Popular Mechanics

The U.S.’s land and sea warfare services may be fierce rivals on the football field, but when it comes to munitions, they increasingly resemble a couple showing up to work wearing each other’s clothes.

The Army is now deploying Typhon land-attack missile batteries that use the Navy’s SM-6 and Tomahawk missiles, and both services are collaborating on a hypersonic missile destined for Army trucks, Navy submarines, and Navy destroyers.

Now, a recently revealed 2024 test suggests that the Navy could potentially stuff the Army’s Patriot PAC-3 MSE air defense missiles into the Mark 41 vertical launch cells of both their Arleigh Burke-class destroyers and future Constellation-class frigates. The former has 90 or 96 cells in total, and the latter should have 32.

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