In message , Clark
writes
On 09 Feb 2008, you wrote in rec.aviation.military.naval:
In message , Clark
writes
Show me a VLS system other than submarine that isn't used with Aegis.

GWS26 Sea Wolf. PAAMS (Sylver launchers plus ASTER missiles). SA-N-6 and
SA-N-9, for the Russians. At least one Chinese system whose designation
I can't recall offhand. Barak, for Israeli kit. Vertically Launched Sea
Sparrow.

There may be more but that's a starting point. Plenty of users like
vertical launch without ever getting near AEGIS.


In other words, for the point of this exchange there aren't any. We were
typing about Standard missiles.

No, you weren't - unless you can show me a submarine firing Standards...

Even letting that pass, turn your eyes to the Canadian Tribal-class
destroyers, and their Mark 41 VLS systems, the Standard missiles
therein, and their remarkable lack of AEGIS. Or the Australian Adelaides
after their VLS modification, ditto. Or the German Sachsens....

Plenty of VLS systems launching Standard that still have no AEGIS
involved on the ship.

--
The nation that makes a great distinction between its scholars and its
warriors, will have its thinking done by cowards and its fighting done
by fools.
-Thucydides


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