Analysts identified the warship as a guided-missile frigate sitting in a floating dry dock. North Korea has been looking to ...

Japan has begun installing the first Mk 41 VLS for a planned fleet of 12 Mogami-class multirole frigates for the JMSDF.

In 1994, following the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of Cold War hostilities, the Nuclear Posture Review deemed ...

Or it could be a much smaller number of ballistic missiles." Vertical launch systems (VLS) allow ships to carry more missiles, and make launching and reloading easier. Lewis said North Korea had ...

The destroyer's armament has greatly expanded the role of the ship in strike warfare utilizing the MK-41 Vertical Launch System (VLS). Technological advances have improved the capability of modern ...

Satellite images show North Korea building its largest warship ever, a missile-loaded frigate possibly equipped with ...

Virginia class SSNs have a fly-by-wire ship control system that provides improved ... The new bow also replaces the 12 individual Vertical Launch System (VLS) tubes with two 87-inch Virginia ...

meaning principally anti-ship and land-attack missiles. Each LUSV could be equipped with a vertical launch system (VLS) with 16 to 32 missile-launching tubes. Although referred to as unmanned ...

SM-2 is a surface-to-air defense weapon designed to protect naval assets from anti-ship missiles and aircraft ... Launcher System and MK-57 Advanced VLS and features radar-seeker technologies ...

Back then it appeared that this new Type 055 12,000-ton cruiser class ship would have as many as 128 Vertical Launch System or VLS tubes and much else besides. China claimed this ship would be the ...