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In 1977, the nuclear-powered strike cruiser (CSGN) planned to carry the Aegis system was too risky due to soaring tonnage and costs.

Therefore, the U.S. Navy proposed a high/low combination plan, intending to use the remaining 1,000 tons of the highly successful Spruance-class destroyer hull to modify it into a low-end traditional powered Aegis ship. This plan is called DDG. -47.

The numbering continues after the last Farragut-class destroyer.

Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser: development process

The U.S. Navy Ship Engineering Center, which previously designed the Spruance-class hull, continues to plan all the changes needed to put the Aegis system on this hull.

Compared with the S-class, the design changes of the DDG47 include: redesigning the superstructure to accommodate the SPY-1A phased array radar. In order to reduce the weight of the superstructure, a large number of lightweight aluminum alloys are used in the superstructure.

In order to make up for the weight of the superstructure, increase the maximum displacement and the lift of the center of gravity, and improve the resilience when damaged, the height of the main transverse bulkhead of DDG47 extends from the original No. , which increases the upper limit of the design displacement of the DDG47 hull from 8,800 tons of the Si-class to 9,700 tons.

Due to the increase in draught due to the increase in weight, a 1.1m-high wave breaker was added to the bow of DDG47, making the hull length 1.2m longer than that of the Si-class.

Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Monterey (CG-61):

Budgeting:

In 1977, the U.S. Navy proposed a construction budget of $510 million for the first ship DDG-47, and on September 22, 1978, signed a contract with Ingalls Shipyard for the detailed design and construction of the first ship.

In January 1979, CGN-42 was cancelled by the U.S. government, and so far all Aegis ships have survived only DDG-47.

The U.S. Navy initially planned to order 16 DDG-47s, which increased to 18 after the cancellation of the CGN-42.

After Reagan came to power in the 1980s, he proposed the policy of maintaining the scale of the US Navy to maintain a scale of 600 ships. The US Navy planned to maintain 15 aircraft carrier battle groups (CVBGs), and each CVBG required three Ticonderoga-class escorts.

So the total demand for the Ticonderoga class increased to 26, and by the mid-1980s it increased to 27.

The 1980s was a prosperous era of U.S. military power and armament expansion, and it was unimaginable after the end of the Cold War that orders like the Ticonderoga class continued to expand and build in full.

Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser and CVN-65 USS Enterprise:

Service history

On January 1, 1980, the United States announced that DDG47 would be reclassified as a guided missile cruiser (CG) to avoid the dilemma of no cruiser support in the fleet after the retirement of the previous generation Leahy-class cruisers, Becknapp-class and other missile cruisers.

Since the captains of the US destroyers occupy the vacancy of lieutenant colonels and the cruisers are vacant of colonels, if the number of cruisers is greatly reduced, it will seriously affect the personnel promotion of the US Navy officers.

In addition, the full-load displacement of DDG47 is already in the spectrum of 9,000 tons, which is equivalent to the light cruiser during World War II, so qualification is not a problem.

The first four Ticonderoga-class ships have been set as 47~50 according to the numbering sequence of guided-missile destroyers, and no changes have been made. Therefore, the guided-missile cruisers have generated five empty numbers 42 to 46 from the back of the Virginia-class nuclear-powered cruisers.

Because of this, the number of Burke-class destroyers in the future will skip the empty number caused by the Ticonderoga class, and start from 51.

Technical characteristics of the ship's electrical system:

The four-sided SPY-1A phased array antennas of the Ticonderoga class are divided into two groups. The antennas facing the front and the right are installed on the structure of the bow, while the antennas facing the rear and the left are installed in the tail. Above the hangar structure, each of the two sets of array antennas has a parallel radar transmitter to provide RF energy.

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