USS Lake Erie (CG-70)
USS Lake Erie at Pearl Harbor on 26 June 2008
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Name | Lake Erie |
Namesake | Battle of Lake Erie |
Awarded | 25 February 1988 |
Builder | Bath Iron Works |
Laid down | 6 March 1990 |
Launched | 13 July 1991 |
Acquired | 12 March 1993 |
Commissioned | 24 July 1993 |
Homeport | San Diego |
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Motto | Courage, Determination, Peace[1] |
Honors and awards | Battle Effectiveness Award – 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008[2][3][4] |
Status | in active service |
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Class and type | Ticonderoga-class cruiser |
Displacement | Approx. 9,600 long tons (9,800 t) full load |
Length | 567 feet (173 m) |
Beam | 55 feet (16.8 meters) |
Draft | 34 feet (10.2 meters) |
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Speed | 32.5 knots (60 km/h; 37.4 mph) |
Complement | 30 officers and 300 enlisted |
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Aircraft carried | 2 × MH-60R Seahawk LAMPS Mk III helicopters. |
USS Lake Erie (CG-70) is a
History
Lake Erie was built by
Service with the Constellation battle group
As part of a seven ship battle group, led by the aircraft carrier Constellation, Lake Erie entered the Persian Gulf 11 January 1995. Along with the Constellation battle group, Lake Erie deployed 10 November 1994 and spent most of December in the western Pacific. The arrival of Constellation and her escorts strengthened the U.S. presence in the Persian Gulf and supported U.N. initiatives in the region, including Operation Southern Watch. In March Lake Erie took part in a two-week, anti-submarine warfare (ASW) exercise in the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman 5 to 19 February to gather data and evaluate tactics to counter the growing threat of third-world diesel submarines. For purposes of the exercise the US submarine Topeka simulated a diesel submarine, while Lake Erie and Vandegrift rounded out the surface forces. The first week of the exercise took place in the southern Persian Gulf, while the second week was held outside the Strait of Hormuz in the Gulf of Oman. Lake Erie and the other ships of the Constellation battle group returned home in May.
During a deployment with the Constellation battle group in July 1997,
Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System testbed
In August 1998, as part of the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System, modifications were made aboard Lake Erie and Port Royal, which consisted of modifications to the Aegis weapons system on board Ticonderoga-class cruisers; a modification, known as Linebacker, and which uses specialized computing and radar software and hardware to provide improved tracking and reporting capabilities, and when coupled with the SM-2 Block IVA, intercept Tactical Ballistic Missiles (TBM). Ballistic missile testing afforded Port Royal and other participants an opportunity to flex the capabilities of the current Aegis weapon system against a live ballistic missile target and gave a representation of how the modified system tracks and destroys TBMs.
Lake Erie and Port Royal were then to conduct at sea testing, develop core doctrine and tactics, and serve as focal points for putting the TBMD technology in the hands of the warfighters in the rest of the fleet. Sailors on board both ships were also to provide early feedback to the technical community and influence the final design of the TBMD system. Successful Linebacker sea trials at the Pacific Missile Range, Kauai, Hawaii took place in the fall of 1998.
On 17 December 1999, Lake Erie returned to her homeport at Naval Station Pearl Harbor after completing a six-month deployment to the western Pacific and Persian Gulf. The guided missile cruiser had once more deployed with the Constellation battle group.
In March 2000, the US Navy began ALI live fire tests and had successfully conducted the first Controlled Test Vehicle. Shiloh had conducted the first ALI live firing test in September 1999 and had successfully demonstrated the launch and flight sequence through third stage separation as well as verified flight stability at extreme altitude. Though the original plan had been to conduct all Flight Test Round shots from Shiloh, the need for further testing conflicted with her operational schedule. Therefore, it was decided by the Chief of Naval Operations to shift to Lake Erie to conduct the next firings in the ALI testing program. Lake Erie, already equipped with Area Linebacker modifications, was, as of 2 March 2000, receiving ALI equipment modifications in Pearl Harbor and was to conduct system checks and training to support the planned test firings.
In early July 2000, the US Navy announced that Lake Erie had been designated the Navy's theater-wide test ship for the AEGIS Lightweight Exoatmospheric Projectile intercept flight-test series. For the next two years, Lake Erie would be dedicated to conducting these critical tests. Lake Erie's home port in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, made the ship's participation in tests at the Pacific Missile Range Facility off Kauai cost-effective with the Navy anticipating that the ship would not deploy operationally again for about two years.
