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Ticonderoga Class

Four of the five twin-arm "Ticos" have been decommissioned; the fifth, Thomas S. Gates is scheduled to be decommissioned in March 2006. The newer 22 of the 27 ships (CG-52 to CG-73) in the class will be upgraded to keep them combat-relevant, giving the ships a service life of 35 years each

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One ship of the class, USS Vincennes, became infamous in 1988 when she shot down Iran Air Flight 655 resulting in 290 civilian fatalities, which the captain of Vincennes had believed from misinterpreted radar returns was an Iranian Air Force F-14 Tomcat jet fighter on an attack vector. Vincennes was later decommissioned in 2005. Of the "Ticos", at least six (Ticonderoga, Anzio,Yorktown, Valley Forge, Antietam and Princeton) share names with World War II aircraft carriers. Only one, Thomas S. Gates, is not named for a battle.

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