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Question:

How Many Tomahawk Guided Missile Silos Could You Fit On An Aircraft Carrier?

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Answer:

Well a full 8 cell vls(vertically launch system) houses 64 missles roughly and is about 50ft by 50ft. So cover about 4 acres with that and that would be your answer. Totally impractical but a lot of fire power and yes TLAMS are launched from a vls platform.
None - the US Navy does not house it's Tomahawks in 'silos'.
None, because if you replaced the aircraft with missile silos it wouldn't be an aircraft carrier now would it? Why are you so obsessed with this pointless topic anyway? PS 7 destroyers can be in 7 places at once. 1 destroyer can be in one place at once, hence it can not do the job of 7 destroyers.
They are tubes, and well over a hundred, but why would anyone ever do this?

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