I was refering to the “not used underway anymore” part. I figured they would use a crane at the harbour when in harbour. But USN dont reload underway anymore or what?

/Dan

Ah, I should of been more clear, the USN doesn’t reload VLS at sea anymore, in fact the new Burkes have 6 more VLS cells because they do not have a crane at all.
As I said pretty much the only thing the Flight 1 Burkes use it for is to reload the torpedo tubes, though I suppose if one of your missiles missfired a crane would be useful to get the cell out of the launcher and over the side, but I sure wouldn’t want to be the guy in the crane seat!