COMPUTERISED DEFENCE — U.S.S. Ticonderoga, first of a new class of guided missile cruisers equipped with the AEGIS combat system, fires a missile from her forward launcher (top) during sea trials in the Gulf of Mexico. The-171- metre long vessel is called the United States Navy’s most extensively armed surface combatant. Its weapons, which include anti-air and anti-surface missiles, rapid firing deck guns, anti-submarine torpedoes and rockets, and close-in weapons, are directed and fired from the AEGIS computer-controlled combat information centre (bottom). The system can detect, track, and engage hundreds of aircraft and missiles while continuously watching for new targets.

Press, 27 April 1983, Page 15

COMPUTERISED DEFENCE — U.S.S. Ticonderoga, first of a new class of guided missile cruisers equipped with the AEGIS combat system, fires a missile from her forward launcher (top) during sea trials in the Gulf of Mexico. The-171-metre long vessel is called the United States Navy’s most extensively armed surface combatant. Its weapons, which include anti-air and anti-surface missiles, rapid firing deck guns, anti-submarine torpedoes and rockets, and close-in weapons, are directed and fired from the AEGIS computer-controlled combat information centre (bottom). The system can detect, track, and engage hundreds of aircraft and missiles while continuously watching for new targets.