The history of the AEGIS combat system.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Hough, Andrew; Rollins, Lee
- Source
- United Service. Mar2022, Vol. 73 Issue 1, p8-12. 5p.
- Subject
- *AEGIS (Weapons system)
*OCEAN liners
*NAVAL architecture
*NAVAL history
- Language
- ISSN
- 1038-1554
The article presents a history of the AEGIS combat and weapons system, which was installed in the Royal Australian Navy's (RAN) Hobart-class air-warfare destroyers. Also cited are how the U.S. Navy's (USN) Admiral Wayne E. Meyer conceptualized AEGIS in the 1960s to protect ships at sea from air and missile attack, and how Meyer used a rigid systems-engineering discipline in the design of the system.