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Two U.S. Army Ticondroga-class missile cruisers withdrew from service.This is the news of the Global Times citing the U.S. "Star Trek" and others.

Specifically, on September 25 local time, at the Naval Base of Norfolk, Virginia, the U.S. military held a retirement ceremony for the "Normandy" and "The Philippine Sea" two Ticondroga-class missile cruisers.

The retirement ceremony. CG-58 Cruiser "Philippine Sea"

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It must be said that the two thousand-ton cruisers, the US military in the late mid-1980s to maintain hegemony at sea, especially for the naval strength to lead the Soviet Union more, especially to ensure the absolute safety of the aircraft carrier crew, and the development and production of the new type of ship for the time.

In terms of tonnage, the Ticondroga class slightly overtook the Soviet glory class, such as the "Moscow" that sank in the Black Sea in 2022, but Smiley believes that the Ticondroga class cruiser compared to the glory class cruiser, the greatest advantage lies in the number of subsequent construction, as well as modernization.

After all, the United States has a huge fleet of aircraft carriers, including 11 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers with a full displacement of 100,000 tons or 110,000 tons. These aircraft carrier formations all need 10,000-ton ships to guard them.

What Ticonderoga-class cruisers do is do the job of carrying knives as guards. Of course, its own ship-borne weapons also ensure that he has certain offensive capabilities.

Before the arrival of the aircraft carrier, the navy's largest type of ship should be the warships. below the warships, the cruisers, destroyers, escort ships.

Since the advent of aircraft carriers, especially after World War II, battleships have gradually withdrawn from the stage of history. So, what about cruisers?

In fact, in addition to the Soviet Union and even Russia, there are still attempts to fight cruisers alone:

Or a Kirov-class cruiser with a total discharge of 2,8 thousand tons ¨C such as the "Nazimov Navy Chief" recently wanted to return to the Russian Navy.

Either glorious, but with the sinking of the "Moscow" almost withdrew from the historical stage;

Either it is to develop aircraft-carrying cruisers, such as the early Kiev class and the later Kuznetsov class.

Russian aircraft carrier "Kuznetsov" Category: Military Central

The so-called aircraft-carrying cruiser is nothing more than the Soviet Union's desire to develop an aircraft carrier, but it is afraid that it will not be able to develop an aircraft carrier and abandon the "craft" of developing cruisers.

Today, Russia has started a plan to miniaturize naval vessels. It is said that it is modernization and miniaturization, but only Russia itself understands what the actual situation is!

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This is why, with the Soviet Union and subsequent Russian glorious class cruisers, the Ticondroga class cruiser, in fact, from the date of its inception, the U.S. military is primarily used as the destroyer of the aircraft carrier squadron.

However, it is still laughable to say that the Ticondroga-class cruiser in the US military's battle sequence, indeed, has made his merit.

For the two retired cruisers titled the Ticondroga cruisers, named after the U.S. military sites during World War II:

Between March 1999 and May 1999, the Philippine Sea participated in NATO airstrikes on the Southern Alliance, launched cruise missiles at targets within the Southern Alliance, and in October 2001 launched cruise missiles in Operation Permanent Freedom against Afghanistan.

The "Normandy" set sail for the Gulf to participate in the "Desert Shield" and "Desert Storm" operations against Iraq at the end of its next year of service, that is, on December 28, 1990. During this period, a total of 26 cruise missiles were launched. It is said that it is also the first naval ship of the U.S. Navy after World War II that was put into actual combat on its maiden voyage after service.

The retirement ceremony. CG-60 ¡°Normandy¡±

Only, the landscape of that year, and the sadness of today seem to have two sides.

It is said that the U.S. military¡¯s plans to develop a new generation of Mill-Ton-class ships suffered a lot of failure. At this time, when two Ticondroga-class ships retired, no new types of ships filled the vacancies.

However, the U.S. military is still forced to retire, and the two ships have previously been modernized.

But the U.S. military has no intention of delaying its retirement.

Look at the U.S. military:

In September 2024, the withdrawal of the CG-54 "Anti-Thank" of the TiCondroga 8, the U.S. Navy reduced the size of the U.S. Navy's TiCondroga to nine.

1988 The "Philippine Sea" in its trial voyage

Today, with the retirement of the "Philippine Sea" and "Normandy", there are only seven Ticonderoga-class ships in the US military. They are-

The CG-59 Princeton.

16 CG-62 ¡°Robert Smurfs¡±

18 CG-64 Gettysburg

Ship No. 19 CG-65 "Changjin Lake",

The CG-67 Hilo.

CG-70 ¡°Lake Eli¡±

CG-71 ¡°St. George¡¯s Horn¡±

According to the U.S. Navy¡¯s plans, the CG-67 ¡°Hillow¡± and CG-70 ¡°Eli Lake¡± will also be retired later this year, when the size of the Ticondroga level will be further reduced to five.

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Currently, the number of active U.S. cruisers Ticondroga class is less than the current number of U.S. Liberation Army 055.Number of large missile destroyers.

Of course, it can also claim to have 11 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers with a drainage capacity of more than 100,000 tons, and all have been launched by ship-carrying aircraft.

Even the Chinese Fujian ship entered service, but more than a modern electromagnetic bullet launched a conventional powered aircraft carrier.

On the whole, the United States has a larger number and stronger aircraft carrier fleet than China.

American aircraft carrier Carl Vinson. Source: China Defense News

But there have been comments that China's aircraft carrier squadron, in addition to the gap in the aircraft carrier itself than the U.S. Army, in the squadron, whether large destroyers, or medium-sized destroyers, escort ships, and submarines, etc., do not lose to the U.S. Army, even a little stronger!

Will the maritime strength of China and the United States be reversed in the future?

The possibility of this in the next few years, of course, is not possible. after all, the development, design, production, and formation of various types of weapons of the aircraft carrier squad is a process that is needed. Chinese aircraft carrier squads have all kinds of equipment, and it is not possible to chase the U.S. military in numbers within a few years.

And China's naval use is different from that of the U.S. military, and the future aircraft carrier role in the naval and even the entire military might change, as China's Defense Ministry spokesman Zhang Xiaoping stressed, "We are always advancing aircraft carrier construction according to national security needs and equipment technology development."

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