Guided Missile Cruiser (CG)

A guided-missile cruiser (US hull symbol CG) is a cruiser whose primary armament is surface-to-air and land-attack missiles fired from a vertical launching system, built for area air defense of a carrier or surface group. The Ticonderoga class (CG-47, commissioned from 1983) is the only CG in current US service: the Aegis combat system with AN/SPY-1 phased-array radar and two 61-cell Mk 41 VLS banks (122 cells) firing Standard SM-2/SM-6, ESSM, and Tomahawk. The nuclear-powered variant carries the CGN symbol.