Navy demos breakthrough TRAM rearm at sea method

The U.S. Navy says that it has achieved a breakthrough in combat readiness. This month, it successfully demonstrated the Transferrable Reload At-sea Method (TRAM) on an underway warship in open ocean for the first time.

Sailors aboard the Ticonderoga-class cruiser Chosin (CG 65) used the hydraulically-powered TRAM device to load an empty missile canister into the ship’s MK 41 Vertical Launching System (VLS) while off the coast of San Diego on Oct. 11.

Engineers at Naval Surface Warfare Center,...

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