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    The Mark 41 vertical launching system (Mk 41 VLS) is a shipborne missile canister launching system which provides a rapid-fire launch capability against...
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    vertical launching system of People's Liberation Army Navy. K-VLS - A vertical launching system of Republic of Korea Navy. Mark 41 Vertical Launching...
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    A vertical launching system (VLS) is an advanced system for holding and firing missiles on mobile naval platforms, such as surface ships and submarines...
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    5860-2006 - A vertical launching system of People's Liberation Army Navy Mark 41 Vertical Launching System - A vertical launching system of United States...
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    blocks of the Mark 41 Vertical Launching System, with the concept image of the hull showing at least 3 such blocks. Instead of the Mk 41 block, large-cell...
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    RIM-162 ESSM (section Mk 41)
    missiles. ESSM also has the ability to be "quad-packed" in the Mark 41 Vertical Launch System, allowing up to four ESSMs to be carried in a single cell. The...
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    capability, along with the Phalanx Close In Weapon System (CIWS), and the Mark 41 Vertical Launch System. Mk 41 VLS is available in different versions that vary...
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  • Mark 41 or Mk 41 may refer to Mark 41 vertical launching system, a ship-based missile launcher Mk 41 or B41 nuclear bomb, the highest-yield nuclear bomb...
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    missile launchers used by the US Navy. The system was deployed in limited numbers due to the advent of the Mark 41 Vertical Launching System; only the...
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    fired from Mark 41 vertical launching systems and is capable of reaching supersonic speeds. It is controlled by an inertial guidance system and uses thrust...
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    decommissioned in 2005 after attempts to retrofit the cruiser with the Mark 41 Vertical Launching System (VLS) failed. She was initially laid up in a reserve fleet...
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    accommodate the Mark 141 8-cell Harpoon launcher module, or the 12-cell Mark 56 Evolved SeaSparrow Missile (ESSM) Vertical Launching System (VLS). The Absalon-class...
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    the U.S. Navy to develop a ship-launched anti-submarine missile compatible with the new Mark 41 Vertical Launching System. The development of the VLS ASROC...
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    be equipped with the Mark 41 Vertical Launching System (VLS) in place of the previous ships' twin-arm Mark 26 missile launchers, which greatly improved...
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    Navy's current RIM-66 Standard Missile 2 missiles, from the Mark 41 Vertical Launching System. At 8,500 tons standard displacement and 10,000 tons full...
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  • GJB 5860-2006 (category Ship-based missile launchers)
    destroyer K-VLS - A vertical launching system of Republic of Korea Navy. Mark 41 Vertical Launching System - A vertical launching system of United States...
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    (90 total cells) Mark 41 Vertical Launch System compared to a 48-cell launcher), and close-defence (with a second close-in weapons system). The Chief of...
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  • multi-role Mark 41 or Mark 57 vertical launching systems, providing a heavier and more expensive, but much more space efficient launching option with...
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    warfare (ASW) system. Missiles are stored in and fired from Mark 41 Vertical Launching System (VLS) cells; with 90 cells on Flights I–II and 96 cells starting...
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  • however be "fitted-for-but-not-with" its 32-cell strike length Mark 41 Vertical Launching System and in its place was to be a Sea Ceptor 24-cell 'mushroom...
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    warship, revealing that its missile arsenal will use the Mark 41 Vertical Launching System (Mk 41 VLS) grouped in two locations, forward of the bridge deckhouse...
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    the Mark 41 Vertical Launching System. A VL-JSM could also compete with the Lockheed LRASM for the U.S. Navy's OASuW Increment 2 for a ship-launched anti-ship...
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    Tomahawk (missile family) (category Submarine-launched cruise missiles)
    submarines are equipped with US-standard Mark 41 Vertical Launching System, and torpedo tubes suited for launching UGM-109 Tomahawk respectively. In April...
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    2014 "New navigation radar system for Royal Navy". Government of the United Kingdom. Retrieved 24 July 2016. "UK confirms Mk 41 VLS selection for Type 26"...
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    BMD 5.0CU system to launch SM-3 Block IA and IB anti-ballistic missiles. The missile launcher is the same Mark 41 Vertical Launching System as the Kongo...
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    now have an Aegis BMD 3.6 system installed to launch SM-3 Block IA and IB missiles. The Mark 41 Vertical Launching System arrangement, similar to the...
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    the Mark 41 Vertical Launching System used on many U.S. Navy warships and to be fired from aircraft, including the B-1 Lancer. For surface launches, LRASM...
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    (CG-51) included two Mark 41 Vertical Launching Systems (VLS). The two VLS allow the ship to have 122 missile storage and launching tubes that can carry...
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    based system requires the longer tubes of the Sylver A50 or A70 vertical launching system (VLS). The American Mark 41 Vertical Launching System can accommodate...
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  • of 32 missiles quad-packed to eight Mark 41 Vertical Launching System silos. In Finnish Navy service, the system will be referred to as ITO 20 (Ilmatorjuntaohjus...
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