Mark 41 Vertical Launch System (for Missiles) Arrives in Taiwan

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(1) 朱明, 【獨家】兩套「Mk 41 VLS」運抵高雄 中科院將執行海弓三實彈驗證及整合測試. 上報 Up Media, Jan 24, 2019
https://www.upmedia.mg/news_info.php?SerialNo=56445
("中科院 * * * 向美商購的2套MK41垂直發射系統（Vertical Launching System，VLS），日前由海運方式運抵高雄 * * * 未來兩套「Mk 41 VLS」洛馬授權　由中科院組裝製造 [(which is sectional heading) :] 中科院2016年6月底與美商洛克希德·馬丁（Lockheed Martin）公司簽訂商購2套Mark 41垂直發射系統（Mark 41 Vertical Launching System，簡稱「Mk 41 VLS」）與部分的技術轉移的合約，依照合約執行時程是以60個月（5年）的時間，完成進行各項測試與技轉，以及相關人員的技術培訓工作。未來第二套以後的MK41垂直發射系統，在洛馬公司授權並由顧問協助上，完全由中科院在國內組裝生產製造。  Mark 41垂直發射系統從1986年服役至今，全世界各國海軍有超過百艘的各式巡防艦或驅逐艦採用該系統，可配備多種不同類型的飛彈，包括海麻雀（RIM-162 Evolved Sea Sparrow Missile，ESSM）短程對空防禦飛彈、標準二型中程防空飛彈、RIM-161標準三型防空飛彈、阿斯洛克反潛飛彈、以及戰斧巡弋飛彈等")

Note:
(a) RIM-162 ESSM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RIM-162_ESSM
(table: In service 2004- , Manufacturer Raytheon; Unit cost US$1m; is designed to counter supersonic maneuvering anti-ship missiles)
(b)
(i)
(A) RUM-139 VL-ASROC (an anti-submarine missile in the ASROC ['Anti-Submarine ROCket'] family; table: In service 1993- , Manufacturer Lockheed Martin)  en.wikipedia.org for "RUM-139 VL-ASROC,"
(B) 1963 United States Tri-Service missile and drone designation system
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/19 ... _designation_system
(1st letter (launch environment) R: Surface ship; 2nd letter (mission) U: Underwater attack; third letter (vehicle) M: Guided Missile)
(C) Vertical Launch Anti-Submarine Rocket ASROC (VLA) Missile. US Navy, undated (under the heading "Fact File")
https://www.navy.mil/navydata/fa ... p;tid=1500&ct=2
("VLA includes a solid-propellant booster thrust vector control (TVC) and a digital autopilot control (DAC) to guide the missile from a vertical orientation through a pitch-over maneuver into a ballistic trajectory intended to deliver the torpedo to an aim point on the ocean surface" -- mentioning Mark 46 and 54 (latest model), both being torpedos )

TVC will be explained in the companion posting, about DF-26.
(D) Andrea Parsch, Lockheed Martin (Loral) RUM-139 VL-Asroc. Dec 6, 2004 (under the heading "Directory of US Military Rockets and Missiles")
www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/m-139.html
("In addition to the ASROC's inertial guidance system, the VL-Asroc uses a digital autopilot, which controls the flight path using the thrust-vector control of the MK 114 MOD 0 solid-rocket booster. The autopilot makes the RUM-139 more manoeuverable than the RUR-5, and enables it to fly a shallower trajectory, avoiding errors by high-altitude winds. The range is controlled as in the RUR-5 [predecessor to RUM-139], ie by motor cutoff and airframe separation at a precalculated point in the trajectory. The payload of the RUM-139A is a MK 46 MOD 5A light-weight homing torpedo, which is decelerated and stabilized by a parachute system before it enters the water")

A defense contractor founded in 1948 in New York by William Lorenz and Leon Alpert, Loral Corp, having sold defense business to Lockheed Martin in 1996, became Loral Space & Communications.  en.wikipedia.org for Local Corp.

mark (designation)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_(designation)
(section 1 Usage)

Mark may be written mark or mk; Mod (short for model; akin to version in Silicon Valley, California), MOD or mod.
(ii)
(A) 垂直発射型アスロック 発射の映像【護衛艦きりしま】VL-ASROC. Youtube.com, published by こしりり on Nov 25, 2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP19kD07Ebk
(B) 護衛艦きりしま  JS Kirishima (DDG-174)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JS_Kirishima_(DDG-174)  
(is a Kongō-class 金剛型 [named for 金剛山 in 大阪府] guided missile destroyer; named for Mount Kirishima 霧島 山 [kiri us Japanese pronunciation for kanji 霧: mist, fog]; table: Builder: Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Nagasaki, Nagasaki, Commissioned 1995, Homeport Yokosuka)

(2) 羅添斌 (台北), 美台交流突破瓶頸 我3飛彈性能提升、射程更遠更準. June 17, 2018 ("即時")
https://news.ltn.com.tw/news/politics/breakingnews/2460605
("美國政府首度同意台灣派員到美國重點實驗室參訪 * * * 相對於天弓、天劍以及雄風系列飛彈的發展較為順利，軍方在自主研發艦載飛彈的垂直發射系統上，卻長期面臨「卡關」，亟待突破。相關官員說，美國已同意出售垂直發射系統給台灣，台灣則希望在與美國進行科研合作、赴重點實驗室參訪時，美方能夠在關鍵技術上「指點迷津」，讓台灣的新一代巡防艦及主力戰艦上，能夠配備台灣自主研發的垂直發射系統")

(3) 朱明, 迅二計劃啟動 美同意售台垂直發射系統. 風傳媒 The Storm Media, Oct 12, 2014
https://www.storm.mg/article/22110
("軍方人士指出，因中科院研發的飛彈「垂直發射系統」，無法提高在飛彈點燃後卻無法發射及如何消防與排除飛彈的安全保證，因此海軍經過與美方2年的協商，日前已獲得美方同意，以商購方式對台輸出MK-41垂直發射系統。若一切順利，國防部將於年底前，與美國洛克希德馬汀公司進行採購MK-41垂直發射系統的合約意向書")