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USS John Basilone (DDG-122) sails up the Hudson River for its commissioning ceremony week in New York City, November 4, 2024. (US Navy)

USS John Basilone Joins Fleet, Navy Extends Ticonderoga Cruisers

The Navy’s newest warship, USS John Basilone, joins the fleet with legendary firepower, as three Ticonderoga cruisers get extended life.

A Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser en route Gulf of Alaska circa 2021. (Image source: US Navy/DVIDS)

Complete List: Ticonderoga-class Missile Cruisers To Retire By 2027

Ticonderoga-class warships are guided-missile cruisers built for the US Navy until the mid-1990s and are expected to serve until 2027.

U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Nathan Burke

Not enough ships: Pentagon to miss Trump’s Big Navy goal

One of Trump’s most significant platforms in the 2016 presidential election was revitalizing the nation’s poorly maintained defense apparatus and returning it a state of strategic and tactical readiness needed to face near-peer, nation level opposition from the likes of China and Russia. Among the promises he made to that effect were increasing defense spending […]

Military Dec 28

The US Navy is about to lose a lot of firepower, another casualty of budget constraints

The US Navy is about to lose a lot of firepower, another casualty of budget constraints

Although President Donald Trump touted the idea of a 350 active ship Navy along the way to the White House, fiscal limitations coupled the government’s general inability to pass a defense budget has made that goal seem awfully unlikely – especially as some of the Navy’s largest, most powerful warships approach the end of their […]

Foreign Policy Oct 14

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