Virginia-class cruiser
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The Virginia class were four nuclear-powered, guided-missile cruisers that served in the United States Navy until the mid-to-late 1990s. They were commissioned between 1976 and 1980. The Virginias wer
USS Virginia (CGN-38) at sea
Virginia underway off the coast of Cape Henry, Virginia (VA)
Artist's impression of CGN-42, the planned AEGIS version of the Virginia-class
A shock trial of Arkansas in 1982
Ticonderoga-class cruiser
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The Ticonderoga class of guided-missile cruisers is a class of warships of the United States Navy, first ordered and authorized in the 1978 fiscal year. It was originally planned as a class of destroy
Virginia-class cruiser
…the U.S. Navy continued conventional destroyer/cruiser production, and it redesignated the DDG-47 class of guided-missile destroyers as the CG-47 Ticonderoga-class cruisers. In the 1980s, the class received a New Threat Upgrade electronics overhaul to better suit them to modern threats. Their rapid-fire Mk 26 launchers…
USS Cape St. George, the most recent Ticonderoga-class cruiser still in service, in 2008
From left to right: ex-Thomas S. Gates, ex-Ticonderoga, and ex-Yorktown laid up in Philadelphia, May 2016
Ticonderoga-class cruisers (right) were built on the same hull as the Spruance-class destroyer (left).
An overhead view of the Ticonderoga class Lake Champlain, with VLS visible fore and aft as the gray boxes near the bow and stern of the ship