Naval News asked U.S. Navy’s VADM James Pitts whether the U.S. Navy will have enough vertical launch system cells in the ...

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 the ...

China is closing the missile-tube gap with the US Navy as the latter's long-standing edge in vertical-launching-system cell capacity, one indicator of naval strength, shrinks. The People's ...

Service: USN Armament: Standard Missile (SM-2MR); Vertical Launch ASROC ... cost to the Navy. In-service ships can be modernized by two distinct packages: Combat Systems (C/S) and Hull, Mechanical ...

the Navy has requested that the new destroyers host Flight III Aegis combat system elements. In terms of armaments, the warships are expected to be fitted with ninety-six Vertical Launch Systems ...

Ed Dobeck, director for launching systems at Lockheed Martin, told Seapower that the Mk70 was developed two years ago in ...

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 ...