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USS ''Port Royal'' (CG-73) is a United States Navy guided missile cruiser, the 27th and final in the class. She is the second U.S. warship to bear the name of two naval battles of Port Royal Sound, South Carolina, of the American Revolutionary War and the American Civil War. However, during the initial building phase, the builders and crew were unaware of this history of the first ''Port Royal'', as a result, the Engineering Control Center bears a plaque "First ship named". The cruiser was ordered 25 February 1988, laid down 18 October 1991 by Ingalls Shipbuilding at Pascagoula, Mississippi, launched on 20 November 1992, christened on 5 December 1992 by Susan G. Baker (wife of James A. Baker III, Chief of Staff to President George H. W. Bush and former Secretary of State), and formally commissioned on 9 July 1994 at Savannah, Georgia; Captain Nicholas L. Richards Commanding, Lieutenant Commander Derek B. Kemp Executive Officer, and Master Chief Petty Officer Dennis W. Mills, Command Master Chief. was originally named ''Port Royal'' but the name was formally changed during construction.〔http://www.navysite.de/cg/cg69.html〕 ==Characteristics== ''Port Royal'' and are the original cruisers for the navy's Linebacker Program (Milestone Phase I, II and III), which provided theater ballistic missile defense capability, as test platforms to detect, track, cue, intercept, and interact with other national assets to shoot down ICBMs.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Navy Area Theater Ballistic Missile Defense (NATMBD) )〕 The vessel's Aegis and Stand Missile Tracking systems have been upgraded with "long range surveillance and track (LRS&T)", and the ships were outfitted to carry the modified SM-2 Block IVA TMD. As of 2009, USS ''Port Royal'' along with USS ''Lake Erie'' and are the only three s to be equipped for the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense Program. ''Port Royal'' participated as a tracking ship during operation "Stellar Athena" FTM 12 on 22 June 2007 off Hawaii. ''Lake Erie'' continues its role, but ''Port Royal''s role has been taken by . Originally, ''Port Royal'' was to be outfitted with the experimental shipboard mounted High Energy Laser Weapon System (HELWEPS). Based on a megawatt-class deuterium/fluorine chemical laser, HELWEPS would have replaced the standard 5-inch forward gun. HELWEPS was to have been used to destroy missiles up to about away, or to burn out electro-optical sensors about away. The outfitting, scheduled to occur in Port Hueneme, California in 1994 was cancelled, along with all plans to install HELWEPS on ''Ticonderoga''-class cruisers. Four (LM2500) gas turbine engines propel ''Port Royal'' with at speeds greater than . Two five-bladed controllable reversible pitch propellers ( diameter) and two rudders assist in acceleration and deceleration. Sensors include: * AN/SPY-1B(V) Multi-Function Radar (Four Mounts) * AN/SPS-49(V)8 Air Search Radar * AN/SPS-55 Surface Search Radar * AN/SPS-64(V)9 Navigation Radar * AN/SPQ-9 Gun Fire Control Radar * AN/SPG-62 Illuminators (Four Mounts) * AN/SQQ-89A(V)15 Sonar Suite * AN/SLQ-32A(V)3 Electronic Warfare Suite 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「USS Port Royal (CG-73)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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