VLS

Vertical launching system - advanced system for holding and firing missiles on mobile naval platforms. Article “VLS” in Japanese Wikipedia has 23.6 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 9 references and 10 sections. The article also contains templates indicating quality issues, therefore its score was reduced by 2.62 points.

This article has the best quality in Chinese Wikipedia. However, the most popular language version of this article is English.

In June 2026 the article “VLS” was edited by 2 authors in Japanese Wikipedia and written by 9 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “VLS”, its content was written by 47 registered users of Japanese Wikipedia and edited by 597 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 580 times in Japanese Wikipedia and cited 3099 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (Japanese): #3787 in August 2009
• Global: #10723 in November 2016

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (Japanese): #14862 in March 2009
• Global: #37874 in April 2017

There are 27 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Chinese (zh) 舰载垂直发射系统		55.7686
2	Turkish (tr) Dikey atım sistemi		54.4065
3	English (en) Vertical launching system		50.1487
4	Vietnamese (vi) Hệ thống phóng thẳng đứng		46.1222
5	Bulgarian (bg) Установка за вертикален пуск		45.9442
6	Russian (ru) Установка вертикального пуска		44.9193
7	Korean (ko) 수직발사장치		42.5951
8	Indonesian (id) Sistem peluncuran vertikal		39.1952
9	Ukrainian (uk) Установка вертикального пуску		37.1913
10	Malay (ms) Sistem pelancaran menegak		35.0074

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "VLS" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Vertical launching system		2 530 216
2	Japanese (ja) VLS		950 135
3	German (de) Senkrechtstartanlage für Flugkörper		503 274
4	Chinese (zh) 舰载垂直发射系统		358 686
5	Spanish (es) Sistema de lanzamiento vertical		124 228
6	Russian (ru) Установка вертикального пуска		119 257
7	Polish (pl) Vertical Launching System		79 248
8	French (fr) Système de lancement vertical		59 569
9	Italian (it) Vertical Launching System		47 055
10	Korean (ko) 수직발사장치		32 549

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "VLS" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Vertical launching system		9 487
2	Japanese (ja) VLS		3 507
3	German (de) Senkrechtstartanlage für Flugkörper		1 905
4	Chinese (zh) 舰载垂直发射系统		1 822
5	Russian (ru) Установка вертикального пуска		341
6	French (fr) Système de lancement vertical		289
7	Turkish (tr) Dikey atım sistemi		283
8	Persian (fa) سیستم موشک‌انداز عمودی		159
9	Spanish (es) Sistema de lanzamiento vertical		156
10	Italian (it) Vertical Launching System		152

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "VLS" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Vertical launching system		243
2	German (de) Senkrechtstartanlage für Flugkörper		56
3	Chinese (zh) 舰载垂直发射系统		54
4	Japanese (ja) VLS		47
5	Italian (it) Vertical Launching System		29
6	Russian (ru) Установка вертикального пуска		28
7	French (fr) Système de lancement vertical		18
8	Polish (pl) Vertical Launching System		14
9	Spanish (es) Sistema de lanzamiento vertical		12
10	Danish (da) Vertical Launching System		11

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "VLS" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Vertical launching system		2
2	Japanese (ja) VLS		2
3	Chinese (zh) 舰载垂直发射系统		2
4	Arabic (ar) نظام إطلاق عامودي		1
5	German (de) Senkrechtstartanlage für Flugkörper		1
6	Indonesian (id) Sistem peluncuran vertikal		1
7	Bulgarian (bg) Установка за вертикален пуск		0
8	Catalan (ca) Sistema de llançament vertical		0
9	Czech (cs) Vertikální odpalovací zařízení		0
10	Danish (da) Vertical Launching System		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "VLS" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Vertical launching system		650
2	Japanese (ja) VLS		580
3	French (fr) Système de lancement vertical		247
4	Chinese (zh) 舰载垂直发射系统		244
5	German (de) Senkrechtstartanlage für Flugkörper		210
6	Polish (pl) Vertical Launching System		173
7	Ukrainian (uk) Установка вертикального пуску		164
8	Korean (ko) 수직발사장치		128
9	Italian (it) Vertical Launching System		102
10	Spanish (es) Sistema de lanzamiento vertical		93

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic نظام إطلاق عامودي
bg	Bulgarian Установка за вертикален пуск
ca	Catalan Sistema de llançament vertical
cs	Czech Vertikální odpalovací zařízení
da	Danish Vertical Launching System
de	German Senkrechtstartanlage für Flugkörper
en	English Vertical launching system
es	Spanish Sistema de lanzamiento vertical
fa	Persian سیستم موشک‌انداز عمودی
fi	Finnish Pystylaukaisujärjestelmä
fr	French Système de lancement vertical
he	Hebrew מערכת שיגור אנכי
hr	Croatian Vertikalni lansirni sustav
id	Indonesian Sistem peluncuran vertikal
it	Italian Vertical Launching System
ja	Japanese VLS
ko	Korean 수직발사장치
lt	Lithuanian Vertikalaus leidimo sistema
ms	Malay Sistem pelancaran menegak
nn	Norwegian (Nynorsk) Vertikalt missil-avfyringssystem
no	Norwegian Vertical launching system
pl	Polish Vertical Launching System
ru	Russian Установка вертикального пуска
tr	Turkish Dikey atım sistemi
uk	Ukrainian Установка вертикального пуску
vi	Vietnamese Hệ thống phóng thẳng đứng
zh	Chinese 舰载垂直发射系统

Best Rank

Japanese: #14862 03.2009

Global: #37874 04.2017

Best Rank

Japanese: #3787 08.2009

Global: #10723 11.2016

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