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Ticonderoga Class Cruisers

Also searchable as Tico Class Cruiser, Tico Class Cruisers, Ticonderoga Class, Ticonderoga Class Cruiser.

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  1. Bruships 262: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    1:47:08Ticonderoga aluminium superstructures and topweightQ&A
  2. Bruships 260: Naval History Questions Answered Live
    2:59:39Continued Ticonderoga production and hull limitsQ&A
  3. Air Defence At Sea: From Air Ships in 1906, to drones in 2026 and everything in between...
    3:11:16Ticonderoga as an enlarged destroyerQ&A
  4. Guadalcanal, HMS Africa, Spy Ships, Metacentric Height & Cruiser build Ticonderoga: 5 in 1 Live
    14:41Cruiser standards are more than armourNotable Point
  5. Guadalcanal, HMS Africa, Spy Ships, Metacentric Height & Cruiser build Ticonderoga: 5 in 1 Live
    2:33:11Ticonderoga began as a destroyer leaderChapter
  6. Guadalcanal, HMS Africa, Spy Ships, Metacentric Height & Cruiser build Ticonderoga: 5 in 1 Live
    2:36:30A Long Beach hull for the Aegis cruiserChapter
  7. Guadalcanal, HMS Africa, Spy Ships, Metacentric Height & Cruiser build Ticonderoga: 5 in 1 Live
    3:03:00Why a Ticonderoga hull cannot simply be stretchedQ&A
  8. Guadalcanal, HMS Africa, Spy Ships, Metacentric Height & Cruiser build Ticonderoga: 5 in 1 Live
    3:33:46Would Long Beach-sized Aegis cruisers still be in service?Q&A
  9. Bruships 255: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:47:58Would more missile cruisers remove the case for a BBGN?Q&A
  10. Bruships 252: Naval History Questions Answered Live...take 2
    1:08:51Would the proposed ACV restore a Western cruiser lineage?Q&A
  11. Bruships 249: Modern Navy & Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    4:29:11Missile cruisers descended from the Alaska classQ&A
  12. The Rise & Fall of the Constellation Class: What happened to the FFG-62 Program?
    1:38:52An early Burke Flight III proposal and the sequencing of improvementsNotable Point
  13. How Ship Design is a reflection of Navy's attempts to balance technology, strategy and memory...
    8:40Radars shape modern warship architectureChapter
  14. What Happens if Australia, Canada & the UK go all in on the Invincibles in the 1970s? (Patreon Live)
    2:26:52Could Australia's Invincibles become Aegis carriers?Q&A
  15. US Navy Ship Building Plan 2026... a Live look at what is being planned...
    3:23:48Does the battleship replace the Ticonderoga cruiser?Q&A
  16. US Navy Ship Building Plan 2026... a Live look at what is being planned...
    4:53:17Why retire the remaining Ticonderoga-class cruisers?Q&A
  17. How the USN learnt the lessons to conceive the Arleigh Burke class... From the Gearings to the Kidds
    47:32Ticonderoga begins as a Spruance-hulled destroyer leaderNotable Point
  18. Bruships 230: Naval History Questions Answered Live...3rd Start
    49:15The long U.S. Navy search for a true cruiser successorQ&A
  19. Scuttlebutt 18: Guns & Points of Order
    40:43The cruiser duties imposed on Ticonderoga's hullNotable Point
  20. Bruships 227: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:03:23Ticonderoga and the wartime meaning of a cruiserQ&A
  21. Why is a Frigate a Frigate and other questions of modern navys?
    40:43Why Ticonderoga became a cruiser on paperNotable Point
  22. Why are Modern Warships getting bigger? (Live)
    22:39VLS trades rapid fire for deck space and difficult reloadingChapter
  23. Bruships 222: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:56:57Type 82, Long Beach and the first TiconderogasQ&A
  24. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P9 of 9 - A Movie Star in the Making: HMS Portchester Castle
    5:52:31Ticonderoga's cramped combat information centreQ&A
  25. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War
    2:19:00Flight III Burkes first replace Ticonderoga cruisersNotable Point
  26. 36hrs Live Historiophon 2025: P6 of 9 - The Royal Navy’s Submarine Killers – Black Swans at War
    3:13:08Ticonderoga and Type 82 were not direct equivalentsQ&A
  27. Historiophon 2025: part 3 of 9 - Combat Stress
    8:24:51A proposed nuclear strike cruiser as a Ticonderoga replacementQ&A
  28. Zumwalt Class: Defined by Procurment... Destroyed by Politics of Procurement.
    22:03A general-purpose centerpiece for conflict managementNotable Point
  29. Bruships 202: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    24:33Why the US Navy retired its older cruisersQ&A
  30. Bruships 197: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:33:27How early SPY-1 compared with British air-warning radarsQ&A
  31. Scuttlebutt 21st Century Battleship: Chat & Comment Response...
    34:12Why a carrier is a poor model for battleship manningQ&A
  32. Bruships 186: Naval History Questions Answered Live...Restart 2!
    2:04:23Why missile-era naval power is harder to visualizeNotable Point
  33. Bruships 185: Naval History Questions Answered Live...
    2:33:43How proposed nuclear strike cruisers could reshape the US escort fleetQ&A
  34. Bruships 178: Naval History or Exercise
    2:39:31Was a large VLS battery worth adding to the Iowa class?Q&A
  35. Ramblings Emergency Broadcast
    1:03:23Could a cruiser hull make an escort carrier?Q&A
  36. Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!
