Source: United States Navy
Technological advances in the Standard Missile coupled with the Aegis combat system in the Ticonderoga class cruisers have increased the Anti-Air Warfare (AAW) capability of surface combatants to pinpoint accuracy from wave-top to zenith.
| General Characteristics, Ticonderoga Class |
| Builder: Ingalls Shipbuilding: CG 47-50, CG 52-57, 59, 62, 65-66, 68-69, 71-73; Bath Iron Works: CG 51, 58, 60-61, 63-64, 67, 70. |
| Date Deployed: January 22, 1983 (USS Ticonderoga) |
| Unit Cost: About $1 billion each. |
| Propulsion: 4 General Electric LM 2,500 gas turbine engines; 2 shafts, 80,000 shaft horsepower total. |
| Length: 567 feet. |
| Beam: 55 feet. |
| Displacement: 9,600 long tons (9,754.06 metric tons) full load. |
| Speed: 30 plus knots. |
| Crew: 30 Officers, 300 Enlisted. |
| Armament: MK41 vertical launching system Standard Missile (MR); Vertical Launch ASROC (VLA) Missile; Tomahawk Cruise Missile; Six MK 46 torpedoes (from two triple mounts); Two MK 45 5-inch/54 caliber lightweight guns; Two Phalanx close-in-weapons systems. |
| Aircraft: Two SH-60 Sea Hawk (LAMPS III). |
| Ships: |
| USS Antietam (CG 54), Yokosuka, Japan |
| USS Leyte Gulf (CG 55), Norfolk, VA |
| USS Philippine Sea (CG 58), Norfolk, VA |
| USS Princeton (CG 59), San Diego, CA |
| USS Normandy (CG 60), Norfolk, VA |
| USS Robert Smalls (CG 62), Yokosuka, Japan |
| USS Cowpens (CG 63), San Diego, CA |
| USS Gettysburg (CG 64), Norfolk, VA |
| USS Chosin (CG 65), San Diego, CA |
| USS Shiloh (CG 67), Pearl Harbor, HI |
| USS Vicksburg (CG 69), Norfolk, VA |
| USS Lake Erie (CG 70), San Diego, CA |
| USS Cape St. George (CG 71), San Diego, CA |