The US Navy's overwhelming missile tube advantage over China is shrinking

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• The US Navy has long held a missile tube advantage over China.
• But China's warships are closing this gap and now have half the number of vertical launch system cells the US does.
• VLS capacity is important for naval combat, but it's not everything.

China is closing the missile tube gap with the US Navy as the latter's...