970s, the U.S. Navy was fielding nuclear-powered cruisers (CGNs) and had plans for a strike cruiser equipped with guided missiles.