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USS TICONDEROGA MODEL
USS Ticonderoga (DDG/CG-47), nicknamed "Tico", was a
guided-missile cruiser of the United States Navy. She
was the lead ship of the Ticonderoga class and the first
U.S. Navy combatant to incorporate the Aegis combat
system. This system allowed the ship to track
and engage multiple targets (aircraft) much more
effectively than any ship previously.
The nine years of
sea test development prior to the U.S. Navy’s first
installing Aegis on the USS Ticonderoga indicates
the complexity and the engineering effort necessary to
build a successful Aegis system. The fact that the
Soviet Union gave up on an Aegis system after years of
frustrating problems on two warships also shows the
extreme difficulties. In 1988, the Soviet
Union installed its first Aegis-type Sky Watch on two aircraft carriers. Each of the four
square-plate phased array antennas measured about 5
meters in diameter. The Soviets seemed to have had
considerable trouble in exercises with their Gorshkov
phased array radar, as mechanical scanning Top Sail/Top
Pair radars replaced it on the next Soviet carrier, the Tbilisi.
Sea operations attempting to successfully target
incoming threats using external ship or aircraft
platforms also failed.
USS
Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruisers are multi-role
warships. Their Mk 41 VLS can launch Tomahawk cruise
missiles to strike strategic or tactical targets, or
fire long-range antiaircraft Standard Missiles for
defense against aircraft or anti-ship missiles. Their
Light Airborne Multi-Purpose System (LAMPS III) helicopters and sonar systems allow them to
perform antisubmarine missions.
Ticonderoga-class ships are designed to be elements of
carrier battle groups or amphibious ready groups, as
well as performing missions such as interdiction or
escort. With upgrades to their AN/SPY-1 phased radar
systems and their associated missile payloads as part of
the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System, members of
this class have, in successive tests, repeatedly
demonstrated their proficiency as mobile anti-ballistic
missile and anti-satellite weaponry platforms.
USS Ticonderoga's keel was laid down on 21 January 1980,
the 35th anniversary of the devastating kamikaze attack
on the aircraft carrier Ticonderoga (CV-14). CG-47 was
launched on 25 April 1981 and christening on 16 May 1981
with First Lady Nancy Reagan. Ticonderoga was delivered
to the U.S. Navy on 13 December 1982 and commissioned
in Pascagoula, Mississippi, on 22 January 1983.
Ticonderoga entered service in 1983 and deployed later
that year to the Mediterranean.
After being decommissioned in 2004, Ticonderoga was
stored at the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility
in Philadelphia. She arrived in Brownsville, Texas, for
scrapping in 2020.
USS Ticonderoga was featured
in the 1986 Tom Clancy novel Red Storm Rising, defending
the
USS Nimitz and USS Saratoga battlegroups against the
saturation anti-ship missile attack in the Norwegian Sea
by Soviet bombers.
This
primarily wood 1/98 scale model of the
USS Ticonderoga CG-47 is
71' long x
25" tall x 9" wide. $12,250
Shipping and insurance in
the USA included. Other
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Learn more about the Ticonderoga class here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Ticonderoga_(CG-47)
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