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    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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    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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    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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  • Thumbnail for USS Enterprise (CVN-65)
    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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