In January 2001, Lake Erie conducted the Aegis Light Exo-Atmospheric Projectile (LEAP) Intercept Flight Test Round (FTR-1A) mission in the mid-Pacific using the Pacific Missile Range Facility, Kauai, Hawaii. Equipped with Aegis LEAP Intercept (ALI) computer programs and hardware, Lake Erie launched an SM-3 missile demonstrating third stage airframe stability and control through nominal kinetic warhead fourth stage separation. The SM-3 is the Navy's new exo-atmospheric missile developed to counter theater ballistic missile (TBM) threats outside the atmosphere.
On 9 February 2001 Lake Erie sortied from Pearl Harbor to assist along with
On 25 January 2002 the Missile Defense Agency and the Navy conducted a successful flight test in the continuing development of a Sea-Based Midcourse (SMD) Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS). Flight Mission-2 (FM-2) involved the launch of a developmental Standard Missile 3 (
The primary objective of this test was to evaluate SM-3 fourth-stage Kinetic Warhead guidance, navigation and control, with extensive engineering evaluation data collected for analyses in preparation for future flight tests. It was the fourth in a planned series of nine developmental test flights for the SMD program. The mission also included the first fully operational SM-3 with a live Solid Divert and Attitude Control System to steer the KW into the target.
In March 2003 she was assigned to
USS Lake Erie was featured in the 2011 naval thriller, Thunder in the Morning Calm, by Don Brown.[7]
On 14 February 2008 the U.S. Department of Defense announced that as part of
In August 2014, Lake Erie went to San Diego for an extended maintenance period. Lake Erie was expected to replace John Paul Jones as a rotational Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) deployer after the maintenance period.[12][13]
On 30 November 2017, Lake Erie arrived in Pearl Harbor following a seven-month deployment to the Indo-Asia-Pacific region and the Persian Gulf.[14]
References
- ^ "Ship's Crest". USS Lake Erie (CG-70). Archived from the original on 25 December 2007.
- ^ "Rear Admiral Joseph A. Horn, Jr". United States Navy Biography. Retrieved 21 November 2013.
- ^ Donnelly, Teresa (23 February 2007). "Russell, Lake Erie win Battle 'E' Award" (PDF). Hawai'i Navy News. Vol. 32, no. 7. Archived from the original (PDF) on 20 March 2009.
- ^ Lantron, Michael A. (7 March 2008). "Pearl Harbor ships earn Battle "E"" (PDF). Hawai'i Navy News. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 March 2012.
- ^ Buck, Tommy (7 August 2006). "Lake Erie Celebrates 13 Years of Success on the Seas". Navy News Service. NNS060807-20.
- ^ Toppan, Andrew (10 March 2003). "Cruisers". Haze Gray & Underway. Retrieved 24 May 2012.
- ISBN 978-0-310-41043-0.
thunder in the morning calm USS Lake Erie.
- ^ Mount, Mike (14 February 2008). "Officials: U.S. to try to shoot down errant satellite". CNN. Retrieved 21 February 2008.
- ^ Roberts, Kristin (14 February 2008). "Pentagon plans to shoot down disabled satellite". Reuters. Retrieved 21 February 2008.
- ^ Shanker, Thom (21 February 2008). "Missile Strikes a Spy Satellite Falling From Its Orbit". The New York Times. Retrieved 21 February 2008.
- ^ Mizokami, Kyle (16 April 2020). "Meet Russia's Imposing Satellite Destroying Missile". Popular Mechanics. Retrieved 18 April 2020 – via Yahoo!.
The operation, code-named Burnt Frost, required reprogramming the SM-3 missile to engage the fast-moving satellite, orbiting the earth at 130 miles.
- ^ "USS Preble, USS John Paul Jones Join Pearl Harbor Ohana". Navy News Service. 16 August 2014.
- ^ "USS John Paul Jones to replace USS Lake Erie in Hawaii; USS Preble also moving to Aloha State". Navy News Service. 7 January 2014.
- ^ Hans, Lucas (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class) (4 December 2017). "USS Lake Erie Arrives in Hawaii". USS Lake Erie (CG-70) Public Affairs.
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- This article includes information collected from the Naval Vessel Register, which, as a U.S. government publication, is in the public domain. The entry can be found here.
External links
- "Official web site".
- "USS Lake Erie (CG-70)". NavySite.de.
- Cole, William (21 June 2006). "Ship-based interceptor to be tested off Kaua'i". The Honolulu Advertiser.
- "MK 41 Vertical Launching System (VLS)". Federation of American Scientists.