USS Gettysburg (CG-64)
9750 tons
173 meters
16.80 meters
10.2 meters
About 390
Four gas turbines, two shafts together 80,000 hp
30 nodes
2 starter for anti-ship missiles, 2 triple torpedo launchers, 2 guns 127 mm, 122 VLS cells
The USS Gettysburg (CG -64) Guided Missile Cruiser is a United States Navy and is a member of the Ticonderoga class.
History
Construction
The Gettysburg in 1986 at Bath Iron Works commissioned and 1988 there Keel-laying. The launch took place after a construction period of eleven months, the ship was named after the Battle of Gettysburg.
Inserts
The first use of Gettysburg took place in 1992 as escort for the USS John F. Kennedy (CV -67) in the Mediterranean instead. In 1993, the cruiser was used in Operation Support Democracy against Haiti. After just two weeks, the ship was however replaced. The next regular use started in June 1994, the Gettysburg moved into the Baltic Sea, to the exercise BALTOPS. With the USS Halyburton (FFG -40) visited the Gettysburg from 9 to 14 November 1994, two ports (including Cape Town ) in South Africa. This was the first friendly visit by U.S. vessels in South Africa in February 1967. On November 30, the two ships were ordered to help the Horn of Africa Achille Lauro of, one fallen into fire cruise ship. The burned-out hull of the ship sank on December 2. The Gettysburg supplied the evacuated on a tanker passengers with food and medical supplies.
1996 was the Gettsyburg go with the battle group led by the USS Enterprise ( CVN -65) and participated in Operation Desert Strike. Two years later, again as a security for the enterprise, the Gettysburg actively participated in Operation Desert Fox. Later in the year also there were still issues as part of Operation Deliberate Force against Kosovo.
In early 2001 drove the cruiser again with the Enterprise and led exercises and port visits in the Atlantic. Shortly before the beginning of Operation Enduring Freedom The Gettysburg reached its home port. 2004 operated the Gettysburg during the exercise Summer Pulse with seven carrier battle groups in the Atlantic.
2007 moved the Gettysburg then with four destroyers of the Arleigh Burke class and the submarine USS Philadelphia ( SSN -690 ) as escorts of the carrier Enterprise in the anti -terrorist struggle. 2008, the cruiser took part in the exercise BALTOPS in the Baltic Sea and then in the celebrations of the Kieler Woche. 2009 moved the Gettysburg on the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN -69) side in the Indian Ocean to combat Somali pirates there. In May 2011, the cruiser drove to the side of the USS George HW Bush ( CVN -77 ) in Arabic and European waters.
According to Jane 's Information Group, the ship in fiscal year 2014 is to be made under savings from service.
Trivia
In the thriller novel The Legend of the American writer Tom Clancy, the Gettysburg plays a crucial role, as it is thanks to an experimental software upgrades in a position to one of the People's Republic of China to Washington, DC launched CSS -4 ICBM shoot with nuclear warhead just before the impact with their anti-aircraft missiles.