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Clark wrote in news:Xns9A43DA50D778Cch2uswestnet@
64.209.0.91:
Are there are any US VLS systems without Aegis?

Yes (maybe).

From - http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita...systems/mk-41-
vls.htm:

"The US Navy currently deploys MK 41 VLS - on AEGIS-equipped Ticonderoga-
class cruisers and Spruance- and Arleigh Burke-class destroyers - and plans
to use it on next generation of surface ships, the LDP17, DD-21 and CG-21."

LPD-17 is commissioned and operating.

From: http://www.globalsecurity.org/milita...-17-design.htm

Paraphrased - The class is designed for installation of the Mk-41 VLs, but
none were installed, due to budget restructuring. There is capacity to back
fit VLS in all 12 ships in the class.

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Regarding AEGIS w/o VLS, I'd say there are none.

From various Wikipedia articles:

"The Aegis Weapons System comprises the SPY-1 Radar, MK 99 Fire Control
System and ORTS, MK 41 VLS, the Command and Decision Suite, and SM-3
Standard Missile systems. Shipboard torpedo and naval gunnery systems are
also integrated."

"Originally, the first five ships of the United States' Aegis equipped
Ticonderoga class cruisers were outfitted with Mark-26 twin-arm missile
launchers; however, the ships with this system have been decommissioned and
are no longer in service."

"The current generation of American-produced VLS is known as the Mk 41
Guided Missile Launch System or Vertical Launch System. It is capable of
carrying an extremely wide range of missiles, including the Evolved Sea
Sparrow Missile (ESSM) naval self defense, short range SAM, SM-2 medium
range/long range SAM/SSM, SM-3 anti-ballistic missile, VLA (RUM-139
vertical launch ASROC) anti-submarine missile with Mk-46 torpedo warhead,
an advanced version of the earlier ASROC (RUR-5), and the Tomahawk cruise
missile (long range strike)."

"The RIM-67 SM-2ER was the Navy's replacement for RIM-2 Terrier missile.
Ships carrying the SM-2 ER were often still called Terrier ships even after
the SM-2ER. Because the RIM-67's first stage booster was very long, it
could not fit into the Mk 41 VLS system, and thus could not be used with
the Aegis weapon system. The SM-2 Block IV with the Mk 72 booster was
developed to compensate for the lack of a long range SM for the
Ticonderoga-class of Aegis cruisers."

And more he http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/sys/ship/weaps/aegis.htm

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Now that we have solved, will you little children stop whining and grow up?