The U.S. Navy is rapidly retiring its Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruisers, a move that is creating a dilemma between ...

We are, to your point, using them at an alarming rate.” Adm. James Kilby’s testimony to the Senate Appropriations Committee ...

The Missile Defense Agency issued Lockheed Martin a sole source contract worth up to $2.97 billion to upgrade the Aegis ...

The oldest of the vertical launch system variant of the Ticonderoga class, the Bunker Hill, is already in the process of receiving Aegis Baseline 9, Wittman said.

The Ticonderoga-class of cruisers are engineered for Aegis ballistic missile defense, which uses a mix of computer, missile and radar technology to fire a Standard Missile-3 to knock an ...

The U.S. Navy’s “Cruiser Modernization” program will extend the service life and enhance the combat capability of 22 of the Navy’s 27 multi-mission AEGIS cruisers (CG-52 through CG-73).

The U.S. Navy’s Aegis program was born as the solution to a physics problem: Given that hostile variable-geometry wing Soviet Tupolev Tu-22M Backfire bombers travel at speeds approaching Mach 2 ...

A number of Ticonderoga-class cruisers were deployed during the Gulf crisis in 1991. Aegis-controlled Tomahawk missiles were deployed in 1993 against targets in Iraq for enforcing the “no fly ...

The Los Angeles–class nuclear-powered fast attack sub and the Aegis-class missile cruiser involved in the accident were being evaluated for the extent of the damage Sunday.

The U.S. Navy's Ticonderoga-class cruisers, built during the 1980s, ... Built around the then-new Aegis Combat System and a pair of twin Mk. 26 guided missile launchers, ...

The Aegis Combat System is installed on the Navy's 62 Arleigh Burke class destroyers and another operational 22 Ticonderoga class cruisers. The system is made up of four large SPY-1D phased array ...