Navy Rapid Capabilities Process Can Now Deploy New Weapons Faster

January 24, 2024

USNI News

In 2021, unmanned surface vessel Ranger sailed from the West Coast with an innocuous shipping container that hid a guided-missile launcher.

Off the coast of California, the container opened and fired a Standard Missile 6 – ordinarily a mainstay of guided-missile warships equipped with powerful air search radars and the complex Aegis Combat System.

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