What does LS stand for?

The Aegis command and control system integrates the SPY-1 radar, the MK-41 vertical launching system and the SM-3 missile.

The high-cycle test facility is now testing the electromagnetic aircraft launching system to simulate launches at a rate of more than 250 launches per day.

Naval Electronics & Surveillance Systems, Baltimore, is being awarded a $6,053,048 cost-plus-award-fee modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-00-C-5486) for design agent engineering efforts to support ongoing product improvements and new missile integration, as well as continued design agent engineering support for launcher electronics, systems integration and software integration portions of the MK41 Vertical Launching System.

Navy's Tactical Tomahawk Missile for firing from the Mk 41 Vertical Launching System (VLS).

is being awarded a $41,091,369 firm-fixed-price contract for the FY08 canister production requirements for MK-13 MOD 0 and MK-25 MOD 0 canisters to support integration of STANDARD Missile (SM-2) and EVOLVED SEASPARROW (ESSM) missiles into the MK 41 Vertical Launching System (VLS).

MINNEAPOLIS -- BAE Systems announced today it had been selected as a 2007 Top 5 Department of Defense Program Award winner for systems engineering for the company's work on the DDG 1000, MK57 Vertical Launching System (VLS).

The MK 41 VLS provides a missile launching system for CG 47 and DDG 51 class surface combatants of the US Navy, as well as surface combatants of allied navies.

The plant will fabricate and deliver ammunition magazines for BAE Systems' Advanced Gun System and missile launcher assemblies for their Mk57 Vertical Launching System.