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USS Carney launching SM-2 missiles
🕑 Added 2023-10-21 15:58:12 +0000 UTCSailors assigned to the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Carney (DDG 64) stand watch in the ship’s Combat Information Center during an operation to defeat a combination of Houthi missiles and unmanned aerial vehicles, Oct. 19.
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Scott Cunningham
Pretty sure that’s already done. 4x ESSM can fit in single standard VLS cell. I would imagine they would carry a high/low mix for exactly the reasons you mentioned (as well as increasing number of missiles carried)
Fralex
according to chatgpt it was a million a pop back at 2004
Paul D Berkebile
I wonder what the cost of each SM-2 is? Maybe we should develop a cost reduced interceptor--like a Sea Sparrow ER, and save the Standard Missiles for the "big one."
