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 ...

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 ...

January 10, 2025: Back in the 1990s the U.S. and Chinese navies both experimented with using TRAM, or Transportable Re-Arming Mechanism for reloading the Vertical Launch ... system against incoming ...

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 ...