USS Cowpens (CG-63)

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USS Cowpens pulls alongside USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63).
USS Cowpens (CG-63) pulls alongside USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63)
Career (US) United States Navy Ensign
Ordered: 8 January 1986
Laid down: 23 December 1987
Launched: 11 March 1989
Commissioned: 9 March 1991
Status: Active in service as of 2007
Homeport: Yokosuka, Japan
General characteristics
Displacement: approx. 9,600 tons full load
Length: 567 feet (173 meters)
Beam: 55 feet (17 meters)
Draught: 33 feet (10 meters)
Propulsion: 4 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 80,000 shp
Speed: 32.5 knots (60 km/h)
Complement: 33 officers & 327 enlisted
Sensors and processing systems: AN/SPY-1A/B multi-function radar
AN/SPS-49 air search radar
AN/SPG-62 fire control radar
AN/SPS-55 surface search radar
AN/SPQ-9 gun fire control radar
AN/SQQ-89(V)3 Sonar suite, consisting of AN/SLQ-32 Electronic Warfare Suite
Armament: 2 × 61 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems
122 × RIM-67 SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk, or RUM-139 VL-Asroc
8 × RGM-84 Harpoon missiles
2 × Mark 45 5 in / 54 cal lightweight gun
2 × 25 mm
2–4 × .50 cal (12.7 mm) gun
2 × Phalanx CIWS
2 × Mk 32 12.75 in (324 mm) triple torpedo tubes
Aircraft carried: 2 x Sikorsky SH-60 Seahawk LAMPS III helicopters.
Motto: Victoria Libertatis Vindex
(Victory Vindicates Liberty)
Crest of USS Cowpens
Crest of USS Cowpens

USS Cowpens (CG-63) is a Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser in the United States Navy. She is named for the Battle of Cowpens, an American victory near Cowpens, South Carolina, in the American Revolution.

Cowpens is currently forward-deployed and is homeported in Yokosuka, Japan.

In 2003, Cowpens became the first USN ship to attack in the new war with Iraq. She fired the first 37 Tomahawk cruise missiles.

See USS Cowpens for other ships of this name.

This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain.


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