American Naval Guided Missile Frigates, Oliver Hazard Perry Class - plus AEGIS Combat System for Cruisers and Destroyers, Comprehensive Information and Photo Galleries (CD-ROM)

This up-to-date electronic book on CD-ROM has comprehensive coverage of the U.S. Navy's fleet of Oliver Hazard Perry-class guided missile frigates, with extensive photo galleries. In addition, it has complete coverage of the AEGIS Combat System for Cruisers and Destroyers. This extraordinary, encyclopedic collection contains more than 24,000 pages reproduced in Adobe Acrobat PDF files. FRIGATES - Frigates fulfill a Protection of Shipping (POS) mission as Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) combatants for amphibious expeditionary forces, underway replenishment groups and merchant convoys. The guided missile frigates (FFG) bring an anti-air warfare (AAW) capability to the frigate mission, but they have some limitations. Designed as cost efficient surface combatants, they lack the multi-mission capability necessary for modern surface combatants faced with multiple, high-technology threats. They also offer limited capacity for growth. Despite this, the FFG 7 class is a robust platform, capable of withstanding considerable damage. This "toughness" was aptly demonstrated when USS Samuel B. Roberts struck a mine and USS Stark was hit by two Exocet cruise missiles. In both cases the ships survived, were repaired and returned to the fleet. USS Stark was decommissioned in May 1999. The Surface Combatant Force Requirement Study does not define any need for a single mission ship such as the frigate and there are no frigates planned in the Navy's five-year shipbuilding plan. AEGIS - The Aegis system was designed as a total weapon system, from detection to kill. The heart of the system is an advanced, automatic detect and track, multi-function phased-array radar, the AN/SPY-1. This high powered (four megawatt) radar is able to perform search, track and missile guidance functions simultaneously with a track capacity of over 100 targets. The first Engineering Development Model (EDM-1) was installed in the test ship, USS Norton Sound (AVM 1) in 1973. The computer-based command and deci