v059l49z@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Paul C Stacy) (03/01/91)
From: v059l49z@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Paul C Stacy) In article <1991Feb28.051401.8781@cbnews.att.com>, cos00119@dcsc.dla.mil (LCDR Harry A. Deamer) writes... >The LEYTE GULF is CG-55; PRINCETON CG-59. All cruisers with hull numbers >from CG-47 on are TICONDEROGA class with the Vertical Launch System >(VLS). My reference, NAVSUP P-365, does not list a USS MARTINSBURG, Just as a correction, TICONDEROGA-class cruisers don't have VLS until you get up to CG-53 (either Bunker Hill or Valley Forge come to mind.) Are there plans to retrofit early ships? Can/may/will they put it in Kidd- class destoyers? Viginia-class cruisers? Paul "Joe Friday" Stacy
v059l49z@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Paul C Stacy) (03/06/91)
From: v059l49z@ubvmsd.cc.buffalo.edu (Paul C Stacy) In article <1991Mar4.212917.9930@cbnews.att.com>, writes... >I have no information on plans for the Kidd or Virginia classes. There (were) >plans to install a 61 round Mk 41 VLS launcher to replace the ASROC launcher >currently in place abord all ships of the Spruance class. I do not know if >these plans have been shelved. This modification has already been made on the Spruance and some others of the class. Paul "Joe Friday" Stacy
jtgorman@cs.arizona.edu (J. Taggart Gorman) (03/06/91)
From: "J. Taggart Gorman" <jtgorman@cs.arizona.edu> In regards to the Mk 41 VLS being retro-fitted to other ships, it is being refitted some _some_ Spruance class DDG's. I am just going from data I have gathered from some of my war games, but one games cites the Paul F. Foster as a member of the Imp. Spruance class. I originally read that the ASROC launcher _and_ the Sea Sparrow laucher were to both be removed from these ships, however, the computer wargame _Harpoon_ cites the Imp. Spruance class as still retaining it's Sea Sparrow launcher, which makes sense. VLS cells can only hold Tomahawk and Standards, and you need weapon directors, like the SPG-55 or 62, to direct the missile, and Spruances do not carry these directors. If vertically-launched ASROCs are available or become available (I assume that they finally have been made since what ASW does a Spruance have other than it's ASROC and helos), they will be placed in the VLS cells. Harpoon assumes a loadout of 24 VL ASROC, 31 TASM, and 4 TLAM. That's a mighty big puch for a DD. I believe that it has been proposed to place Standard SAM's in Imp. Spruances and immediately after launch, transfer control to another ship with directors. The Ticonderoga class has the ability to "take-over" the control of the surface to air attcks of other ships in the vicinity, by use of some nifty data links and use of the mainframe on the Aegis cruiser. On a side note, I heard that the prepping to fire of a Standard from a VLS cells takes somewhere around 2-5 seconds, while the prepping of a Tomahawk takes a horid time, something like 10 minutes. | John Taggart Gorman Jr. | "I'm a no rust build up man myself." | | -Christian Slater | jtgorman@caslon.cs.arizona.edu | in 'Heathers'