Tag: Ticonderoga class cruisers

$1.84B down the drain: How the Navy’s cruiser modernization plan sunk under poor oversight and wild contractor missteps.

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

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

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 […]

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 […]