Thirty American cruiser got the latest version of "aegis"

American cruiser of ticonderoga became the leading ship of the U.S. Navy. As the portal navaltoday. Com U.S. Navy tested a system aegis baseeline 9 thirty years on the ship uss mobile bay. Last year, the cruiser uss mobile bay was sent back for revision of its aegis combat system – the previous version (baseeline 8) has been updated to the latest baseeline 9. During testing on board the cruiser fired two anti-aircraft missiles sm-2 and essm anti-ship one.

According to the press service of the us navy testing is successful, the confirmed features of the updated system to fire control, as well as "Some new features". Aegis – the american ship multifunctional combat information and control system, which is an integrated network of control, management and destruction. The system allows to accept and process information from sensors of other ships and aircraft, passing the coordinates of the targets on their launchers. Today, aegis is used naval forces of the United States, Spain, Norway, the republic of Korea, australia and Japan (in total it has over 100 ships). Uss mobile bay is the seventh ship in a series of 27 missile cruisers of the ticonderoga, built for the U.S. Navy.

Cruisers of this type were the first ships in the american navy equipped with the aegis system. Mobile bay was laid in the summer of 1984, the U.S. Navy, he was adopted on 21 february 1987. Cruisers of the type ticonderoga armed with cruise missiles tomahawk, antisubmarine asroc missile and anti-aircraft guided missiles sm-2 and sm-3.

The total displacement of ships of this type is 9800 tons, length – 172 metres, width – 16 m, transfers "Warspot".