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USS TICONDEROGA MODEL



USS Ticonderoga (DDG/CG-47), nicknamed "Tico", was a guided-missile cruiser of the United States Navy. She was the lead ship of the Ticonderoga class and the first U.S. Navy combatant to incorporate the Aegis combat system. This system allowed the ship to track and engage multiple targets (aircraft) much more effectively than any ship previously.

The nine years of sea test development prior to the U.S. Navy’s first installing Aegis on the USS Ticonderoga indicates the complexity and the engineering effort necessary to build a successful Aegis system. The fact that the Soviet Union gave up on an Aegis system after years of frustrating problems on two warships also shows the extreme difficulties. In 1988, the Soviet Union installed its first Aegis-type Sky Watch on two aircraft carriers. Each of the four square-plate phased array antennas measured about 5 meters in diameter. The Soviets seemed to have had considerable trouble in exercises with their Gorshkov phased array radar, as mechanical scanning Top Sail/Top Pair radars replaced it on the next Soviet carrier, the Tbilisi. Sea operations attempting to successfully target incoming threats using external ship or aircraft platforms also failed. 



USS Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruisers are multi-role warships. Their Mk 41 VLS can launch Tomahawk cruise missiles to strike strategic or tactical targets, or fire long-range antiaircraft Standard Missiles for defense against aircraft or anti-ship missiles. Their Light Airborne Multi-Purpose System (LAMPS III) helicopters and sonar systems allow them to perform antisubmarine missions.

Ticonderoga-class ships are designed to be elements of carrier battle groups or amphibious ready groups, as well as performing missions such as interdiction or escort. With upgrades to their AN/SPY-1 phased radar systems and their associated missile payloads as part of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System, members of this class have, in successive tests, repeatedly demonstrated their proficiency as mobile anti-ballistic missile and anti-satellite weaponry platforms.

USS Ticonderoga's keel was laid down on 21 January 1980, the 35th anniversary of the devastating kamikaze attack on the aircraft carrier Ticonderoga (CV-14). CG-47 was launched on 25 April 1981 and christening on 16 May 1981 with First Lady Nancy Reagan. Ticonderoga was delivered to the U.S. Navy on 13 December 1982 and commissioned in Pascagoula, Mississippi, on 22 January 1983. Ticonderoga entered service in 1983 and deployed later that year to the Mediterranean.

After being decommissioned in 2004, Ticonderoga was stored at the Naval Inactive Ship Maintenance Facility in Philadelphia. She arrived in Brownsville, Texas, for scrapping in 2020.



USS Ticonderoga was featured in the 1986 Tom Clancy novel Red Storm Rising, defending the USS Nimitz and USS Saratoga battlegroups against the saturation anti-ship missile attack in the Norwegian Sea by Soviet bombers.


This primarily wood 1/98 scale model of the
USS Ticonderoga CG-47 is 71' long x 25" tall x 9" wide. $12,250 Shipping and insurance in the USA included. Other countries $1,100 flat rate. The model is built per commissions only. We require only a small deposit to start the process. Click here for lead time.

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Learn more about the Ticonderoga class here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Ticonderoga_(CG-47)