In message , Clark
writes
"Paul J. Adam" wrote in
Plenty of VLS systems launching Standard that still have no AEGIS
involved on the ship.

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?

Not since the Spruances retired, that I can think of offhand.

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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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