Up forward, room is allocated for a sixteen-cell Mk 41 vertical launch system (VLS), like those on Spruance-class (DD-963) destroyers, Ticonderoga-class (CG-47) cruisers, and Arleigh Burke-class (DDG-51) destroyers. While the armament package of the LPD-17 class is still under study, likely weapons systems have been identified. “Another issue is active defensive measures. Twenty-five years ago, the late author, Tom Clancy, a fictional war-thriller and non-fictional military historian and weapons systems analyst, wrote in his non-fiction analyst book, MARINE, A Guided Tour of a Marine Expeditionary Unit (Publisher: Berkeley and PengiunRandomHouse, November 1, 1996), the following:
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