    4:09:06An 8-inch AGS turns escorts into cruisersQ&A
  37. Bruships 170: Once more unto the Kalax dear listners, once more unto the Kalax!
    4:22:02Why replacing Ticonderoga's aft gun with VLS is not simpleQ&A
  38. Bruships 169: Kalax o Kalax, my kingdom for a Kalax...
    1:48:53Why early Ticonderogas could not cheaply receive VLSQ&A
  39. Bruships 168: And a empty Kalax, sang the aisles a serenade, longing for books with a love song
    2:54:33World War II analogues for Burkes and TiconderogasQ&A
  40. Bruships 166: As I walk through the library of Naval History, I take a look at my shelf space....
    3:55:56Turning Zumwalt into an air-warfare cruiserQ&A
  41. The Nimitz Class: The Tenacious Ten that underpin America on the Global Stage
    1:27:50A smaller escort group meets a fragile carrier industrial baseNotable Point
  42. Bruships 160: Money for Kallax, Book Space ain’t Free! Naval History Questions & Chat...
    1:47:36Ticonderoga's CIC layout and Cold War cruiser labelNotable Point
  43. Evolution of Carrier Air Groups 1918-2024: A Discussion
    1:11:53Carrier ammunition replenishment and the VLS reload gapNotable Point
  44. Bruships 144: Some Books(Can't Find Lego Cam Sorry) & Naval History Questions
    1:09:50A cruiser-hulled alternative to the Ticonderoga classQ&A
  45. Bruships 143: Some Book Tales and Naval History Questions Answered
    3:41:50Early mothballing could preserve Ticonderoga cruiser lifeQ&A
  46. Bruships 142: Naval History Questions & Some Books
    3:54:21Preserving failed warships as procurement warningsQ&A
  47. Bruships 139: Books will be Attempted, Questions will be Answered
    4:16:32How DDG(X) moves from Ticonderoga replacement to Burke replacementQ&A
  48. The Philosophy behind Autoloader Development for Navies
    44:39VLS speed trades away magazine depthChapter
  49. Patreon 90: How were warship autoloader turrets prototyped? A development History
    2:34:05Aegis growth needs a new ship architectureQ&A
  50. HMS Dreadnought: Key Ship Series 1 Ship 1 Comment Response
    8:12What makes an amphibious, submarine, or Aegis ship pivotal?Chapter
  51. Modern Gun Tech: What would WWII style battleship & cruiser guns look like with modern technology?
    57:18Cruiser labels versus the independent cruising roleNotable Point
  52. Ticonderoga Class: Comment Response
    0:20Why the Ticonderogas became cruisersNotable Point
  53. Ticonderoga Class: Comment Response
    12:29Kevlar gives the Ticonderogas splinter protectionNotable Point
  54. Ticonderoga Class: Comment Response
    13:39Ticonderoga was designed around Aegis phased arraysNotable Point
  55. Ticonderoga Class: Comment Response
    14:23Where the Kidd class fits before TiconderogaQ&A
  56. Ticonderoga Class: Comment Response
    19:01Why Ticonderoga plans moved away from aluminumQ&A
  57. Ticonderoga Class: Comment Response
    20:15Ticonderoga captains directed carrier-group air warfareNotable Point
  58. Ticonderoga Class: Comment Response
    20:56The destroyer that filled an unbuilt cruiser's roleNotable Point
  59. Ticonderoga Class: Comment Response
    30:43A loose 19th-century cruiser analogyQ&A
  60. Ticonderoga Class: Comment Response
    33:03Port Royal's grounding made retirement easier to justifyNotable Point
  61. US Nuclear Powered Cruisers: Comment Response
    33:44The post-Cold War case against retiring nuclear cruisersQ&A
  62. What would battleship and cruiser guns look like If modern technology were applied to them?
    29:34Cruiser labels, destroyer leaders, and independent presenceNotable Point
  63. USS Long Beach: Comment Response
    0:18Why Long Beach ends the US cruiser lineageQ&A
  64. USS Long Beach: Comment Response
    15:37From an enlarged Long Beach to a strike-cruiser classNotable Point
  65. Red Storm Rising: The GIUK Gap in a 1980 conventional war between the Warsaw Pact & NATO(Patreon 77)
    1:59:14Were Ticonderoga-class cruisers available in 1980?Q&A
  66. Ship Shape & Running on Gas
    31:14How the Coast Guard de-risked U.S. Navy gas turbinesNotable Point
  67. Bruships 109: Mahan, an inspiration & a Reflection + Bonus
    3:38:44How foreign cruiser labels can reshape procurementQ&A
  68. Bruships 107: Some New to Me Books & Some New from Pen & Sword
    2:54:26Type 82, Ticonderoga, and the politics of cruiser labelsQ&A
  69. Bruships 97: Random Books, Naval Chat & Possibly the Sound of Rain
    44:25Current naval history requires a different evidence styleQ&A
