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The USS Ticonderoga (CG 47), the first of the Navy's new class of guided missile cruisers equipped with the AEGIS combat system, shown during sea trials.

USS Ticonderoga, First Of New Class

Of Cruisers, Joins The Fleet

USS Ticonderoga (CG-47), lead ship in the most powerful class of guided missile cruisers ever built for the U.S. Navy, was commissioned recently at Ingalls

Shipbuilding Division of Litton

Industries, Pascagoula, Miss. Sec- retary of Defense Caspar W.

Weinberger was the principal speaker.

The first Navy combat ship to carry the advanced Aegis weap- ons system, the USS Ticonderoga officially joined the Atlantic Fleet during the ceremony, and Capt.

Roland G. Guilbault of West

Warwick, R.I., assumed com- mand of the 563-foot ship.

Others participating in the commissioning ceremony includ- ed : Assistant Secretary of the

Navy for Shipbuilding and Lo- gistics, George A. Sawyer; Chief of Naval Operations, Adm. J.D.

Watkins, USN; Commander in

Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet, Adm.

W.L. McDonald, USN; Com- mander Surface Force, U.S. At- lantic Fleet, Vice Adm. E.W.

Briggs, USN; Deputy Chief of

Naval Operations (Surface War- fare), Vice Adm. R.L. Walters,

USN; AEGIS Shipbuilding Proj- ect Manager, Rear Adm. W.E.

Meyer,USN;Commander Cruiser-

Destroyer Group Eight, Rear

Admiral R.C. Berry, USN; pres- ident of Ingalls Shipbuilding

Leonard Erb; and supervisor of shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Capt.

S.P. Passantino, USN.

Designed to provide the pri- mary surface ship anti-air war- fare protection for the Navy's aircraft carrier battle group, the

Ticonderoga as well as her sis- terships which will follow, is a potent multiwarfare combatant capable of providing anti-air, anti-surface, and antisubmarine protection. The centerpiece of

USS TICONDEROGA

Major Contractors

General Electric AN/SQS-53A,

AN/SQR-19 sonars

General Electric ... propulsion gas turbines

Westinghouse Electric main reduction gears

Stewart and Stevenson ship service generators

Bird-Johnson propeller

Combustion Engineering . . auxiliary boilers

Litton Guidance & Control

Systems .... ship control system

Computer Sciences Corp. . . AEGIS computer programming

Raytheon AEGIS fire control system, AN/SPY-1A radar transmitter and

SPS-49 radar system

Hughes Aircraft .... combat system operating consoles

Sperry Univac .... combat system computers

CDC . . combat system peripherals

FMC Corporation 5-inch guns, and guided missile launchers

Northern Ordnance Division . 5-inch guns, and guided missile launchers

General Dynamics . . SM-2 missiles and Phalanax

Weapon System

Lockheed Electronics MK 86 gunfire control system

Singer Librascope Division Mark 116 underwater fire control system

McDonnell-Douglas Harpoon weapon system

IBM Corporation Seahawk shipboard equipment

Raytheon . . . AN/SLQ-32 electronic warfare system

General Electric, Ordnance

System Division .... AEGIS fire control directors

Amecom Division of Litton

Industries . . radio equipment, damage control, and fuel control consoles

ALS 400-Hz power supply

Ticonderoga's Combat System is the Aegis Weapon System, the most advanced air defense sys- tem in the world today which is specifically designed to defeat the current and projected missile threat.

Aegis is a computer-controlled weapon system which can detect, track, and engage hundreds of aircraft and missiles while con- tinuously watching the sky for new targets.

The USS Ticonderoga is the lead ship developed and designed by the AEGIS Shipbuilding Proj- ect of the Naval Sea Systems

Command. Rear Adm. Wayne E.

Meyer is the Aegis project man- ager under whose direction the integration of both the ship and weapon system has been closely coordinated.

The 9,600-ton Ticonderoga is an advanced adaptation of the 31 Spruance (DD-963) class and four Kidd (DDG-993) class de- stroyers built for the Navy by

Ingalls Shipbuilding, which with

CG-47 has developed and deliv- ered four classes of ship's for the

Navy's Fleets since 1975. Build- ing Ticonderoga cruisers on the same proven ship platform de- signed for the Spruance and Kidd class is saving the Navy millions of dollars in design costs, Navy officials report, and is providing the opportunity to get larger numbers of proven combatants to sea more quickly than other- wise possible. Particular areas of commonality are the gas turbine engines, main propulsion gear, propellers and shafting as well as the hull, and most auxiliary systems.

The advanced Aegis weapons system aboard Ticonderoga, de- signed and built by RCA's Mis- sile and Surface Radar Division in Moorestown, N.J., was tested during the cruiser's second sea trial in August 1982.

Ticonderoga-class cruisers are large ships, 563 feet long with a beam of 55 feet, and are ca- pable of carrying their formid- able array of weapons and elec- tronic equipment at high speeds over long ranges. Powered by (continued on page 42)

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