The seven ships equipped with cruise missiles are the guided missile cruiser USS Cape St.
The Navy has offered an Aegis cruiser, a guided missile destroyer and two fast frigates to support evacuation efforts.
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While in the Navy, he was assigned to the Guided Missile Destroyer USS ROOSEVELT, based right here in Mayport.
The United States has 27 active Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruisers in active service.
They are serving on ballistic and guided missile submarines throughout the Navy.
The nine U.S. Navy ships include three guided missile cruisers, three frigates, an amphibious transport ship, two dock landing ships and a research vessel.
Meanwhile, the American navy has been working on its own cheap guided missile, the Low-Cost Imaging Terminal Seeker (LCITS), which it tested successfully last year.
Shadows are now being armed with a small, still-classified guided missile.
During operations, Nimitz-class carriers sail at the centre of a carrier battle group of ships that includes guided missile cruisers, destroyers, frigates, logistics ships and submarines.
The guided missile cruiser USS Normandy, a veteran of Operation Desert Storm, has been based in New York for four years and will be open for public tours.
While this means they have a similar role to the guided missile cruisers, destroyers are smaller and faster and are designed to reduce their profile on enemy radar - though it is unclear whether this technology is successful.
Encouraging data are also expected this weekend for an approach in which potent doses of chemotherapy are linked to antibody drug such as Roche's Herceptin to deliver chemo more directly to the tumor like a guided missile, to reduce the toxic side effects of chemo.
The carrier and its 5, 000-person crew were to leave Feb. 8, along with the guided-missile cruiser USS Gettysburg.
America certainly took careful notes: the USS Cole, a guided-missile destroyer, visited Estonia.
In addition to the Mount Whitney, U.S. ships under Odyssey Dawn included the Kearsarge and Ponce and the guided-missile destroyers USS Stout and USS Barry, along with logistics and refueling ships.
The self-guided Russian R-77 medium-range air-to-air missile is almost as good as the U.S. AIM-120 AMRAAM.
The most determined effort to develop a small, cheap guided weapon, though, is the Forward Firing Miniature Munition (F2M2, or Spike missile), from the Naval Air Weapons Station in China Lake, California.
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