South Korean shipbuilder Hanwha Ocean showcased new destroyers and export frigates designs at MADEX 2025.

Combined, these platforms represent over 2,000 Vertical Launch System (VLS) cells, essential for rapid, high-volume missile strikes. -While the Navy plans ...

The VLS — or Vertical Launch System — found on U.S. Navy destroyers and other warships is remarkably complex and delicate, requiring precision during launch and reloading.

The Royal Navy currently uses the Sylver VLS platform on its Type 45 Daring class destroyers, along with a bespoke cold-launch VLS as part of the Sea Ceptor system fitted to Type 23 frigates.

What's New. China's Navy has significantly closed the gap with its U.S. counterpart in vertical launch system (VLS) missile cells, now boasting more than half the U.S. Navy's total, according to ...

Türkiye defence company Aselsan has confirmed a successful first live fire test of its GÖKSUR Vertical Launch System (VLS) from a Turkish Navy surface platform. Conducted on 16 February 2025 ...

The US Navy has long held a missile-tube advantage over China. But China's ships now have half as many vertical-launch-system cells as the US, research found. VLS capacity is important for naval ...

Lockheed Martin Corporation LMT recently clinched a contract to provide logistics, repair and spare support for 161 MK-41 vertical launch system (VLS) components included in the Aegis combat system.

March 26, 2024: Back in the early 1980s American warships began using VLS (Vertical Launch System) cells to carry the many different missiles ships used for attacking other ships, defeating air ...

January 10, 2025: Back in the 1990s the U.S. and Chinese navies both experimented with using TRAM, or Transportable Re-Arming Mechanism for reloading the Vertical Launch System or VLS cells that are ...

This might suggest that the submarine has a vertical launch system, or VLS, for firing missiles, a new armament addition that did not feature on the existing variant of the Yuan-class.