Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!cbnews!cbnews!military From: lam@mozart.cs.colostate.edu (mark lam) Newsgroups: sci.military Subject: Re: Missile pods on Soviet warships Message-ID: <1991Jun27.015830.3103@cbnews.cb.att.com> Date: 27 Jun 91 01:58:30 GMT References: <1991Jun20.020943.1923@cbnews.cb.att.com> <1991Jun22.041034.1688@cbnews.cb.att.com> Sender: military@cbnews.cb.att.com (william.a.thacker) Organization: Colorado State Computer Science Department Lines: 31 Approved: military@att.att.com From: lam@mozart.cs.colostate.edu (mark lam) In article <1991Jun22.041034.1688@cbnews.cb.att.com> ab3o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Allan Bourdius) writes: > > >From: Allan Bourdius > >the CGs (all TICOs before, I think, BUNKER HILL), DDs, DDGs, >>CGNs, and FFGs have the twin arm launcher that must be loaded via rails. > >I'm reasonably sure that I read in AvWeek or Proceedings that all of CG >47 class were now equipped (either built with or retrofitted) with the >Mk 41 VLS. The DDG 2 class (Charles F. Adams) is being retired. All >the new DDG 51's will have VLS. A significant number of DD 963's >(Spruance) have also recieved their VLS upgrades. > Well, I happened to see CG-49 Vincennes in San Diego harbor last month, and she still had twin-arm launchers. Most of the Spruances in port did have the VLS systems. CV-62 Independence was also in port, and I saw something that caught my eye: some workers on scaffolding were welding a hardpatch on the hull just above the waterline. I'm pretty sure that Independence was in the Gulf, so did she hit a mine? (This could have happened and I might have missed it when it did!! :- -- Mark Lam lam@mozart.cs.colostate.edu -----------------------------------------------------------------------------