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MISSILE DEFENSE
Navy to purchase new containers for air defense missiles
by Stephen Carlson
Washington (UPI) Dec 10, 2018

The Navy has awarded BAE Systems Land & Armaments $41.5 million for SM-3 and SM-6 surface-to-air missile canisters for the Mk 41 Vertical Launching System.

Work on the contract, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, includes manufacturing and testing of Mk 21 mod 2 and Mk 21 mod 3 canisters. The canisters help contain exhaust gas and provide a launch rail while firing the missile, and function as shipping containers as well.

The canisters also serve as missile shipping and storage containers. The work mandated by the contract modification will run through August 2021.

The Mk 41 is a modular missile launch system capable of fielding anti-aircraft, anti-surface and ballistic missile defense missiles. The modules can be linked together, allowing different ship classes to carry the number of missiles needed for their class capabilities and requirements.

It is the missile launch system on the U.S. Navy's Ticonderoga-class cruisers and Arleigh Burke-class destroyers along with different ships deployed by allied nations such as Japan, the United Kingdom and others.

The VLS can fire the Standard series of surface-to-air missiles and anti-ballistic missile interceptors like the SM-3, Tomahawk land attack cruise missiles, and other weapons such as ESSM point defense missiles and ASROC anti-submarine rocket propelled torpedo launchers.


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Navy to commission new Arleigh Burke destroyer USS Thomas Hudner
Washington (UPI) Nov 28, 2018
The U.S. Navy will commission the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Thomas Hudner during a Dec. 1 ceremony in Boston, Mass., at 10 a.m. Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker will deliver the ceremonies principal address with Hudner's widow and the wife of retired Vice Adm. Michael Miller as sponsors, the Navy announced on Wednesday. USS Thomas Hudner is named after the naval aviator and Medal of Honor recipient Capt. Thomas J. Hudner Jr., who was awarded the decoration in 1951 ... read more

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