Talk:Ticonderoga-class cruiser

Plan to scrap 6 active cruisers
https://www.defensenews.com/naval/2019/03/18/once-again-the-us-navy-looks-to-scrap-its-largest-combatants-to-save-money/

BlueD954 (talk) 03:15, 19 March 2019 (UTC)
 * This seems to come up a lot, the Navy proposes to scrap some of them to save money but then Congress says 'no'. This article already has a sub-section about it, which this could be added to, since it's sourced. I think I'll do that now. - wolf  01:02, 20 March 2019 (UTC)
 * ✅ - wolf  01:21, 20 March 2019 (UTC)

Reasons for "cruiser" designation
I thought that this one one of the ships that is widely said to have been changed to a "cruiser" designation for political purposes after certain parties created or escalated the "Cruiser Gap" panic. To placate Congress and the public, the Navy simply changed a number of new ships designations into 'cruiser', since there really wasn't any obvious difference otherwise. The public didn't understand that guided missile destroyers and cruisers were really overlapping classes, and that new USN destroyers were more than capable of taking on USSR "Cruisers" on a one to one basis. But the media shouted "see how many cruisers the Soviets have, while we have barely half as many! Negligence! Shame! Scandal!" and raked in the money, while Congressmen postured and pontificated and lectured the Navy on their failure to Defend America. So the Navy said "okay" and changed the tile of their new destroyer class to "cruisers" instead. Problem fixed. I'm sure that's not the official Navy line, but I'm I have heard it discussd by credible people before. Unless it was a different class of ships I'm thinking of.

Idumea47b (talk) 04:26, 30 July 2020 (UTC)


 * See United States Navy 1975 ship reclassification. - BilCat (talk) 04:28, 30 July 2020 (UTC)

Mk41 VLS Count Discrepancy
The Mark 41 VLS system comes in modules of 8, but the page here lists that it has 2x61, which isn't possible with the 8-pack system. Images of the Tico class show it to have two 64 cell VLS modules (eight packs of eight). Yobeefjerky (talk) 19:02, 2 September 2022 (UTC)


 * Nevermind, apparently I was completely overlooking the crane replacing three of the cells, but painted like there were missiles there. Yobeefjerky (talk) 17:35, 3 September 2022 (UTC)