Navy Refines Rearming at Sea in East Coast Experiment

Navy Refines Rearming at Sea in East Coast Experiment

The U.S. Navy is moving closer to rearming warships in the open ocean following the successful reloading of missile canisters into a vertical launch system while off the coast of Virginia last week. While anchored at sea July 17, USNS Gopher State (TACS-4) utilized its heavy-lift cranes to transfer and load 25-foot missile canisters into a vertical launch system on destroyer USS Farragut (DDG-99) as part of Large Scale Exercise 2025, the third i…

U.S. Navy Tests At-Sea VLS Reloading During Command Drills

The U.S. Navy demonstrated new techniques and technologies for supplying the fleet’s vertical launch systems on the water during a Pentagon-led command and control exercise, marking the service’s latest effort in developing dedicated at-sea VLS reloading amid surface fleet missile capacity concerns in the Red Sea and the Indo-Pacific. USS Farragut (DDG 99) received reloads to its fore and aft Mark 41 vertical launch from the ready reserve crane …