This is time the modern missile era no longer affords us. The old slewing launchers for the smaller Sea Wolf system were perhaps even worse: sailors had to manually heave fresh rounds into those.

HMS Sutherland will be one of the first ships in the surface fleet to benefit from the £300m upgrade of the Sea Wolf Missile defense system by BAE Systems Insyte with MBDA as the prime contractor ...

The U.S. Navy has used more missiles for air defense since combat operations in the Red Sea began in October 2023 than the service used in all the years since Operation Desert Storm in the 1990s ...