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U.S. Navy Deploys Guided-Missile Cruiser with Latest Aegis CMS Upgrade to Japan
U.S. Navy Deploys Guided-Missile Cruiser with Latest Aegis CMS Upgrade to Japan
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Navy Deploys Guided-Missile Cruiser with Latest Aegis CMS Upgrade to
Japan
The U.S. Navy announced that the guided-missile cruiser USS Chancellorsville
(CG 62) will join the Forward Deployed Naval Forces in Yokosuka, Japan.
As part of the U.S. Navy's long-range plan to send the most advanced
and capable units to the Asia-Pacific, Chancellorsville will leave her
homeport of San Diego and deploy to Yokosuka in the summer of 2015.
Official
U.S. Navy file photo of USS Chancellorsville (CG 62). The cruise was
recently upgraded with the latest Aegis Baseline 9 combat system.
Chancellorsville
completed a combat systems update through the Navy's Cruiser Modernization
program, making her among the most capable ships of her class. She is
fitted with the latest Aegis Baseline 9 combat system, and will be the
first to be forward deployed with that capability. The Baseline 9 suite
of capabilities includes state-of-the-art air, surface, and undersea
warfare systems needed to directly support the carrier strike group.
This ship, along with her counterparts in the Japan Self-Defense Forces,
makes up part of the core capabilities needed by the alliance to meet
our common strategic objectives.