USS Lake Erie (CG-70)

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Career	Image:Naval Jack of the United States.svg
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Ordered:	25 February 1988
Laid down:	6 March 1990
Launched:	13 July 1991
Commissioned:	24 July 1993 First U.S. Navy ship Commissioned in Hawaii.
Decommissioned:
Status:	Template:Ship fate box active in service
Struck:
General Characteristics
Displacement:	9,600 tons
Length:	567 ft
Beam:	55 ft
Draught:	33 ft
Propulsion:	4 × General Electric LM2500 gas turbines, 2 shafts, 80,000 shp
Speed:	30+ knots
Range:
Complement:	387 officers and enlisted
Armament:	2 x 61 cell Mk 41 vertical launch systems, 122 x RIM-67 SM-2, BGM-109 Tomahawk or RUM-139 VL-ASROC, 8 x AGM-84 Harpoon missiles 2 x 5 in, 2 x 25 mm, 2–4 x 12.7 mm guns, 2 x Phalanx CIWS 2 x Mk 46 triple torpedo tubes
Aircraft:	2 x SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopters
Motto:	Don't Give Up the Ship

USS Lake Erie (CG-70) is a Ticonderoga-class cruiser guided-missile in the United States Navy. She is named for the decisive USN victory in the Battle of Lake Erie during the War of 1812. This class of cruisers carries a powerful armament of surface-to-air missiles (SAMs), ship-to-ship Harpoon missiles, Tomahawk cruise missiles, ASROC anti-submarine missiles, and two rapid-fire 5-inch caliber cannons. In addition, she carries two Seahawk LAMPS multi-purpose helicopters, but mainly for anti-submarine warfare (ASW). Thus, she is equipped for action in all three dimensions, anti-air, anti-surface, and anti-submarine.