수상전투함 Re: 타이콘데로가급 순양함 3척의 수명연장을 결정한 미해군

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미해군이 원래 2027년까지 모두 퇴역시키려고 했었던 타이콘데로가급 중 CG-64 USS 게티스버그, CG-65 USS 초신, CG-71 USS 케이프 세인트조지 3척의 운용수명을 2029년까지 연장하기로 결정했습니다. CG-64는 2023회계연도, CG-65는 2024회계연도에 현대화를 완료했고 CG-71은 올해 현대화 작업을 끝낸다고 하네요. 

이 3척은 2010년대 타이콘데로가급 현대화 프로그램을 성공적으로 통과한 배들이라고 하네요. 원래 미해군은 타이콘데로가급 22척 중 11척을 2030년대까지 운영하려 했었다고 합니다. 

SECNAV Del Toro Announces Life Extensions for 3 Cruisers - USNI News

SECNAV Del Toro Announces Life Extensions for 3 Cruisers

Mallory Shelbourne

November 4, 2024 5:23 PM

Guided-missile cruiser USS Gettysburg (CG-64), returns to Naval Station Mayport after a nine-month deployment to the U.S. 5th and 6th Fleet on April 18, 2014. US Navy Photo

Three Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruisers will remain in the fleet past their planned service lives, the Navy announced Monday.
USS Cape St. George (CG-71), USS Gettysburg (CG-64) and USS Chosin (CG-65) will each get extended, according to a statement form Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro.

“This decision adds 10 years of cumulative ship service life from fiscal year 2026 to 2029,” the Navy said in the announcement.

All three cruisers were part of a modernization program that upgraded the hull, mechanical and engineering equipment to extend the ships’ service lives.

“USS Gettysburg (CG-64) and USS Chosin (CG-65) completed modernization in fiscal year 2023 and fiscal year 2024, respectively,” according to the Navy. “USS Cape St. George (CG-71) is on schedule to complete modernization this fiscal year.”

Gettysburg is currently deployed with the Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group, while Chosin is preparing to deploy. Cape St. George is still at BAE Systems in Norfolk, Va., for the modernization overhaul.

These are the only three cruisers to successfully make it out of the Ticonderoga-class modernization program that started in the 2010s. Originally, the Navy wanted to keep 11 of the 22 cruisers operating into the 2030s. The Navy took seven cruisers out of active service and gave them skeleton crews so they could receive overhauls that would put them back into service when the rest of the cruisers retired from the fleet. But the program faced numerous hurdles and the Navy over the last few years has sought to retire most of the ships in the class.

The Navy decommissioned USS Vicksburg (CG-69) at the end of June and USS Cowpens (CG-63) at the end of August. Both ships went through the cruiser modernization program.

“After learning hard lessons from the cruiser modernization program, we are only extending ships that have completed modernization and have the material readiness needed to continue advancing our Navy’s mission,” Del Toro said in a statement about the cruiser extensions.

In recent years, the Navy planned to decommission all of the cruisers by Fiscal Year 2027. In September, the service decommissioned USS Leyte Gulf (CG-55) and USS Antietam (CG-54). But the extensions announced Monday takes the Ticonderoga class beyond that date.

The Monday announcement about the cruisers comes after the Navy on Friday said it would extend the lives of 12 Flight I Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyers.

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영국, 일본에서 1차대전 때 이미 있던 배들을 1920~1930년대에 계속 개량/수명연장해서 2차대전 때도 써먹었던 듯한 모습이네요.

많이 개량한 Queen Elizabeth, Warspite, Valiant는 밥값을 했지만 별로 개량을 받지 못한 R형 전함 5척은 그다지...

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https://www.dote.osd.mil/Portals/97/pub/reports/FY2018/navy/2018aegismods.pdf?ver=2019-08-23-165934-067

업그레이드 내용을 보니 플라이트IIA에 준하는 베이스라인9 계열로 전투체계를 교체하는 것 같은데 R급보다는 QE의 사례에 가깝다고 봐야 할런지. 선체 상태가 말이 아니라서 업그레이드 규모가 축소됐다는 얘기가 있던데 저 3척이 그나마 상태가 좋은 물건인가 봅니다.