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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).

 

 
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