A $61m contract awarded to Boeing exercises an option for additional production of High Altitude Anti-Submarine Warfare ...

The United States Navy plans to retire all four Ohio-class SSGNs by 2027, a decision that will create a crisis due to a VLS (Vertical Launch System) shortage. The Navy also planned to retire the ...

The USS Chosin -- in a Navy first -- used the hydraulically powered Transferrable Rearming Mechanism, or TRAM, to load an empty missile canister into the ship’s vertical launching system while ...

The Chinese navy added nearly one-third of its vertical missile launch cells in 2021 and 2022 alone, ... Vertical launch systems, introduced on U.S. Navy ships in the 1980s, ...

Sailors guide a missile canister into a Vertical Launching System cell at Port Hueneme. Navy photo. The Navy announced Wednesday “game-changing” technology that will allow its warships to be ...

COLUMBUS – Stark Aerospace Inc has been awarded a $61.45 million firm-fixed-price contract for the MK 41 Vertical Launching System MK 25 canister production in support of fiscal 2024-2028 MK 41 ...

The system is designed to be used with existing at-sea replenishment ships and will be able to reload vertical launch systems on surface ships in sea states 3 or higher.

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 ...