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Parent topics

• United States Navy [r]: That part of the United States Department of Defense responsible for combat on, over, and under water ^[e]
• AEGIS battle management system [r]: An integrated system of computers, radars, and other systems that provides integrated management of a shipboard suite of strategic strike, anti-surface warfare, ballistic missile defense and anti-air warfare principally using missiles in vertical launch systems; it complements other integrated systems for anti-submarine warfare and naval gunfire support ^[e]

Subtopics

Retired ships

• USS Ticonderoga (CG-47) [r]: Lead ship of the Ticonderoga-class missile cruisers; did not have vertical launch system and was later decommissioned ^[e]
• USS Yorktown (CG-48) [r]: Ticonderoga-class U.S. Navy cruiser of the initial Baseline 0 (i.e., without the vertical launch system); decommissioned but first used as testbed for "smart ship" technology run by Microsoft Windows ^[e]
• USS Vincennes (CG-49) [r]: Retired Ticonderoga-class cruiser, without the vertical launch system, which misidentified and shot down an Iranian civilian airliner, Iran Air flight 655, during the Iran-Iraq War ^[e]
• USS Valley Forge (CG-50) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• USS Thomas S. Gates (CG-51) [r]: Add brief definition or description

Active ships

• USS Bunker Hill (CG-52) [r]: A Ticonderoga-class cruiser of the United States Navy, assigned to United States Central Command and United States Fifth Fleet ^[e]
• USS Mobile Bay (CG-53) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• USS Antietam (CG-54) [r]: Baseline 2 cruiser of the Ticonderoga-class ^[e]
• USS Leyte Gulf (CG-55) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• USS San Jacinto (CG-56) [r]: Homeported in Norfolk, Virginia, and part of Carrier Strike Group 12 centered on the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN-65), a cruiser of the Ticonderoga-class ^[e]
• USS Lake Champlain (CG-57) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• USS Philippine Sea (CG-58) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• USS Princeton (CG-59) [r]: A Baseline 3 (of 4) Ticonderoga-class cruiser of the U.S. Navy, which survived a mine explosion during the Gulf War that would have sunk larger WWII ships; test ship for the Block IV BGM-109 Tomahawk missile ^[e]
• USS Normandy (CG-60) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• USS Monterey (CG-61) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• USS Chancellorsville (CG-62) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• USS Cowpens (CG-63) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• USS Gettysburg (CG-64) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• USS Chosin (CG-65) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• USS Hue City (CG-66) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• USS Shiloh (CG-67) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• USS Anzio (CG-68) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• USS Vicksburg (CG-69) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• USS Lake Erie (CG-70) [r]: A Baseline 4 Ticonderoga-class cruiser of the U.S. Navy, which has been one of the primary test ships for the RIM-161 Standard SM-3 ballistic missile defense system; she successfully shot down a malfunctioning satellite in 2004 ^[e]
• USS Cape St. George (CG-71) [r]: Add brief definition or description
• USS Vella Gulf (CG-72) [r]: Ticonderoga-class U.S. Navy cruiser, operating with Task Force 151 in April 2009 ^[e]
• USS Port Royal (CG-73) [r]: Add brief definition or description

Other related topics

• Burke-class [r]: Large U.S. Navy multirole destroyers equipped with AEGIS battle management system and constant upgrades; Japan has Kongo-class clones, also being upgraded to ballistic missile defense; South Korea has the KDK-class ^[e]
• Spruance-class [r]: A retired class of U.S. Navy destroyers, built on the same hull as the Burke-class but optimized for land attack and anti-submarine warfare, without the AEGIS battle management system ^[e]