The U.S. Navy is rapidly retiring its Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruisers, a move that is creating a dilemma between ...

Thirty years after Ticonderoga, the basic components of the Aegis system on cruisers and destroyers have remained largely the same — the SPY-1 radar and the contents of vertical launch systems ...

The Aegis Weapon System is a centralized, automated, ... The first Aegis ship, USS Ticonderoga (CG 47), was commissioned in 1983 and deployed six months after commissioning.

October 2, 2012: The success of the U.S. Navy's Aegis system in destroying ballistic missiles, and low orbit satellites, is likely to keep some of the older Aegis equipped ships in commission longer.

The U.S. Navy’s Aegis Weapon System revolutionized fleet air defense at the height of the Cold War. The 1983 commissioning of the first Aegis guided missile cruiser USS Ticonderoga (CG-47) and ...

Ticonderoga-Class Cruisers: The Cold War’s Naval Powerhouses. On May 16, 1981, then First Lady Nancy Reagan christened the USS Ticonderoga ... The heart of AEGIS is its SPY-1A radar, ...

Lockheed Martin was awarded a $70.2 million contract to support Aegis development for the Navy, as well as the governments of Japan, South Korea and Norway.

PASCAGOULA -- The group seeking to bring the USS Ticonderoga home to Pascagoula is setting its sights first on constructing a maritime museum. Skip to Article. ... The 567-foot-long guided missile ...

The Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruisers were the first American ships equipped with the SPY-1 radar, SM-2 air defense missiles, and the Aegis combat system.

The U.S. Navy currently deploys Aegis BMD on 28 of its Arleigh Burke-class destroyers and 5 of its Ticonderoga-class cruisers. In 2016, the United States activated Aegis BMD capability at a land-based ...

Aegis is actually the name of the radar system used first by the Ticonderoga class cruisers. Since Ticonderoga's were the only ships at one time that were the only ones equipped with it they ...