While Japan is in the process of massively up-gunning itself with other U.S. weapons, the SM-6 represents a specific ...

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

The US Navy has begun deploying its land-based Aegis missile defense system, Aegis Ashore, in Guam. Located in the middle of the Western Pacific Ocean, the US island territory of Guam is a ...

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 ...

The Arleigh Burke-class MK-41 Vertical Launching System (VLS) will be upgraded to support SM-3 and newer variants of the SM missile family. Throughout their expected service life, DDG 51 ...

This provided space for 3-6 more missile cells. Another problem was that going to a port to reload VLS cells meant a whip was unavailable for several weeks. After 2010, it became obvious that navy ...

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 ...