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Lockheed Expands Capability of ExLS For Integrating Missiles Into VLS

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Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

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By Geoff Fein Lockheed Martin [LMT] demonstrated earlier this month that its system for integrating missiles with a ship's vertical launch system (VLS) can also be used to deploy the Navy's Nulka decoy, according to a company official. Lockheed Martin set out to provide the Navy with some flexibility in what they could install in VLS tubes as well as expand a ship's mission, Tim Fouts, business development manager launching systems, told Defense Daily recently. "That's what the Extensible Launching…

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