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What happens when a U.S. ship runs out of missiles in the heat of naval battle? How is the rest of a gun line affected if a cruiser has to steam away to resupply its ordnance?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Navy heads have not had to ponder such questions for decades. America\u2019s fleet hasn\u2019t been threatened by a so-called \u201cpeer\u201d sea service since a wall divided Berlin and the Soviet navy prowled the seas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But now, amid a snarling North Korea and heightened tension in the South China Sea, the Navy is planning on bringing back its ability to reload missiles while a ship is at sea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson told The National Interest<\/a> of the Navy\u2019s plans during a June interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Officials say at-sea reloading is in its earliest planning stages, and analysts believe the move signifies that what was once old in the Navy is now new again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After the end of the Cold War, Navy brass moved away from preparing a fleet that would have to fight it out on contested seas, according to James Holmes, a professor of strategy at the U.S. Naval War College.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNaval leadership proclaimed that there was no one left to fight after the Soviet navy,\u201d Holmes said in an email. \u201cThe service chiefs basically said America owns the sea.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But an assertive China and resurgent Russian maritime ambitions are moving Navy leadership back toward conventional warfare tenets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe slumbered for twenty-five years after the Cold War,\u201d Holmes wrote in the email. \u201cThis is part of getting the kinks out after that long snooze.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the end of the Cold War, ships have been able to rain naval gunfire on Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria and elsewhere before steaming back to a port for reloading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the U.S. would suffer in a conflict with a peer maritime force if ships had to leave the battle to reload, Holmes said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe opponent would have weakened our fleet even without scoring a punch,\u201d he said. \u201cIf we keep having to rotate cruisers or destroyers back to rear areas to reload, the opponent has subtracted that much combat power from the fleet.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Holmes said the end of at-sea reloading after the Cold War was part of a larger loss of hardware and tactics designed to fight peer opponents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt-sea reloading of missiles is one of those capabilities that needs rejuvenating,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Exactly how the Navy will reload the MK 41 vertical launch system currently in use on most cruisers and destroyers remains to be seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It wasn\u2019t an easy proposition in the past, according to Eric Wertheim, a naval analyst and author of \u201cCombat Fleets of the World.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cImagine a revolver, think of how long it takes to do the single bullets,\u201d Wertheim said. \u201cThey\u2019re not speed loaders.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cranes were installed on the earliest cruisers in the 1980s to assist with reloading, but it remained time-consuming and perilous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s stressful for the equipment, it\u2019s stressful for the people and it\u2019s a challenge that\u2019s been looked at for many years,\u201d Wertheim said. \u201cIt was very hard to do, and it was not very practicable, so when the need for it diminished, it just fell by the wayside.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unlike ammunition, fuel or stores, missiles can\u2019t be replenished while underway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Any reloading during choppy seas could also damage a vertical launch system cell, Holmes said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One workaround could involve reloading near Pacific islands and atolls off of expeditionary transfer dock ships like the John Glenn or Montford Point, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cA cruiser or destroyer might meet up with an ammunition ship or converted merchantman, using the island\u2019s lee to block out the wind and seas,\u201d Holmes said. \u201cThat would let us rearm quickly and without damage.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However it\u2019s done, plans to bring back at-sea reloading in 2017 reflect an evolving world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOnly now are we starting to take the Chinas and Russias of the world seriously,\u201d Holmes said. \u201cRearming wasn\u2019t a high priority if there was no foe to fight.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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