USS Mississippi (CGN-40) Naval Station Pascagoula, Feb 1996 Chris Eger (4)
USS Mississippi (CGN-40) at Naval Station Pascagoula, Feb 1996. How about those giant MK26 GMLS twin launchers. Mississippi was a “double-ended” cruiser, carrying a set of these bad boys both fore and aft, with 26 missiles forward and 44 in the aft magazine, a mix of ASROC and Standard SM-2MR. Photo by Chris Eger