GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS, ticonderoga CLASS

• Builder: Bath Iron Works

• SPY-1 Radar and Combat System Integrator: Lockheed Martin

• Date Launched: March 19, 1988

• Propulsion: Four General Electric LM 2500 gas turbines; two shafts, 86,000 total shaft
  
  horsepower

• Length: 567 feet

• Beam: 55 feet

• Displacement: Approximately 9500 long tons

• Speed: In excess of 30 knots.

• Crew: With Air Detachment (Includes 2 MH-60R Helicopters), ~50 Officers and ~350 Enlisted Sailors

• Armament: 2x61 Mk41 Vertical Launch Systems to include SM-2 BLK III, SM-2 BLK IIIA, SM-2 BLK
  
  IIIB, SM-6, ESSM, RGM-84 Harpoon Missiles, 2x5in (127mm)/62 caliber Mark 45 lightweight
  
  guns, 2xMk38 25mm Machine Guns, 2-4 .50 cal. M2HB machine guns, 2xPhalanx CIWS Block 1B,
  
  2xMk32 Torpedo Tubes (Mk54 and Mk 48 ADCAP Torpedo capable)

• Aircraft: 2xLAMPS Mk III MH-60R Helicopters with Hellfire missiles, Mk 46/Mk 50 torpedoes, .50
  
  cal machine guns, m240 machine guns