Japan is building two new, heavily armed ASEV-type (AEGIS System Equipped Vessel) destroyers. These ships, which reportedly ...

The following is the March 4, 2025, Congressional Research Service report, Navy Constellation (FFG-62) Class Frigate Program: ...

It demonstrated its effectiveness in protecting naval assets against a wide range of threats including anti-ship, cruise missiles ... including the GÖKSUR 100-N VLS, GÖKSUR 100-N/StA with ...

The destroyer's armament has greatly expanded the role of the ship in strike warfare utilizing the MK-41 Vertical Launch System (VLS). Technological advances have improved the capability of modern ...

(Janes/Ridzwan Rahmat) In a bid to improve the Mogami class's anti-submarine warfare (ASW) capabilities, Japan has begun installing the vertical launching system (VLS) on selected hulls of the ...

The anti-ship version needs some other ship, aircraft, or satellite to determine the general area where the target is. Zumwalts have 80 VLS Vertical Launch Tubes containing either anti-ship, cruise, ...

Virginia class SSNs have a fly-by-wire ship control system that provides improved ... The new bow also replaces the 12 individual Vertical Launch System (VLS) tubes with two 87-inch Virginia ...

The MSDF will work on developing state-of-the-art submarines that have such counterattack capabilities with their missile Vertical Launching System (VLS). Compared to surface ships, submarines are ...

A running theme across the entire operation has been the need for ships to leave the operation regularly to re-arm at friendly ports, as reloading vertical launch system (VLS) missiles at sea is ...