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 ...

The Navy for the first time reloaded a warship's vertical launching system missile cells at sea on Oct. 11, 2024. That system for rearming ships is shown here being demonstrated on land this summer.

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 ...

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.