The U.S. Navy is experimenting with a surprisingly simple way to add more firepower to its fleet: putting missile launchers into standardized, container-sized modules. Systems like the Mk 70 Payload Delivery System can bring weapons such as the SM-6 and Tomahawk to platforms that weren’t originally designed around traditional vertical launch cells. But the container itself isn’t the most important part. The bigger story is what happens when America begins distributing missile launch capability across ships, land forces, unmanned platforms, and wider sensor networks. In this video, we break down the Mk 70, the Army’s Typhon system, the Marine Corps’ NMESIS, networked targeting, and the Navy’s Distributed Maritime Operations concept—and why all of this could create a much harder targeting problem for an adversary in the Pacific. The future of naval warfare may not be about building more ma

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