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Ticonderoga Class Guided Missile Cruiser USS Cowpens executes an emergency breakaway from Lewis and Clark Class Dry Cargo Ship USNS Richard E. Byrd on May 29th 2009.

Ticonderoga Class Guided Missile Aegis Cruiser USS Cowpens pictured in Yokosuka Dry Dock after completing her selected restricted availability refit on March 16th 2004.

Ticonderoga Class Guided Missile Aegis Cruiser USS Vicksburg pictured undergoing scheduled maintenance at BAE Systems Norfolk Facility on June 10th 2021.

Ticonderoga Class Guided Missile Cruiser USS Mobile Bay sits pier side at San Diego on August 10th, 2023 during a decommissioning ceremony. The Mobile Bay was decommissioned after more than 36 years of distinguished service. Commissioned Feb. 21st, 1987, Mobile Bay served in the U.S. Atlantic, Seventh, and U.S. Pacific Fleet and supported Operation Desert Storm.

Ticonderoga Class Guided Missile Aegis Cruiser USS Philippine Sea pictured as she departs her home port of Naval Station Mayport, Florida on September 2nd 2003.

After the recent decommissioning of the CG BUNKER HILL, she was towed off to the Bremerton for ultimate scrapping........... DFO

The Navy’s continuing cruiser debacle

A multi-billion dollar effort to modernize the warships has not gone as planned.

Back in 2015, the guided-missile cruiser Gettysburg began a lengthy modernization process that was supposed to enable the warship’s service life to be extended into the 2030s.

The congressionally mandated effort would go on to include six other Ticonderoga-class cruisers in the following years, a move that sought to maintain the Navy’s surface fires and air defense capabilities even after the warships’ standard 35-year service life came to an end. ... Etc. ....

The Navy now concedes that just three of the seven ships will ever return to the fleet, and the sea service has either retired or sought to retire the other four after billions of dollars were spent on the effort.

See - https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-nav ... r-debacle/ - LFT

The decommissioned Ticonderoga Class Guided Missile Aegis Cruiser USS San Jacinto pictured at Philadelphia Navy Yard on December 17th 2023.

Ticonderoga Class Guided Missile Aegis Cruiser USS Princeton pictured as she departs Singapore on December 19th 2023.

U.S. Navy’s Cruiser Countdown

The U.S. Navy’s cruisers will all be gone before 2027 is over.
Here’s the order in which they’ll go ~ https://www.navalnews.com/cavasships/20 ... countdown/