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Military/Defense News / Firepower crisis: The US Navy will lose 1500 missile launch tubes in the next few years
« Last post by rangerrebew on Today at 05:17:11 pm » Firepower crisis: The US Navy will lose 1500 missile launch tubes in the next few years
Story by David Axe • 3h •
The US Navy is already smaller than China’s by count of ships. But that’s not a valid way to measure naval power: it makes more sense to look at missile firepower. Unfortunately that’s not a happy story either.
The end is in sight for the US Navy’s long-serving Ticonderoga-class cruisers, icons of the US fleet since the 1980s. A new plan anticipates that the last of the 12 active cruisers – remaining from 27 built between 1980 and 1994 – will decommission in 2027.
Warships come and go, and the 567-foot Ticonderogas with their distinctive blocky superstructures were never going to last forever. But losing the cruisers is especially painful for the US fleet as it struggles to keep pace with the fast-growing Chinese one.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/firepower-crisis-the-us-navy-will-lose-1500-missile-launch-tubes-in-the-next-few-years/ar-AA1o15IX?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=f68dd94b46d7493ffff98f4cf1a404c1&ei=17
Story by David Axe • 3h •
The US Navy is already smaller than China’s by count of ships. But that’s not a valid way to measure naval power: it makes more sense to look at missile firepower. Unfortunately that’s not a happy story either.
The end is in sight for the US Navy’s long-serving Ticonderoga-class cruisers, icons of the US fleet since the 1980s. A new plan anticipates that the last of the 12 active cruisers – remaining from 27 built between 1980 and 1994 – will decommission in 2027.
Warships come and go, and the 567-foot Ticonderogas with their distinctive blocky superstructures were never going to last forever. But losing the cruisers is especially painful for the US fleet as it struggles to keep pace with the fast-growing Chinese one.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/firepower-crisis-the-us-navy-will-lose-1500-missile-launch-tubes-in-the-next-few-years/ar-AA1o15IX?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=f68dd94b46d7493ffff98f4cf1a404c1&ei=17