{"id":300044,"date":"2026-10-05T11:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-05T11:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/300044\/"},"modified":"2026-10-05T11:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-05T11:30:10","slug":"us-navy-retires-two-ticonderoga-class-cruisers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/300044\/","title":{"rendered":"US Navy retires two Ticonderoga-class cruisers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Commissioned on July 24, 1993, Lake Erie helped develop and test the Aegis ballistic missile defence system. In February 2008, it intercepted a malfunctioning US satellite and destroyed it during Operation Burnt Frost.<\/p>\n<p>Shiloh was commissioned on July 18, 1992, and served in a forward-deployed role in Yokosuka, Japan, for 17 years after arriving in August 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Its service included Tomahawk missile strikes during Operation Desert Strike in 1996 and Operation Iraqi Freedom. The cruiser also supported relief operations after the December 26, 2004, tsunami off Aceh, Indonesia, during Operation Unified Assistance in early 2005.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining cruisers are USS Robert Smalls, USS Princeton, USS Gettysburg, USS Chosin and USS Cape St. George.<\/p>\n<p>The navy <a aria-label=\"content\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bairdmaritime.com\/security\/naval\/naval-ships\/us-navy-extends-service-lives-of-three-ticonderoga-class-cruisers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">extended the service lives<\/a> of Gettysburg, Chosin and Cape St. George in November 2024, adding 10 cumulative ship-years across fiscal 2026\u20132029 following hull, machinery and combat-system upgrades.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Commissioned on July 24, 1993, Lake Erie helped develop and test the Aegis ballistic missile defence system. In&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300045,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[136,138,137,7725,123612,66,198,61294,99514],"class_list":["post-300044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-north-america","tag-ticonderoga-class","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-navy","tag-us-navy","tag-uss-lake-erie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}