The privately owned shipbuilder Republik Palindo, part of the Republikorp defence industry holding in Indonesia and formerly ...

Aegis Ashore in Guam The US Navy recently released an image of what appears to be a Mk 41 vertical launch system (VLS) associated with the Aegis Ashore missile defense system installed in Guam.

U.S. Navy sailors aboard the Ticonderoga-class cruiser USS Chosin (CG-65) employed a hydraulically-powered TRAM device "to load an empty missile canister into the ship's MK 41" VLS while the ...

Is there a way to design VLS cells (and VLS-dependent ships) to facilitate fast underway replenishment of depleted missile batteries? With the restart of the DDG-51 program, this is something the ...

Moreover, there were few opportunities for reloading the missile cells at sea anyway and the strikedown crane was omitted in new ships. This provided space for 3-6 more missile cells. Another problem ...

The Navy is upgrading the missile-firing vertical launch tubes aboard its cruisers and destroyers in order to add new fire power and extend their service life, service officials said.

The Aegis Weapon System fired a Standard Missile (SM)-3 Block IB guided missile from the Vertical Launch System (VLS), which successfully acquired, tracked and engaged a simulated ballistic missile ...

Reloading a vertical launching system, or VLS, is a challenging maneuver, given the crane must hold missile canisters vertically, while slowly lowering the explosives into the system’s small ...

VLS canisters serve in a multifaceted role as containers for missile shipping and storage, as well as launch tubes when loaded into the VLS.

Lockheed Martin has tested the new LRASM (Long Range Anti-Ship Missile) from an Mk41 VLS (Vertical Launch System) launcher at the White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. Last month the first LRASM ...

Shortly after, as a further significant enhancement, came the introduction of the multiple-cell vertical launch system (VLS) in place of trainable twin-arm missile launchers,” he notes.