Ticonderoga-Class Cruisers in Action

by John Gourley

This new guided-missile destroyer ship class of nuclear-powered escorts was originally conceived in the late 1970s. However, cost forced planners to build these new cruisers with modified destroyer hulls and gas-turbine propulsion. The end result was a longer, sleeker cruiser with a formidable variety of offensive and defensive weapons as well as cutting-edge radars, sonars, and a full electronic warfare suite. Ticonderoga-class vessels eventually...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0897478339
• ISBN13: 9780897478335
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: MMD-Squadron Signal
• Length: 80 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 10.9" x 8.0"