SM-2 Launch on USS Arleigh Burke (DDG-51) using latest Aegis Baseline

USS Arleigh Burke (DDG 51) successfully launches an SM-2 Standard Missile from the forward and aft Vertical Launching System as part of their Combat System Ship Qualification Trials (CSSQT). The Spanish Navy Ship Cristobol Colon (F 105) and Arleigh Burke conducted cooperative air defense test exercises including Tactical Data Link interoperability tests of the latest AEGIS Baseline with a foreign ship, as well as the first combined Combat Systems Ship Qualification Trial with the Spanish Navy since 200