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USS Vincennes (CG-49) was a Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser outfitted with the Aegis combat system that was in service with the United States Navy from July 1985 to June 2005.
The Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser USS Vincennes was deployed to the area on short-notice following the NOTAMs. Commissioned four years earlier for US$1 billion (equivalent to US$3 billion in 2023), Vincennes was fitted with the then-new Aegis Combat System and had a crew of 400, [25] under the command of Captain William C. Rogers III ...
USS Vincennes (CL/CA-44) was a United States Navy New Orleans-class cruiser, sunk at the Battle of Savo Island in 1942. She was the second ship to bear the name.
May 8, 2019 · At 0943, Vincennes opened fire and the IRGCN boats responded with ineffective machine gun fire. Vincennes fired almost 100 5-inch rounds, hitting and sinking two IRGCN boats and damaging a...
Iran Air flight 655, flight of an Iranian airliner that was shot down by the missile cruiser USS Vincennes on July 3, 1988, over the Strait of Hormuz, killing all 290 people on board. The passenger plane, which was in Iranian airspace, had been incorrectly identified as a fighter jet.
Jan 10, 2020 · Iran Air Flight 655, an Airbus A300 with 290 people on board, was blown from the skies by a missile fired from the guided-missile cruiser USS Vincennes as it flew over the Persian Gulf from...
May 11, 2018 · The USS Vincennes shot down Iran Air flight 655, killing all 290 civilians aboard in one of the worst naval accidents in U.S. history.
