TICONDEROGA-CLASS CRUISERS IN ACTION
(Softcover)
SS14038

By John Gourley.
Ticonderoga-Class Cruisers were originally conceived in the late
1970s as a new guided-missile destroyer ship class of
nuclear-powered escorts. Instead, cost forced planners to build
the new cruisers with modified destroyer hulls and gas-turbine
propulsion. The end result was a longer, sleeker cruiser with a
formidable variety of offensive and defensive weapons as well as
cutting edge radars, sonars and a full electronic warfare suite.
Ticonderoga-class vessels eventually totaled 27. They have shown
the flag in ports all across the globe, maintained peace, and
effectively performed their primary role to protect the aircraft
carriers with anti-submarine and anti-air systems. Armed with
Tomahawk cruise and Harpoon anti-ship missiles, ships of this
class have destroyed targets on the seas, air, land and have even

eliminated a damaged satellite flying 133 miles above the
Pacific Ocean with a missile impact velocity was 22,000 mph.
While the first five ships of the class have been decommissioned,

22 Ticonderoga-class ships navigate around the planet to protect
America’s interests, more than (200) photos and (2) line
drawings, 80 pages.

ISBN = 978-0-89747-833-5