Clark wrote:

:"Paul J. Adam" wrote in
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: 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.
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: There may be more but that's a starting point. Plenty of users like
: vertical launch without ever getting near AEGIS.
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:In other words, for the point of this exchange there aren't any. We were
:typing about Standard missiles.
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: No, you weren't - unless you can show me a submarine firing Standards...
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:What? All I have mentioned is Standards. I specifically excluded submarine
:VLS. Are you having a bad day?
:

And why would you do that if you were only referring to Standards,
which any fool knows are not fired from submarines?

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: 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.
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:And none of them US. Fine. There are other non-US Standard VLS systems
:without Aegis. Are there are any US VLS systems without Aegis?
:

Yes. I already told you that.


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