The Phalanx CIWS (SEE-wiz) is an automated gun-based close-in weapon system to defend military watercraft automatically against incoming threats such as...
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RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile (redirect from SeaRAM CIWS)
launcher variant equipped with independent sensors derived from the Vulcan Phalanx CIWS, is being installed on Littoral Combat Ships and certain Arleigh Burke-class...
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self-protection upgrades, replacing one of their two Phalanx CIWS with a SeaRAM CIWS, which combines the Phalanx sensor dome with an 11-cell RIM-116 launcher...
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The Goalkeeper CIWS is a Dutch close-in weapon system (CIWS) introduced in 1979. It is an autonomous and completely automatic weapon system for short-range...
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Liberation Army Marine Corps Comparable ground systems Phalanx CIWS Goalkeeper CIWS AK-630 Kashtan CIWS "CIWS: The Last Ditch Defense" (PDF). Archived from the...
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the target. Phalanx CIWS mounts were used by Missouri and Wisconsin during the 1991 Gulf War; Wisconsin alone fired 5,200 20 mm Phalanx CIWS rounds. Missouri...
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installation of the remainder of the ship's self-defence armament, with two Phalanx CIWS mounts fitted. This was followed by the ship's return to Rosyth to allow...
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Close-in weapon system (redirect from CIWS)
30 mm - 30×173mm Phalanx CIWS Block 0, 1, 1A, and 1B - 20×102mm Sea Zenith - 25×184mm H/PJ-76A - 37×240mm Type 730 and Type 1130 CIWS - 30×165mm Pantsir-M...
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aircraft and anti-ship missiles, as well as either three or four 20 mm Phalanx CIWS. USS Ronald Reagan has none of these, having been built with the Mk 49...
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Harrier of VMA-311 aboard USS America on 22 February 2015 USS America's Phalanx CIWS undergoing maintenance on 5 October 2014 USMC Lockheed F-35Bs aboard...
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The Meroka CIWS is a Spanish Navy 12 barrelled 20 mm close-in weapon system (CIWS), using twelve Oerlikon 20 mm/12 guns mounted in 2 rows of 6 guns each...
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used on the FFG-7 and CG-47 programs, and the Phalanx CIWS. The combination of the Mk 110 and the Phalanx gives the cutters anti-surface capability, limited...
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Lightbody & Poyer 1990, pp. 338–39. NavWeaps.com, 20 mm Phalanx Close-in Weapon System (CIWS) Thomas, Vincent C. (1987). The Almanac of Seapower, p. 191...
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mounts for 32 BGM-109 Tomahawk cruise missiles, and a quartet of 20 mm Phalanx CIWS rotary cannon for defense against enemy anti-ship missiles and enemy...
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injured 21. No weapons were fired in defense of Stark. The autonomous Phalanx CIWS remained in standby mode, Mark 36 SRBOC countermeasures were not armed...
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including Carney received self-protection upgrades, replacing the aft Phalanx CIWS 20mm Vulcan cannon with the SeaRAM 11-cell RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile...
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(160 kg). It is currently equipped with two 20 mm Phalanx CIWS mounts and two Sea Sparrow SAM launchers. One CIWS and one Sea Sparrow mount were removed to make...
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Phalanx CIWS for self-defense. In 2001, Kitty Hawk received two Rolling Airframe Missile launchers replacing the forward Sea Sparrow and Phalanx CIWS...
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Baseline 9 for BMD capability, as well as replacing her aft Phalanx CIWS with a SeaRAM CIWS. The ship crossed the Arctic Circle in May 2021. The crew began...
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were initially built. Image also shows an example of black masts and no Phalanx CIWS Deyo with ASROC and ABL's forward. starboard bow view of Deyo, VLS equipped...
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Airframe Missile launcher, 21 cells 2 7.62 mm M60 machine guns 1 20 mm Phalanx CIWS Countermeasures: 4 × chaff/IR launchers (ESM/ECM) Ships in class: 1(4–6...
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including the installation of Harpoon anti-ship missiles and a MK 15 Phalanx CIWS. The Harpoon anti-ship missiles were fitted to multiple cutters of the...
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2017. @NavyLookout (21 March 2023). "@RFAArgus now fitted with single Phalanx CIWS mount in preparation for her new role as Littoral Strike Ship" (Tweet)...
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(GDELS), Steyr-Daimler-Puch, and Santa Bárbara Sistemas, and produces Phalanx CIWS, Expeditionary tanks, the M1 Abrams series main battle tank, Expeditionary...
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antenna mast; new radar tower; RAM replaced CIWS at forward port sponson; RAM added to aft starboard sponson; 2 CIWS at island/stern removed. February 2004...
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with two 30 mm cannons and two Phalanx CIWS. The 30 mm cannons are fitted aft, directed starboard, and port. One of the CIWS mounts is located forward, and...
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were the close-in weapon systems point-defense weapons, such as the Phalanx CIWS, used for detecting and destroying short range incoming missiles and...
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AK-630 (section Comparison with current CIWS)
CIWS, they suffer from short engagement times and the need for multiple volleys to effectively eradicate a threat.[citation needed] The AK-630 CIWS has...
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upgrades added two NATO Sea Sparrow (NSSM) and three Mk 15 Phalanx CIWS gun mounts. One CIWS mount was later removed and two 21-cell RIM-116 Rolling Airframe...
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by a close-in weapon system (CIWS), such as the American Phalanx CIWS, Russian Kashtan CIWS, or the Dutch Goalkeeper CIWS. To counter these defense systems...
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