Posted on 10/10/2017 11:28:17 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
A full half of the U.S. Navy's largest surface warships are set to retire in three years, with nothing available to take their place. Eleven Ticonderoga-class cruisers, each with more than a hundred vertical missile silos, are scheduled to retire starting in 2020. The retirement of these ships will leave a bog hole in the Navy arsenal.
The U.S. Navy's Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruisers were introduced in the 1980s. Weighing nearly 10,000 tons and measuring 567 feet long, the ships were designed primarily for the air defense roles. Equipped with the Aegis Combat System, the Ticonderogas were designed to protect capital ships—such as the Navy's aircraft carriers and the Iowa-class battleships—from mass air attack. Each is capable of carrying a large number of guided missiles.
While earlier ships used a pair of twin-arm missile launchers and have since been retired, the 6th through 27th ships of the class stored their missile armament in huge fields of armored missile silos.
Traditionally, cruisers fill in the gap between battleships and destroyers. Fast and well armed, they were given missions that didn't require the awesome firepower of battleships, but did require more oomph than a destroyer could provide. The Navy is refurbishing half of the remaining 22 Ticonderogas, enough to protect a planned eleven aircraft carriers into the 2030s. But the other eleven ships will start to age out in 2020.
The Ticonderogas were planned to serve 30 or so years, at which point they would be retired and replaced with a newer, more capable ship. The Navy has tried twice to field a replacement, first with the SC-21, or Surface Combatant for the 21st Century program, then the CG(X) program. Both failed, for a variety of reasons. There was
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Anal orifice. Traitor, communist, America-hater, criminal.
Most Americans will never know just how thoroughly and how deeply that evil man damaged the national security of these United States.
Let me get this straight, we are still using 70 year old B52s with no retirement in sight. So why can’t we update the Ticonderoga class like we did with the Iowa class battleships?
Everywhere you look, swamps needing draining and filling!
Thanks, Obastard! Eight long years to do something about this, but, no -- he had basketball brackets to fill out, had to say the "police acted stupidly," and had beer summits.
Yikes...a smiling traitor.
Ship hulls simply wear out with use. Use a metal warship long enough and you will find the hull is paper thin and barely keeps out water.
The Navy is refurbishing half of the remaining 22 Ticonderogas, enough to protect a planned eleven aircraft carriers into the 2030s. But the other eleven ships will start to age out in 2020.
And why aren't we refurbishing ALL of them?
I wonder if Barack HUSSEIN 0bama has an answer to that question.
Meanwhile, no one has lifted a finger to bring us that 355 ship Navy Trump promised in his campaign or to repeal sequester. More empty promises to repair the damage of the military hating Obamaites.
Why? Is that an “order”? And if so by whom?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia-class_cruiser
Been going on since the 90’s. Clinton scrapped the Virginia CGN’s long before they were due.
An Analysis of the Navy’s Fiscal Year 2017 Shipbuilding Plan
Kind of a BS headline. There’s no replacement in sight because they’re reducing the fleet. We’re still going to have 11 full carrier groups, with no serious naval enemy on our list. Now the platform is aging and probably needs to be replace, but that’s got nothing to do with retiring vessels that no longer fit into our vision or needs.
>>Let me get this straight, we are still using 70 year old B52s with no retirement in sight. So why can’t we update the Ticonderoga class like we did with the Iowa class battleships?
I agree. I served on an old nuclear submarine that would have random electrical fires when we were in warm water and pipes would just blow apart at test depth. It needed decommissioning.
But a surface ship doesn’t have the same concerns as a submarine and if it isn’t bursting into flames all the time, it should be upgradable.
“Most Americans will never know just how thoroughly and how deeply that evil man damaged the national security of these United States.”
He was never held accountable for his abuse of the “Bully Pulpit” which led to the murderzs (20?) of non blacks by black gangs beginning with the Zimmerman trial aftermath.
Everybody knows of Trayvon Martin but no one knows of the Melbourne Australian champion runner Christopher Lane here on a college scholarship from Duncan Oklahoma shot and killed while running down a Duncan street by members of the Crypts because of Obama’s “son” who was killed in “cold blood”..
I was involved in the development of the Navy LCS and it was a mess. They kept changing the specifications and broadening the mission in order to keep the funding. They had numerous committees working on the design and engineering changes were coming so fast that the drawings couldn’t even keep up with them. In the end they developed a ship that couldn’t really do a single mission well.
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