USS Cowpens (CG-63)

	USS Cowpens pulls alongside USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63). USS Cowpens (CG-63) pulls alongside USS Kitty Hawk (CV-63)
History
US
Ordered	8 January 1986
Laid down	23 December 1987
Launched	11 March 1989
Commissioned	9 March 1991
Homeport	Template:Ship Homeport YOK
Motto	list error: <br /> list (help); Victoria Libertatis Vindex; (Victory Vindicates Liberty)
Fate	Template:Ship fate box active in service
Badge	Crest of USS Cowpens TheCrestfeaturesthe13-starCowpensflag
General characteristics
Displacement	Approx. 9,600 long tons (9,800 t) full load
Length	567 feet (173 m)
Beam	55 feet (16.8 meters)
Draught	34 feet (10.2 meters)
Propulsion	4 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbine engines; 2 × controllable-reversible pitch propellers; 2 × rudders;
Speed	32.5 knots (60 km/h; 37.4 mph)
Complement	30 officers and 300 enlisted
Sensors and ; processing systems	AN/SPY-1A/B multi-function radar; AN/SPS-49 air search radar (Removed on some ships); AN/SPG-62 fire control radar; AN/SPS-73 surface search radar; AN/SPQ-9 gun fire control radar; AN/SQQ-89(V)1/3 - A(V)15 Sonar suite, consisting of:; AN/SQS-53B/C/D active sonar; AN/SQR-19 TACTAS, AN/SQR-19B ITASS, & MFTA passive sonar; AN/SQQ-28 light airborne multi-purpose system;
Armament	2 × 61 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems containing; 122 × mix of:; RIM-66M-5 Standard SM-2MR Block IIIB; RIM-156A SM-2ER Block IV; RIM-161 SM-3; RIM-162A ESSM; RIM-174A Standard ERAM; BGM-109 Tomahawk; RUM-139A VL-ASROC; 8 × RGM-84 Harpoon missiles; 2 × 5 in (127 mm)/62 caliber Mark 45 Mod 4 lightweight gun; 2 × Mk 38 25 mm Machine Gun Systems; 2–4 × .50 in (12.7 mm) cal. machine gun; 2 × Phalanx CIWS Block 1B; 2 × Mk 32 12.75 in (324 mm) triple torpedo tubes;
Aircraft carried	2 × MH-60R Seahawk LAMPS Mk III helicopters.

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. She was built at the Bath Iron Works in Maine.

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

In 2003, Cowpens became the first U.S. Navy ship to launch ordnance in the Iraq War. She fired the first 37 Tomahawk cruise missiles.

Cowpens maintains onboard an active VBSS team to conduct anti piracy, anti-smuggling, and anti-terrorist operations.

References

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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v t e Ticonderoga-class cruisers
Mark 26 twin-arm missile launcher ships	Ticonderoga Yorktown Vincennes Valley Forge Thomas S. Gates
Mark 41 vertical launching system ships	Bunker Hill Mobile Bay Antietam Leyte Gulf San Jacinto Lake Champlain Philippine Sea Princeton Normandy Monterey Chancellorsville / Robert Smalls Cowpens Gettysburg Chosin Hué City Shiloh Anzio Vicksburg Lake Erie Cape St. George Vella Gulf Port Royal
Preceded by: Virginia class Followed by: CG(X) (planned), Flight III Arleigh Burke-class (actual), DDG(X) (actual)
List of cruisers of the United States Navy