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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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