  70. New Years 2023 Naval History Questions till the Bru runs out...
    1:18:31Ticonderoga may be the last US double-ended VLS classQ&A
  71. New Years 2023 Naval History Questions till the Bru runs out...
    1:24:14A true Ticonderoga replacement points back to the strike cruiserQ&A
  72. Ticonderoga(1981) Class: Aegis Covers it All
    0:00How a DDG became an Aegis cruiserChapter
  73. Ticonderoga(1981) Class: Aegis Covers it All
    5:04Spruance roots and crowded air-warfare requirementsNotable Point
  74. Ticonderoga(1981) Class: Aegis Covers it All
    7:31Cruiser-gap politics behind the nameNotable Point
  75. Ticonderoga(1981) Class: Aegis Covers it All
    10:18Why the strike-cruiser case collapsed after the Cold WarNotable Point
  76. Ticonderoga(1981) Class: Aegis Covers it All
    12:25Why modern-warship analysis stays with public sourcesNotable Point
  77. Ticonderoga(1981) Class: Aegis Covers it All
    13:49Aegis and SPY-1 made the class matterChapter
  78. Ticonderoga(1981) Class: Aegis Covers it All
    17:39From Mark 26 rails to 122 VLS cellsNotable Point
  79. Ticonderoga(1981) Class: Aegis Covers it All
    20:21Guns, torpedoes, and limited Kevlar protectionNotable Point
  80. Ticonderoga(1981) Class: Aegis Covers it All
    22:03Modernization spending versus early retirementChapter
  81. Ticonderoga(1981) Class: Aegis Covers it All
    23:17How the Spruance hull lost its growth marginNotable Point
  82. Ticonderoga(1981) Class: Aegis Covers it All
    26:24Pacific concentration and shortened service livesNotable Point
  83. Ticonderoga(1981) Class: Aegis Covers it All
    28:18A cruiser-role package in the minimum hullNotable Point
  84. Ticonderoga(1981) Class: Aegis Covers it All
    30:00The surface fleet's missing prestige cruiserNotable Point
  85. Ticonderoga(1981) Class: Aegis Covers it All
    31:35When an efficient control-room layout meets a rolling shipNotable Point
  86. Ticonderoga(1981) Class: Aegis Covers it All
    33:25DDG(X) and the variable meaning of high-low mixNotable Point
  87. Ticonderoga(1981) Class: Aegis Covers it All
    35:25A high bridge trades more motion for longer sightlinesNotable Point
  88. Ticonderoga(1981) Class: Aegis Covers it All
    36:24From cruiser labels back to destroyers doing the cruiser jobChapter
  89. Ticonderoga(1981) Class: Aegis Covers it All
    37:49Crew affection and austere habitabilityNotable Point
  90. US Nuclear Powered Cruisers: Long Beach to Arkansas - The Atom Unleashed
    56:40CGN-42 failed the emerging acquisition testChapter
  91. Chapyev Class (Projekt 68 of the Soviet Navy): Fighting the Peace
    15:43Why the Soviet Navy became cruiser-centeredChapter
  92. Patreon 57: Modern frigates, cruisers by another name?
    3:21Why VLS count does not define a cruiserQ&A
  93. Questions & Answers on Naval History till the Bru Runs Out Take 2
    2:56:25Using Zumwalt as an interim US cruiserQ&A
  94. Bruships 78: Favourite Cruisers A Discussion...
    3:10:10How console orientation can worsen seasicknessNotable Point
  95. Bruships 75: Following the 614th Running the Gauntlet
    32:23How a larger Ticonderoga lineage could enlarge Type 81Q&A
  96. Bruships 70: Travelling along...
    1:15:39A British superpower's counterpart to the Ticonderoga classQ&A
  97. Bruships 68: Random Naval History Books & Questions
    1:31:49Why the Ticonderoga cruisers remained in serviceNotable Point
  98. The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Long Patrol)
    1:06:21Ticonderoga carries cruiser status on a destroyer hullNotable Point
  99. The Principles and Factors of Cruiser Design(Live)
    3:01:41Ticonderoga: a cruiser title for air defenceNotable Point
  100. Quirky Classes and What they tell us about their navies… (Live)
    2:44:06Zumwalt: a capable hull in a broken programmeChapter
  101. Bruships 61 - Ship Design; Sci-fi, Wooden & Steel, and some Naval History Questions
    4:24:47Cruiser-sized ships remain in several modern fleetsNotable Point
  102. Bruships: A Special - Questions/What ifs till the Bru runs out? (6)
    1:59:53Why Ticonderoga did not receive the 8-inch Mark 71Q&A
  103. Patreon 22: If the Cold War went hot in 1986 would NATO's navies keep the Altantic Going?
    1:22:17Scarce Aegis cruisers and French carriers reinforce the forward battleNotable Point
  104. Town Class; big impact with a light footprint
    2:28:52Why the Ticonderogas were called cruisersQ&A